Anti Nui

Still, it could be said that Fa-Matoran generally try to avoid places that would mess up their excellent sense of direction. Maybe that could be their (at least implied) preferred environment?

So if Fa-Matoran have internal compasses wouldn't this mean if they lived near a source of magnetism their sense of direction would be messed up? I wonder what kind of environment they would prefer now that they have this internal compass ability. Wait a minute, according to BS01 Su-Matoran prefer hot regions, so does this mean they have both heat resistance (like Ta-Matoran) along with the eye-shields?

I remember reading something about the Iron Tribe having elemental weapons that fired "bolts of metal." That's pretty much like a gun isn't it? Or a harpoon.

Kind of off topic but I just noticed the third toa from the left kind of looks like it could be Gali, as you can sort of see the shape of a Kaukau. Probably just a coincidence, though.

I wonder if a Toa of the Green could do anything to achieve flight. Who knows, maybe there is a species of large, flying/floating plant life somewhere on SM, (like the peahats from zelda) and they could re-create them and hitch a ride or something. I never thought of a Toa of Iron creating a helicopter out of metal, that's actually pretty clever. Assuming one could be skilled enough to build one that was lightweight enough. Doesn't it say somewhere on BS01 that Takanuva is experimenting with doing that technique that umbra uses by turning himself into pure, living light? Perhaps if he could eventually figure out how to do it then Light could be considered an element capable of flight as well. Because if I remember correctly Umbra could fly while in light form. Could a Toa of Lightning somehow manipulate electricity to create magnetic fields that would enable flight?

Could places with frequent electrical storms possibly count as "places with a lot of power"?Also, how should the preferred environment be described on BS01? "High-powered regions" or something along those lines?

Whatever tribe their armor was the color of. If they were wearing red armor, they would say that they are from the Fire Tribe.Except there is no tribe that wears yellow/orange armor. What I'm asking is if they had to make up a name for their "tribe" based on an element, what could it be, hypothetically?

So you know how the surviving Iron Tribe members changed their armor colors to orange and yellow in order to pass off as a tribe of a different element? Well, we know that this tribe they were trying to pretend to be never existed, but I always wondered: if someone were to ask them on the spot "What tribe are you from?" what would they say? The Plasma Tribe? The Autumn-Colored Leaves Tribe?I mean, yeah, no one fell for it, so no one would have asked them, but still.

If they didn't have powers, then how was that one imprisoned GB in that fortress able to freeze time and space across a parallel universe? As far as I remember those abilities weren't confirmed to be the result of him touching the Ignika.Then again, I guess you could say that he could have possibly built and hid a machine somewhere that can track his location, read his thoughts, and do those things for him, though there's no evidence to suggest that.

Though it has been shot down many times, I always liked the idea of the GBs being humans who used technology to grant themselves longer lifespans, powers, etc.For now I'm just assuming them to be some other species on SM.

Um... wouldn't their armies be composed of members of their own species? I. e. Kalmah leads an army of his species, Ehlek leads another with his, and so on.

"Really hard" doesn't necessarily mean "just not possible." With enough training, or perhaps with enough experience and potency in using Psionics in the same way that Helryx does with Water, who knows?With all due respect, I don't understand how you guys can come to the conclusion of whether or not a fictional ability is possible in a certain way when, again, we don't have any idea how this would work in real life. The arm thing was just a metaphorical example, and it wasn't supposed to mean that using telekinesis to lift yourself in the air is the same as (or even as difficult as) lifting yourself off the ground with one arm.Like I said, this really all depends on whether or not telekinesis works in the way that I described it with the frozen lake example. And I don't think this is something that we can really figure out on our own using logic, and we'd only get a definitive answer if we were able to ask Greg about it.Edit: Just now saw Bonesiii's post. Did not know Greg said they couldn't. I guess that pretty much settles this debate.

This is kind of a confusing thing to debate about since telekinesis doesn't exist in real life and we have no idea how it works. :PBut that's exactly what I mean. A Psionics Toa can't push a planet, so instead wouldn't he/she just get pushed back into the air? The ground doesn't necessarily have to be "large" either (I know how literally incorrect that sounds), the Toa could just be focusing on a small spot on the ground. Not the ground as a whole.Since we're comparing Telekinesis to an arm, let me put it this way - say Telekinesis is like an invisible arm.Suppose only Jebraz's arm is invisible, and the rest of his body was still normal. He does a one-handed handstand on his invisible arm and pushes against the ground, lifting the rest of his body upwards, thus giving him the appearance that he's floating in the air. I know Telekinesis is not the same thing as literally having an invisible arm, but why couldn't it work in a similar way?I guess what it comes down to is whether or not telekinesis can be used to push yourself away from an object. For example, if a Toa of Psionics were standing on a near-frictionless surface (such as a frozen lake) and tried to use telekinesis to push a nearby flagpole (or any other kind of immovable object), would the Toa start sliding away from it in the opposite direction? Or would nothing happen?Did Greg ever say anything about whether or not Psionics Toa could fly or levitate?

I really think a Toa of Psionics should be able to fly, since using Telekinesis to fly/hover is a common thing in fiction, and I don't see why they couldn't do it if Toa of Gravity and Magnetism can do so with their respective elements. Couldn't they use telekinesis to "push" the ground beneath them, allowing them to lift up in the air?

Wait, who's Tren Krom? I don't read the books.Basically he's this tentacled, fleshy organic monster made of red gelatin that looks so disgusting, any lesser being who looks upon him goes insane.And then one day, he exploded into a million pieces. Right out of an X-rated film.I just thought of another thing that I found kinda disturbing. Remember when Toa Ignika devolved Icarax back to a biomechanical being, and he was pained because his internal organs weren't meant to be contained within his armor? Yeah, that didn't paint a pretty picture in my mind. >_<

Me: Greg: It appears he meant that he doesn't have the same system as a Toa on a large scale. Also, I don't think he realized that Mata Nui could completely manipulate the heat, light, gravity, etc. in his body to the point where he could directly affect the inhabitants of the robot, which is something that a normal organism couldn't do.

So basically it all comes down to whether or not it comes from EE (that the GBs established), how much control that person has over it, and whether or not it comes as a natural ability or a 'Protodermic' power.This makes sense, but I see some problems with it. For one, we have elemental beings such as the Avohkah and the Sonic Entity that don't seem to necessarily have anything to do with EE or Protodermis for that matter (they're just simply living entities somehow made entirely out of electricity and sound), yet they are considered by BS01 to have elemental powers.Also, Greg has stated that Mata Nui didn't have elemental Gravity powers as a robot (even though they would undoubtedly have to do with EE and the abilities of Protodermis) due to the fact that Mata Nui was purely mechanical. However, this conflicts with the idea that the Bohrok have elemental powers, since they are also purely mechanical machines (despite being transformed from biomechanical Matoran).

When BS01 says that Axonn and Brutaka have the power to create blasts of "pure energy," does that mean they have Light powers? Maybe it doesn't count as actual elemental Light, but the comics show Axonn shooting what appears to be light out of his axe, and light is energy.What exactly is the difference between "elemental" and "non-elemental" anyway? How do we know whether or not a person (besides a Toa) has actual "elemental" powers? For example, Ehlek and the Lightning Bugs are considered to have "non-elemental" Lightning powers, but the Bohrok are considered to have elemental powers even though they are very limited.

So was it ever confirmed whether or not there are Skakdi of other elements? I think it would be pretty cool to see a Skakdi of Gravity or Magnetism walking around.Though I guess it would be kind of a problem considering that they don't seem to adhere to secondary colors, so you wouldn't be able to tell a Water Skakdi from a Lightning Skakdi, or a Plant Life Skakdi from an Air Skakdi.

Toa of Magnetism can fly, while Toa of Iron can't.

But they weren't digging big tunnels to the center of the planet, they were just draining it from a spring of EP that forced its way to the surface, weren't they? (Maybe I'm wrong, I never got a chance to read any of the stories that described it in detail.) Besides, the actual damage to the planet itself was caused by just the fact that the EP was spreading throughout the planet, according to the BS01 Shattering page: It was the draining that triggered the explosion, but what I don't get is how draining a liquid from a spring would cause a chain reaction that would trigger such a massive explosion.What was a sentient liquid capable of destroying a planet doing in the center of one, anyway?

I never understood why draining the EP from the core = the shattering.