Important Super Metroid Question! PLEASE READ!

[Gil_Hamilton]

So... when Ridley abducts the baby metroid and blows up Ceres Station in the intro stage...
Is Ceres Station named such because it's NEAR Ceres, or because it's built out of/around Ceres?


This is important.

[Gonzo]

So... when Ridley abducts the baby metroid and blows up Ceres Station in the intro stage...
Is Ceres Station named such because it's NEAR Ceres, or because it's built out of/around Ceres?


This is important.

Neither. It's a space station that's named Ceres. It was designed by someone named Dr. Ceres and obviously he named it after himself. Because that's what scientists do.

[Gil_Hamilton]

So... when Ridley abducts the baby metroid and blows up Ceres Station in the intro stage...
Is Ceres Station named such because it's NEAR Ceres, or because it's built out of/around Ceres?


This is important.

Neither. It's a space station that's named Ceres. It was designed by someone named Dr. Ceres and obviously he named it after himself. Because that's what scientists do.

That's kinda dickish of him for an asteroid belt facility.

Dr. Richard Ceres, station designer it is then.

[grinvader]

This is important.

Hmm... I'd like to inquire as to why it is so.

I assume it would be because of the seemingly instantaneous trip from Ceres to wherever in sweet pogostick hell the Zebesian solar system is ?

Also,

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the same solar system as Earth. The tiny planet is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. In Super Metroid, we see the Ceres Space Colony surrounded by asteroids, suggesting that it too is located in or near an asteroid belt, or an asteroid field. This would suggest that the colony is in fact situated in our solar system. The only contradicting evidence for this placement is the nebula we see in the background as Samus is leaving the station. Nebulae this large can not be seen with the naked eye from our solar system.

P.S.: planetoid, fuckers ("dwarf planet" sounds like shit)

[Gil_Hamilton]

This is important.

Hmm... I'd like to inquire as to why it is so.

I assume it would be because of the seemingly instantaneous trip from Ceres to wherever in sweet pogostick hell the Zebesian solar system is ?

Actually, travel time is ambiguous. Though I don't dispute the possibility of Samus' ship being able to open a wormhole for near-instantaneous travel. That's probably why it always flys into the screen.

But it's important because I wanted to know.

Also,

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the same solar system as Earth. The tiny planet is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. In Super Metroid, we see the Ceres Space Colony surrounded by asteroids, suggesting that it too is located in or near an asteroid belt, or an asteroid field. This would suggest that the colony is in fact situated in our solar system. The only contradicting evidence for this placement is the nebula we see in the background as Samus is leaving the station. Nebulae this large can not be seen with the naked eye from our solar system.

P.S.: planetoid, fuckers ("dwarf planet" sounds like shit)

You could just call it an asteroid.

I would bet money it's called Ceres station because of the asteroid. It's exact relation to the asteroid is, however, unknown.

But it's also possible that it was just built by Dr. Richard Ceres to confuse the issue.