Pirate Commander

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A Pirate Commander is an elite Space Pirate found only in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. A Space Pirate can only be a Pirate Commander after being a Pirate Commando for at the minimum of 10 years. Commanders wear Red Phazite armor, which is much more resilient against attacks then the normal Phazite armor. They were a personal teleportation device that lets them move around a battlefield quickly and sporadically. When Samus Aran fought one in Corruption, it showed the ability to call Pirate Commandos to its aid. On the Pirate Homeworld, a Commander appeared repeatedly to summon more Pirate Commandos and impede Samus' path. This paticular Commander first appears when Samus sets off the Pirate Alarm System in the Scrapvault, where he summons a squad of Commandos and orders them to kill her. During Fleet Admiral Dane's assault on the Homeworld, in Transit Tunnel P69, two Federation Marines can be found firing down in a parallel area to the left of Samus, right before she moves on. If she watches long enough, the Commander will appear and use its dash attack on them, killing them instantly, and teleports away.

An Echoes-style Commando squad was led by a Space Pirate wearing modified Commando armor in the Episode of Aether manga. Since Commanders are refered to as ex-Commandos, this was likely an early appearance of a Commander before the Phazite armor was implemented.