Metroid

Theme: Galactic Warrior

SAMUS ARAN
Affiliations: SOLO D10 • BUDDY D8 • TEAM D6
Distinctions:
RAISED BY CHOZO
LONELY HUNTER
LEGENDARY WARRIOR
Power Sets:
CHOZO-BLOODED
ENHANCED DURABILITY D8 • ENHANCED SENSES D8 • ENHANCED SPEED D8 • ENHANCED STRENGTH D8 • LEAPING D6 • SUPERHUMAN REFLEXES D10 • SUPERHUMAN STAMINA D10
SFX: Focus. If a pool includes a CHOZO-BLOODED power, you may replace two dice of the same size with one die +1 step larger.
SFX: Immunity. Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma or complications related to poisons, disease or fatigue.
SFX: Second Chance. Spend 1 PP to reroll when using any CHOZO-BLOODED power.
SFX: Second Wind. Before you make an action including a CHOZO-BLOODED power, you may move your physical stress die to the Doom pool and step up the CHOZO-BLOODED power by +1 for this action.
Limit: Exhausted. Shutdown any CHOZO-BLOODED power to gain 1 PP. Recover power by activating an opportunity or during a Transition Scene.

ZERO SUIT
LEAPING D8 • STRETCHING D6 • WEAPON D8
SFX: Entangle. Add a D6 and step up your effect die by +1 when inflicting a grappled complication on a target.
SFX: Jet Boots. Step up or double LEAPING as part of a physical action. Remove the highest-rolling die and add 3 dice for your total.
SFX: Stun. Add a D6 and step up your effect die by +1 when inflicting a paralyzed complication on a target.
Limit: Gear. Shutdown a ZERO SUIT power and gain 1 PP. Take an action vs. the Doom pool to recover.
Limit: Mutually Exclusive. Shutdown ZERO SUIT to activate POWER SUIT. Shutdown POWER SUIT to recover ZERO SUIT.

Specialties:
ACROBATIC MASTER D10 • COMBAT MASTER D10 • COSMIC EXPERT D8 • MENACE EXPERT D8 • SCIENCE EXPERT D8 • TECH MASTER D10 • VEHICLE EXPERT D8

Milestones:
THE HUNTER
You are the bane of space pirates throughout the whole universe. Pirate fleets who will laugh in the face of Federation armies fall silent and check over their shoulders when you are around.
1 XP when you discover a new bit of pirate lore about a weapon or creature they've developed.
3 XP when you dismantle space pirate operations or let the pirates escape in order to help someone else.
10 XP when you defeat a space pirate leader.

OTHER M
Metroids are the universe's most dangerous creatures, final legacy of the Chozo. Often sought as weapons, you find yourself drawn into conflict with them, even when they are supposed to be extinct.
1 XP when you first encounter a Metroid on a new world.
3 XP when you suffer stress as a result of a Metroid's energy drain attack.
10 XP when you wipe out a Metroid population, or take trauma in the process of saving them from being exploited as weapons.

ID: Samus Aran (Public)
History:
Samus' history is long and troubled, full of conflict and hardship. She was born on a human colony called K-2L. At some point in her childhood, the birdlike Chozo came to K-2L to trade with the colonists. An elder Chozo called Old Bird taught young Samus much wisdom while the Chozo remained. Unfortunately, not long after the Chozo departed, Space Pirates led by the draconic Ridley attacked the colony and slaughtered nearly everyone. Only Samus survived. The Chozo returned in response to the distress signal, in time to save Samus from exposure. They took her into their care, infused her with Chozo DNA and crafted for her the Power Suit, one of the greatest technological wonders in the galaxy.

Trained by the Chozo, Samus became an athlete without peer, augmented by her Power Suit into a one-woman army. She eventually left the Chozo to pursue other goals across the universe, and at one point joined the Federation Police. Samus encountered the Space Pirates again several times, even after leaving the Federation Police to become a private bounty hunter.

Her first great mission saw her employed to fight the Space Pirate leader Mother Brain, a corrupted Chozo creation, and dismantle their operations. The Pirates attempted to use the Metroids on planet Zebes to create an army of deadly aliens, but Samus infiltrated their base and destroyed it from within. She slew the Pirate leadership, including giant Kraid and Mother Brain, as well as taking revenge on Ridley.

That would not be the last time she fought the Space Pirates, and even their leadership. Mother Brain was revived and restored her operations before Samus returned and destroyed her at the cost of the last Metroid's life. Ridley also returned many times in cyborg or clone form, and other Pirate operations sought to harness the dread power of Phazon, a deadly substance inimical to life. Samus battled her way through the Pirates and encountered Dark Samus, a Phazon-born doppelganger. In a final epic conflict, Samus destroyed Dark Samus and Phazon both along with Phaaze, their planet of origin.

Samus continues to hunt for the most dangerous criminals and aliens in the galaxy, a legendary name both feared and respected by friend and foe alike.
Personality:
Samus is a reticent woman, spending weeks or months without uttering a single word to another soul. She is humorless in her pursuit of mission objectives or bounties, and particularly calculating when bringing down Space Pirates. Samus is somewhat of a lonely hunter, alone in the universe, with the Chozo seemingly extinct and her family long destroyed. The few people to which she gets attached invariably get destroyed in the conflicts that consume her life, so Samus remains cold and distant to those who cross her path. This only adds to her mystique and the legends surrounding her.
Abilities and Resources:
Infused with Chozo DNA and put through extreme training regimens, Samus is a super-athlete. She is incredibly fast and agile, with heightened senses and reflexes faster than any human's. She can perform tremendous acrobatic leaps and exert herself heavily for hours where others would fail. The Chozo trained Samus in a wide variety of weapons and gear, allowing her to pilot anything, adapt to new technologies and understand the mechanics behind the things she encounters. Samus' great intelligence and quick wits combined with her physical and martial prowess make her by far the most dangerous woman in the universe.

METROID
Affiliations: SOLO D8, BUDDY D6, TEAM D4
Distinctions:
INSATIABLE HUNGER
ADAPTABLE PREDATORS
Power Sets:
PARASITIC PREDATOR
ENHANCED SENSES D8, FLIGHT D6, SUPERHUMAN DURABILITY D10, SUPERHUMAN STAMINA D10, SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH D10
SFX: Energy Drain. Add a D6 and step up your effect die when inflicting a drained complication on a target.
SFX: Healing. Spend a Doom die to recover another's physical stress or step back another's physical trauma by -1. You may use this SFX on yourself in addition to others, but can only do so after you have stepped up a drained complication on a target past D12.
SFX: Immunity. Spend a Doom die to ignore stress, trauma or complications from poisons, disease, vacuum and high temperatures.
SFX: Invulnerable. Spend a Doom die to ignore physical stress or trauma unless caused by cold-based attacks.
Limit: Cold Vulnerability. Step up any cold-based stress, trauma or complications by +1.

Specialties:
COMBAT EXPERT D8

ID: Metroid Juvenile
History:
Metroid history is tied to that of the Chozo, surrounded in myths and legends. The Chozo created Metroids in ancient times as a bio-weapon to counter the threat of the X Parasites. They performed their task well, but proved voracious and adaptable, quickly growing beyond the intentions of the Chozo. The Galactic Federation first encountered the Metroids on the planet SR388. When the Federations sought to study the creatures, Space Pirates attacked and abducted the Metroids, planning to use them as living weapons of war. The Galactic Federation called in bounty hunter Samus Aran, who traveled to the Pirate base on planet Zebes and destroyed them along with the stolen Metroids.

The Galactic Federation would not see the last of the Metroids, however, and even conducted their own clandestine experiments with cloning the creatures. Space Pirates would continue to use them as weapons, and when the strange alien energy of Phazon was involved, the Metroid Prime and, eventually, Dark Samus were born. Samus battled the Metroids and their would-be controllers again and again, until finally the last Metroids in the universe were extinct. Their final legacy lies within Samus Aran's DNA.
Personality:
Metroids are not stupid creatures, capable of discerning between more choice (and dangerous targets) and even capable of bonding with other life-forms. They are largely vicious and voracious predators, however, preying upon any living things they can chase down and devouring without end.
Abilities and Resources:
Designed to absorb energy, true Metroids are capable of draining the life energy out of any organic creature (and some inorganic constructs powered by life energy), leaving only a lifeless husk behind. Their limitless capacity for energy absorption and transfer makes them valuable targets for bio-weapons research, but also extremely dangerous. Metroids are extremely durable, resistant to most forms of weaponry except for cold. They can fly and possess a battery of advanced senses to help them locate and chase down prey. Once they have latched on to a victim, it is nearly impossible to dislodge them. Metroids are capable of surviving in most hostile environments, and often develop different traits depending on the world upon which one finds them.