Aether (mythology) originally was the personification of the "upper sky", space and heaven, in Greek mythology.
The term aether, æther or ether may also refer to one of the following:
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The planet-setting of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Aether is home of the Luminoth race. Samus Aran is called to Aether by a Galactic Federation distress beacon, and crash-lands on the planet after her ship is damaged in atmospheric turbulence. She finds that the Federation troopers, dead on the planet, were pursuing a Space Pirate frigate - but there's something more unsettling than Pirates around.
The Luminoth tell the story of Aether being struck by a mighty meteor, infested with Phazon, which split the planet into two - Light Aether and Dark Aether. The Light side, the planet as it originally existed before the Phazon meteor impact, is inhabited by the Luminoth, and the Dark side, an almost perfect mirror, came to be inhabited by the Ing, a mischievous insect-like race of creatures spawned by the meteor.
The Ing are driven by an insatiable hunger to destroy and consume energy, energy which is maintained in mystic temples and sustains the planet; through connivery the Ing managed to drain much of the Light side's energy, putting the Luminoth's homeworld in jeopardy. If one side's energy is drained, the other will completely take over the planet. Presumably, Ing have a hard time traveling into the Light side from Dark Aether. However, they have little trouble possessing the dangerously-curious Space Pirates, as well as other creatures, in order to inhabit the Light side through them.
Samus is tasked by the last remaining Luminoth, U-Mos, to venture into Dark Aether to retrieve the energy for Light Aether. However, the very atmosphere of Dark Aether is harmful to anything but the Ing. Samus uses light beacons, set up by the Luminoth at the height of their conflict with the Ing, to protect herself from the dark energy (later using suit upgrades to resist the atmosphere).
The Light/Dark dynamic was (supposedly) an idea for the game from the beginning, but Retro Studios hired one of the game designers from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past to help them develop the two-world dynamic.
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Aether was the god of light in Greek mythology. He was the son of Erebus, but had no mother. Aether was the Protogenos (first-born elemental god) of the bright, glowing upper air of heaven - the substance of light. Above him lay the solid dome of the sky-god, Ouranos, and below, the transparent mists of earth-bound air.
In the evening his mother Nyx drew her veil of darkness between the aither and the aer to bring night to man. In the morn his sister-wife Hemera dispersed these mists, revealing the shining blue aither of day. Night and day were regarded as quite independent of the sun in the ancient cosmogonies.
Aither was one of the three "airs". The middle air was Aer or Khaos, a colourless mist which enveloped the mortal world. The lower air was Erebos, the mists of darkness, which enveloped the dark places beneath the earth and the realm of the dead. The third was the upper air of aither, the mist of light, home of the gods of heaven. It enveloped the mountain peaks, clouds, stars, sun and moon. The stars themselves were said to be formed from the concentrated fires of aither.
His female counterpart was Aithre, Titanis of the Clear Blue Sky, mother of the Sun and Moon.
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