Well, this derailed quickly. Fine, I guess this wasn't popular. I put the line against arguing in because this was not intended to be a debate, it was intended to be a brainstorm for a new universe, hence the title. I'm not suggesting that we leave everything open, things can be explored but the point is that I wanted to keep everything more mystical. I didn't want everything to be explained (like why can't the red star be just that - a red star). If there is no explanation, that is pointless. If it has no mystery, it gets boring. Bionicle leaned more towards overexplanation, and I wished to tip the balance back towards the original, where things could be magical and not explained, where magic masks were magic masks, etc, etc. Hence me keeping it, if you read my post. Everyone calling Makuta Teridax "Makuta", the other Makuta never being mentioned, even people such as the Barraki (who fought the whole Brotherhood), the Shadowed One, Karzahni (the plant), etc, all calling him that, so on so on. If it was a species, it seemed no one knew of other members. Also, Makuta was constantly referred to as Mata Nui's evil brother, which given that Makuta became a species, seems kinda weird. Does that make the other Makuta Mata Nui's cousins? To all the people who said "Intelligent robots inhabiting a tropical island was a plot hole.": I totally get where you are coming from, but it's partially incorrect. Bionicle is the combination of biologic and mechanical elements to make beings. Therefore it makes just as little sense for semi-biological beings (albeit ones that look robotic) to be in Metru Nui, a place where every single thing is mechanical. Overall, they were semi-tribal biological robots with a hawaiian culture living with low tech levels on a tropical island. To all the people who said "I disagree with you rewriting the story and would rather keep it the same, because I liked the original story elements better.": Look, I understand this, but the point behind the thread was as stated: Create a new universe. You can stay in your old one, and that is fine by me. I just wanted to create a new one more in line with what I enjoyed, and if you do not wish to participate, you are under no obligation to. This is a radical new universe for people who wish it had been done differently, but there is no reason both universes cannot exist parallel to each other. Please, if you are going to post in this thread, please don't use this thread primarily to argue; this is for fun, not to start a debate.