Prior to the release of the Metroid Prime Trilogy, this was speculated to be a new form of Metroid media, perhaps a game set from the perspective of the Space Pirates. After the release of Trilogy, the side story was revealed to be the private journal of a lone Space Pirate who survived the events of Zero Mission and participated throughout the Prime trilogy. The pages are in Japanese, and as of May 2011, have been translated by the Metroid Database.