This has been on my mind for a while now... why is the air so poisonous there? Why did the Ing outnumber the Luminoth so badly during the war? Why didn't it hurt Dark Samus?

My idea is that the Dark World was created from phazon. So the atmosphere contains traces of phazon, which would hurt anyone not native to the world... and explain why it didn't hurt Dark Samus... But I could be totally off...

That actually makes alot of sence, i used to think the dark world was just an opposite created by the phazon meteor and therfore any thing from the light world would be hurt just existing in the dark world. But thaT dosent explain y dark samus didnt get hurt (assuming Dark Samus = metroid prime)

I dont think think Dark Aether is a world of phazon, it was just created by the interdimensional rift the phazon meteor caused, and in MP1 i remember scaning that creatures that arent tough enough would die from phazon, where as tougher creatures would be horribly mutated, and for some reason only emerperor ing was mutated, all the other ing came into contact with phazon many times, without any efect, so they are imune to phazon (with the exception of emperor ing). One more thing, if the ing are vulnerable to light, maybe it works the same way with light aether, they are weak agianst dark energy, so just existing in the dark world cause massive injury, just as if the ing tried to live in the light world, does that make any sence? Oh i forgot somthing, i at the begining i dont think the ing outnumbered the luminoth, but it seemed the ing could reproduce much faster, there fore the ing would very quickly out number the luminoth, and the ing also possedes luminoth, so that in itself would of reduced the luminoths numbers.

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So, the Ing reproduce rapidly, much like the X parasites, right? That would make a lot of sense. But how exactly were they created in the first place?

It's mentionned several times in Luminoth lore that the Ing massively outnumbered the Luminoth for an unexplained reason.

The reason the don't get hurt in the Light World is because they use creatures/hosts to sheild them. Which is why you never see any type of Ing in the Light World that isn't possessing a creature.

If the Dark World was made of phazon, it wouldn't harm Dark Samus because she is made of phazon. It would only mutate her... which it did.

Then again, who's to say Phazon isn't affected by light? I hate to resurrect the old Red Phazon/Blue Phazon debate, but it fits here. The red was sealed in the Impact Crater, which I remember as being fairly dark. The blue, however, was all over the surface, presumably exposed to light.

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Then again, who's to say Phazon isn't affected by light? I hate to resurrect the old Red Phazon/Blue Phazon debate, but it fits here. The red was sealed in the Impact Crater, which I remember as being fairly dark. The blue, however, was all over the surface, presumably exposed to light.

... you bring up an excellent point there...

I never made that connection... that's pretty good.

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Then again, who's to say Phazon isn't affected by light? I hate to resurrect the old Red Phazon/Blue Phazon debate, but it fits here. The red was sealed in the Impact Crater, which I remember as being fairly dark. The blue, however, was all over the surface, presumably exposed to light.

That makes sence, but then, why didnt we ever encounter red phazon in the dark world?

Light crystals?

Maybe DS converted the phazon to a pure energy form, one that did not have the radioactive principles physical phazon has. Then the canon would handle it just like any other beam energy.

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I have a question. How is it that Samus' Arm Cannon was able to absorb Phazon for the Phazon Beam in the final battle without affecting her Power Suit?

It did affect her suit.

Remember how she lost her Light Suit upgrade? I always thought that it was because of the phazon she absorbed.

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I have a question. How is it that Samus' Arm Cannon was able to absorb Phazon for the Phazon Beam in the final battle without affecting her Power Suit?

It did affect her suit.

Remember how she lost her Light Suit upgrade? I always thought that it was because of the phazon she absorbed.

No it didn't she lost the light suit because it was only like a rental suit and was part of the luminoth light holder thing. So once her mission was done she no longer needed it and gave it back to the luminoth.
Also she didn't absorb the phazon particles they just coated the power beam when she charged it