nui rama wax

[Demfem86]

nui rama wax nui rama wax ta-matoran sell candles but where they come only bee rahi on matanui is nui rama do they produce wax and maybe honey what do you think

[Aanchir]

It's hard to tell about whether they'd produce wax. The Nui-Rama hive in Mata Nui Online Game looked less like a beehive and more like a combination of a wasp nest (which would be made primarily of paper) and termite mound (which would be made primarily of dirt or digested plant materials). Nothing in Bionicle ever really describes what specifically Nui-Rama nests were made of.

 

As for honey, in real life, it comes from regurgitated, partially-digested nectar from flowering plants. Nothing in Bionicle ever describes Nui-Rama as feeding on nectar. The closest thing to that is how on Metru Nui they fed on liquid protodermis from the chute system, specifically the impurities in it. On Mata Nui, both Nui-Rama and Nui-Kopen were chiefly predatory, and competed for the same prey species. Some species of predatory wasps in real life do produce honey, but most do not.

[Regitnui]

There's a species of carnivorous bees that make meat honey, but it apparently tastes foul.

 

Wax... Perhaps the Ta-Matoran wax is made from rahi. Wax is related to fat, right? And fat is an energy source for organic musculature and machinery. Perhaps some of the more organic rahi had fat stores as well as muscles and edible energy.

[Toa Doublebee]

Lets not forget Ussal wax for the cute widdle Ussal cwabs.

[evil_jaga_genius]

If this is the case I pity the Matoran that go and harvest it.

 

On the other hand, since it's the Ta-Matoran making the candles, maybe they harvest the wax from fireflyers.  Or maybe Hoto bugs.  Either of those seem like much less of a risk than Nui-Rama.

[Rahkshi Lalonde]

yeah it is probably derived from something else, a plant or rahi, the Rama-Hive seemed to be made of some sort of stone, or protodermis. rather than a beeswax o:

 

(and as others have said, there is no way matoran were gonna voluntarily go near that thing...)

[Ta-metru_defender]

Since Mata Nui is outside of Mata Nui (...wait), there's organic life out there and, with it, potentially organic creatures that create wax. Doesn't have to be a rahi.

[Toa Doublebee]

Since Mata Nui is outside of Mata Nui (...wait), there's organic life out there and, with it, potentially organic creatures that create wax. Doesn't have to be a rahi.

 

You make an interesting point.

Edited September 11, 2016 by Toa Doublebee

[Demfem86]

yeah i just wondered from what came the candles whenuas mysterios altar and the ussal wav (i know thats just error in switching matoran syllables for x and v just thought its funny but still for volunteraly going in hive is not so stange since its canon that le-koro gukko force did use the rama us steeds with the gukko,kewa and kahu

 

 

 

 

would rather use a smoke too get them out of their hive and come in and take it out of there then jump on their backs and try to control them

Edited September 15, 2016 by Demfem86

[Black Six]

Moving to S&T...

[PainofLego]

I wanna point out that there are even sea creatures who use fat to insulate themselves from frigid waters. Perhaps the Ta and Ga matorans trade goods to each other for materials. So perhaps the Ga matorans barter fat, blubber, and other fish products, for tools, and other metal products from the Ta matorans.

 

This is all hypothetical on my part of course, but for the Matorans, it would seem easier to bater and trade with each other to gain the needed goods.

 

Then again..... Why do the matorans need candles when they have light stones!?

[evil_jaga_genius]

Then again..... Why do the matorans need candles when they have light stones!?

Maybe the Ta-Matoran like the heat and the smoke they give off.  They live in a volcano after all.

[Clyce]

Then again..... Why do the matorans need candles when they have light stones!?

That because the new iCandle 7 just came out! It been all the craze across Mata Nui!

[Millennium]

Then again..... Why do the matorans need candles when they have light stones!?

 

To not be dependent on Onu-Koro's economy (and prices)?

To not have the permanent twinkle of a lightstone disturb you as you sleep, and turn your light on and off whenever you want?

To provide an alternative should lighstones ever run out?

[Demfem86]

onu-koro used candles too they put it on their heads for some reason and whenua had a whole pillar of wax lined with candles

[Toa Doublebee]

Then again..... Why do the matorans need candles when they have light stones!?

 

In MNoG the arch in Onu-Koro involves around lightstones running low, and the need to find new ore veins.

 

 

Man. Look at that story telling. The lamp to the left, empty and dormant. The matoran, surrounded by torches and candles striking and refusing to mine (I wonder if they are unionized). But in the distance, one miner continues to work. You must go to him to advance the plot. Brilliant.