Control Tower
Control Tower during a battle with Flying Pirates
Game	Phendrana Drifts
Planet/Ship	Tallon IV
Area	Phendrana Drifts
Notable features	East and West towers, crates, tower next to explosives, Artifact of Elder
Significance	First fight with Flying Pirates, location of Artifact of Elder
Enemies/wildlife	Space Pirates, Flying Pirates

Control Tower is a room in Phendrana Drifts in Metroid Prime. It is a rectangular, open room suspended between two towers, West Tower and East Tower, in the Pirate Facility section of Phendrana Drifts. When Samus first enters the room, the doors lock and several Space Pirates attack her, followed by some Flying Pirates that attack from the sky. On later visits to the room, the doors don't lock and there are only Flying Pirates. There are many crates in the room, some of which can only be destroyed by the missiles of the Flying Pirates.

On top of the East Tower, there is a window made of ice. Late in the game, it can be melted using the Plasma Beam or shoot a big metal crate with the wave beam, depending on the game's difficulty. Once it is melted or the crate is destroyed, shooting a Missile through the window into the explosives next to another tower will cause it to collapse. This will cause a passageway to a Chozo Artifact to open. Once she has collected the Artifact, Samus must climb inside the fallen tower and roll through a small passageway to get back into the room.

A Secret World can be found in this room: [1]

Connecting roomsEdit

• West Tower (via Purple Door)
• East Tower (via Purple Door)

InhabitantsEdit

First visitEdit

• 3 Space Pirates
• 6 Flying Pirates

Later visitsEdit

• 4 Flying Pirates

ItemsEdit

Artifact of Elder

Samus must melt the window of ice or blow up a big metal crate from on top of the East tower using the Plasma Beam. She must then fire a Missile at the explosives at the base of the tower seen through this window, then use Morph Ball to roll into the new passageway that this opens up, and claim the Artifact.

ScansEdit

Radion

"There is a large fuel cell attached to the base of this tower. Energy readings detect rapid fluctuations in power levels. The Radion based outercasing of the structure appears damaged and unstable."

TriviaEdit

• In the original version of the game, it is possible to obtain the Artifact much earlier by standing on top of a crate and jumping over the energy barrier and shooting directly at the explosives. This trick can be done in the New Play Control versions as well.^[1]

GalleryEdit

Samus battling Pirates in the Tower.

Samus engages a Flying Pirate.

Samus targets the fuel cell at the base of one of the towers.

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