From 52ab9b5c8916c306a47b2119270dcdabebf9d203 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Radhi Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:40:37 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fix lazy-loaded images are not visible in Kinja sites (#590) * Add initial test case for kinja's lazy image * Implement method to remove small data uri image * Convert relative uri in poster and srcset of media nodes * Eslint doesn't like arrow function * Unescape HTML entities in metadata * Fix wrong regex for parsing srcset urls * Remove line to check data url since it already handled by new URL * Replace String.matchAll since it only supported in Node 12+ * Use numeric code when unescaping HTML * Don't remove data URL src if it's svg * Don't remove b64 src if it's the only attr that contains image * Make the comma part non-optional in regex for srcset url * Fix wrong code for unescaping HTML * Don't capture comma and semicolon in data URL regex --- Readability.js | 140 +- .../data-url-image/expected-metadata.json | 8 + test/test-pages/data-url-image/expected.html | 11 + test/test-pages/data-url-image/source.html | 19 + .../lazy-image-2/expected-metadata.json | 8 + test/test-pages/lazy-image-2/expected.html | 723 +++ test/test-pages/lazy-image-2/source.html | 3868 +++++++++++++++++ .../medicalnewstoday/expected-metadata.json | 4 +- .../test-pages/medicalnewstoday/expected.html | 183 +- test/test-pages/pixnet/expected-metadata.json | 6 +- test/test-pages/pixnet/expected.html | 143 +- .../telegraph/expected-metadata.json | 6 +- test/test-pages/wikipedia-2/expected.html | 88 +- test/test-pages/wikipedia-3/expected.html | 2 +- .../wikipedia/expected-metadata.json | 4 +- test/test-pages/wikipedia/expected.html | 29 +- 16 files changed, 4937 insertions(+), 305 deletions(-) create mode 100644 test/test-pages/data-url-image/expected-metadata.json create mode 100644 test/test-pages/data-url-image/expected.html create mode 100644 test/test-pages/data-url-image/source.html create mode 100644 test/test-pages/lazy-image-2/expected-metadata.json create mode 100644 test/test-pages/lazy-image-2/expected.html create mode 100644 test/test-pages/lazy-image-2/source.html diff --git a/Readability.js b/Readability.js index d4b695c..7a3f5c7 100644 --- a/Readability.js +++ b/Readability.js @@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ Readability.prototype = { prevLink: /(prev|earl|old|new|<|«)/i, whitespace: /^\s*$/, hasContent: /\S$/, + srcsetUrl: /(\S+)(\s+[\d.]+[xw])?(\s*(?:,|$))/g, + b64DataUrl: /^data:\s*([^\s;,]+)\s*;\s*base64\s*,/i }, DIV_TO_P_ELEMS: [ "A", "BLOCKQUOTE", "DL", "DIV", "IMG", "OL", "P", "PRE", "TABLE", "UL", "SELECT" ], @@ -155,6 +157,15 @@ Readability.prototype = { // These are the classes that readability sets itself. CLASSES_TO_PRESERVE: [ "page" ], + // These are the list of HTML entities that need to be escaped. + HTML_ESCAPE_MAP: { + "lt": "<", + "gt": ">", + "amp": "&", + "quot": '"', + "apos": "'", + }, + /** * Run any post-process modifications to article content as necessary. * @@ -328,6 +339,7 @@ Readability.prototype = { if (baseURI == documentURI && uri.charAt(0) == "#") { return uri; } + // Otherwise, resolve against base URI: try { return new URL(uri, baseURI).href; @@ -362,11 +374,29 @@ Readability.prototype = { } }); - var imgs = this._getAllNodesWithTag(articleContent, ["img"]); - this._forEachNode(imgs, function(img) { - var src = img.getAttribute("src"); + var medias = this._getAllNodesWithTag(articleContent, [ + "img", "picture", "figure", "video", "audio", "source" + ]); + + this._forEachNode(medias, function(media) { + var src = media.getAttribute("src"); + var poster = media.getAttribute("poster"); + var srcset = media.getAttribute("srcset"); + if (src) { - img.setAttribute("src", toAbsoluteURI(src)); + media.setAttribute("src", toAbsoluteURI(src)); + } + + if (poster) { + media.setAttribute("poster", toAbsoluteURI(poster)); + } + + if (srcset) { + var newSrcset = srcset.replace(this.REGEXPS.srcsetUrl, function(_, p1, p2, p3) { + return toAbsoluteURI(p1) + (p2 || "") + p3; + }); + + media.setAttribute("srcset", newSrcset); } }); }, @@ -1239,6 +1269,26 @@ Readability.prototype = { return false; }, + /** + * Converts some of the common HTML entities in string to their corresponding characters. + * + * @param str {string} - a string to unescape. + * @return string without HTML entity. + */ + _unescapeHtmlEntities: function(str) { + if (!str) { + return str; + } + + var htmlEscapeMap = this.HTML_ESCAPE_MAP; + return str.replace(/&(quot|amp|apos|lt|gt);/g, function(_, tag) { + return htmlEscapeMap[tag]; + }).replace(/&#(?:x([0-9a-z]{1,4})|([0-9]{1,4}));/gi, function(_, hex, numStr) { + var num = parseInt(hex || numStr, hex ? 16 : 10); + return String.fromCharCode(num); + }); + }, + /** * Attempts to get excerpt and byline metadata for the article. * @@ -1319,6 +1369,13 @@ Readability.prototype = { // get site name metadata.siteName = values["og:site_name"]; + // in many sites the meta value is escaped with HTML entities, + // so here we need to unescape it + metadata.title = this._unescapeHtmlEntities(metadata.title); + metadata.byline = this._unescapeHtmlEntities(metadata.byline); + metadata.excerpt = this._unescapeHtmlEntities(metadata.excerpt); + metadata.siteName = this._unescapeHtmlEntities(metadata.siteName); + return metadata; }, @@ -1745,30 +1802,67 @@ Readability.prototype = { /* convert images and figures that have properties like data-src into images that can be loaded without JS */ _fixLazyImages: function (root) { this._forEachNode(this._getAllNodesWithTag(root, ["img", "picture", "figure"]), function (elem) { - // also check for "null" to work around https://github.com/jsdom/jsdom/issues/2580 - if ((!elem.src && (!elem.srcset || elem.srcset == "null")) || elem.className.toLowerCase().indexOf("lazy") !== -1) { + // In some sites (e.g. Kotaku), they put 1px square image as base64 data uri in the src attribute. + // So, here we check if the data uri is too short, just might as well remove it. + if (elem.src && this.REGEXPS.b64DataUrl.test(elem.src)) { + // Make sure it's not SVG, because SVG can have a meaningful image in under 133 bytes. + var parts = this.REGEXPS.b64DataUrl.exec(elem.src); + if (parts[1] === "image/svg+xml") { + return; + } + + // Make sure this element has other attributes which contains image. + // If it doesn't, then this src is important and shouldn't be removed. + var srcCouldBeRemoved = false; for (var i = 0; i < elem.attributes.length; i++) { var attr = elem.attributes[i]; - if (attr.name === "src" || attr.name === "srcset") { + if (attr.name === "src") { continue; } - var copyTo = null; - if (/\.(jpg|jpeg|png|webp)\s+\d/.test(attr.value)) { - copyTo = "srcset"; - } else if (/^\s*\S+\.(jpg|jpeg|png|webp)\S*\s*$/.test(attr.value)) { - copyTo = "src"; + + if (/\.(jpg|jpeg|png|webp)/i.test(attr.value)) { + srcCouldBeRemoved = true; + break; + } + } + + // Here we assume if image is less than 100 bytes (or 133B after encoded to base64) + // it will be too small, therefore it might be placeholder image. + if (srcCouldBeRemoved) { + var b64starts = elem.src.search(/base64\s*/i) + 7; + var b64length = elem.src.length - b64starts; + if (b64length < 133) { + elem.removeAttribute("src"); } - if (copyTo) { - //if this is an img or picture, set the attribute directly - if (elem.tagName === "IMG" || elem.tagName === "PICTURE") { - elem.setAttribute(copyTo, attr.value); - } else if (elem.tagName === "FIGURE" && !this._getAllNodesWithTag(elem, ["img", "picture"]).length) { - //if the item is a
that does not contain an image or picture, create one and place it inside the figure - //see the nytimes-3 testcase for an example - var img = this._doc.createElement("img"); - img.setAttribute(copyTo, attr.value); - elem.appendChild(img); - } + } + } + + // also check for "null" to work around https://github.com/jsdom/jsdom/issues/2580 + if ((elem.src || (elem.srcset && elem.srcset != "null")) && elem.className.toLowerCase().indexOf("lazy") === -1) { + return; + } + + for (var j = 0; j < elem.attributes.length; j++) { + attr = elem.attributes[j]; + if (attr.name === "src" || attr.name === "srcset") { + continue; + } + var copyTo = null; + if (/\.(jpg|jpeg|png|webp)\s+\d/.test(attr.value)) { + copyTo = "srcset"; + } else if (/^\s*\S+\.(jpg|jpeg|png|webp)\S*\s*$/.test(attr.value)) { + copyTo = "src"; + } + if (copyTo) { + //if this is an img or picture, set the attribute directly + if (elem.tagName === "IMG" || elem.tagName === "PICTURE") { + elem.setAttribute(copyTo, attr.value); + } else if (elem.tagName === "FIGURE" && !this._getAllNodesWithTag(elem, ["img", "picture"]).length) { + //if the item is a
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+ Please note that this is the first half of Mama Robotnik's massive Metroid story. The second half can be found here. The entire post is a greatly-expanded version of a post that Mama Robotnik originally published on the NeoGAF forum before revising and reworking it for Kotaku. Take it away, MR... +

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Nintendo’s Metroid series tells us of a malevolent and vicious universe. It’s a maelstrom in which benevolent races are routinely extinguished, and corrupt empires wage war for ownership of living weapons.

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It’s a place in which xenocide is a commissioned service, and grievances are resolved with planetary apocalypses. Everything is chaotically connected to a dead race of avian prophetic poets fighting a war throughout the cosmos. It’s a dark place to visit.

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There are two purposes to this article: to explore the expansive lore of the Metroid universe – with speculation to fill in the gaps – and to exhibit some extraordinary Metroid-inspired art. All artwork is credited to its original source – follow the links to see further works of these spectacular artists.

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The games tell us much about this hostile universe, but there are a lot of unresolved story points. In response to these mysteries, the article will provide a healthy amount of speculation. You can consider the piece to be either a makeshift timeline illustrated with fan-artwork, or simply an enthusiastic attempt to reconcile the series continuity into a cohesive whole. The article is informed by the extensive research previously performed by its author. The approach taken regarding speculation is thus: The logical inclusion of probable events that resolve mysteries, while maintaining the themes of the series.

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Before we begin, let’s briefly revisit the five points of essential lore:

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+ Part One: The Wars in Heaven

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On an unknown planet in the universe, a race of avian humanoids evolved. The species that will come to be known as the Chozo possessed great strength, agility and intelligence. The species is peaceful, and is driven by a social/religious value that nature is sacred. [M1 / MP]

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Certain blessed individuals were born with a unique gift – the vague comprehension of events set to take place in the distant future. Driven by these prophecies, the race advanced quickly and became space faring. With abstract predictions of a hostile universe, the Chozo developed powered armour and armaments to defend themselves. Prepared for whatever hostility awaited them, the Chozo explored the stars. [M1 / MP / MP SP]

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The Chozo discovered that – despite their prophets’ visions of a chaotic and warring universe – the cosmos was enjoying a prolonged period of peace and enlightenment. First contact was made with a number of old and wise races, such as the Ylla, the N’kren, the Bryyonians, the Alimbic and the Luminoth. The species shared their cultures and technology, and gently colonised wild worlds such as Aether, Elysia, and Tallon IV. [MP / MPH / MP2 / MP3]

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Peace reigned through the cosmos. The alliance was a great universal renaissance, and lasted for a millennium. [MPH SP / MP2 SP / MP3 SP]

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During this calm, the Chozo prophets continued to receive increasingly severe visions of chaos. They foresaw a universe consumed by war, horrors evolving on distant worlds, and a great toxicity waiting to be unleashed. As the visions became more precise, the species isolated itself from its allies. The Chozo civilisation became intensely driven to fight this unclear threat. [MP / MP3 SP / M2 SP /MF SP]

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The Chozo needed more potent tools to locate this unseen and distant danger. They expanded their SkyTown colony on the gas giant Elysia and remade it into a vast interstellar observatory powered by the planet’s endless storms. The facility was of such scale that an entire species of artificial life became necessary to maintain it. The Chozo created their first species – the mechanical Elysians. [MP3 / MP3 SP]

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Probes were launched across the universe, and the Elysians and Chozo scrutinised the data. The search took generations, while the planet’s tempestuous atmosphere battered SkyTown, weathering the station faster than the Elysians could maintain it. After countless probe launches, a partial transmission received from a decaying and distant satellite set prophecy in motion. [MP3]

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The data received was terrifying. The blue planet registered as an organism, somehow existing as both mineral and flesh. Impossible radiation pulsed from the surface, which overwhelmed the Chozo satellite and rendered it inert. The location of the planet was immediately lost, and only a broad region of space could be established. [MP3]

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With this find, the Chozo purpose on SkyTown was fulfilled. The race departed the facility, leaving the Elysians to continue their monitoring of the stars. The abandoned race of robots continued to launch satellites to try and rediscover the blue world, hopeful that such a discovery would herald the return of their Chozo creators. The Elysians searched unsuccessfully until Elysia’s endless storms eroded their civilisation into a rusted remnant. [MP3]

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The Chozo reconciled their vague discovery of a blue living planet with their prophecies of toxicity. On this distant world of poison, could creatures have evolved so vicious that they endangered the universe? [MP3 SP]

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Finding the exact location of the deadly planet becomes a priority for the Chozo civilisation. A gargantuan ship was assembled on the holy planet of Tallon IV, and dispatched to the dark corner of the universe where the Elysian satellite had been lost. The greatest Chozo warriors, scientists and prophets commenced a crusade for the hostile world, knowing that they would likely never make it back home. During their long journey, they conceive a name for their target: Phaaze. [MP3 SP]

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Generations passed, and the Chozo expedition finally located the blue planet. As they approached, they witnessed the living world as it endlessly pulsed with blue and white energies. There was nothing like this place elsewhere in the universe. [MP3 SP]

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Their scans confirmed their worst fears – this atmosphere was a bath of radiation and mutation – and evolution had produced horrors. [MP3 SP]

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For billions of years, Phaaze had mutated and irradiated life that evolved on its surface. The strongest creatures had survived to thrive in an ecosystem of beautiful poison. It was then that the Chozo understood: They had arrived at the home of the most devastating and deranged creatures in the known universe. [MP3 SP]

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If these monsters were to escape their containment on Phaaze, they would voraciously consume their way through the cosmos. With younger races only centuries away from space travel, the Chozo could not risk them finding this world and releasing its terrors. [MP3 SP]

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The Chozo expedition came to an impasse. The threat of Phaaze’s superpredators had to be neutralised, but severe action against the planet would be sacrilege. The Chozo held life sacred, and refused to destroy the unique living world. [MP3 SP]

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A dangerous plan was agreed upon. The expedition ship landed on Phaaze, exposing the crew to tremendous radiation. [MP3 SP]

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Chozo Warriors in power suits fought the planet’s creatures as they swarmed the ship. The soldiers battled, watching their kin die around them, in a desperate mission to buy time. [MP3 SP]

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The scientists within the ship began to harness the intense radiation around them, to try and engineer an artificial predator that could neutralise the planet’s superpredators. With access to the unique Phazon mutagen that covered the poisonous world, genetic engineering that should have taken decades was done in days. The Chozo engineered the first Metroid. [MP3 SP]

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The Metroid creature was unleashed onto the planet, and the radiation caused it to reproduce quickly. The resulting swarm of Metroids began to consume the planet’s monstrosities and established themselves as Phaaze’s apex predator. [MP3 SP]

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The Chozo mission was complete. The worst creatures were being hunted to extinction, and the Metroids were expected to die from starvation soon after. The cost had been enormous – most of the crew had been killed defending the ship, and the survivors were deathly ill from radiation poisoning. The burnt and damaged ship took off for the long journey home, but the crew soon succumbed to the radiation they had endured. The autopilot took the ship of Chozo bodies home. [MP3 SP]

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On Phaaze, the Metroid presence lasted decades as they consumed the planet’s superpredators. The corpses of Chozo warriors were absorbed into the planet, and their battle armour slowly became weathered and scattered. The planet’s slow sentience developed an outrage that seethed under its continents. It had been violated by the Chozo. As the Metroid infestation began to die out, Phaaze developed a very primitive concept of purpose and retribution. [MP3 SP]

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Phaaze established a vague awareness of concepts it had absorbed from the brains of the Chozo warrior corpses – and the location of two worlds from the Chozo’s memories. As the planet entered its reproductive cycle, it purposely directed two of its seeds towards the planets Tallon IV and Aether. In the seed sent to the Chozo world, Phaaze included one of the last surviving Metroid creatures and some ruined pieces of Chozo armour, intended as a reminder of the crime Phaaze had endured at their hands. The planet sent its second seed to Aether, as the absorbed memories informed the living planet that its inhabitants were friends of the Chozo, and therefore the enemies of Phaaze. [MP 1 / MP 2 SP / MP3 SP]

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The expedition ship – heavily damaged by radiation and lack of maintenance – was guided back to civilisation by an increasingly erratic auto-pilot. After decades it eventually approached the Chozo world of Zebes, and crash-landed onto its surface. The Chozo civilisation attempted to recover data logs from the wreckage with very limited success – they were able to understand the sacrifice that the heroic crew had made, and confirmed the apparent success of the Metroids in neutralising the creatures on the living planet. The Chozo authorities were unable to establish the location of Phaaze, or recover much in the way of scientific data concerning it. [MP3 SP / SM SP]

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As the Tallon IV seed began its centuries of travelling through space, the lone Metroid within absorbed vast amounts of Phazon and radiation. It became self-aware, and grew in size, intelligence and strength. It used the ruined pieces of Chozo armour to construct itself an exoskeleton, and descended into madness. The exoskeleton failed to protect the creature from the endless radiation, and the Metroid became as exotic as Phaaze’s extinct superpredators: An undying tortured genius. [MP / MP2 / MP3 / MP3 SP]

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The creature that would come to be known as Metroid Prime resented Phaaze for imprisoning it in the Leviathan. It resented the Chozo for creating and discarding the Metroids. It decided that it would survive, bring order to the chaotic universe that birthed it, and somehow enslave Phaaze to its will. In its solitude, immortal as a consequence of its mutations, Metroid Prime plotted its revenge against the universe. [MP / MP2 / MP3 / MP3 SP]

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+ The Dark Planet

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With a clear understanding of the danger of living planets, the Chozo authority commenced a search for similar threats. With far more advanced technology than their ancestors had during the Elysian era, the Chozo were unfortunate enough to find a planet of even greater horrors. [MP 3 SP / M2]

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The Chozo detected strange readings coming from a world in a desolate part of the galaxy. The planet had been previously considered so obscure and unimportant that it didn’t have a name, merely catalogued with the codename SR388 and left to its obscurity. A detailed analysis picked up some extremely strange observations; though seemingly mineral, the caverns and liquids beneath the surface shifted with metabolic rhythm – as if the whole planet was somehow a living thing. A ship was dispatched, and the strongest Chozo warriors braved the caverns beneath the surface. [M2 / M2 SP]

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Few made it back. They told of a cauldron of evil, an environment so hostile and vicious that it had birthed the most terrible things. [M2]

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Beneath that planet, evolution had been won by an abomination that could steal the flesh, abilities, memories and strengths of all of its prey. The creature was a fusion of energy and plasma that parasitized on life itself. With no word suitable for the nightmare they had discovered, the Chozo simply called it X. If these X-Parasites somehow gained access to the wider universe, there would be no force that could contain them. [M2]

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The threat had to be dealt with. Remembering the apparent success of the Chozo expedition to Phaaze, a plan was put into action. The Chozo assembled their best and brightest, their strongest and wisest. They carved their way into SR388, and dispatched mechanical creatures to construct secure facilities. Robots and Chozo warriors repressed all instances of the X-Parasite as they found them, but casualties were high. The planet appeared to fight the Chozo at every turn, it drowned the invaders in acid and unleashed ambushes of creatures. The endless swam of X-Parasites gained strength from the corpses around them. [MP3 SP / M2]

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Deep in the planet, a glass laboratory was created, its walls highly resistant to SR388’s acid belly. Here, in dangerous proximity to the X-Parasites, the Chozo scientists began their work. [M2]

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The Chozo tried to recreate the plan of their ancestors – the use of Metroids to pacify superpredators too dangerous to exist. Without access to the same planetary radiation and materials the Phaaze expedition had, progress was slow. As the war against the planet was raging around them, the Chozo scientists were able to engineer Metroids, but not a variant strong enough to overcome the X-Parasites. As more and more Chozo died protecting the laboratory, a different approach was needed. [M2 SP]

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The Chozo succeeded in engineering a Metroid Queen, a colossal creature who would lay Metroid Hatchling eggs. When hatched, these resulting Metroids were strong and durable creatures, and finally potent enough to combat the X menace. The Chozo knew that to completely suppress the parasites, the Metroid presence on SR388 had to be permanent. To ensure that the species would not overfeed on the environment and wipe out its food chains, the scientists hardwired an instinct into the Metroid Queen’s feral mind: Only thirty-nine Metroids were to exist on the planet at any one time. This, it was hoped, would keep their numbers high enough to destroy any X re-emergence, but low enough so that they wouldn’t consume the rest of the life on the planet, and starve to death from lack of food. [M2]

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The scientists assembled a payload of Hatchling Eggs and the surviving Chozo warriors distributed them across the planet. The eggs hatched quickly, and the X-Parasites were immediately overwhelmed by the infant Metroids. The X-Parasites were quickly hunted to near-extinction, with only a few surviving cells entering a state of suspension deep in the planet. [M2 SP / MF]

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The Chozo had won their war, but only just. Most of the warriors and scientists had not survived, and those that were left had to make sure that the X-Parasites had been permanently suppressed. The planet shook with tremors; the earth shifted and acid poured, as if the world was trying to crush the Chozo in their glass laboratory. [M2 SP]

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The X-Parasites did not return, and the Metroid Queen continued to scream as her glass prison shook. The Chozo didn’t realise it, but her despair was being heard. [M2 SP]

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SR388 had been violated by the Chozo. Though very different to Phaaze, SR388 had its own vague sense of awareness. It perceived the Chozo as a viral infection, and the dead X-Parasites as part of itself. It understood loss, and shook with ancient rage. [MP3 SP / M2 SP / MF SP]

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It changed itself to change the Metroids. It adopted them to replace the X-Parasites, and quickly killed the weaker breeds. It moved its radioactive minerals closer to their eggs and soon mutated the species. As SR388 had done with X, it did with the Metroids. It made them strong. [M2 SP / MF SP]

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Alpha, Gamma, Zeta and Omega Metroids spawned quickly, and responded to the screams of their Queen. With their bulk and strength, they smashed through the glass laboratory and slaughtered their Chozo creators. The Chozo warriors were hunted down and crushed. [M2]

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SR388 developed into a new cauldron of hostility. The Metroids served as the apex predator, and the robots of the Chozo decayed into machine madness and prowled the ruins, killing on sight. The Chozo mission to suppress the X-Parasite had been a success, but the planet had gained its revenge. [M2 / M2 SP / MF]

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+ Part Two: The End of the Renaissance

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+ The Holy World

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The Chozo had devastated two planets for the good of the universe, and sustained many causalities. The superpredators of Phaaze were extinct and the X-Parasites were permanently suppressed. With the crisis over, the race became consumed with a collective sense of guilt over their necessary actions. The Chozo believed the life of the universe to be sacred, and had to reconcile their aggressive actions with their faith. [MP SP / MP3 SP / M2 / MF]

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Worse still, their prophets continued to have visions of endless conflict and death. War was coming to the universe, and it seemed that their sins had not saved them. Many began to doubt these visions, and a schism occurred. [MP/ MP3 SP]

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The bulk of the Chozo civilisation retired themselves from galactic affairs, leaving only a few scattered colonies amongst the stars. The race retreated to the holy planet of Tallon IV, to shun their technologies and begin simpler, poetic lives. These Chozo reconnected themselves to the natural world and tried to find a harmony with it. As time went on, the most potent prophets became manic, and tried to warn their fellows of a great poison that was to come. [M1 / MP]

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These visions were met with increasing dismissal, but the day finally came when the prophets were believed. After eons swimming in the stars, Phaaze’s seed entered the Tallon system. [MP / MP3]

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The Leviathan crashed down, and rained poison and death unto the world. The impact survivors watched as their sacred nature succumbed to the mutagens leaking from the seed, and barricaded themselves in their temples as the flora and fauna transformed. Phazon spread beneath the surface of the dying planet, and radiation storms battered the surface. [MP]

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The Chozos’ punishment for their sins, and the fulfilment of Phaaze’s wrath, reached biblical proportions. The Chozo of Tallon IV did not get to rest in peace. Their life energies suffered from Phazon disruption, and upon death they became mad ghosts who screamed forever as they were torn in and out of the material world. In this purgatory, the undead immaterial Chozo murdered anyone they could find. [MP / MP3 SP]

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As their numbers dwindled, the last of the Chozo constructed a great temple above the impact crater. Within this temple, they used what little technology remained to project an energy field around the Leviathan to slow the spread of contagion. As the Chozo civilisation on Tallon IV was extinguished, their dying prophets told of a hero who would one day emerge, to enter the crater and defeat the evil worm within. [MP]

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Within the Impact Crater, Metroid Prime remained trapped within the Chozo energy field. In its armour constructed from ancient Chozo power suits, it continued its wait to be unleashed on the universe. [MP / MP3 SP]

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+ Dark Echoes

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On the planet Aether, an ancient race of mystics known as the Luminoth received the horrifying data coming from Tallon IV. In distant times, the Luminoth and the Chozo had been steadfast allies – until the Chozo retreat ended their ties. Desperate to assist, the Luminoth began to organise a rescue mission. [MP2 / MP2 SP]

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A dark transmission was received from Tallon IV. The image showed a screaming, ghostly Chozo figure, flickering in and out of the living universe. In its undead madness, it spoke for its kin. It raged that they would kill anyone who would set foot on their world. The planet was pandemonium, a cursed world on which the dead could not die. As the signal faded, the Luminoth realised that there was no one left alive to rescue. [MP SP / MP2 SP]

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The Luminoth were receiving strange readings from the devastated planet. A mutagen was spreading, unlike anything they had ever encountered. They scanned the stars for its source, and made a devastating discovery – a mass of the same mutagen was on a collision course with Aether. Phaaze’s second seed had nearly arrived at its destination. [MP2 SP / MP3 SP]

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The people of Aether turned to their technology to save them. Their planet had no native star of its own, and had been implanted millennia ago with a complex energy network that sustained all life. This system was reverently called the Light of Aether, and harnessed the light of the universe in its mechanism. The Luminoth realised that even with this great power, they could not destroy the Phazon Leviathan. A different approach was needed. [MP2 / MP2 SP]

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The Luminoth used their great Light to engineer a small pocket universe, a dark lifeless echo of existence. The plan was bold: they would use the Light of Aether to surgically open the fabric of reality in the path of the Phazon seed, and allow it to harmlessly enter the pocket universe. If all went well, they would be saved. [MP2 SP]

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The day came, and the Leviathan entered Aether’s atmosphere. The Luminoth commenced their great plan. [MP2 SP]

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Phaaze’s seed was a sum of living materials beyond Luminoth comprehension. It hit the pocket universe with incalculable force, and a tsunami of exotic energy ruptured space and time. The equipment containing the dark reality lost containment within moments, and the Luminoth were helpless as their creation expanded across the entire planet. A wave of dark energy absorbed creatures, structures and land into the dark universe, and what was once a single planet – was now two. [MP2 / MP2 SP]

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The Luminoth surveyed the devastation. The Phazon seed was gone – it had indeed collided with the dark universe. Entire continents, with millions of inhabitants, had vanished with it. [MP2 / MP2 SP

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In the dark universe, a grotesque world was being born. Previous inhabitants of Aether, having been absorbed when containment of the pocket universe was lost, found themselves twisted by the corrosive new reality around them. Most perished, and their flesh fed the strange carnivorous fungi that glowed sickly colours. Some survivors were mutated by the Phazon slowly spreading beneath the surface, and adapted to survive in the hostility. [MP2 SP]

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Aether and its echo, the Phazon-infested Dark Aether, existed in synchronicity. As the Luminoth tried to rebuild their planet, it took only decades for cracks to form in the ether separating the two realities. As rips in the universe shattered open, Aether became a battlefield. [MP2]

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A womb of Phazon mutation and dark energies had birthed a cunning and ferocious horde. The Ing erupted through the cracks between the two worlds, and commenced slaughter. They were fought back by the Luminoth, and a war began between the two parallel worlds. The Ing invaded Aether with regularity, and killed, pillaged and destroyed all that they could find. The Luminoth retaliated and crusaded into Dark Aether in their Light Suits, on suicide missions to exterminate the source of the Ing menace. Both sides suffered colossal casualties as the decades went on. [MP2]

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The war was being lost by the Luminoth. The Ing had exterminated most of their race and had stolen too many vital technologies. With the theft of essential energy components from the Light of Aether power network, they had become a defeated people. [MP2]

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The Ing had destroyed all of Aether’s ancient ships, and condemned the Luminoth to no escape from their doomed world. With no other choice, the survivors sealed themselves in an inner sanctum, and entered a state of suspended animation. One custodian, U-Mos, volunteered to be their guardian. As Aether became weaker and weaker, the Luminoth waited for someone to save them. They would wait a very long time. [MP2]

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+ The Sacrifice of the Alimbics

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As the Chozo and the Luminoth fell, so too did other ancient races. In a distant part of the universe, the Alimbics were a militaristic society that maintained peace in their galactic cluster. Their order was shattered when a murderous entity, originating from someplace beyond the understood universe, plummeted into one of their worlds. The creature emerged from the devastation as a gaseous entity, and assumed an Alimbic-styled body to begin its onslaught. [MPH]

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This alien juggernaut was named Gorea by the Alimbic race, and they soon understood it brought only death. Gorea killed every Alimbic it could find, and destroyed everything in its path. Planet after planet fell to Gorea, and the Alimbics realised the creature would never stop. [MPH]

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The Alimbics performed an act of supreme sacrifice. They combined the mental energies of their entire race to forge a prison for Gorea. The psychic prison held it bound, and it was transplanted into an organic vessel called The Oubliette. The vessel was launched into the void outside of the universe, a course that would keep its indestructible prisoner in exile forever. The systems of the prison ship were tasked to scan the every molecule of the imprisoned Gorea, and devise an Omega weapon that could be used to kill it. [MPH / MPH SP]

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The mental energies expelled in this plan consumed the physical bodies of the entire Alimbic race. They vanished from the universe in an instant. Their sacrifice protected all life in the cosmos from Gorea’s murderous rampage. [MPH]

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+ The War of Bryyo

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As the old races of the universe died around them, the lizard people of Bryyo faced their own challenges. The Bryyonians were an advanced, space-faring race who had learned much from their Chozo allies. Their society was a deeply polarised one, with tensions eternal between the scientific and religious factions.[MP3]

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Over the previous centuries, the scientific agenda had dominated, with space travel proving beneficial and enlightening. As the Chozo, Luminoth and Alimbics faced extinction, the religious Bryyonians believed more than ever that the universe was a hostile place, and became desperate to stop their scientific counterparts. [MP3]

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A great war exploded across Bryyo. By its end, the scholars had been wiped out and the survivors of both sides had regressed to a feral existence. The race devolved into animals, wandering around ruins that they no longer understood. Language vanished and strength ruled. Anyone who landed on Bryyo was meat, to be killed and eaten. [MP3]

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+ The Little Rainy Planet

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The onslaught of vengeances, conquerors, poisons and politics destroyed the old races. The Alimbics had lost their flesh, while the Bryyonians had lost their souls. The Luminoth had retreated into stasis, and the Chozo of Tallon IV had been condemned to a living death. [MP / MPH / MP2 / MP3]

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On a small, rainy planet called Zebes, the last known Chozo colony had watched the stars with impotence. This small settlement of the nearly-extinct avian race witnessed the end of the great universal renaissance, and the slow beginning of a new chapter in galactic history. Gradually, the younger races were launching their first satellites into space. In time, new empires would rise to take the place of the old. [M1 / M1 SP]

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Zebes prophets’ saw the visions the Chozo had always endured: great wars, spreading poison and death. And suddenly, something bold was foreseen. [M1 SP / MP3 SP]

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A great hunter, clad in orange, red and green. The Chozo glimpsed a future hero, alone in the darkness beneath worlds, fighting so that good could survive evil. They saw her curing poisoned planets, and ending galactic wars. They saw the universe’s one chance to survive its apocalyptic future. They saw the only one who could defy prophecy. [M1 / MP3 SP]

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And they saw her wearing Chozo armour. [M1]

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+ Part Three: The New Empires

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+ The Humans

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On the planet Earth, the human race had finally developed a ship capable of leaving their solar system. A brave crew ventured into the universe to learn whether life existed elsewhere. Their discoveries fundamentally changed the human condition. On planet after planet, they found ruined tombs and cities, guarded by weathered statues of dead races. Most significant of all, they found technology. [M1 SP]

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The humans reverse engineered their salvage, and advanced with pace. Within another century, faster-than-light ships explored the stars, and colonies transformed hostile worlds into homes. Peaceful relations formed between other younger races, and a great Galactic Federation was founded. [M1 SP]

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+ The Space Pirates

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In a less hospitable region of space, a cabal of battered races joined their forces to survive. On planets where acid rain burned flesh and magma flowed, the alliance expanded into a hardened space empire. They ventured into nearby systems and took what they needed from anyone they could reach. They found the ruins of the old races and ransacked the ancient technologies within. They immersed themselves in science and unlocked the secrets of their finds. Within decades, they had advanced their spread with stronger and faster ships. The creatures enhanced themselves, rewriting their genetics and integrating mechanisms beneath their flesh. They were unique: a cybernetic race of furious murderers with a skill for patient scientific process. As more planets were invaded, their conquered civilisations were conscripted by force. [M1 SP / MP / MP3]

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The inevitable moment came when their Empire reached the borders of the vast Galactic Federation. [M1 SP / MP / MP3]

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First contact was brief and furious. On that day, the warning went out to all the worlds of the Federation: Beware the Space Pirates. Though no state of war was officially declared, the empires attacked each other on sight. The Galactic Federation was large enough to repress any meaningful incursions into their space. [M1 SP / MP SP / MP3 SP / SM SP]

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+ The Massacre of Two Families

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The Galactic Federation discovered the last Chozo Colony on Zebes. The tired, ancient avians welcomed the humans and shared with them wisdom and knowledge. They offered the Galactic Federation new sciences, and taught them how to make organic computers. The Federation studied the Chozo’s own central processing unit, an engineered brain that mothered over their colony, and left with plans to assemble their own variants. On the nearest habitable planet of K-2L, a colony was established. [M1 / MP3 SP]

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On this world, the human Samus Aran was born. [M1]

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Barely out of infancy, the young Samus witnessed her family die. A Space Pirate raiding party overwhelmed her colony and murdered everyone she ever knew. By staying silent while surrounded by horror, Samus survived as the Pirates ransacked the settlement and left. [M1]

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The Chozo colony on Zebes received K-2L’s automated distress signal. In an ancient dusty ship, they reached the planet and found Samus to be the only survivor of the massacre. The child was brought to Zebes, and the Chozo deliberated. Should she be returned to her own kind, or allowed to stay? [M1]

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Across the colony, the Prophets experienced a simultaneous moment of clarity. They understood immediately that they had found their prophesised hero. The young girl was their inheritor, and would grow strong. She would learn all she could from them, and take their strongest technologies into the universe. She would be the hero against the oncoming storm. [M1 SP]

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Samus Aran reached maturity amongst the Chozo. She was trained in the combat arts of the great extinct races. She was infused with Chozo genetic material so she could employ their technologies. She was educated to be a scientist, an explorer, and a tactician. Everything that was good about the Chozo civilisation was allowed to live on in Samus. [M1]

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Samus became an adult, and the Chozo presented her with their greatest works: a toughened power suit and an agile spacecraft, both more potent than anything their race had ever made. The Chozo leader, decaying and blind, told Samus it was time for her to find her destiny in the universe. Samus Aran departed for the stars, and years pass. [M1 / M1 SP]

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The Chozo hid their technologies throughout the planet, in places that they were certain Samus would find them. They concealed a second Power Suit within the walls of their holy temple, having foreseen that Samus may require it in the future. They then returned to the surface to await the inevitable. [M1 SP]

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Space Pirate scientists arrived shortly after the carnage and focused their attention on the legendary Chozo organic central processing unit. They rewrote its benign programming and injected stimulants into its flesh. They enabled it to form an artificial intelligence obsessed with strategy and conquest. They drove its computational potential towards absolute advancement of the Space Pirate Empire. [M1 SP]

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The results went beyond High Command’s most optimistic projections. The Space Pirates had created a leader, a desperately needed figure to unite their fragmented empire. They had created their Mother Brain. The great Space Pirate generals Ridley and Kraid arrived at Zebes, ready to pay tribute to their new master and to plan for the future. Mother Brain delivered to the Space Pirates knowledge and power. She told them of a world referenced in her oldest Chozo databanks, a planet bathed in a mutagenic poison waiting to be farmed. She instructed High Command to prepare an armada of ships and invade the planet Tallon IV. [M1 / MP SP]

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The order was followed immediately, and the High Command discovered a world deranged by contagion. Beneath its surface, endless pools of Phazon waited to be weaponised, and a great mining operation began. Mother Brain received data from their readings on the planet; even after thousands of years, the source of the Phazon was still contained in the Chozo force field. She scrutinised her records further, and was unable to ascertain any method of breaching the barrier. The Space Pirates could retrieve the Phazon, but were denied access to its source. [MP]

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A Galactic Federation survey team studied the surface, and soon encountered a gelatinous creature that swam through air. The alien defied gravity and physics as it phased through dense rock with ease. It perceived the survey team, and made a few curious chirps in their direction. It then suddenly changed temperament, aggressively charging to latch itself onto the skull of one of the party. The victim died in agony as the Metroid fed on all the energy within, and could not be removed until its prey had been reduced to a dried husk of collapsing matter. The young Metroid had just killed, in a way that science could not explain. [M1 SP / M2 SP]

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As their vessel went back to the stars, SR388 was aware their withdrawal. It harboured a great contempt for the invaders, an endless hate fuelled by the impotence it endured centuries ago when the Chozo had committed their great invasion. The living planet had spent centuries honing the Metroids into perfect killers, and knew the devastation they could cause upon maturity. The planet had intentionally allowed the humans to take a few Metroids away so that the creatures could grow up and kill anyone out amongst the stars who ever thought of returning. SR388 took any opportunity to gain revenge against an outside universe that refused to leave it alone. [M2 SP]

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As the scientists began to broadcast their findings back to the Galactic Federation, Mother Brain intercepted the transmission. She cross-referenced their data with notes buried in the Chozo’s ancient fragmented records. She deduced that the Metroids were a form of genetically engineered predator of incredible power, created by the Chozo for an unknown purpose. Mother Brain ordered High Command to get the creatures to her by any means necessary. [M1 SP]

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In her first mission as a Bounty Hunter, Samus Arran was commissioned by the Galactic Federation to neutralise the stolen Metroids. Through careful investigation, Samus discovered that the Pirates are operating from Zebes – her home. She concluded that the Space Pirates had murdered her second family, as they had done with her first. They have took from her everyone she ever loved, and destroyed her two worlds. [M1]

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Samus confronted the malevolent Mother Brain and blasted apart her body. A power overload was caused, and the Tourian facility shook itself apart. Samus evacuated to her ship and tried to leave Zebes, but a Space Pirate battleship in orbit registered her ascent and opened fire. Samus’ gunship plummeted back towards the Zebes and impacted Chozodia, her former home. [M1]

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Samus found herself surrounded with murals of the dead Chozo, and accepted she was alone in the universe. Overcoming despair, she solved the trials of the Chozodian temple and a concealed power suit was revealed to her. This shining armour was even more potent than the one she had just lost, and was able to integrate the most exotic Chozo technologies. Samus realised the greater meaning of her find; the Chozo had left her gifts for her in places they had foreseen she would traverse. Her adopted family continued to protect her long after their deaths, and she would find their statues cradling survival equipment in the darkest corners of the cosmos. [M1 / MP / MP3 / M2 / SM]

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With her new armaments, Samus cleansed the Space Pirate presence from Zebes. She came to be known as “The Hunter”, and the Space Pirates learned that they will always be hunted down for what they did to her families. They fled the planet in terror. [M1 / MP / MP2 / MP3]

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Samus guided her ship into the Tallon system and investigated an orbiting space station. She discovered a failed genetic engineering facility whose Space Pirate crew was murdered when they lost control of their own creations. Samus fought her way through the ferocious beasts scattered within, and discovered a half-insane cyborg recreation of the Space Pirate general Ridley. As the station began to collapse, the biomechanical dragon fled to the world below, and Samus pursued. [MP1]

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Samus lost Ridley in the planet’s stormy atmosphere, and elected to land in a nearby jungle to conceal her presence from the Pirate ground forces. Exploring the surroundings, Samus discovered that the planet was once home to the bulk of the extinct Chozo civilisation. In a great temple Samus studied poetic murals that told of the Phazon comet that had struck their world. The scribblings informed her of a creature trapped deep in the comet that they referred to as “The Worm,” and of the powerful shield they erected to prevent its escape. Samus read their last prophecy; that a hero would traverse fire and ice, jungle and cave, and find twelve sacred keys that would deactivate the barrier and allow passage to the Impact Crater. This saviour from the stars would bring down the ancient shield, and destroy the worm that infected their planet. [MP1]

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Samus hunted the Pirates and accessed their computer logs. The Empire had found quantities of an intensely potent mutagen called Phazon. Laboratories across the outpost experimented with the substance, and in a short space of time they had created prototypes for the next generation of their races: powerful Phazon-fuelled juggernauts. Should these advances continue, Samus knew that the Space Pirates would be able to conquer the Galactic Federation. [MP1]

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In the most secure laboratory, Samus made a devastating discovery. The Space Pirates had used Phazon to create an army of stable clone Metroids and lost containment. The Metroid creatures were roaming the caverns deep in the planet, reproducing and mutating as the Phazon influenced their physiology. [MP1]

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Samus’ final discovery was the most horrific. The powerful, poisonous Phazon was not a rare material on Tallon IV. Despite the Chozo shield containing the Impact Crater, the substance had spread and consumed the world inside-out. The core of the planet presented the Space Pirates with a vast supply of Phazon, enough to fuel their conquest of the stars. [MP1]

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Samus destroyed the mining facilities and laboratories, and reconstructed the twelve parts of the ancient Chozo cipher. She destroyed living weapons such as the Thardus experiment, and annihilated the prototype Omega Pirate. She overcame corrupted Metroids, and banished the tormented Chozo ghosts from the living world. She fought the mad Meta Ridley, and on his demise deactivated the Chozo containment shield. As prophesised, Samus Aran entered the Impact Crater. [MP1]

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Samus Aran had opened Metroid Prime’s cage, and had no understanding of what she was about to unleash on the universe. The creature had been imprisoned in a different era, and had spent eons being tortuously transformed by Phazon into an undying mad genius. [MP1]

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Samus and the ancient Metroid battled, and the bounty hunter shattered the creature’s metal armour. By channelling the surrounding Phazon deposits into a supercharged energy beam, Samus was able to devastate Metroid Prime’s gelatinous body. After a tremendous battle, the old creature began to collapse on itself. [MP1]

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Seemingly dying, Metroid Prime lashed out, grabbing a layer of material from Samus Aran’s armour. The creature melted into a pool of Phazon particles, and the bounty hunter evacuated the Impact Crater. [MP1]

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Samus Aran had seemingly succeeded in her mission. The surviving Space Pirates abandoned their devastated facilities and hastily evacuated the planet. With the defeat of Metroid Prime, the Phazon contagion was slowly stopping its spread. The tormented Chozo spirits that had been bound to the planet were finally able to achieve their rest. Leaving the world to recover from its devastation, Samus Aran headed back to the stars. [MP1 / MP1 SP]

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Metroid Prime’s exposure to millennia of Phazon had given the creature extremely exotic abilities, the most potent being its durability – to recreate itself after nearly any level of destruction. As it had collapsed on itself, the essence of Metroid Prime craved the strength and adaptability present in Samus Aran. In the Talon IV impact crater, Metroid Prime recreated itself as a dark copy of the woman who had defeated it. [MP 1 / MP2 / MP3 SP]

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Dark Samus clawed its way out of the Impact Crater. It departed Tallon IV to spread its venom across the stars, and to sow the seeds of a great war. [MP1 / MP2 / MP3]

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+ Nintendo’s Metroid series tells us of a malevolent and vicious universe. It’s a maelstrom in which benevolent races are routinely extinguished, and corrupt empires wage war for ownership of living weapons. +

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+ It’s a place in which xenocide is a commissioned service, and grievances are resolved with planetary apocalypses. Everything is chaotically connected to a dead race of avian prophetic poets fighting a war throughout the cosmos. It’s a dark place to visit. +

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+ The games tell us much about this hostile universe, but there are a lot of unresolved story points. In response to these mysteries, the article will provide a healthy amount of speculation. You can consider the piece to be either a makeshift timeline illustrated with fan-artwork, or simply an enthusiastic attempt to reconcile the series continuity into a cohesive whole. The article is informed by the extensive research previously performed by its author. The approach taken regarding speculation is thus: The logical inclusion of probable events that resolve mysteries, while maintaining the themes of the series. +

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+ With this find, the Chozo purpose on SkyTown was fulfilled. The race departed the facility, leaving the Elysians to continue their monitoring of the stars. The abandoned race of robots continued to launch satellites to try and rediscover the blue world, hopeful that such a discovery would herald the return of their Chozo creators. The Elysians searched unsuccessfully until Elysia’s endless storms eroded their civilisation into a rusted remnant. [MP3] +

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+ The Chozo reconciled their vague discovery of a blue living planet with their prophecies of toxicity. On this distant world of poison, could creatures have evolved so vicious that they endangered the universe? [MP3 SP] +

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+ Finding the exact location of the deadly planet becomes a priority for the Chozo civilisation. A gargantuan ship was assembled on the holy planet of Tallon IV, and dispatched to the dark corner of the universe where the Elysian satellite had been lost. The greatest Chozo warriors, scientists and prophets commenced a crusade for the hostile world, knowing that they would likely never make it back home. During their long journey, they conceive a name for their target: Phaaze. [MP3 SP] +

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+ Generations passed, and the Chozo expedition finally located the blue planet. As they approached, they witnessed the living world as it endlessly pulsed with blue and white energies. There was nothing like this place elsewhere in the universe. [MP3 SP] +

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+ Their scans confirmed their worst fears – this atmosphere was a bath of radiation and mutation – and evolution had produced horrors. [MP3 SP] +

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+ For billions of years, Phaaze had mutated and irradiated life that evolved on its surface. The strongest creatures had survived to thrive in an ecosystem of beautiful poison. It was then that the Chozo understood: They had arrived at the home of the most devastating and deranged creatures in the known universe. [MP3 SP] +

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+ If these monsters were to escape their containment on Phaaze, they would voraciously consume their way through the cosmos. With younger races only centuries away from space travel, the Chozo could not risk them finding this world and releasing its terrors. [MP3 SP] +

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+ The Chozo expedition came to an impasse. The threat of Phaaze’s superpredators had to be neutralised, but severe action against the planet would be sacrilege. The Chozo held life sacred, and refused to destroy the unique living world. [MP3 SP] +

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+ A dangerous plan was agreed upon. The expedition ship landed on Phaaze, exposing the crew to tremendous radiation. [MP3 SP] +

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+ Chozo Warriors in power suits fought the planet’s creatures as they swarmed the ship. The soldiers battled, watching their kin die around them, in a desperate mission to buy time. [MP3 SP] +

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+ The scientists within the ship began to harness the intense radiation around them, to try and engineer an artificial predator that could neutralise the planet’s superpredators. With access to the unique Phazon mutagen that covered the poisonous world, genetic engineering that should have taken decades was done in days. The Chozo engineered the first Metroid. [MP3 SP] +

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+ The Metroid creature was unleashed onto the planet, and the radiation caused it to reproduce quickly. The resulting swarm of Metroids began to consume the planet’s monstrosities and established themselves as Phaaze’s apex predator. [MP3 SP] +

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+ The Chozo mission was complete. The worst creatures were being hunted to extinction, and the Metroids were expected to die from starvation soon after. The cost had been enormous – most of the crew had been killed defending the ship, and the survivors were deathly ill from radiation poisoning. The burnt and damaged ship took off for the long journey home, but the crew soon succumbed to the radiation they had endured. The autopilot took the ship of Chozo bodies home. [MP3 SP] +

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+ On Phaaze, the Metroid presence lasted decades as they consumed the planet’s superpredators. The corpses of Chozo warriors were absorbed into the planet, and their battle armour slowly became weathered and scattered. The planet’s slow sentience developed an outrage that seethed under its continents. It had been violated by the Chozo. As the Metroid infestation began to die out, Phaaze developed a very primitive concept of purpose and retribution. [MP3 SP] +

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+ Phaaze established a vague awareness of concepts it had absorbed from the brains of the Chozo warrior corpses – and the location of two worlds from the Chozo’s memories. As the planet entered its reproductive cycle, it purposely directed two of its seeds towards the planets Tallon IV and Aether. In the seed sent to the Chozo world, Phaaze included one of the last surviving Metroid creatures and some ruined pieces of Chozo armour, intended as a reminder of the crime Phaaze had endured at their hands. The planet sent its second seed to Aether, as the absorbed memories informed the living planet that its inhabitants were friends of the Chozo, and therefore the enemies of Phaaze. [MP 1 / MP 2 SP / MP3 SP] +

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+ The expedition ship – heavily damaged by radiation and lack of maintenance – was guided back to civilisation by an increasingly erratic auto-pilot. After decades it eventually approached the Chozo world of Zebes, and crash-landed onto its surface. The Chozo civilisation attempted to recover data logs from the wreckage with very limited success – they were able to understand the sacrifice that the heroic crew had made, and confirmed the apparent success of the Metroids in neutralising the creatures on the living planet. The Chozo authorities were unable to establish the location of Phaaze, or recover much in the way of scientific data concerning it. [MP3 SP / SM SP] +

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+ As the Tallon IV seed began its centuries of travelling through space, the lone Metroid within absorbed vast amounts of Phazon and radiation. It became self-aware, and grew in size, intelligence and strength. It used the ruined pieces of Chozo armour to construct itself an exoskeleton, and descended into madness. The exoskeleton failed to protect the creature from the endless radiation, and the Metroid became as exotic as Phaaze’s extinct superpredators: An undying tortured genius. [MP / MP2 / MP3 / MP3 SP] +

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+ The creature that would come to be known as Metroid Prime resented Phaaze for imprisoning it in the Leviathan. It resented the Chozo for creating and discarding the Metroids. It decided that it would survive, bring order to the chaotic universe that birthed it, and somehow enslave Phaaze to its will. In its solitude, immortal as a consequence of its mutations, Metroid Prime plotted its revenge against the universe. [MP / MP2 / MP3 / MP3 SP] +

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+ With a clear understanding of the danger of living planets, the Chozo authority commenced a search for similar threats. With far more advanced technology than their ancestors had during the Elysian era, the Chozo were unfortunate enough to find a planet of even greater horrors. [MP 3 SP / M2] +

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+ The Chozo detected strange readings coming from a world in a desolate part of the galaxy. The planet had been previously considered so obscure and unimportant that it didn’t have a name, merely catalogued with the codename SR388 and left to its obscurity. A detailed analysis picked up some extremely strange observations; though seemingly mineral, the caverns and liquids beneath the surface shifted with metabolic rhythm – as if the whole planet was somehow a living thing. A ship was dispatched, and the strongest Chozo warriors braved the caverns beneath the surface. [M2 / M2 SP] +

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+ Few made it back. They told of a cauldron of evil, an environment so hostile and vicious that it had birthed the most terrible things. [M2] +

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+ Beneath that planet, evolution had been won by an abomination that could steal the flesh, abilities, memories and strengths of all of its prey. The creature was a fusion of energy and plasma that parasitized on life itself. With no word suitable for the nightmare they had discovered, the Chozo simply called it X. If these X-Parasites somehow gained access to the wider universe, there would be no force that could contain them. [M2] +

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+ The threat had to be dealt with. Remembering the apparent success of the Chozo expedition to Phaaze, a plan was put into action. The Chozo assembled their best and brightest, their strongest and wisest. They carved their way into SR388, and dispatched mechanical creatures to construct secure facilities. Robots and Chozo warriors repressed all instances of the X-Parasite as they found them, but casualties were high. The planet appeared to fight the Chozo at every turn, it drowned the invaders in acid and unleashed ambushes of creatures. The endless swam of X-Parasites gained strength from the corpses around them. [MP3 SP / M2] +

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+ Deep in the planet, a glass laboratory was created, its walls highly resistant to SR388’s acid belly. Here, in dangerous proximity to the X-Parasites, the Chozo scientists began their work. [M2] +

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+ The Chozo tried to recreate the plan of their ancestors – the use of Metroids to pacify superpredators too dangerous to exist. Without access to the same planetary radiation and materials the Phaaze expedition had, progress was slow. As the war against the planet was raging around them, the Chozo scientists were able to engineer Metroids, but not a variant strong enough to overcome the X-Parasites. As more and more Chozo died protecting the laboratory, a different approach was needed. [M2 SP] +

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+ The Chozo succeeded in engineering a Metroid Queen, a colossal creature who would lay Metroid Hatchling eggs. When hatched, these resulting Metroids were strong and durable creatures, and finally potent enough to combat the X menace. The Chozo knew that to completely suppress the parasites, the Metroid presence on SR388 had to be permanent. To ensure that the species would not overfeed on the environment and wipe out its food chains, the scientists hardwired an instinct into the Metroid Queen’s feral mind: Only thirty-nine Metroids were to exist on the planet at any one time. This, it was hoped, would keep their numbers high enough to destroy any X re-emergence, but low enough so that they wouldn’t consume the rest of the life on the planet, and starve to death from lack of food. [M2] +

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+ The scientists assembled a payload of Hatchling Eggs and the surviving Chozo warriors distributed them across the planet. The eggs hatched quickly, and the X-Parasites were immediately overwhelmed by the infant Metroids. The X-Parasites were quickly hunted to near-extinction, with only a few surviving cells entering a state of suspension deep in the planet. [M2 SP / MF] +

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+ The Chozo had won their war, but only just. Most of the warriors and scientists had not survived, and those that were left had to make sure that the X-Parasites had been permanently suppressed. The planet shook with tremors; the earth shifted and acid poured, as if the world was trying to crush the Chozo in their glass laboratory. [M2 SP] +

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+ The X-Parasites did not return, and the Metroid Queen continued to scream as her glass prison shook. The Chozo didn’t realise it, but her despair was being heard. [M2 SP] +

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+ SR388 had been violated by the Chozo. Though very different to Phaaze, SR388 had its own vague sense of awareness. It perceived the Chozo as a viral infection, and the dead X-Parasites as part of itself. It understood loss, and shook with ancient rage. [MP3 SP / M2 SP / MF SP] +

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+ It changed itself to change the Metroids. It adopted them to replace the X-Parasites, and quickly killed the weaker breeds. It moved its radioactive minerals closer to their eggs and soon mutated the species. As SR388 had done with X, it did with the Metroids. It made them strong. [M2 SP / MF SP] +

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+ Alpha, Gamma, Zeta and Omega Metroids spawned quickly, and responded to the screams of their Queen. With their bulk and strength, they smashed through the glass laboratory and slaughtered their Chozo creators. The Chozo warriors were hunted down and crushed. [M2] +

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+ SR388 developed into a new cauldron of hostility. The Metroids served as the apex predator, and the robots of the Chozo decayed into machine madness and prowled the ruins, killing on sight. The Chozo mission to suppress the X-Parasite had been a success, but the planet had gained its revenge. [M2 / M2 SP / MF] +

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+ The Chozo had devastated two planets for the good of the universe, and sustained many causalities. The superpredators of Phaaze were extinct and the X-Parasites were permanently suppressed. With the crisis over, the race became consumed with a collective sense of guilt over their necessary actions. The Chozo believed the life of the universe to be sacred, and had to reconcile their aggressive actions with their faith. [MP SP / MP3 SP / M2 / MF] +

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+ Worse still, their prophets continued to have visions of endless conflict and death. War was coming to the universe, and it seemed that their sins had not saved them. Many began to doubt these visions, and a schism occurred. [MP/ MP3 SP] +

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+ The bulk of the Chozo civilisation retired themselves from galactic affairs, leaving only a few scattered colonies amongst the stars. The race retreated to the holy planet of Tallon IV, to shun their technologies and begin simpler, poetic lives. These Chozo reconnected themselves to the natural world and tried to find a harmony with it. As time went on, the most potent prophets became manic, and tried to warn their fellows of a great poison that was to come. [M1 / MP] +

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+ These visions were met with increasing dismissal, but the day finally came when the prophets were believed. After eons swimming in the stars, Phaaze’s seed entered the Tallon system. [MP / MP3] +

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+ The Leviathan crashed down, and rained poison and death unto the world. The impact survivors watched as their sacred nature succumbed to the mutagens leaking from the seed, and barricaded themselves in their temples as the flora and fauna transformed. Phazon spread beneath the surface of the dying planet, and radiation storms battered the surface. [MP] +

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+ The Chozos’ punishment for their sins, and the fulfilment of Phaaze’s wrath, reached biblical proportions. The Chozo of Tallon IV did not get to rest in peace. Their life energies suffered from Phazon disruption, and upon death they became mad ghosts who screamed forever as they were torn in and out of the material world. In this purgatory, the undead immaterial Chozo murdered anyone they could find. [MP / MP3 SP] +

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+ As their numbers dwindled, the last of the Chozo constructed a great temple above the impact crater. Within this temple, they used what little technology remained to project an energy field around the Leviathan to slow the spread of contagion. As the Chozo civilisation on Tallon IV was extinguished, their dying prophets told of a hero who would one day emerge, to enter the crater and defeat the evil worm within. [MP] +

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+ Within the Impact Crater, Metroid Prime remained trapped within the Chozo energy field. In its armour constructed from ancient Chozo power suits, it continued its wait to be unleashed on the universe. [MP / MP3 SP] +

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+ On the planet Aether, an ancient race of mystics known as the Luminoth received the horrifying data coming from Tallon IV. In distant times, the Luminoth and the Chozo had been steadfast allies – until the Chozo retreat ended their ties. Desperate to assist, the Luminoth began to organise a rescue mission. [MP2 / MP2 SP] +

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+ A dark transmission was received from Tallon IV. The image showed a screaming, ghostly Chozo figure, flickering in and out of the living universe. In its undead madness, it spoke for its kin. It raged that they would kill anyone who would set foot on their world. The planet was pandemonium, a cursed world on which the dead could not die. As the signal faded, the Luminoth realised that there was no one left alive to rescue. [MP SP / MP2 SP] +

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+ The Luminoth were receiving strange readings from the devastated planet. A mutagen was spreading, unlike anything they had ever encountered. They scanned the stars for its source, and made a devastating discovery – a mass of the same mutagen was on a collision course with Aether. Phaaze’s second seed had nearly arrived at its destination. [MP2 SP / MP3 SP] +

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+ The people of Aether turned to their technology to save them. Their planet had no native star of its own, and had been implanted millennia ago with a complex energy network that sustained all life. This system was reverently called the Light of Aether, and harnessed the light of the universe in its mechanism. The Luminoth realised that even with this great power, they could not destroy the Phazon Leviathan. A different approach was needed. [MP2 / MP2 SP] +

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+ The Luminoth used their great Light to engineer a small pocket universe, a dark lifeless echo of existence. The plan was bold: they would use the Light of Aether to surgically open the fabric of reality in the path of the Phazon seed, and allow it to harmlessly enter the pocket universe. If all went well, they would be saved. [MP2 SP] +

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+ The day came, and the Leviathan entered Aether’s atmosphere. The Luminoth commenced their great plan. [MP2 SP] +

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+ Phaaze’s seed was a sum of living materials beyond Luminoth comprehension. It hit the pocket universe with incalculable force, and a tsunami of exotic energy ruptured space and time. The equipment containing the dark reality lost containment within moments, and the Luminoth were helpless as their creation expanded across the entire planet. A wave of dark energy absorbed creatures, structures and land into the dark universe, and what was once a single planet – was now two. [MP2 / MP2 SP] +

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+ The Luminoth surveyed the devastation. The Phazon seed was gone – it had indeed collided with the dark universe. Entire continents, with millions of inhabitants, had vanished with it. [MP2 / MP2 SP +

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+ In the dark universe, a grotesque world was being born. Previous inhabitants of Aether, having been absorbed when containment of the pocket universe was lost, found themselves twisted by the corrosive new reality around them. Most perished, and their flesh fed the strange carnivorous fungi that glowed sickly colours. Some survivors were mutated by the Phazon slowly spreading beneath the surface, and adapted to survive in the hostility. [MP2 SP] +

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+ Aether and its echo, the Phazon-infested Dark Aether, existed in synchronicity. As the Luminoth tried to rebuild their planet, it took only decades for cracks to form in the ether separating the two realities. As rips in the universe shattered open, Aether became a battlefield. [MP2] +

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+ A womb of Phazon mutation and dark energies had birthed a cunning and ferocious horde. The Ing erupted through the cracks between the two worlds, and commenced slaughter. They were fought back by the Luminoth, and a war began between the two parallel worlds. The Ing invaded Aether with regularity, and killed, pillaged and destroyed all that they could find. The Luminoth retaliated and crusaded into Dark Aether in their Light Suits, on suicide missions to exterminate the source of the Ing menace. Both sides suffered colossal casualties as the decades went on. [MP2] +

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+ The war was being lost by the Luminoth. The Ing had exterminated most of their race and had stolen too many vital technologies. With the theft of essential energy components from the Light of Aether power network, they had become a defeated people. [MP2] +

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+ The Ing had destroyed all of Aether’s ancient ships, and condemned the Luminoth to no escape from their doomed world. With no other choice, the survivors sealed themselves in an inner sanctum, and entered a state of suspended animation. One custodian, U-Mos, volunteered to be their guardian. As Aether became weaker and weaker, the Luminoth waited for someone to save them. They would wait a very long time. [MP2] +

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+ The Sacrifice of the Alimbics +

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+ As the Chozo and the Luminoth fell, so too did other ancient races. In a distant part of the universe, the Alimbics were a militaristic society that maintained peace in their galactic cluster. Their order was shattered when a murderous entity, originating from someplace beyond the understood universe, plummeted into one of their worlds. The creature emerged from the devastation as a gaseous entity, and assumed an Alimbic-styled body to begin its onslaught. [MPH] +

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+ This alien juggernaut was named Gorea by the Alimbic race, and they soon understood it brought only death. Gorea killed every Alimbic it could find, and destroyed everything in its path. Planet after planet fell to Gorea, and the Alimbics realised the creature would never stop. [MPH] +

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+ The Alimbics performed an act of supreme sacrifice. They combined the mental energies of their entire race to forge a prison for Gorea. The psychic prison held it bound, and it was transplanted into an organic vessel called The Oubliette. The vessel was launched into the void outside of the universe, a course that would keep its indestructible prisoner in exile forever. The systems of the prison ship were tasked to scan the every molecule of the imprisoned Gorea, and devise an Omega weapon that could be used to kill it. [MPH / MPH SP] +

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+ The mental energies expelled in this plan consumed the physical bodies of the entire Alimbic race. They vanished from the universe in an instant. Their sacrifice protected all life in the cosmos from Gorea’s murderous rampage. [MPH] +

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+ The War of Bryyo +

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+ As the old races of the universe died around them, the lizard people of Bryyo faced their own challenges. The Bryyonians were an advanced, space-faring race who had learned much from their Chozo allies. Their society was a deeply polarised one, with tensions eternal between the scientific and religious factions.[MP3] +

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+ Over the previous centuries, the scientific agenda had dominated, with space travel proving beneficial and enlightening. As the Chozo, Luminoth and Alimbics faced extinction, the religious Bryyonians believed more than ever that the universe was a hostile place, and became desperate to stop their scientific counterparts. [MP3] +

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+ A great war exploded across Bryyo. By its end, the scholars had been wiped out and the survivors of both sides had regressed to a feral existence. The race devolved into animals, wandering around ruins that they no longer understood. Language vanished and strength ruled. Anyone who landed on Bryyo was meat, to be killed and eaten. [MP3] +

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+ The onslaught of vengeances, conquerors, poisons and politics destroyed the old races. The Alimbics had lost their flesh, while the Bryyonians had lost their souls. The Luminoth had retreated into stasis, and the Chozo of Tallon IV had been condemned to a living death. [MP / MPH / MP2 / MP3] +

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+ On a small, rainy planet called Zebes, the last known Chozo colony had watched the stars with impotence. This small settlement of the nearly-extinct avian race witnessed the end of the great universal renaissance, and the slow beginning of a new chapter in galactic history. Gradually, the younger races were launching their first satellites into space. In time, new empires would rise to take the place of the old. [M1 / M1 SP] +

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+ Zebes prophets’ saw the visions the Chozo had always endured: great wars, spreading poison and death. And suddenly, something bold was foreseen. [M1 SP / MP3 SP] +

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+ A great hunter, clad in orange, red and green. The Chozo glimpsed a future hero, alone in the darkness beneath worlds, fighting so that good could survive evil. They saw her curing poisoned planets, and ending galactic wars. They saw the universe’s one chance to survive its apocalyptic future. They saw the only one who could defy prophecy. [M1 / MP3 SP] +

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+ And they saw her wearing Chozo armour. [M1] +

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+ Part Three: The New Empires +

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+ The Humans +

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+ On the planet Earth, the human race had finally developed a ship capable of leaving their solar system. A brave crew ventured into the universe to learn whether life existed elsewhere. Their discoveries fundamentally changed the human condition. On planet after planet, they found ruined tombs and cities, guarded by weathered statues of dead races. Most significant of all, they found technology. [M1 SP] +

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+ The humans reverse engineered their salvage, and advanced with pace. Within another century, faster-than-light ships explored the stars, and colonies transformed hostile worlds into homes. Peaceful relations formed between other younger races, and a great Galactic Federation was founded. [M1 SP] +

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+ In a less hospitable region of space, a cabal of battered races joined their forces to survive. On planets where acid rain burned flesh and magma flowed, the alliance expanded into a hardened space empire. They ventured into nearby systems and took what they needed from anyone they could reach. They found the ruins of the old races and ransacked the ancient technologies within. They immersed themselves in science and unlocked the secrets of their finds. Within decades, they had advanced their spread with stronger and faster ships. The creatures enhanced themselves, rewriting their genetics and integrating mechanisms beneath their flesh. They were unique: a cybernetic race of furious murderers with a skill for patient scientific process. As more planets were invaded, their conquered civilisations were conscripted by force. [M1 SP / MP / MP3] +

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+ The inevitable moment came when their Empire reached the borders of the vast Galactic Federation. [M1 SP / MP / MP3] +

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+ First contact was brief and furious. On that day, the warning went out to all the worlds of the Federation: Beware the Space Pirates. Though no state of war was officially declared, the empires attacked each other on sight. The Galactic Federation was large enough to repress any meaningful incursions into their space. [M1 SP / MP SP / MP3 SP / SM SP] +

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+ The Massacre of Two Families +

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+ The Galactic Federation discovered the last Chozo Colony on Zebes. The tired, ancient avians welcomed the humans and shared with them wisdom and knowledge. They offered the Galactic Federation new sciences, and taught them how to make organic computers. The Federation studied the Chozo’s own central processing unit, an engineered brain that mothered over their colony, and left with plans to assemble their own variants. On the nearest habitable planet of K-2L, a colony was established. [M1 / MP3 SP] +

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+ On this world, the human Samus Aran was born. [M1] +

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+ Barely out of infancy, the young Samus witnessed her family die. A Space Pirate raiding party overwhelmed her colony and murdered everyone she ever knew. By staying silent while surrounded by horror, Samus survived as the Pirates ransacked the settlement and left. [M1] +

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+ The Chozo colony on Zebes received K-2L’s automated distress signal. In an ancient dusty ship, they reached the planet and found Samus to be the only survivor of the massacre. The child was brought to Zebes, and the Chozo deliberated. Should she be returned to her own kind, or allowed to stay? [M1] +

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+ Across the colony, the Prophets experienced a simultaneous moment of clarity. They understood immediately that they had found their prophesised hero. The young girl was their inheritor, and would grow strong. She would learn all she could from them, and take their strongest technologies into the universe. She would be the hero against the oncoming storm. [M1 SP] +

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+ Samus Aran reached maturity amongst the Chozo. She was trained in the combat arts of the great extinct races. She was infused with Chozo genetic material so she could employ their technologies. She was educated to be a scientist, an explorer, and a tactician. Everything that was good about the Chozo civilisation was allowed to live on in Samus. [M1] +

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+ Samus became an adult, and the Chozo presented her with their greatest works: a toughened power suit and an agile spacecraft, both more potent than anything their race had ever made. The Chozo leader, decaying and blind, told Samus it was time for her to find her destiny in the universe. Samus Aran departed for the stars, and years pass. [M1 / M1 SP] +

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+ As Samus tried to reconnect with her heritage on Earth, the last Chozo prophets on Zebes received a final vision: The Space Pirates were coming for them. It was time for the last Chozo to be extinguished from the universe. [M1 SP] +

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+ The Chozo hid their technologies throughout the planet, in places that they were certain Samus would find them. They concealed a second Power Suit within the walls of their holy temple, having foreseen that Samus may require it in the future. They then returned to the surface to await the inevitable. [M1 SP] +

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+ The Space Pirates invaded in force, and murdered Samus Aran’s second family. The Chozo became extinct. [M1 / MP SP] +

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+ Space Pirate scientists arrived shortly after the carnage and focused their attention on the legendary Chozo organic central processing unit. They rewrote its benign programming and injected stimulants into its flesh. They enabled it to form an artificial intelligence obsessed with strategy and conquest. They drove its computational potential towards absolute advancement of the Space Pirate Empire. [M1 SP] +

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+ The results went beyond High Command’s most optimistic projections. The Space Pirates had created a leader, a desperately needed figure to unite their fragmented empire. They had created their Mother Brain. The great Space Pirate generals Ridley and Kraid arrived at Zebes, ready to pay tribute to their new master and to plan for the future. Mother Brain delivered to the Space Pirates knowledge and power. She told them of a world referenced in her oldest Chozo databanks, a planet bathed in a mutagenic poison waiting to be farmed. She instructed High Command to prepare an armada of ships and invade the planet Tallon IV. [M1 / MP SP] +

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+ The order was followed immediately, and the High Command discovered a world deranged by contagion. Beneath its surface, endless pools of Phazon waited to be weaponised, and a great mining operation began. Mother Brain received data from their readings on the planet; even after thousands of years, the source of the Phazon was still contained in the Chozo force field. She scrutinised her records further, and was unable to ascertain any method of breaching the barrier. The Space Pirates could retrieve the Phazon, but were denied access to its source. [MP] +

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+ A perfect storm brewed. As the Space Pirates gained access to the most potent mutagen in the universe, the Galactic Federation made an equally eventful discovery: They found the dark planet SR388. [M1 / M2] +

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+ A Galactic Federation survey team studied the surface, and soon encountered a gelatinous creature that swam through air. The alien defied gravity and physics as it phased through dense rock with ease. It perceived the survey team, and made a few curious chirps in their direction. It then suddenly changed temperament, aggressively charging to latch itself onto the skull of one of the party. The victim died in agony as the Metroid fed on all the energy within, and could not be removed until its prey had been reduced to a dried husk of collapsing matter. The young Metroid had just killed, in a way that science could not explain. [M1 SP / M2 SP] +

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+ With effort and casualties, the scientists contained a few infant specimens of the Metroid creatures, and left the planet without further incident. [M1] +

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+ As their vessel went back to the stars, SR388 was aware their withdrawal. It harboured a great contempt for the invaders, an endless hate fuelled by the impotence it endured centuries ago when the Chozo had committed their great invasion. The living planet had spent centuries honing the Metroids into perfect killers, and knew the devastation they could cause upon maturity. The planet had intentionally allowed the humans to take a few Metroids away so that the creatures could grow up and kill anyone out amongst the stars who ever thought of returning. SR388 took any opportunity to gain revenge against an outside universe that refused to leave it alone. [M2 SP] +

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+ As the scientists began to broadcast their findings back to the Galactic Federation, Mother Brain intercepted the transmission. She cross-referenced their data with notes buried in the Chozo’s ancient fragmented records. She deduced that the Metroids were a form of genetically engineered predator of incredible power, created by the Chozo for an unknown purpose. Mother Brain ordered High Command to get the creatures to her by any means necessary. [M1 SP] +

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+ The Space Pirates overran the Galactic Federation vessel and stole the Metroid creatures. They divided their prize: some were sent to their nearest Homeworld; others were sent to the Tallon IV outpost; and the most potent were delivered straight to Zebes for the experiments of Mother Brain. [M1 / MP / MP3] +

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+ With the arrival of the first Phazon samples from Tallon IV, the exotic substance allowed the Space Pirates to slowly produce stable cloned Metroids across their breeding sites. [M1 SP / MP SP] +

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+ The Revenge of Samus Aran +

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+ In her first mission as a Bounty Hunter, Samus Arran was commissioned by the Galactic Federation to neutralise the stolen Metroids. Through careful investigation, Samus discovered that the Pirates are operating from Zebes – her home. She concluded that the Space Pirates had murdered her second family, as they had done with her first. They have took from her everyone she ever loved, and destroyed her two worlds. [M1] +

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+ Samus stormed Zebes and killed everyone in her path. [M1] +

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+ As her defences were breached, Mother Brain unleashed the great generals Ridley and Kraid. Both were killled, and, desperate to stop the intruder, Mother Brain released the Metroids. Samus Aran exterminated the creatures, and invaded the inner sanctum. [M1] +

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+ Samus confronted the malevolent Mother Brain and blasted apart her body. A power overload was caused, and the Tourian facility shook itself apart. Samus evacuated to her ship and tried to leave Zebes, but a Space Pirate battleship in orbit registered her ascent and opened fire. Samus’ gunship plummeted back towards the Zebes and impacted Chozodia, her former home. [M1] +

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+ Extremely lucky to be alive, Samus crawled out of the remains of her destroyed power suit, and fled as Space Pirate forces stormed the area. Samus hid, crawled and ran to find sanctuary in the deepest part of the Chozo’s most revered temple. [M1] +

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+ Samus found herself surrounded with murals of the dead Chozo, and accepted she was alone in the universe. Overcoming despair, she solved the trials of the Chozodian temple and a concealed power suit was revealed to her. This shining armour was even more potent than the one she had just lost, and was able to integrate the most exotic Chozo technologies. Samus realised the greater meaning of her find; the Chozo had left her gifts for her in places they had foreseen she would traverse. Her adopted family continued to protect her long after their deaths, and she would find their statues cradling survival equipment in the darkest corners of the cosmos. [M1 / MP / MP3 / M2 / SM] +

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+ With her new armaments, Samus cleansed the Space Pirate presence from Zebes. She came to be known as “The Hunter”, and the Space Pirates learned that they will always be hunted down for what they did to her families. They fled the planet in terror. [M1 / MP / MP2 / MP3] +

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+ As years passed, Samus Aran accepted further missions from the Galactic Federation. The bounty earned funded her personal vendetta against the Space Pirates. She improved her armaments, paid for black market information and stormed their outposts. Samus showed her enemies no mercy, and became the feared nemesis of their entire civilisation. With the income from her Federation services, Samus had soon amassed enough money to buy the most secret information regarding the Space Pirates: the coordinates of their stronghold on an old forgotten planet called Tallon IV. [MP1 SP] +

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+ Samus guided her ship into the Tallon system and investigated an orbiting space station. She discovered a failed genetic engineering facility whose Space Pirate crew was murdered when they lost control of their own creations. Samus fought her way through the ferocious beasts scattered within, and discovered a half-insane cyborg recreation of the Space Pirate general Ridley. As the station began to collapse, the biomechanical dragon fled to the world below, and Samus pursued. [MP1] +

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+ Samus lost Ridley in the planet’s stormy atmosphere, and elected to land in a nearby jungle to conceal her presence from the Pirate ground forces. Exploring the surroundings, Samus discovered that the planet was once home to the bulk of the extinct Chozo civilisation. In a great temple Samus studied poetic murals that told of the Phazon comet that had struck their world. The scribblings informed her of a creature trapped deep in the comet that they referred to as “The Worm,” and of the powerful shield they erected to prevent its escape. Samus read their last prophecy; that a hero would traverse fire and ice, jungle and cave, and find twelve sacred keys that would deactivate the barrier and allow passage to the Impact Crater. This saviour from the stars would bring down the ancient shield, and destroy the worm that infected their planet. [MP1] +

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+ She continued her exploration, and battled ferocious flora and fauna. The Hunter came to understand that the Space Pirates had established a complex military installation that descended far below the surface. [MP1] +

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+ Samus hunted the Pirates and accessed their computer logs. The Empire had found quantities of an intensely potent mutagen called Phazon. Laboratories across the outpost experimented with the substance, and in a short space of time they had created prototypes for the next generation of their races: powerful Phazon-fuelled juggernauts. Should these advances continue, Samus knew that the Space Pirates would be able to conquer the Galactic Federation. [MP1] +

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+ In the most secure laboratory, Samus made a devastating discovery. The Space Pirates had used Phazon to create an army of stable clone Metroids and lost containment. The Metroid creatures were roaming the caverns deep in the planet, reproducing and mutating as the Phazon influenced their physiology. [MP1] +

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+ Samus’ final discovery was the most horrific. The powerful, poisonous Phazon was not a rare material on Tallon IV. Despite the Chozo shield containing the Impact Crater, the substance had spread and consumed the world inside-out. The core of the planet presented the Space Pirates with a vast supply of Phazon, enough to fuel their conquest of the stars. [MP1] +

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+ Samus destroyed the mining facilities and laboratories, and reconstructed the twelve parts of the ancient Chozo cipher. She destroyed living weapons such as the Thardus experiment, and annihilated the prototype Omega Pirate. She overcame corrupted Metroids, and banished the tormented Chozo ghosts from the living world. She fought the mad Meta Ridley, and on his demise deactivated the Chozo containment shield. As prophesised, Samus Aran entered the Impact Crater. [MP1] +

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+ Samus Aran had opened Metroid Prime’s cage, and had no understanding of what she was about to unleash on the universe. The creature had been imprisoned in a different era, and had spent eons being tortuously transformed by Phazon into an undying mad genius. [MP1] +

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+ Samus and the ancient Metroid battled, and the bounty hunter shattered the creature’s metal armour. By channelling the surrounding Phazon deposits into a supercharged energy beam, Samus was able to devastate Metroid Prime’s gelatinous body. After a tremendous battle, the old creature began to collapse on itself. [MP1] +

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+ Seemingly dying, Metroid Prime lashed out, grabbing a layer of material from Samus Aran’s armour. The creature melted into a pool of Phazon particles, and the bounty hunter evacuated the Impact Crater. [MP1] +

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+ Samus Aran had seemingly succeeded in her mission. The surviving Space Pirates abandoned their devastated facilities and hastily evacuated the planet. With the defeat of Metroid Prime, the Phazon contagion was slowly stopping its spread. The tormented Chozo spirits that had been bound to the planet were finally able to achieve their rest. Leaving the world to recover from its devastation, Samus Aran headed back to the stars. [MP1 / MP1 SP] +

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+ Metroid Prime’s exposure to millennia of Phazon had given the creature extremely exotic abilities, the most potent being its durability – to recreate itself after nearly any level of destruction. As it had collapsed on itself, the essence of Metroid Prime craved the strength and adaptability present in Samus Aran. In the Talon IV impact crater, Metroid Prime recreated itself as a dark copy of the woman who had defeated it. [MP 1 / MP2 / MP3 SP] +

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+ + diff --git a/test/test-pages/medicalnewstoday/expected-metadata.json b/test/test-pages/medicalnewstoday/expected-metadata.json index ca1476f..9eaf98c 100644 --- a/test/test-pages/medicalnewstoday/expected-metadata.json +++ b/test/test-pages/medicalnewstoday/expected-metadata.json @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ "byline": "By Ana Sandoiu", "dir": null, "excerpt": "New research investigates the neurobiological timing of the so-called a-ha! moment that occurs we have come up with the solution to a complex problem.", - "readerable": true, - "siteName": "Medical News Today" + "siteName": "Medical News Today", + "readerable": true } diff --git a/test/test-pages/medicalnewstoday/expected.html b/test/test-pages/medicalnewstoday/expected.html index 895db9f..c049d5f 100644 --- a/test/test-pages/medicalnewstoday/expected.html +++ b/test/test-pages/medicalnewstoday/expected.html @@ -1,155 +1,46 @@
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- Neuroscience tells us that most of the work done by our brains happens on an unconscious level, but when - does that "a-ha!" moment occur? And what happens during it? New research investigates. -
-

hand holding brain lightbulb
- A new study investigates when the 'a-ha!' moment takes place in the brain, and how similar it is to - other brain processes. -

-

- Many of us have noticed that we seem to get our best ideas when we're in the shower, or that we can find - the answer to a difficult question when we least think about it. -

-

- A large body of neuroscientific studies has pointed out that the - brain does a lot of work in its spare time, the so-called idle state - wherein the brain does not appear - to be thinking about anything at all - and that this is the time when it works at its hardest to find - solutions to complex problems. -

-

- With time and advances in neuroscience, it has become more and more - clear to researchers that Freud was right and the mind, as well as the brain, do work - unconsciously. In fact, it would be safe to say that what is consciously known to us is just the tip of - a much larger iceberg, deeply submerged in unconscious waters. -

-

- But the exact moment at which information becomes known to us - or when the "tip of the iceberg" pierces - through the water, and the unconscious becomes conscious - has been somewhat of a mystery, from a - neuroscientific point of view. -

-

- In other words, we do not yet know when that intellectually satisfying "a-ha!" moment takes place, or - what the biology is behind it. This is why a team of researchers at Columbia University in New York - City, NY, set out to investigate this moment in more detail. -

- -

- The scientists were led by Michael Shadlen, Ph.D., of Columbia University's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind - Brain Behavior Institute, and the findings were published in the journal Current Biology. -

- -

- The hypothesis -

-

- Dr. Shadlen and colleagues started out from an interesting hypothesis, one which they derived from - previous research on the neurobiological processes involved in decision-making. -

-

- As the authors explain, research conducted in both monkeys and humans shows that many of our decisions - take place at a point when the brain "feels" as though it has gathered enough information, or when a - critical level of information has been accumulated. -

- -

- This process of making a decision once the brain has accumulated enough evidence bears the name of - "bounded evidence accumulation." Reaching this threshold is important because, although the brain does - not use all of the information available, it uses as much as is necessary to make a speedy yet - accurate decision. -

-

- The researchers wondered whether or not this threshold is also responsible for our "eureka!" - moments. -

- -

- In Dr. Shadlen's words, "Could the moment when the brain believes it has accumulated enough evidence be - tied to the person's awareness of having decided - that important 'a-ha!' moment?" -

- -

- Examining the 'a-ha!' moment -

-

- To answer this question, the scientists asked five people to perform a "direction discrimination" task. - In it, the participants looked at dots on a computer screen. The dots moved randomly, as grains of sand - would when blown by the wind. The participants were asked to say in which direction the dots had moved. -

-

- The moment they "decided" which direction the dots seemed to be taking was considered to be the - equivalent of the "a-ha!" moment. -

-

- In the center of the screen, there was a fixed point and a clock. The display also had two "choice - targets" - namely, left or right - and these were the directions in which the participants had to decide - that the dots had moved. -

-

- Shortly after the dots had stopped moving, the participants used an electronic, hand-held stylus to move - the cursor in the direction that they thought the dots had moved. -

-

- To determine when the decision was made, the researchers used the technique called "mental chronometry" - - that is, after they made their decision, the participants were asked to move the clock backward to the - point when they felt that they had consciously done so. -

- -

- "The moment in time indicated by the participants - this mental chronometry - was entirely subjective; - it relied solely on their own estimation of how long it took them to make that decision," Dr. Shadlen - says. "And because it was purely subjective, in principle it ought to be unverifiable." -

- -

- 'A-ha' moment similar to making a decision -

-

- However, by applying a mathematical model, the scientists were able to match these subjective decision - times to the bounded evidence accumulation process. -

-

- The subjective decision times fit so well with what the scientists determined as the evidence - accumulation threshold that they were able to predict the choices of four of the five - participants. -

-

- "If the time reported to us by the participants was valid, we reasoned that it might be possible to - predict the accuracy of the decision," explains Dr. Shadlen. -

-

- "We incorporated a kind of mathematical trick, based on earlier studies, which showed that the speed and - accuracy of decisions were tied together by the same brain function." This "mathematical trick" was the - evidence accumulation model. -

+
Neuroscience tells us that most of the work done by our brains happens on an unconscious level, but when does that "a-ha!" moment occur? And what happens during it? New research investigates.
+

hand holding brain lightbulb
+ A new study investigates when the 'a-ha!' moment takes place in the brain, and how similar it is to other brain processes. +

+

Many of us have noticed that we seem to get our best ideas when we're in the shower, or that we can find the answer to a difficult question when we least think about it.

+

A large body of neuroscientific studies has pointed out that the brain does a lot of work in its spare time, the so-called idle state - wherein the brain does not appear to be thinking about anything at all - and that this is the time when it works at its hardest to find solutions to complex problems.

+

With time and advances in neuroscience, it has become more and more clear to researchers that Freud was right and the mind, as well as the brain, do work unconsciously. In fact, it would be safe to say that what is consciously known to us is just the tip of a much larger iceberg, deeply submerged in unconscious waters.

+

But the exact moment at which information becomes known to us - or when the "tip of the iceberg" pierces through the water, and the unconscious becomes conscious - has been somewhat of a mystery, from a neuroscientific point of view.

+

In other words, we do not yet know when that intellectually satisfying "a-ha!" moment takes place, or what the biology is behind it. This is why a team of researchers at Columbia University in New York City, NY, set out to investigate this moment in more detail.

+

The scientists were led by Michael Shadlen, Ph.D., of Columbia University's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, and the findings were published in the journal Current Biology. +

+

The hypothesis

+

Dr. Shadlen and colleagues started out from an interesting hypothesis, one which they derived from previous research on the neurobiological processes involved in decision-making.

+

As the authors explain, research conducted in both monkeys and humans shows that many of our decisions take place at a point when the brain "feels" as though it has gathered enough information, or when a critical level of information has been accumulated.

+

This process of making a decision once the brain has accumulated enough evidence bears the name of "bounded evidence accumulation." Reaching this threshold is important because, although the brain does not use all of the information available, it uses as much as is necessary to make a speedy yet accurate decision.

+

+ The researchers wondered whether or not this threshold is also responsible for our "eureka!" moments. +

+

In Dr. Shadlen's words, "Could the moment when the brain believes it has accumulated enough evidence be tied to the person's awareness of having decided - that important 'a-ha!' moment?"

+

Examining the 'a-ha!' moment

+

To answer this question, the scientists asked five people to perform a "direction discrimination" task. In it, the participants looked at dots on a computer screen. The dots moved randomly, as grains of sand would when blown by the wind. The participants were asked to say in which direction the dots had moved.

+

The moment they "decided" which direction the dots seemed to be taking was considered to be the equivalent of the "a-ha!" moment.

+

In the center of the screen, there was a fixed point and a clock. The display also had two "choice targets" - namely, left or right - and these were the directions in which the participants had to decide that the dots had moved.

+

Shortly after the dots had stopped moving, the participants used an electronic, hand-held stylus to move the cursor in the direction that they thought the dots had moved.

+

To determine when the decision was made, the researchers used the technique called "mental chronometry" - that is, after they made their decision, the participants were asked to move the clock backward to the point when they felt that they had consciously done so.

+

"The moment in time indicated by the participants - this mental chronometry - was entirely subjective; it relied solely on their own estimation of how long it took them to make that decision," Dr. Shadlen says. "And because it was purely subjective, in principle it ought to be unverifiable."

+

'A-ha' moment similar to making a decision

+

However, by applying a mathematical model, the scientists were able to match these subjective decision times to the bounded evidence accumulation process.

+

+ The subjective decision times fit so well with what the scientists determined as the evidence accumulation threshold that they were able to predict the choices of four of the five participants. +

+

"If the time reported to us by the participants was valid, we reasoned that it might be possible to predict the accuracy of the decision," explains Dr. Shadlen.

+

"We incorporated a kind of mathematical trick, based on earlier studies, which showed that the speed and accuracy of decisions were tied together by the same brain function." This "mathematical trick" was the evidence accumulation model.

- "Essentially, the act of becoming consciously aware of a decision conforms to the same - process that the brain goes through to complete a decision, even a simple one - such as whether to - turn left or right." -

-

- Michael Shadlen, Ph.D. -

+ "Essentially, the act of becoming consciously aware of a decision conforms to the same process that the brain goes through to complete a decision, even a simple one - such as whether to turn left or right."

+

Michael Shadlen, Ph.D.

-

- In other words, the study shows that the conscious awareness of the "a-ha!" moment takes place precisely - when the brain has reached that threshold of evidence accumulation. -

-

- The findings provide unique insights into the biology of consciousness, say the researchers, and they - bring us closer to understanding the biological basis of decisions, ethics, and, generally, the human - mind. -

- +

In other words, the study shows that the conscious awareness of the "a-ha!" moment takes place precisely when the brain has reached that threshold of evidence accumulation.

+

The findings provide unique insights into the biology of consciousness, say the researchers, and they bring us closer to understanding the biological basis of decisions, ethics, and, generally, the human mind.

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一波波接續性低溫寒流報到 已將新竹尖石鄉後山一帶層層山巒披上嫣紅的彩衣

玉峰道路一路上雲氣山嵐滯留山頭 順路下切蜿蜒道路後不久即抵達來到"玉峰國小" @@ -12,153 +14,164 @@

營區內除了露營、民宿、餐飲、賞楓項目多了許多原木飾品更有畫龍點睛加乘效果

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廣受歡迎的美樹營地有個很大特色就是楓紅時期楓香樹由綠轉黃、轉紅到楓紅層層

一來到"美樹"馬上眼睛為之一亮　也會深深地為那多種顏色多層次渲染之下楓紅而迷惑

不同格調就是從入口處這塊招牌第一眼開始 - - 木頭招牌 - - - 、貓頭鷹裝飾品勾勒出美樹的風格 + + 木頭招牌 + + + 、貓頭鷹裝飾品勾勒出美樹的風格

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每年12月向來是攝影班外拍的絕佳場所之一 楓紅期間入園費$50元

園區給愛攝一族淨空場景而不是散搭帳蓬之下反而影響拍照畫面與構圖取景

露營的話則須待中午過後再進場搭帳的彈性做法個人也相當支持這樣的權宜之計

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來到現場已是落葉飄飄堆疊滿地　不時隨著風吹雨襲而葉落垂地

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不忍踩過剛剛掉落的樹葉 沿著前人足跡踏痕輕踩而行

雖然只是一廂情願的想法 終究還是不可避免地將會化為塵土

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葉落繽紛顯得幾分蕭瑟氣息 空氣中可以嗅得出來依然瀰漫著濕寒水氣

偶而還會飄下來一些霧氣水滴 不時張望尋找最佳楓葉主題

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外拍的攝影班學員一堆早已不時穿梭其間

各自努力地找尋自認為最好的拍攝角度

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"水槽"上面的這幾隻彩繪版貓頭鷹也太可愛了

同樣的造型加上不同色彩宛如賦予不同的生命力一般　cool!

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雨水洗塵後的枝頭固然掉落些葉片是否也洗去塵勞憂傷

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喜歡拍照的不論是平面掃描、天空搜尋、地上地毯式搜索

有如小說偵探一般 不放過蛛絲馬跡地用力尋尋覓覓找尋最美角度

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原本這周是由小朱團長早在一年前就跟"簍信"預定下來的場子

早上從台北出門之際還是小雨不斷細雨紛飛來到此地雖雨已停

但多日來的雨勢不斷已有部分區域水漬成攤並不適合落置帳篷

這個季節正是"控溪吊橋"一帶的楓紅變葉時刻 先行走一趟秀巒賞景 - +

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午後從"秀巒"回到美樹之際已經全數撤退只剩下我們三車留下來

唯有"離開地球表面"睡車上的才可以不受到地上泥濘而影響

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午後山嵐興起雲氣遊蕩盤旋在對岸山頭　人潮來來去去似乎也沒有減少

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美樹民宿有開設餐廳 室內簡單佈置提供伙食餐飲

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美樹民宿有開設餐廳 室內簡單佈置提供伙食餐飲

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這兩間是民宿房間 跟著民宿主人"簍信"聊起來還提到日後將改變成兩層木屋

一樓則是咖啡飲料/賣店提供訪客來賓有個落腳席座之地 二樓才會是民宿房間

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心中有了計畫想法才會有日後的夢想藍圖 相信將會改變得更好的民宿露營環境

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心中有了計畫想法才會有日後的夢想藍圖 相信將會改變得更好的民宿露營環境

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民宿前這一大區楓香林為土質營位 大致區分前、後兩個營區

前面這一區約可搭上十二帳/車/廳 後面那區也大約4~5帳/車/廳

正前方小木屋即是衛浴區 男女分別以左右兩側分開(燒材鍋爐)

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營區水電方便 水槽也很有特色

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這次選擇左側地勢高些以防午夜下雨泥濘

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"野馬"特地帶來了冬至應景食材ㄜ---湯圓

這家還是最近被評比第一名氣的湯圓專賣店

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向來對於湯圓是敬謝不敏 沒想到是出乎意料之外的好吃 沒話說!
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向來對於湯圓是敬謝不敏 沒想到是出乎意料之外的好吃 沒話說!

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喜歡原住民朋友的坦率、真誠　要將民宿營地經營的有聲有色並非容易之事

午茶時間與"簍信"閒聊分享著他的觀點理念之時很支持對於環境應有生態保護

環保維護是人人有責 勿以善小而不為不計涓滴之水才可匯集成河　

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入夜前雨絲終於漸漸緩和下來　雖然氣溫很低卻沒感受到寒冷的跡象

是山谷中少了寒氣還是美樹營區裡的人熱情洋溢暖化了不少寒意

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聖誕前夕裝點些聖誕飾品 感受一下節慶的氛圍

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聖誕前夕裝點些聖誕飾品 感受一下節慶的氛圍

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晚餐準備了砂鍋魚頭

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"蒯嫂"還特地準備著羊肩排、鹹豬肉、柳葉魚...哇！這哩澎湃哩...

　"永老爺"早已備妥了好酒為遠自台南來的蒯兄嫂敬一杯囉

感謝蒯嫂精心準備的好料理　食指大動好菜色感恩ㄟ！

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吃得快精光之際...才想到忘了拍合照...(哇哩咧 ^&*()

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吃得快精光之際...才想到忘了拍合照...(哇哩咧 ^&*()

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隔日睡到很晚才起床 不用拍日出晨光的營地對我來說都是個幸福的睡眠

哪怕是葉落飄零落滿地還是睡夢周公召見而去　起床的事~差點都忘記了

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昨天細雨紛飛依然打落了不少落葉中間這株整個都快變成枯枝了

昨天依稀凋零稀疏的楓葉殘留今兒個完全不復存在（上周是最美的代名詞）

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上回來得太早沒能見到楓葉泛紅 這次晚了一周已陸續落葉也無從比對楓葉差異性　

另一種角度看不論青楓、金黃葉紅的楓香、葉落飄零秋滿霜、落葉枯枝的蕭瑟

只要心中自認為是最美最浪漫的一刻 都是美的表徵也是最美的時分

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早起的"蒯嫂"已經備好熱騰騰中式稀飯、包子、蔬果　頓時~有幸福的感覺

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早起的"蒯嫂"已經備好熱騰騰中式稀飯、包子、蔬果　頓時~有幸福的感覺

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星期天早上趁著攝影團還沒入場先來人物場景特寫

野馬家兩張新"座椅"就當作是試坐囉！拍謝哩

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難得有此無人美景在楓樹下的聖誕氛圍也一定要來一張才行

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三家合照（Hero也一定要入鏡的）

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接著攝影團入場帶隊老師請求借個時間也來讓學員練習楓樹下的聖誕飾品

此時剛好也遇到早在FB社團相互回應卻頭一次謀面的Mr."大雄"真是幸會了

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接近中午時分陽光漸露　藍天帷幕再次嶄露頭角 ~ 久違了!

期盼下的天空終於放晴 沒有缺席的藍天還是準時赴約如期出席

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這兩天肉肉(Hero)天雨濕滑無法自由奔跑都快悶壞了

天晴後"蒯嫂"帶著散步遊園也好解解悶

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收拾好裝備準備離開營地 亮麗的天空鮮明對比下的楓樹林又讓人覺得有點捨不得離開

道別了"美樹營地"準備前往而行"石磊國小"一個很生疏的小學座落在這深山部落裡

北橫"石磊部落" 一個從未踏入的陌生之地因為露營之故否則畢生大概也不會路過

三位大叔同行準備走著這段遙遠的路段 下次找機會再來重溫舊夢了.......

美樹營地 - - - 資訊 + + 資訊

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聯絡電話：03-584-7231　 行動: 0937-141993
林錦武 (泰雅族名: 摟信)
營地地址：新竹縣尖石鄉玉峰村6鄰20號 - - +

聯絡電話：03-584-7231　 行動: 0937-141993
林錦武 (泰雅族名: 摟信)
營地地址：新竹縣尖石鄉玉峰村6鄰20號 + +

每帳$600 兩間衛浴使用燒材鍋爐/ 兩間全天瓦斯 廁所蹲式X 3 @@ -166,7 +179,7 @@

楓紅期間須過中午才可搭帳　水電便利

GPS: N24 39 16.4 E121 18 19.5

如果您喜歡"史蒂文的家"圖文分享 邀請您到 FB 粉絲團 - 按個"讚"! + 按個"讚"!

內文有不定期的更新旅遊、露營圖文訊息 謝謝! diff --git a/test/test-pages/telegraph/expected-metadata.json b/test/test-pages/telegraph/expected-metadata.json index 1d5ad0a..013c771 100644 --- a/test/test-pages/telegraph/expected-metadata.json +++ b/test/test-pages/telegraph/expected-metadata.json @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "title": "Zimbabwe coup: Robert Mugabe and wife Grace 'insisting he finishes his term', as priest steps in to mediate", "byline": null, "dir": null, - "excerpt": "Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace and two key figures from her G40 political faction are under house arrest at Mugabe's "Blue House" compound in Harare and are insisting the 93 year-old finishes his presidential term, a source said.", - "readerable": true, - "siteName": "The Telegraph" + "excerpt": "Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace and two key figures from her G40 political faction are under house arrest at Mugabe's \"Blue House\" compound in Harare and are insisting the 93 year-old finishes his presidential term, a source said.", + "siteName": "The Telegraph", + "readerable": true } diff --git a/test/test-pages/wikipedia-2/expected.html b/test/test-pages/wikipedia-2/expected.html index 3ea30d3..98550a2 100644 --- a/test/test-pages/wikipedia-2/expected.html +++ b/test/test-pages/wikipedia-2/expected.html @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@

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A quartered shield, flanked by two figures, topped with a crown.

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Location of New Zealand, including outlying islands, its territorial claim in the Antarctic, and Tokelau

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Brown square paper with Dutch writing and a thick red, curved line

Detail from a 1657 map showing the western coastline of "Nova Zeelandia". (In this map, north is at the bottom.)

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One set of arrows point from Taiwan to Melanesia to Fiji/Samoa and then to the Marquesas Islands. The population then spread, some going south to New Zealand and others going north to Hawai'i. A second set start in southern Asia and end in Melanesia.

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One set of arrows point from Taiwan to Melanesia to Fiji/Samoa and then to the Marquesas Islands. The population then spread, some going south to New Zealand and others going north to Hawai'i. A second set start in southern Asia and end in Melanesia.

The Māori people are most likely descended from people who emigrated from Taiwan to Melanesia and then travelled east through to the Society Islands. After a pause of 70 to 265 years, a new wave of exploration led to the discovery and settlement of New Zealand.[22]

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An engraving of a sketched coastline on white background

Map of the New Zealand coastline as Cook charted it on his first visit in 1769–70. The track of the Endeavour is also shown.

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A torn sheet of paper

In 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip assumed the position of Governor of the new British colony of New South Wales which according to his commission included New Zealand.[38] The British Government appointed James Busby as British Resident to New Zealand in 1832 following a petition from northern Māori.[39] In 1835, following an announcement of impending French settlement by Charles de Thierry, the nebulous United Tribes of New Zealand sent a Declaration of Independence to King William IV of the United Kingdom asking for protection.[39] Ongoing unrest, the proposed settlement of New Zealand by the New Zealand Company (which had already sent its first ship of surveyors to buy land from Māori) and the dubious legal standing of the Declaration of Independence prompted the Colonial Office to send Captain William Hobson to claim sovereignty for the United Kingdom and negotiate a treaty with the Māori.[40] The Treaty of Waitangi was first signed in the Bay of Islands on 6 February 1840.[41] In response to the New Zealand Company's attempts to establish an independent settlement in Wellington[42] and French settlers purchasing land in Akaroa,[43] Hobson declared British sovereignty over all of New Zealand on 21 May 1840, even though copies of the Treaty were still circulating throughout the country for Māori to sign.[44] With the signing of the Treaty and declaration of sovereignty the number of immigrants, particularly from the United Kingdom, began to increase.[45]

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Black and white engraving depicting a crowd of people

New Zealand, still part of the colony of New South Wales, became a separate Colony of New Zealand on 1 July 1841.[46] Armed conflict began between the Colonial government and Māori in 1843 with the Wairau Affray over land and disagreements over sovereignty. These conflicts, mainly in the North Island, saw thousands of Imperial troops and the Royal Navy come to New Zealand and became known as the New Zealand Wars. Following these armed conflicts, large amounts of Māori land was confiscated by the government to meet settler demands.[47] @@ -452,11 +452,11 @@

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The Queen wearing her New Zealand insignia

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A smiling woman wearing a black dress

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A block of buildings fronted by a large statue.

Elections since the 1930s have been dominated by two political parties, National and Labour.[77] Between March 2005 and August 2006, New Zealand became the first country in the world in which all the highest offices in the land—head of state, governor-general, prime minister, speaker and chief justice—were occupied simultaneously by women.[80] The current prime minister is Jacinda Ardern, who has been in office since 26 October 2017.[81] She is the country's third female prime minister.[82] @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@

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A squad of men kneel in the desert sand while performing a war dance

Early colonial New Zealand allowed the British Government to determine external trade and be responsible for foreign policy.[91] The 1923 and 1926 Imperial Conferences decided that New Zealand should be allowed to negotiate its own political treaties and the first commercial treaty was ratified in 1928 with Japan. On 3 September 1939 New Zealand allied itself with Britain and declared war on Germany with Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage proclaiming, "Where she goes, we go; where she stands, we stand."[92] @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@

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A soldier in a green army uniform faces forwards

Anzac Day service at the National War Memorial

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Map with the North, South, Stewart/Rakiura, Tokelau, Cook, Niue, Kermadec, Chatham, Bounty, Antipodes, Snare, Auckland and Campbell Islands highlighted. New Zealand's segment of Antarctica (the Ross Dependency) is also highlighted.

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Map with the North, South, Stewart/Rakiura, Tokelau, Cook, Niue, Kermadec, Chatham, Bounty, Antipodes, Snare, Auckland and Campbell Islands highlighted. New Zealand's segment of Antarctica (the Ross Dependency) is also highlighted.

The early European settlers divided New Zealand into provinces, which had a degree of autonomy.[121] Because of financial pressures and the desire to consolidate railways, education, land sales and other policies, government was centralised and the provinces were abolished in 1876.[122] The provinces are remembered in regional public holidays[123] and sporting rivalries.[124] @@ -543,15 +543,15 @@ Countries -  New Zealand +  New Zealand     -  Cook Islands +  Cook Islands -  Niue +  Niue @@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ Ross Dependency -  Tokelau +  Tokelau 15 islands @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@

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Islands of New Zealand as seen from satellite

New Zealand is located near the centre of the water hemisphere and is made up of two main islands and a number of smaller islands. The two main islands (the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Māui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamu) are separated by Cook Strait, 22 kilometres (14 mi) wide at its narrowest point.[138] Besides the North and South Islands, the five largest inhabited islands are Stewart Island (across the Foveaux Strait), Chatham Island, Great Barrier Island (in the Hauraki Gulf),[139] D'Urville Island (in the Marlborough Sounds)[140] and Waiheke Island (about 22 km (14 mi) from central Auckland).[141] @@ -617,13 +617,13 @@

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The Southern Alps stretch for 500 kilometres down the South Island

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    The giant Haast's eagle died out when humans hunted its main prey, the moa, to extinction.

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    Boats docked in blue-green water. Plate glass skyscrapers rising up in the background.

    New Zealand has an advanced market economy,[193] ranked 16th in the 2018 Human Development Index[8] and third in the 2018 Index of Economic Freedom.[194] It is a high-income economy with a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of US$36,254.[6] The currency is the New Zealand dollar, informally known as the "Kiwi dollar"; it also circulates in the Cook Islands (see Cook Islands dollar), Niue, Tokelau, and the Pitcairn Islands.[195] @@ -777,7 +777,7 @@

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    Unemployment peaked above 10% in 1991 and 1992,[207] following the 1987 share market crash, but eventually fell to a record low (since 1986) of 3.7% in 2007 (ranking third from twenty-seven comparable OECD nations).[207] However, the global financial crisis that followed had a major impact on New Zealand, with the GDP shrinking for five consecutive quarters, the longest recession in over thirty years,[208][209] and unemployment rising back to 7% in late 2009.[210] Unemployment rates for different age groups follow similar trends, but are consistently higher among youth. In the December 2014 quarter, the general unemployment rate was around 5.8%, while the unemployment rate for youth aged 15 to 21 was 15.6%.[207] New Zealand has experienced a series of "brain drains" since the 1970s[211] that still continue today.[212] Nearly one quarter of highly skilled workers live overseas, mostly in Australia and Britain, which is the largest proportion from any developed nation.[213] In recent decades, however, a "brain gain" has brought in educated professionals from Europe and less developed countries.[214][215] Today New Zealand's economy benefits from a high level of innovation.[216] @@ -789,7 +789,7 @@

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    In 2015, renewable energy, primarily geothermal and hydroelectric power, generated 40.1% of New Zealand's gross energy supply.[231] Geothermal power alone accounted for 22% of New Zealand's energy in 2015.[231] @@ -819,7 +819,7 @@

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    The 2013 New Zealand census enumerated a resident population of 4,242,048, an increase of 5.3% over the 2006 figure.[245][n 8] As of September 2019, the total population has risen to an estimated 4,933,210.[5] @@ -884,9 +884,9 @@ - Auckland
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    Map of New Zealand showing the percentage of people in each census area unit who speak Māori. Areas of the North Island exhibit the highest Māori proficiency.

    Speakers of Māori according to the 2013 census[270]

      Less than 5%

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    Māori cloaks are made of fine flax fibre and patterned with black, red and white triangles, diamonds and other geometric shapes.[316] Greenstone was fashioned into earrings and necklaces, with the most well-known design being the hei-tiki, a distorted human figure sitting cross-legged with its head tilted to the side.[317] Europeans brought English fashion etiquette to New Zealand, and until the 1950s most people dressed up for social occasions.[318] Standards have since relaxed and New Zealand fashion has received a reputation for being casual, practical and lacklustre.[319][320] However, the local fashion industry has grown significantly since 2000, doubling exports and increasing from a handful to about 50 established labels, with some labels gaining international recognition.[320] @@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@

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    Public radio was introduced in New Zealand in 1922.[337] A state-owned television service began in 1960.[338] Deregulation in the 1980s saw a sudden increase in the numbers of radio and television stations.[339] New Zealand television primarily broadcasts American and British programming, along with a large number of Australian and local shows.[340] The number of New Zealand films significantly increased during the 1970s. In 1978 the New Zealand Film Commission started assisting local film-makers and many films attained a world audience, some receiving international acknowledgement.[339] The highest-grossing New Zealand films are Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Boy, The World's Fastest Indian, Once Were Warriors and Whale Rider.[341] The country's diverse scenery and compact size, plus government incentives,[342] have encouraged some producers to shoot big-budget productions in New Zealand, including Avatar, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, King Kong and The Last Samurai.[343] The New Zealand media industry is dominated by a small number of companies, most of which are foreign-owned, although the state retains ownership of some television and radio stations.[344] Since 1994, Freedom House has consistently ranked New Zealand's press freedom in the top twenty, with the 19th freest media in 2015.[345] @@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@

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    Most of the major sporting codes played in New Zealand have British origins.[346] Rugby union is considered the national sport[347] and attracts the most spectators.[348] Golf, netball, tennis and cricket have the highest rates of adult participation, while netball, rugby union and football (soccer) are particularly popular among young people.[348][349] Around 54% of New Zealand adolescents participate in sports for their school.[349] Victorious rugby tours to Australia and the United Kingdom in the late 1880s and the early 1900s played an early role in instilling a national identity.[350] Horseracing was also a popular spectator sport and became part of the "Rugby, Racing and Beer" culture during the 1960s.[351] Māori participation in European sports was particularly evident in rugby and the country's team performs a haka, a traditional Māori challenge, before international matches.[352] New Zealand is known for its extreme sports, adventure tourism[353] and strong mountaineering tradition, as seen in the success of notable New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary.[354][355] Other outdoor pursuits such as cycling, fishing, swimming, running, tramping, canoeing, hunting, snowsports, surfing and sailing are also popular.[356] The Polynesian sport of waka ama racing has experienced a resurgence of interest in New Zealand since the 1980s.[357] @@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@

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    diff --git a/test/test-pages/wikipedia/expected-metadata.json b/test/test-pages/wikipedia/expected-metadata.json index 136f748..57b6e24 100644 --- a/test/test-pages/wikipedia/expected-metadata.json +++ b/test/test-pages/wikipedia/expected-metadata.json @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ "byline": null, "dir": "ltr", "excerpt": "Mozilla is a free-software community, created in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, with only minor exceptions.[1] The community is supported institutionally by the Mozilla Foundation and its tax-paying subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.[2]", - "readerable": true, - "siteName": null + "siteName": null, + "readerable": true } diff --git a/test/test-pages/wikipedia/expected.html b/test/test-pages/wikipedia/expected.html index 9d8a50a..4e8b90f 100644 --- a/test/test-pages/wikipedia/expected.html +++ b/test/test-pages/wikipedia/expected.html @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
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    On January 23, 1998, Netscape made two announcements: first, that Netscape Communicator will be free; second, that the source code will also be free.[3] One day later, Jamie Zawinski from Netscape registered mozilla.org.[4] The project was named Mozilla after the original code name of the Netscape Navigator browser which is a blending of "Mosaic and Godzilla"[5] and used to co-ordinate the development of the Mozilla Application Suite, the open source version of Netscape's internet software, Netscape Communicator.[6][7] Jamie Zawinski says he came up with the name "Mozilla" at a Netscape staff meeting.[8][9] A small group of Netscape employees were tasked with coordination of the new community.

    Originally, Mozilla aimed to be a technology provider for companies, such as Netscape, who would commercialize their open source code.[10] When AOL (Netscape's parent company) greatly reduced its involvement with Mozilla in July 2003, the Mozilla Foundation was designated the legal steward of the project.[11] Soon after, Mozilla deprecated the Mozilla Suite in favor of creating independent applications for each function, primarily the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client, and moved to supply them directly to the public.[12]

    Recently, Mozilla's activities have expanded to include Firefox on mobile platforms (primarily Android),[13] a mobile OS called Firefox OS,[14] a web-based identity system called Mozilla Persona and a marketplace for HTML5 applications.[15]

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    In a report released in November 2012, Mozilla reported that their total revenue for 2011 was $163 million, which was up 33% from $123 million in 2010. Mozilla noted that roughly 85% of their revenue comes from their contract with Google.[16]

    At the end of 2013, Mozilla announced a deal with Cisco Systems whereby Firefox would download and use a Cisco-provided binary build of an open source[17] codec to play the proprietary H.264 video format.[18][19] As part of the deal, Cisco would pay any patent licensing fees associated with the binaries that it distributes. Mozilla's CTO, Brendan Eich, acknowledged that this is "not a complete solution" and isn't "perfect".[20] An employee in Mozilla's video formats team, writing in an unofficial capacity, justified[21] it by the need to maintain their large user base, which would be necessary in future battles for truly free video formats.

    In December 2013, Mozilla announced funding for the development of non-free games[22] through its Game Creator Challenge. However, even those games that may be released under a non-free software or open source license must be made with open web technologies and Javascript as per the work criteria outlined in the announcement.

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    SeaMonkey (formerly the Mozilla Application Suite) is a free and open source cross platform suite of Internet software components including a web browser component, a client for sending and receiving email and USENET newsgroup messages, an HTML editor (Mozilla Composer) and the ChatZilla IRC client.

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    Bugzilla is a web-based general-purpose bug tracking system, which was released as open source software by Netscape Communications in 1998 along with the rest of the Mozilla codebase, and is currently stewarded by Mozilla. It has been adopted by a variety of organizations for use as a bug tracking system for both free and open source software and proprietary projects and products, including the Mozilla Foundation, the Linux kernel, GNOME, KDE, Red Hat, Novell, Eclipse and LibreOffice.[59]

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  • ^ "Mozilla.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info". DomainTools. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
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  • ^ Payment, S. (2007). Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark: The Founders of Netscape. Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 9781404207196. +
  • ^ Payment, S. (2007). Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark: The Founders of Netscape. Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 9781404207196.
  • ^ "Netscape Announces mozilla.org, a Dedicated Team and Web Site Supporting Development of Free Client Source Code". Netscape. Archived from the original on October 4, 2002. Retrieved 2012-08-21. @@ -443,7 +442,7 @@
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  • Mozilla Wiki(Major time line of community development)
  • Mozilla Mercurial Repository
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