How the Rahi migrated to Mata Nui ?

[Zidonaro]

After the great cataclysm, a lot of Rahi migrated to Mata Nui. This shouldn't be a problem to flying Rahi like Nui-Rama, but what about Terrain Rahi like the Nui-Jaga ? They would have to cross the gigantic Silver Sea to get to Mata Nui. And I don't even know how aquatic Rahi did it, since There's no opening in Mata Nui's head to get to the outside world, I think.

Edited July 19, 2014 by HoloTheWise

[Underscore]

I'm pretty sure it was through the tunnels leading from Mata Nui to Metru Nui (details on this page).

 

Please correct me if I'm wrong, though. It's been several years since I read Maze of Shadows.

[bonesiii]

I fixed your title for you.

 

but what about Terrain Rahi like the Nui-Jaga ? They would have to cross the gigantic Silver Sea to get to Mata Nui.

Swimming.

 

And I don't even know how aquatic Rahi did it

Again, swimming, through the river the Toa Metru traveled up on their first trip, before they sealed it. And it's possible there were others elsewhere in the giant that other people later sealed that we don't know about, caused by the Great Cataclysm.

 

Some land Rahi could swim through there, and others could swim to the other tunnels and walk up.

[fishers64]

Another answer: Some of the Rahi could have taken the underwater chutes from Metru Nui to the tunnels. 

 

 

 

4)Why did the Toa take the Vahki transport across the Silver Sea when the Rahi, Krahli and Visorak took the underwater chutes?

ANSWER: Because the underwater chutes are dangerous and haven't been maintained by the Matoran in a long time. In addition, there is no telling what kind of Rahi might have been in the chutes at the same time. The transport was a safer way to transport the spheres. 

 

I need a better answer to back me up, but I think the idea is still sound.

[Zidonaro]

I fixed your title for you. 

Thanks !

  

Swimming. 

So... Hordes and hordes of Nui-Jagas, Kikanalos, Kofo-Jagas, Manas, Muakas, Kane-ra and and many others swimmed who knows how many kilometers of the Silver Sear and used the tunnels ? I find that a little hard to believe.

 

Again, swimming, through the river the Toa Metru traveled up on their first trip, before they sealed it. And it's possible there were others elsewhere in the giant that other people later sealed that we don't know about, caused by the Great Cataclysm.

 

Some land Rahi could swim through there, and others could swim to the other tunnels and walk up.

I though the only tunnel that lead up to Mata Nui(aside from the Mangaia, whom Makuta created) was the tunnel that appeared at the end of BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui, and that Tunnel had no water in it.

Edited July 19, 2014 by HoloTheWise

[bonesiii]

So... Hordes and hordes of Nui-Jagas, Kikanalos, Kofo-Jagas, Manas, Muakas, Kane-ra and and many others swimmed who knows how many kilometers of the Silver Sear and used the tunnels ? I find that a little hard to believe.

Why?

 

I though the only tunnel that lead up to Mata Nui(aside from the Mangaia, whom Makuta created) was the tunnel that appeared at the end of BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui, and that Tunnel had no water in it.

Yeah, that's a known inaccuracy in the movie version. Voyage of Fear makes it clear that tunnel was a river.

 

But those are by no means the only ways. As somebody said earlier, we know of one land tunnel too, which was how they got back down in Maze of Shadows (and that one tunnel connected to, as the title implies, a maze of tunnels; many tunnels connected to the dome itself, so Rahi would be funneled toward that one exit as they fled the Visorak). Incidentally, the tunnel to the Mangaia wasn't made by Makuta so far as we know but was a design feature of the giant robot, connecting to the Kini-Nui sensor device. And there's who knows how many Bohrok vents, and the extra nests under Metru Nui, so there had to be tunnels between those two things (though not all necessarily exited right onto the surface, but there were also cave systems under Mata Nui like those the Onu-Matoran inhabited later).

[Zidonaro]

 

So... Hordes and hordes of Nui-Jagas, Kikanalos, Kofo-Jagas, Manas, Muakas, Kane-ra and and many others swimmed who knows how many kilometers of the Silver Sear and used the tunnels ? I find that a little hard to believe.

Why?

 

Well, not all Rahi can swim, and there's other Rahi on the seas who could pray on them.

 

Maybe it's possible that it was actually Teridax who Brought the Rahi to Mata Nui ?

[bonesiii]

Well, not all Rahi can swim

There are Rahi we saw in Metru Nui that either weren't common on Mata Nui or didn't make it there, so any that couldn't swim would be those. Assuming, of course, they didn't find their way underneath the Silver Sea via Bohrok tunnels to the extra nests (I do think that's unlikely, but I wouldn't rule it out in some cases). But really, it seems unlikely there are a lot of kinds of Rahi that can't swim. It isn't that difficult, and not every individual needs to survive in order to have some representatives at the destination location -- it was a flight of panic, after all.

 

and there's other Rahi on the seas who could pray on them.

Sure, but it's unlikely they would get all of them, and many of them can defend themselves, yanno, especially the major 2001 Rahi.

 

Maybe it's possible that it was actually Teridax who Brought the Rahi to Mata Nui ?

Well, since we already have a canon answer, there's really no need to continue to theorize. Although not a bad idea for mental exercise sake. If we didn't already know that, then it would make sense he did that, yeah. He has a Rahi Control power, after all, and some of his Kraata do too. But really it makes more sense that it would just be Rahi fleeing the Visorak, since at that time, Teridax was trapped in the protocage.

 

Of course, he was indirectly responsible, since he summoned the Visorak in the first place.