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Those questions include, how can Spherus Magna be so mind-bogglingly huge compared to Earth, yet still have Earth gravity?
How can Bionicle physics like that be different (re: Greg's oft-quoted statement that Earth physics apply only when he wants them to), and yet seemingly contradict statements that Spherus Magna, the stars, and other planets are made out of normal matter like in our universe? Versus the giant robot which was made of the fictional protodermis.
Why is there "natural" energized protodermis in Spherus Magna's core?
Why did the EP cause the Shattering, and why did Mata Nui have to wait a long time before doing the reforming? (These two I can't answer very well, actually, other than just to make sure he was ready and wouldn't mess up, and the answer given before that the rock had to stabilize. Why it had to, I can't fathom.)
Most importantly, even if we assume that it's the EP's fault that the above deviations from Earth physics work, why would Mata Nui need to study other planets out there?
And this question is like it -- how is it he could land on those planets? If most were Earth-sized, and of Earth's population, just putting one foot in should kill vast numbers due to flooding, and there basically wouldn't be room to lay down.
But if, by contrast, those other ones were all much huger, how could that be?
My theory is that a looooooong, loooooooooooong time ago, there were Original Beings.
The Great Beings are known to have originated a ton of things in Bionicle, but not the EP, or the Agori/Glatorian, and their own origin is unknown. All these things taken together may indicate even more important beings who, either directly or indirectly, made the GBs, Agori/Glat, and the EP.
These ancient beings probably come from a planet like Earth.
They did one key thing.
They invented the original protodermis.
The EP enables four key things:
1) The powers of protodermis we have seen already, including perhaps an ability to be programmed related to my previous cyberclay theories (though the proto the GBs used was their own version of it).
2) Act as an "expansive mutagen" on rock, making a small rock planet much bigger, but making rock that behaves strangely towards gravity, and can channel some effects of EP. Does this by materializing new mass from its huge amount of stored energy.
3) Randomishly makes living beings (another ability we've already seen).
4) Can enable faster-than-light travel so the Original Beings (and later the giant robot) can travel to other star systems.
At some point long ago, the Original Beings (OBs) realized the abilities of their invention, and that they could create superplanets filled with life, but would have to be done on a lifeless world, NOT their homeplanet. The expansion would probably kill most if not all who lived on an inhabited world (similar to Wrath of Khan but in a different way).
And the EP enables FTL, so they had the ability to travel to other star systems and make such worlds. (Likely they would need massive ships or... somethings... to hold all the EP, so the possibility for more extremely massive stuff to rival or even dwarf the giant robots is opened.)
They seeded many star systems, perhaps filling a whole galaxy with them (or at least a wide area), all with EP in their cores and all much larger than Earth.
In each case, the new rock absorbs excess gravity whenever the total planet's gravity would exceed Earth's gravity. (This part I have mentioned before.) This enables them to stack layer upon layer upon layer of new rock, making planets of any size they wish, with no crushing weight effects. This makes superplanets capable of holding huge populations.
The EP would eat through the planet first to reach the core, and begin multiplying the rock whilst modifying it. The strangified rock would push the old rock outward like popcorn. This would be an extremely violent, although possibly slow, geologic upheaval unlike any other. When it reaches full size, so little of it would still be old rock that this would just be comparatively tiny mountain ranges and the like around the surface, which would be a roughly perfect sphere.
Then the EP's power would reach out and elementally make water in at least one large area. Many of these planets might be mostly water, maybe no oceans on some (Mata Nui would have trouble with any like that) -- then the life is made in a similar way we've seen before with EP.
If all of this is true, then Mata Nui's travels make a ton more sense.
Part of this has already been theorized before: cloaking power to hide his approach, and as he lands in the vast water, turning some of the water into energy and storing it so there's no flooding (and rematerializing it when he leaves). Once in, activate the camouflage island later called Mata Nui in honor of him.
Eyes facing up watch the stars, any moons, sun(s), and any other planets in the system and analyze all their movements. Instruments in the back of his head take accurate measurements of the planet he's laying on (which as I've said is easier with direct contact than in orbit, though other measurements are better from orbit and would be done before landing).
There would be aliens located on these planets, all made by EP, like the Agori/Glatorian but of all kinds of different shapes and sizes.
If any of those happened to stumble on the island, not really sure what happens, but probably nothing as long as they leave. If they try to come back after he leaves they'll simply be puzzled. Possibly if they were still there when it was time to leave the Bohrok would as a standard procedure try to Krana them, and they would become part of the swarm. This does not appear to have ever happened, unless perhaps the Order of Mata Nui freed them, maybe Mata Nui had a mind-wipe function, etc. -- various ideas like this have been posted by others and me elsewhere.
Anyways, the key here is that all the places Mata Nui is studying are results of transformation by EP, and share the above things with Spherus Magna.
The only significant difference is that Spherus Magna just happens to be the one (maaaaybe among a few) whose inhabitants tried to tap into the EP core, causing a Shattering.
As I said I'm still not sure why the Shattering would occur, but it can probably be blamed on the rock with weird gravity effects. And this would also somehow explain, I guess, why Mata Nui had to wait a long time for the rock to stabilize again. Something just inherent to its physics since it is not normal matter unlike everything else.
Mata Nui is basically studying planets that are what Spherus Magna was supposed to still be. The main reason he was doing this was just that he had to wait anyways for the fragments to stabilize, so it was mainly a precaution to make sure he understood what a reformed Spherus Magna should be like.
It's also possible the Great Beings (who were probably just random products of the EP like the Agori and company) had a secondary mission in mind; they may have suspected what this theory is about, and wanted Mata Nui to categorize these planets to learn more about the effects of EP and about what it had created; simply curious! In a way all those beings would be like cousins, so they'd naturally want to know more about them.
Why do it so secretively? Well, they'd just experienced all this turmoil, and seen so much chaos caused by their own creations, etc. that they would be quite disillusioned with any idea of peaceful first contact. They would want to play it safe.
Most importantly.
Listen close here.
They probably suspected a big danger.
They may have realized that someone even smarter than them, with a bent towards evil... and maybe from the OBs themselves, may have been involved all along in a plot to use all this to their advantage, or have done so later, and be amassing power to conquer all these superplanets.
Owning them would certainly be high on the bucket list of any villains out there, and it's unlikely the OBs would all magically be good guys, so it seems inevitable that somewhere, whether OBs or random EP creations, would think of this.
The GBs in turn think of this danger, and send Mata Nui partly to spy, looking for any threats like this.
And THIS in turn means something huge. It could provide a strong plot basis for a new supervillain to rival Makuta in awesomesauce and be from a totally new world -- and this could provide a strong set design direction -- in short, if this theory is right, then LEGO has great potential for a return to Bionicle. Sorta thought of that accidently along the way, but it make sense.
Soooo... whattayall think?
