Who are the Space Pirates?
Space Pirates are a faction of beings opposed to the peaceful union of the Galactic Federation and seek to dominate any who oppose them. Completely without moral or ethical standards, the Pirates often do whatever it takes to reach their malicious goals. The discovery of the dangerous Metroid organisms has driven the Pirates to control an army of the life-sucking parasites, and only Samus stands in their way of galactic domination. Most of the games in the series feature the Pirates as Samus’ main adversary, either on their fortress world of Zebes or locations their devious plots affect. The Space Pirate leader-mastermind is a being known only as Mother Brain, while its military forces are commanded by the fearsome space-dragon, Ridley. Not surprisingly, Ridley turns out to be Samus’ arch-nemesis in battle.
