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Did you have anything in mind for how option 1 would look?
Sat May I left it deliberately broad so that authors can extend it however they want. Maybe her suit unfolds and expands into a building when she's in robot construction mode, maybe it just has a heavy backpack, maybe she turns into some kinda cyborg with a fabricator womb, maybe dozens of articulated mechanical arms emerge from tiny hatches, maybe servomotors in her suit's arms take over her movements in order to construct each robot, maybe slow-moving and eerily human-looking gynoids accompany her at all times and assemble the robots by hand... I look forward to finding out.
I'd like to point out that Samus getting an army to command isn't the only route. She could become a unit for someone else to command.
The idea of samus turning into an rts unit factory is so weird and surreal it's vaguely lewd, turning into a space pirate is fun too
The idea of samus turning into an rts unit factory is so weird and surreal it's vaguely lewd, turning into a space pirate is fun too
The idea of samus turning into an rts unit factory is so weird and surreal it's vaguely lewd, turning into a space pirate is fun too
Sat May It's true she could also be a commanded unit (so please feel free to write episodes where that's the case), but the Thing of Power description specified that the spinner becomes the main protagonist of the universe, and it's hard to be the protagonist of an RTS without being (at least nominally) in a position of command. Maybe she could be a battlefield commander who leads from the front lines, like the hero units in Warcraft III?
Or maybe she could continue fighting alone while leaving the units she creates in a place of safety. There's a few RTSes that are about managing an economy and don't involve warfare, so maybe her universe is one of those. I guess that'd make her job as a bounty hunter a flavourful background detail, rather that something crucil to gameplay...
she could be an AI construct in one of the buildings, a lot of RTS games have the objective of "don't lose -main building-"
Sat May "Protect the building you're in or die" works for humans, too. That said, Samus being the commanding intelligence of an remote controlled army is an interesting idea, whether it's achieved by uploading her consciousness or by some kind of VR helmet thingy. Imagine if she couldn't leave her "suit" once it was deployed, and had to construct and remote control sexy human-like gynoids in order to communicate with the outside world...
For Something Else, how about Samus as a Queen of Blades clone, but with (initially just) SR-388 Metroids instead of Zerg? She must spawn more Omegas!
There were already Terran and 'toss options; it only makes sense to complete the trio.
Sun May Heh, I hadn't noticed that a couple of the options sounded like StarCraft factions until you pointed it out. Maybe space pirates are sufficiently Zerg-like to count?
Come to think of it, if Samus does transform into an AI or a weird alien lady or what-have-you, I'm curious to find out what causes that change; After all, "The wheel doesn't directly change the setting or the characters of the universe it's spun in; Usually, a slight change to the way events play out is all that's required." I don't doubt there's plenty of things that could cause such a situation in the Metroid universe, but her wanting (or not wanting) to transform back would add an interesting twist to the plot.
Metroids are very easy to fluff in that respect. Post-Fusion, she still has the Metroid DNA that was integrated into her system. Who's to say it doesn't have some unexpected, mutagenic side-effects that didn't kick in until after she detonated B.S.L?
Post-Super, it's the Baby Metroid's fault. When it sacrificed itself during the Mother Brain battle, it gave Samus a lot more than just the Hyper Beam and an emergency full heal.
Either way, a few missions later, the previous chapters happen. Once she returns to her ship and exits her suit, she immediately notices the slime/creep that's oozing out all over her skin - a good excuse to remodel her ship from the inside out - but not they way her belly is slowly filling with Metroid eggs.