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Tallon IV
Topography and Ecosystem
Tallon IV has diverse geography and climate, ranging from frozen drifts to volcanic caverns, and each has its own unique biosphere of herbivores, scavengers, and predators. While some areas have been completely devastated as a result of Phazon exposure, others are less effected.
The colonized portion of the planet is divided into six main explorable areas, including the site of the meteor impact that brought Phazon to Tallon IV.
Tallon Overworld
- Main article: Tallon Overworld
The Tallon Overworld is the rainforest continent where Samus first arrives, host to a plethora of local plantforms, fungi, and wildlife. It is the site of the Artifact Temple, the great Cradle of the Chozo, and consequently the only area from which Samus can access the Impact Crater. The natural predators here pose no real threat to Samus as she explores, incurring minor damage during confrontations. The Overworld is also the location of the crashsite of the Space Pirate Frigate Orpheon, which is mostly submerged.
Chozo Ruins
- Main article: Chozo Ruins
The Chozo Ruins are the location of the first area of Tallon IV first colonized by the Chozo. Most of the lore left behind by the Chozo can be found here, as well as multiple upgrades for Samus's arsenal. This location is one of those hit hardest by the devastation of the meteor impact; water sources are poisoned and some local life-forms have undergone severe mutation.
Hauntings by spectral entities here known as Chozo Ghosts led to several casualties for Space Pirates who were studying the Ruins for their own gain.
Magmoor Caverns
- Main article: Magmoor Caverns
The Magmoor Caverns are a subterranean network of lava-filled caves, so named because of the large local predators of this habitat, the Magmoors. Because of the abundance environmental hazards, the Spider Ball and Grapple Beam upgrades are utilized often here.
Chozo Statues evidence the remains of Chozo colonization here, but most unnatural structures here are the result of Space Pirate geothermal processing operations.
Phendrana Drifts
- Main article: Phendrana Drifts
The frozen Phendrana Drifts are home to the fearsome Sheegoth, a dangerous local predator. There are also several Chozo religious sites here.
The Space Pirates set up multiple research bases here and still inhabit the area when Samus arrives. Among the Phazon experiments conducted here was the failed Project Titan, which ended up being too aggressive for the Space Pirates to tame, and they abandoned it in the Quarantine Cave.
Phazon Mines
- Main article: Phazon Mines
Impact Crater
- Main article: Impact Crater
