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Project Aquamarine Log 2

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Honour and Pride

There is an unwritten rule of the Space Pirates. It isn't written, yet it is followed without question by all of the others. It is about honour.

Yet, what a strange honour it is. It matters not about the means used to fight an opponent, nor does it matter about being fair. It's about preserving the pride of the Space Pirates.

Pride... a foolish pride, one which is held by all the other Pirates. It is the belief that the Pirate species, and its genome, is superior to all others.

It is this pride that blinds the other researchers, only thinking about modifying the genome, and only to a degree. More than that, and then that is no longer a true Space Pirate.

Yet, undoubtedly we are not superior. Evidence proves this; Pirate technology consists primarily of that which is stolen from others. The Chozo, the Federation, even Samus Aran.

The only things that we have truly done ourselves are our experiments with phazon. I don't even agree with it; we don't know enough about phazon to accurately use it. Yet, in spite of this High Command orders for more experiments, rather than study.

These so-called experiments consist of a disproportionate amount of luck, rather than knowledge and application of knowledge. Take the Elite Pirate Upsilon for example. The only reason it exists is because the rest of the Science Team was fortunate enough to have a specimen that had such a high tolerance for Phazon. Their statement of it being the next standard for the Pirate troops was absurd; he was a single specimen in a group numbering above 100. Not only that, but the other Elite Pirates had significantly shorter lifespans as a result of the phazon infusion; by my deductions, Upsilon likely also had little longer to live. Without phazon, my estimate is it would only last another day; this over-dependency on phazon is something I expressed, but it was little more than noted by the others.

By refusing to do more than mutate the basic Space Pirate DNA, the other researchers are effectively stopping any means of development beyond the standard adaptations. That is why I intend to fully rewrite my own DNA.

I have made a secret lab at a location I am not going to disclose. So far, testing on cell cultures appears positive, although the process will undoubtedly need to be refined.

Still, my progress thus far is actually surprising. The only issue I have is to choose what I wish to become. Ideally, I would like to try a Chozo sequence, to find out how they lived, and to increase my understanding of them. However, there is no source from which I can obtain a Chozo DNA template. I may have to visit Tallon IV again to try to find one.
The second of Aqua's logs of her project, written from Aqua's perspective of course. Chronologically, I think this would take place between Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2.

Aqua was once a Space Pirate, but she eventually came to seek out knowledge, valuing the understanding of the work of the predecessors, the Chozo and the Luminoth in particular, rather than belittling them as the other pirates usually do.

I guess the nature of this log kind of needs a disclaimer... the views of Aqua are of the High Command and the Science Team of the Space Pirates; it's not reflective in any way of real life.

Log 1: Conception: [link]
Log 2: Honour and Pride
Log 3: Heartbeat: [link]
Log 4: Chozo Armour: -incomplete-

Samus Aran, the Space Pirates, the Chozo, and the Luminoth are from the Metroid series © Nintendo
Aquamarine as the fancharacter was made by me ^^
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DreamergirI's avatar
Alright! Go Aqua! Show them all by makeing a statement they cant ignore!