Epilogue

Major Wrakham sat back in his chair, his thoughts running quickly. He needed to focus, needed to ignore the startlingly personal logs of that mission and think only about what was important.

While Samus' mission had been impressive in terms of her raw perseverance, what was even more impressive had been her understanding and analysis in reconstructing what had happened years, perhaps even decades or centuries earlier. That threat X . . .

Could that be it? It seemed to fit. This parasite, it infected biological material and commandeered it, copying it. Yes, the first threat would be from animal life. And then the Chozo warriors sent out to combat them would be infected, causing the Chozo to make their weapons fire on their own kind. And the Metroids… the Metroids were created to fight this parasite. There could be something there. If they managed to make some sort of antidote or injection…

He reached out and picked up his phone to see if the science team still had some of the Metroid material Samus had brought back hidden away somewhere.