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Portals are dimensional anomalies found on Aether in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. There are two types of portals: white portals found in Dark Aether are known as Light Portals, while black portals found on Aether are known as Dark Portals. Due to the dimensional instability caused by the impact of Aether's Leviathan, Light and Dark Aether often overlap in places. This can cause areas where matter can pass through the interdimensional void and travel from one to the other. These portals can lead both ways or may be one-way path. Regardless, in their natural state, the portals are too unstable for anything to safely pass through. They can be stabilized by dark or light energy, depending on the type of portal. Dark portals require dark energy while light portals require light energy. Energizing them in this way temporarily allows matter to safely pass through.
Eventually the Luminoth created machines that could open synthetic, rather than naturally occurring, rifts, which allowed one to energize the portal by interacting with the controls.[1][2]
A strange portal underneath the Great Temple in the Hall of Honored Dead is the exception to the Portals' temporary behavior. This dark portal is constantly energized, and scans indicate that it cannot be utilized for interdimensional travel due to an active security system.[3] The equivelent portal on Dark Aether is covered in Phazon. When Samus escapes the collapsing Dark Aether, she uses this portal as both sides are now free of obstructions. As she exits through this portal, Ing attempt to escape but fail and are destroyed along with Dark Aether.
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A Dark Portal
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An inactive portal
References
- ↑ "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)
- ↑ "Console used to energize and open a portal to Dark Aether, currently online. Portal generation system initiated." —Scan Data (Metroid Prime 2: Echoes)
- ↑ "Portal is online, but unstable. Security system active. Portal use is currently impossible due to safety measures in place on the system." —Scan Data (Metroid Prime 2: Echoes)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "{{{entry}}}" — Logbook entry ([[|Invalid game]])
