Flying Pirate

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A Space Pirate with a jet pack found in Metroid Prime. It shoots missiles and beams. Once it is low on health it does kamikaze. In the other Metroid Prime games it is called a Pirate Aerotrooper.You can easily target the jetpack with the Thermal Visor. Due to the high combustibility of the fuel used for the jet pack they are highly vulnerable to the plasma beam. Despite this, it is often easier to use the Ice Spreader to freeze large groups of them and then pick them off with missiles--the Ice Beam works too, but they are often nimble enough to avoid its slow, non-homing shots..