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The only wierd part though, is Tuma is the elite of the elite, and he has lime green too

Yeah, so back to proto-toa. Looking at Shadow stealer's biography again, it says he was a hero long before Toa were created. So the Hand was a thing before Toa formed teams, but i don't think it was necessarily a thing before Toa themselves. But Shadow stealer was for sure a hero before Toa exitsed, and he has some tie to elemental power since he can travel through shadows. I'm liking the thought of him as a potential proto-toa more now.

Exactly, I just meant that it sounds too coincidental that 6 random skakdi all underwent extra mutation and all coincentally ended up on the same team. Plus I don't think Nektann would be the type to cozy up to the Brotherhood of Makuta...you know, until they were the universe, so where did his powers come from? So I feel like all skakdi just auto have access to a third (seemingly random) ability.

The only questionable part about that to me is that all the piraka have a unique power aside from elemental and vision powers. I mean vezok can still powers, reidak can't be beat the same way twice, even zaktan had something special since ignoring the prottite thing caused by the shadowed one blasting husband molecules apart, he somehow had the ability to survive the blast (something no one ever did). It sounds weird to me that all of them (not knowing each other at all) indepentally all underwent extra training/altering.

HOW DARE YOU! https://goo.gl/images/Lh4Ly9Does that look like the face of a liar? Back to my headcanon that skakdi were protoypes for Toa, I feel like regardless of how talented spiriah may have been, I don't think you can systematically give an entire race power if they didn't have the potential for it already (I feel like that's harder than say creating a new species). Even if it's just the vision based powers and elements (so not counting extra stuff), I feel like they had some potential. Similarly, I have the headcanon that Velika (who is probably the current smartest being in the MU) was likely an average or below average great being. (How else would no GB notice him disappear coincidentally at the same time as the GSR came to be?) Since I don't think he's that smart, I find it hard to believe he invented the device used to disrupt Toa energy at the end of the storyline...I feel like he just remembered or adapted something some other GB used. Again, totally headcanon, but I like to think that skakdi were proto-toa, it didn't work out, GB sealed their powers, and spiriah (believing he gave them power) just turned the switch back on.

Everything about the stars sets was a a bit noncanon and weird...but were there really that many? We have no idea how large the entire skrall army was to begin with. I don't think it was an absurd amount, definitely less than the amount of rahkshi there were.

Rank would be my guess too...only weird part, is where does that leave the rank of stars Skrall? Where they the highest rank under Tuma himself because of the green, or does lime green represent both the lowest and highest? I'd like to think the stars Skrall were Tuma's best of the best going in for vengeance.

Wow! That's so cool! Loving the mask and staff especially!

I guess I'm too new here for this...good luck everybody! I can't wait to see all the awesome things people come up with!

I don't think there would have been. As people said, they seemed based on the glatorian and element lords. I've always suspected though that maybe the skakdi were failed toa. They don't seem to provide any function to Mata nui (unlike other things), and they're similar in strength to Toa, and are capable of using element powers (albeit only together). I think the element use of skakdi may have been meant as the great beings stressing the unity aspect. Maybe they were too violent though and abandoned for current model of Toa. No supporting evidence, but just always something I thought was so crazy and out there, it could be true. Canonically though, I think it's implied that helyrx is the prototype Toa. I don't think Toa Mata qualify, since weren't they created by Artakha (not the great beings much later? Edit: Nevermind, I forgot that it was implied that Makuta Spiriah gave them their powers. It never specified what powers however, so I still think it might be interesting if he only gave them secondary powers such as avak's cage ability, or vision powers. They may have had element powers all along, or maybe the great beings sealed their toa powers and spiriah just unlocked them

Maybe he could transfer his mind into other machines, kind of like how makuta could possess others. The GB could have "left" Velikas body long enough to undergo Toa transformation, then returned.

I think a continuation is interesting just because it grants G2 more validity. I never heard any of these fan theories, but I love that thought of the gold skinned being creating the G2 universe!