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What I mean by dark Samus was that the move sets you got in this game were all moves demonstrates by dark Samus. The aeon abilities all are found in dark Samus move set, including the blaster. I'm thinking that aeon devices and enhancements are from the Mawkin tribe,.while the traditional ones are from the therma (something like that, don't feel like opening a tab) tribes. All of the abilities that are aeon , Mawkin have. Samus using her Metroid powers from fusion to augment abilities from the EMMI are displayed in dread. Given that metroids do not have this host augmentation ability , demonstrated by super and other m showing creatures turning to dust, it stands to reason that when the phazon suit was absorbed with it too was the Metroid and Mawkin DNA.

The creation of dark Samus being a corruption of the phazon suit definitely works - especially given how the Ing work in Metroid prime 2, and x in fusion. Phazon, the Ing, and X all absorb, adhere to, take over the host, and augments the hosts abilities.

Sakamoto stated that Prime is not canon, but fans have it between super and fusion given the lack of fusion elements. My theory is that retroactively prime takes place after the rest. This would explain the more powerful mother brain clones in prime 3 when compared to dread, the aeon abilities being so similar to dark Samus bag of tricks.

None of this is proven of course, just a personal theory.