Portal
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Portals in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes transported Samus from Aether to Dark Aether, or vice-versa. There were also artificial Portals in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
There are two kinds of portals: full, artificial portals, and naturally occurring dimensional rifts.
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[edit] Portals
Portals on Aether are transdimenssional links to the opposing world. Portals are links that help prevent the subject's atoms from being scattered across the interdimensioal void.
Portals were first discovered on Aether as a natural phenomenon after the Phazon meteor impact. After the initial attraction to these strange appearences, the Luminoth began to fear them as an unknown evil poured from them. At first these dark creatures evaporated in Aether's light, but began to overshadow local creatures.
As war began between the Luminoth and the shadowy Ing, the Luminoth developed synthetic portals to venture into the enemies territory. However these portals are unstable and last for only short periods of time.
Portals were built by the Luminoth during the war. The first portal discovered by Samus, in the Agon Wastes, had to be activated through a series of tasks in order to get it solar energy. These portals are always two-way (entering a portal on Aether brings Samus to a portal on Dark Aether, so she can return immediately) and the ones on Dark Aether are invariably protected by a field of light. Samus encounters both naturally formed and synthetic portals on Aether. They must be activated by being scanned.
During the events of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, There were several portals that could be used throughout the game. However, these portals only transferred Samus to a different location, and were not interdimensional. They resembled Save Points and were scarce. One linked Bryyo Fire to Bryyo Ice, and there was one that linked the Space Pirate Homeworld to a nearby Leviathan.
[edit] Rifts
Rifts are naturally occurring portals, appearing as flattened, swirling vortexes. Rifts are activated by firing its related energy at it. Firing light energy at a Light Portal or firing dark energy at a Dark Portal can activate them. The Annihilator Beam, however, can activate both portals as it contains both light and dark energy. Rifts can be one-way, that is, entering a rift on Aether does not necessarily lead to one on Dark Aether. So Samus may enter a rift but not be able to go back where she came, meaning she must find another gateway out of that Dimension.
[edit] Space Pirate Use
The Space Pirates found that there were large amounts of Phazon on Dark Aether, and started venturing there. In the Agon Wastes, they had a portal site, then inactive. Samus turned it on, releasing War Wasps into the room at the same time. They also have the Dark Beam enabling them to open and keep open rifts. The Pirates were able to use portals on their Homeworld, enabling quick transport between the orbiting Leviathan.
[edit] Trivia
- It should be noted that, whnever Samus enters a portal in Echoes, she will always have the Power Beam in the cutscene while she travels between dimensions, no matter which beam she had when she entered.
- Also, when Samus turns into small particles, the original Varia Suit coloration will be displayed (although these orange colours could merely be signifying Samus' connection to the Light World).
- In the Command Center is the first dark portal that requires the use of the Dark Beam. If Samus walks into it from the side, she will be inside of the unopened portal without being pushed out.
