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The '''Ing''' , also referred to as the '''Ing Horde''' or '''Dark Tribe''', are a race of aggressive {{wp|shapeshifting|metamorphs}} that inhabit [[Dark Aether]] and are the primary antagonists of ''[[Metroid Prime 2: Echoes]]''.<ref name=emperor>{{cite|Like its brethren, the Emperor Ing is a metamorph. It has molded itself around the precious Energy Controller, and will defend it to the death, using its own body as a shield and weapon. Destroy the tentacles it generates to weaken the creature and its defenses.|Logbook|Metroid Prime 2: Echoes}}</ref> After a [[Leviathan]] impacted [[Aether]] and sent the planet into a state of [[Transdimensional Flux]], [[Dark Aether]] was born and with it the Ing, who embroiled the planet in [[Ing-Luminoth War|war]] and were consequently named after the [[Luminoth]] word for terror.<ref>{{cite|In time, we created machines to open rifts to our enemy's world. Volunteer scouts went through the rifts and found a twisted world, harsh and poisonous...a Dark Aether. They discovered that this world held the missing half of our planet's energy. They also saw the true face of the enemy, a race we came to call "Ing", meaning terror. Our scouts could not survive long on the surface of Dark Aether, so venomous was its air. Still, we vowed to return. We prepared for war|Luminoth Lore|Metroid Prime 2: Echoes}}</ref>