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Honestly, I'll just reiterate one of my biggest desires regarding the Prime series: it's been time for Metroid to have a Zelda style split timeline. That way, Tanabe and Retro can tell their own stories without the worry of contradicting what Sakamoto and MS may do later on in the timeline, and on the flip side, Sakamoto can continue doing the bare minimum acknowledging whatever the Prime games did.It just depends on when in the timeline they set the game and if it continues to be some kind of largely seperate narrative from the events of Fusion onward.
It would be pretty crazy if Prime 4 Samus is post-Fusion/Dread.
Assuming rumors about Prime 4's story involving a mystical planet and time travel make it to the final product, that's all that would be necessary to set it up. Sci-fi tropes and technobabble can take care of the rest.
Tanabe already got his Light/Dark World revisting out of his system. Going back on his Ocarina of Time BS sounds like just the kind of thing I can see him do!