Novel The Past is Prologue(Metroid)

Since the beginning of the 30th century, the galaxy has known the terror of the Kromus Space Pirates. A war once raged for twelve years, a hundred worlds burned to the rock, trillions slaughtered. It was a war thought ended, a war about to resume in a fiery rage to consume the cosmos. And where the horrors begin again shall be the birth of a legend, of the girl who survived the fires, and would one day become a galactic savior.