3: Cerulean
This planet is a desert, filled with blue sand dunes.
"This is Cerulean. It's a desert that is rich with minerals."
Behind the landing pad, Vela found a bar of gold. We continued through a narrow passage and found more drones. When they died, a door opened, leading to an alcove that was occupied by the mole man from the Sekhemt. He offered Vela a rocket launcher for three bars of gold. She managed to convince him that one bar was our final offer. He likely accepted because of the missile I was pointing at him. Now that she had the missiles, missile ammunition became available for both of us. In the open area where all of the dunes were, we found a mine entrance. Inside we found a patrol of sentry ships, weaving through the columns. Her machine gun took them down quite easily and the door opened. We found several of those bears and a yellow key. We received a transmission from Juno.
"Vela, I've got some news. First off, your going to be receiving a small robot, his name is Floyd. Secondly I'm about to enter the main chamber of Mizar and will be awaiting you and Lupus. Lastly, I wanted to see how that new partner of yours is doing."
"Thanks, J. She's doing very well, in fact she has saved my life on several occasions."
Vela was out of earshot when I asked Juno if she had always been attracted to other women.
"Yeah she has. She sees men as competition. When the militia was whole, she'd avoid male contact and would only lead the few other women in battle."
We continued into a maze-like cavern filled with those bugs. These were orange bugs, tougher than the others, with large missile troops stationed near the doors. As more corpses piled up, more doors unlocked. The last door was guarded by a missile trooper. I tucked into my ball and planted a power bomb near him than rolled out as it flashed and exploded. We exited the cave which came out to our ships.
"You ball has weapons?"
"Yes infinite concussion bombs and limited explosives like you just saw."
"What's next, your suit can become a weapon as well."
"Well, yes. I can somersault through the air in a ball of deadly energy called the screw attack. It's also a vertical movement system, bouncing up and across narrowly spaced walls."
"These Chozo, where do they live?"
"They've lived throughout the universe, developing advanced technologies and spreading a message of peace. They are believed to be extinct now. As to why they did not visit this galaxy, I would not know."
We left for a military base, Ichor.