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The Artifact Temple is the location of a mystical lock made up of twelve pillars requiring twelve [[Chozo Artifact]]s, known collectively as the Cipher, to open.<ref>{{cite| It is clear now that we Chozo can never return to our dimension, not while the Great Poison reaches ever further into the planet. It is so powerful, this creeping evil, that our wills are crumbling and our minds beginning to fail. And so, before it is too late, we now make our last stand. We have begun to build a temple to contain this darkness: at its heart we will place a Cipher, a mystical lock powered by twelve Artifacts and filled with as much power as we Chozo can harness in our ethereal states.|[[Chozo Lore]]|[[Metroid Prime (game)|Metroid Prime]]}}</ref> These Artifacts are scattered throughout Tallon IV to avoid easy access to the Impact Crater. Once [[Samus Aran|Samus]] finds all twelve keys, [[Meta Ridley]] attacks Samus on the Artifact Temple, where Samus defeats him with the help of the Artifact Temple's defense systems and he presumably dies. This, however, is proven untrue in later games. After the defeat of Meta Ridley, there is presumably no way to activate the transport without the totems. However, twelve [[Chozo Ghost]]s appear and take the place of the totems, activating the transport. After Samus has destroyed the [[Metroid Prime (specimen)|Metroid Prime]], the Artifact Temple is destroyed by a number of explosions. Samus views the destruction from her ship, then flys away.

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