GallifreyanOrigin

Hi Greg,

 

When you return, I would really like to know what happened to the Ignika's conscience now that Mata Nui has gone dormant in it. Can two beings live inside the Ignika at one time, or is the Ignika's "spirit" dead?

 

Also, is it possible that if the Red Star were to be repaired, could it be modified to work everyone now on Spherus Magna?

 

Thanks so much for your time,

MX5

I'm pretty sure that your first question has been asked before (like waaaay back) and that it was established that the Ignika's spirit is merely dormant within the mask, suppressed by Mata Nui's consciousness.

 

 

In the time before time, before any islands were raised in Mata Nui's dormant body, before any planets were in the universe, before Toa and Turaga alike, there were the Great Beings. They had always been there, and always would be there.

Stopped reading here. As far as I know there's no evidence of GBs existing before planets and they definitely aren't gods or stuff. Well, where would they live before planets? What would they use to make things?

They aren't?Wow, that's news to me. I guess the title of "great beings" is a little misleading then. I figured they were just spirit/psionic beings with power enough to create things without themselves needing a planet or something to live on.

It should be noted that the Great Beings didn't originally have an inexorable desire to create things; that only came about when Annona attempted to feed on the dreams of the Great Beings. The minds of the GBs were too strange and alien for her too handle and they instead fed on her dreams, which sparked their compulsion to create. Therefore, they wouldn't have had the desire to create since the beginning of the universe.

What happend to strak

also are there any makuta or shadow matoran alive?

 

If I recall correctly, Strakk is currently living in the Wastelands due to his exile.There are only two remaining Makuta; Miserix and the alternate Teridax.All of the Shadow Matoran except for Vultraz were cured and brought back to Metru Nui (and later relocated to Spherus Magna). Vultraz is currently in an alternate universe being experimented on by Great Beings.

Why did Velika kill Tren Krom and Karzahni?

They were powerful wild cards that could have posed a threat to his ambitions.

Excluding Certavus, the best Glatorian would probably be Ackar, although his age is beginning to catch up to him. Or Tarix.

Well, an illusion is possible, but this was discussed in past topics and we concluded that as far as we can tell, based on BS01's direct statement that he was killed, we should at least consider it strong evidence he was. I forget now if Greg ever directly confirmed it, though. There's no indication in the story itself that it might have been an illusion; I checked.

Perhaps he was disintegrated but had has atoms stored and reconstructed? I mean, I think that'd be kinda like death, since disintegration isn't really something you survive.

Then what does Krana mean?

Not necessarily anything to do with shadow. It could have a completely different etymology that simply happens to resemble that of "Kraata" and "Kraahkan." A lot of words have similar spellings but different roots. For example, "quasar" and "quantum" both begin with "qua-," but the word "quasar" comes from the term "quasi-stellar radio source" (wherein the term "quasi-" means "as if" in Latin), while the word "quantum" comes from the Latin word "quantus," which means "how much."

Superheated? That sounded kinda lame but at least it is news from Greg. :/

Plasma is just superheated gas, essentially.

Wasn't it confirmed that Mata Nui gave the Matoran the ability to speak Agori, and that the RoS bunch weren't affected because they were inside the Great Beings' fortress at the time?

I believe Greg has confirmed that the alternate realities are separated by only one major change.

 

The thing about alternate realities is that while they start with one single alteration (major or minor), that one alteration tends to kick off a domino effect that extends indefinitely into the future, which in turn results in many more alterations.

Is it safe to assume that the Agori and Glatorian species originate from one original species that diverged into these two over time ?Are the GBs natives to Spherus Magna, and if yes, are they related biologically to the Agori and/or Glatorian? If no, could you tell us where they come from?That is all.

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I know part of the answer to the second one. They are not native, because Annona describes how she was there before the Great Beings came to Spherus Magna.

Well, that doesn't necessarily mean that the Great Beings aren't native to the planet; it just means that they aren't the only things to have evolved there (which is already evident given the presence of Glatorian and Agori and the various creatures that live there in addition to Annona).

I have a question about Magnetism. Why is it that Magnetism is an absorbable element but Gravity is not? I remember the justification for Gravity's non-absorbable nature as being "you wouldn't need to absorb it, since it's almost always present in some amount." Now, I'll admit, I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to magnetic physics (and yes, I know that real-world physics don't always apply in Bionicle, but bear with me here), but wouldn't that same rule apply to magnetism? And if so, then what need is there for Toa of Magnetism to be able to absorb their element?

Well, now that we know what we know about the Red Star, a "Mask of Death" would have been kinda silly in the grand scheme of things.

Well, there's technically only two "default" forms of Toa: The Mata shape and the Metru shape. Any others we've seen were caused by unusual circumstances. As such, the primary types of Toa that Matoran would have seen before would have been that of either the Mata/Nuva or the Metru.Hope this helps.

Hmmm. I thought it was how the Matoran pictured them selfs

Right, but if the universe is mostly populated by Metru-build Toa, then most Matoran will likely imagine a Toa to look like something similar.

Now that you mention it, the Red Star does clash with the power of the Kanohi Tryna. If every useable corpse is being teleported to the Red Star, wouldn't there be none left for the Tryna to reanimate?

Maybe the Tryna is a relativey new kind of mask? Like, maybe someone figured out how to make a mask with the power to reanimate all of these new dead bodies that were lying around. Science marches on, I suppose.

Basically, anyone whose body was not disintegrated would be there.So no Matoro, no Brotherhood members, nobody who had no body left

Wait, so does this mean Krika isn't in the Red Star?

Here's a theory that has absolutely no story backup: maybe it was GRESH who learned MATORAN when the Ignika gave him elemental powers? Food for thought.

Hm......I like it.My friend, you've just been headcanoned.

This is all good stuff of course, but what we all really wish he answered was 'when are we going to get new chapters?'

He probably wouldn't be able to say for sure, considering how busy he is. I mean, he has a kid to look after, Ninjago to write for, his actual job (as Editorial Director, if I recall correctly), and I think he just moved recently, so he still has to get settled in and all that.

Thanks for pulling this together Er, and thanks to Greg for taking the time to answer these questions.

Personally, I got the impression that the place where it was kept was more of a storage space than an actual cell designed to hold it against its will. But maybe that's just me.

Well, it's a machine, so I do know if I'd say that it has its own "will," but I always envisioned it as more of a containment chamber, since it was made of what? 3-feet-thick Protosteel walls? Something like that.

What happened with the Barakki - Dark Hunter alliance?

I seem to remember reading somewhere that after TSO disappeared, the Barraki carried out their advance anyway but were defeated.

Well, to begin I have a question for Erebus. Are you already planning on asking the thing about the Shadowed One yourself? Or, if we want to know that, do we have to re-ask it? That would have been my first question, so I'm not really sure.Regardless, my other question for Greg is:How does the Nuva Cube work? It was created by Artakha and teleported to the Bohrok nest when the Toa Mata formed a Toa Seal around the Bahrag, and has the power to break that Seal...but in a previous quote, it was stated that it could break only that specific Seal. So how does it know the difference between any other Toa Seal and the Seal around the Bahrag, which technically wasn't meant to exist since they should have never been woken up prematurely?EDIT: Thanks, Erebus. Second Question - What have White Teridax and Mazeka been up to ever since the MU shut down?

Granted, I say this with ill-knowledge of what exactly the RS is capable of. For instance, if it chooses who it revives, or if it just revives everyone (which wouldn't make sense as its been stated that Makuta and Matoro will not be revived).

It does make sense. The Star revives everyone that isn't disintegrated. Stuff like the dead Rahi bodies can probably be considered retconned out.

It voids any and all tragedies that ever happened, rendering the emotional connectivity that makes this storyline so intriguing, entirely moot.

Not if the body is completely disintegrated, it doesn't. :PMatoro's sacrifice is still intact, as is Toa Ignika's (even though that one was never really in question).However, if it really bothers you that much, then just put it the ol' Fanon Discontinuity file. Just like I did with the notion that Jaller's Crab was left in Mahri Nui.

EDIT: slightly off-topic, is there anywhere that explains this story in a consolodated manner? Im having difficulty following it through all the posts.

You might try the Saga Guides on Biosector01, but even those are kinda lengthy.

Jaller was revived by Takutanuva rather than the Red Star simply because "there would be nothing movie-level dramatic about him beaming out and then beaming back in later on."

I mean what teleports them there? How do they always find the dead person across the entire Matoran universe? The Red Star doesn't seem that big to me. I just don't know...Honestly I can see matoran being brought back with the mask thing... but I think it should ONLY bring back matoran. They are like the blood cells of Mata Nui since they keep it in check, the other races.. Skakdi etc... not really.