Project Titan

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Project Titan is the Space Pirate's project of infusing Phazon into non-organic matter, possibly to observe whether or not Phazon affected it like it did to organic matter.

The codename for the creature created from the project was Thardus, which had become too powerful and was moved to a Quarantine Cave.

If Samus scans around in the Pirate's base in Phendrana, it is revealed that the Pirates had further plans for Thardus, and possibly, Project Titan. However, it also said that the project was postponed indefinitely, due to an inabilty to control Thardus.

[edit] Trivia

In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek: Τιτάν - Ti-tan; plural: Τιτᾶνες - Ti-tânes); were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. Their role as Elder Gods was overthrown by a race of younger gods, the Olympians, effected a mythological paradigm shift that the Greeks borrowed from the Ancient Near East.