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nts that are contained in "sectors" or gigantic spheres within the ship.[10] The ship is later revealed to be a secret facility which contains many different lifeforms with the purpose of turning them into bioweapons,[11] and is also breeding an army modeled after the Zebesian Pirate forces. The facility eventually abandoned them after the crew managed to breed a Queen Metroid and propagate Metroids in Sector Zero and interfaced with them via an artificial intelligence in an android body named MB.[12] It is modeled after Mother Brain and is able to communicate with Metroids through telepathy.[13] The story takes place between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion,[10] and the opening cutscene of Other M is a flashback of the climactic battle with Mother Brain at the conclusion of Super Metroid. The player takes on the role of bounty hunter Samus Aran, who investigates the Bottle Ship after receiving a "Baby's Cry"-type distress signal.[14] Upon docking, she encountered the squad she had been a part of when she had been enrolled in the Galactic Federation Army, the 07th Platoon, consisting of several soldiers: Adam Malkovich, the commanding officer to Samus during her time in the Federation; Anthony Higgs, the point man of the 07th Platoon and Samus's past colleague;[15] Lyle Smithsonian, a special forces trooper in charge of demolition assignments and who suffers from entomophobia;[16] K.G. Misawa, the recon scout; Maurice Favreau, the engineer; and James Pierce, a communications expert.[17] Midpoint in the game, Samus learns that the Federation soldiers are mysteriously killed by a secret assassin among their ranks, who she calls "the Deleter", and whose identity is never explicitly revealed in the story.[18] Other characters include Dr. Madeline Bergman, the site manager and development director of the Bottle Ship's secret projects; and MB, nicknamed Melissa Bergman, an android created to replicate Mother Brain's artificial intelligence