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I've noticed a few people now talk about the Prophesy as if what happened was that the Mask of Time sped up the planetary alignment to summon the Toa early. I'm really not sure how they can be so sure that is what happened, for several reasons. 1) The alignment does not happen directly after the Mask is used. The Protectors do not even know when it will happen. This is the opposite of what you would expect if the MoT was speeding the planets up. 2) If the MoT were speeding up the planets to bring the alignment earlier, wouldn't it have to be shooting its energy beam the whole time up to the alignment? Instead, the Mask is only needed briefly then is put back in its vault. 3) If it were the alignment itself that summons the Toa, rather than the MoT's energy beam (which is being claimed speeds up the planets), then the alignment would have to be ridiculously rare for it not to have happened in the previous thousands of years and accidentally summoned the Toa early. Probabilistically, that also means it would be likely that the MoT must advance time by several more millennia to find an alignment, which is over-the-top and would be visible as streaks of planets covering the whole sky. The way I see it is the Mask of Time is used to send a signal that releases (or unlocks, changes to a different orbit, whatever) the Toa comets, so that as soon as the next planetary alignment happens (by natural means), they fall to Okoto. (This interpretation is closer to the summoning of the Mata in 2001, which is likely what the Prophesy draws inspiration from.) The Protectors have to wait for the Prophesy to take effect, precisely because they cannot control when an alignment happens. And if you are one of the people who would say "the Mask of Time releases the Toa comets and speeds up the planetary alignment by an amount unknown to the Protectors", then you are definitely on the wrong side of Occam's Razor. Whaddya think?
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