The Trooper Pirates or Beam Troopers were Space Pirates equipped with reverse-engineered versions of Samus Aran's beam weapons, found only in Metroid Prime. However, the copies were flawed; the shielding left the user vulnerable to their own Beam weapon system. Troopers had all the standard attacks of any normal Space Pirate encountered in the game. They were equipped with a Scythe where their hands should be, and a modified Galvanic Accelerator Cannon which fires a copied version of Samus' beams. Though their weapon systems are inferior to those of Samus', they are still quite powerful.
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| - The Trooper Pirates or Beam Troopers were Space Pirates equipped with reverse-engineered versions of Samus Aran's beam weapons, found only in Metroid Prime. However, the copies were flawed; the shielding left the user vulnerable to their own Beam weapon system. Troopers had all the standard attacks of any normal Space Pirate encountered in the game. They were equipped with a Scythe where their hands should be, and a modified Galvanic Accelerator Cannon which fires a copied version of Samus' beams. Though their weapon systems are inferior to those of Samus', they are still quite powerful.
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| - Morphology: [element] Trooper
- Space Pirate armed with [element] Beam technology.
- Space Pirates have reverse-engineered several of your weapons, including the [element] Beam. A flaw in the design makes these Pirates vulnerable to their own Beam weapon system. These weapons are inferior to your Chozo-designed originals, but still quite potent.
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| - Plasma Trooper concept art
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| - A design flaw makes them vulnerable to the weapon type they use.
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| - Appropriated Beam weaponry based on Samus Aran's elemental Beams.
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| - The Trooper Pirates or Beam Troopers were Space Pirates equipped with reverse-engineered versions of Samus Aran's beam weapons, found only in Metroid Prime. However, the copies were flawed; the shielding left the user vulnerable to their own Beam weapon system. Troopers had all the standard attacks of any normal Space Pirate encountered in the game. They were equipped with a Scythe where their hands should be, and a modified Galvanic Accelerator Cannon which fires a copied version of Samus' beams. Though their weapon systems are inferior to those of Samus', they are still quite powerful. Various Trooper Pirates are found in the Phazon Mines as a relatively common enemy. There are four types: Power, Wave, Ice and Plasma. Each type can be killed by the respective Beam that correlates to the variation of Trooper. Wave Troopers can easily be "stunlocked" by slightly charged Wave Beam shots, Ice Troopers can be frozen in place, and Plasma Troopers can be lit on fire, oddly making Power Troopers the most dangerous when dealt with by ordinary means, since the Power Beam is the weakest beam and also the one with no special abilities. Additionally, Power Troopers have the best rate of fire, which comes with the Power Beam. Although Missiles are useless against Troopers, Charge Combos will still work and can be quite effective in some cases - particularly the Super Missile, which can send the aforementioned Power Troopers flying with one hit. Ice Troopers are the easiest to dispatch; a charged Ice Beam shot followed by a Missile will have the same "freeze and shatter" effect as they would on most other enemies. This, however no longer works in the Wii versions. They can still be frozen, but Missiles will no longer shatter them, which implies that the shielding in the Troopers' armor works even if they are frozen. On a related note, the game implies that the Trooper's weapons are significantly weaker than Samus's beam weapons (a notable example being that the Ice Trooper's Ice Beams fail to freeze Samus). For some reason none of the elemental beams fired by Trooper Pirates seem to have any trace of their respective elements; they are all the same yellow energy projectile. This may be because the elemental properties of each Beam have not been copied successfully. Only various aspects of the beams, such as the Power beam's heavy rate of fire, have been copied. All Troopers share relatively the same Logbook entry, the only differences coming from the elemental beam of the Trooper the scan refers to. They are precursors to the Pirate Troopers' designs in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and the helmet design heavily resembles that of the Pirate Commandos and Pirate Commander in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Interestingly, the helmet of the Trooper Pirate is quite similar to the Metroid Prime's head, which might be the result of the original NTSC version of Metroid Prime's events in which the mutated Metroid had integrated Pirate technology and equipment into itself while it was in captivity by the Space Pirates. However, this story element was retconned out with the release of the PAL version of Prime.
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