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It's written this way (without the new paragraph/line) in the original text (page 56 of Swamp of Secrets), and you only need to add a paragraph break for speech if the speaker is changing. This is the first speech in that paragraph, so no break is required.

Some stuff happened, but not a lot. There were a few story serials that took place after the reformation of the planet, but they were never finished. You can read them (and the rest of the Bionicle story) here (the stuff you're asking about is all in "Book 10: Epilogue"). If you're just looking for an overview of what happened, BS01 has a helpful timeline.

Sorry, there currently isn't any kind of eBook version of this project, but it's on my to-do list. I'm waiting until I've gotten through all the feedback I've received and proofread everything myself (I'd like to get any needed changes done first, so that I don't have to make them in both the PDFs and the eBook files). If you'd like to know when it's available, you can follow this topic for updates. I can't promise it'll be any time soon, though, unfortunately.

I've heard of people breaking them, but I've been separating and reattaching Mata eyes/heads for years and have never seen any damage or breakage. I know different people have different techniques; I assume some are more harmful than others.

Okay, I've now updated Book 2. I did the text edit that Planetperson described, removing "It was a Kanohi mask – Lewa’s mask, lying on the ground abandoned. He bent to pick it up, not liking what this might mean" entirely, and moving all of the Chapter 11 text after that line to the beginning of the next chunk of text. Per Toatapio's suggestion, I also changed the first "he" in the first sentence of the relocated text to "Onua" (I also changed the first usage of "Onua" in the next sentence to "he"). This makes the text more readable as the beginning of a chapter. I also moved the split between Chapters 11 and 12 to after the comic section with Tahu and Kopaka (previously Chapter 12 began with that comic section). This evens out the chapter lengths, and has the added bonus of making the line "Kopaka's discovery will have to wait for the next chapter" actually true, as the reveal of his discovery is now in the immediately following chapter. Also, Toatapio, I'm actually really glad that you were consulting the Text-only version of Book 2 instead of the comic version, as you inadvertently pointed out an inconsistency between them that I accidentally left ages ago: I moved the WoH entry "New Invention Saves Onu-Koro" to an earlier location (between chapters 6 and 7) way back, but apparently forgot to ever make the change in the text-only version. I've now moved it in the text-only version to match. One last thing: added a missing end quote at the end of the last line of Chapter 6.

Oh, I see now - apologies, I misunderstood Planetperson's suggestion. I misread that saying to omit "Suddenly Onua stopped, seeing something glinting golden in the sunlight," rather than cut off the text after that point - meaning that the implication would be that he had already found the mask before the events of this chapter. That's what I get for reading these things when I haven't fully woken up yet Now that I understand, I like that suggestion a lot, actually. Let me make sure I we're on the same page, though - the idea is that the rest of the text from chapter 11 would be moved to the first non-comic page of chapter 12, right? You're both using chapter numbers that don't seem correct to me, so maybe I'm still misunderstanding something. EDIT: Also, Toatapio - New Invention Saves Onu-Koro is way back between chapters 6 and 7. Did you mean a different WoH entry?

I feel like this still makes Onua out to be a bit of a liar when he says "I took it away from a part of Lehvak Va." If it were Lewa or Tahu I could chalk it up to them purposely exaggerating, but that doesn't seem in character for Onua. Even though I kind of like the detail of the Lehvak Va carrying masks away, it brings up the question of what exactly they were doing with the masks of all the Matoran they captured. Presumably, they'd either carry all the Kanohi away to throw into a pool of acid, or they'd just leave them where they dropped. If all of the Le-Koronans must find their masks again, it makes more sense to me that the Bohrok would just leave them where they are - in the dirt. I feel like this is the better option but perhaps "I found it near a puddle of Lehvak acid." would be better again? I mean, if it's in a puddle of Lehvak acid, wouldn't it have melted? (And if Kanohi masks don't melt from acid, then are the Lehvak as threatening to the Toa as they're said to be?) Both good points. Honestly, it might be best to omit the mention of acid entirely and just say "I found it abandoned outside Le-Koro." I definitely prefer removing conflicts via omission as well. The problem here is that it would feel weird if the text described Onua simply being worried because he hadn't seen Lewa for a while (with no mention of finding Lewa's mask), and then him pulling out the mask later and saying it was how he knew Lewa was in trouble. Omitting "He hadn't admitted it to the others, but Onua was truly worried about the Air Toa. Lewa had been gone a long time – Onua was starting to wonder if it hadn’t been foolish to separate in the first place" might help, as it makes the urgency and reason for Onua's search a bit more vague (making the revelation that he has Lewa's mask feel less jarring) - what do you think? EDIT: I am dumb. See my next post.

Okay, firstly: new updates! Someone PM'd me some issues they found, and I've fixed them: Book 4: And you should hear Nokama translating Kikanalo. (missing end quotation mark) Vakama knelt over the dying Turaga, saying. “That was meant for me.” (extra period) immedietly moved to challenge it, but (misspelling) The next morning, Whenua returned to find the Archives under lock down (unnecessary space in lockdown) Book 5: Nuiu (should be Nuju) grief stricken over the change (missing hyphen in grief-stricken) Book 6: Rahkshi, huh?” said Reidak (missing quotation mark) Missing I in “I thought saw someone in the trees.” on comic page Book 8: arrived - yet another Toa, though the others (extra space before others) who found the Rahi he sought. Spotting it (extra space after Spotting) confess--I felt nothing. They had brought this upon themselves. (dash is wrong) Although Ignika could not die (extra space after Ignika) Book 9: Thormax (misspelling of Thornax on first page of Secret of Certavus, only in Complete versions of Book 9 and full collection) “All journey’s must come to an end, but this time (unnecessary apostrophe) I'm happy to provide more details on these fixes if anyone wants/needs them. Second, an update on those contest-winning fan-written stories: I read through all of them, made notes of any conflicts with existing canon, and then made a post over on the TTV boards asking Greg if he could make a final decision on which ones (if any) are considered canon (since he can now communicate with the fan community again). I'll let everybody know when/if he responds. Third: Oh dang, thanks for pointing that out. It's tricky to deal with, but I have two ideas for how to do so: 1) Add the sentence "In the brush beyond, he could see a small troop of Lehvak Va departing, seemingly having left the mask behind" (or something similar) between "It was a Kanohi mask – Lewa’s mask, lying on the ground." and "He bent to pick it up, not liking what this might mean." This is more of my own writing than I'd like, but it allows for both the book and the comic to technically be true. 2) Change Onua's line in the comic from "I took it away from a party of Lehvak Va" to "I found it in a puddle of Lehvak acid." Editing comic text can get messy, but I've done it several times before, and this option uses less of my own writing - it's just changing the comic to say what the book says. I'd really appreciate hearing people's opinions on which option I should take (or if they have any better ideas)! I'd like to have this fixed ASAP.

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Hey, I'm interested in trying out for Onua and/or Makuta. I've sent you a PM.

ArchAngelleofJustice: I am super thankful for all your help with those un-canonized fan stories. I've now read through all of them, and am deciding what to do with them. Thanks, those should now be fixed!

This is just a guess, but the word "ship" in Maori could have connotations of exploration or travel, which would fit Takua well.

Update time! I finished my write-up of the My Lego Network Bionicle campaign (with a lot of help from the one on BS01), and there is now a Complete version of Book 9 that contains it! It's also been added to the Complete version of the full collection. I haven't had a chance to look at those fan stories yet, but it's next on my list. I really appreciate that people are pointing out potential canon conflicts in them for me - saves me a lot of trouble down the line! I'm considering the idea of releasing the Word doc versions (only once everything is essentially final), but I'm not sure yet. I'm also considering a few other options to make sure people get exactly what they want, though (one idea is a poll to determine the final Book names, and then different versions with the most popular choices).

Thanks, everyone. Looks like I'll have to make do with what I've got. Yeah, I've been using that as my main source. Some of the text is modified slightly from the original game, though, so I'd like to have as much of the original thing as possible to reference.

There seems to be very little info on it online (it doesn't even seem to be mentioned on BS01), but there is a listing for it on Bricklink with a photo.

Is there a video somewhere of a complete playthrough of the My Lego Network Bionicle campaign? I've found a couple incomplete walkthroughs, but nothing that shows the entire thing.

I think it's worth noting that the soundtracks were released under Nathan Furst's name - I would imagine Lego had very little input in the decision to release them, besides giving Furst the permission to doBu But they did show they still care for releasing the soundtracks, I don't know how this types of business works, but I assume Lego did play a major role on the decision of finally releasing the official soundtracks, I think a "no" would've affected their release to the point where they simply wouldn't be released. I understand what you are saying though, I guess we could only hope this is a good sign that is hinting to something better (that being the themes return in the coming years). I'm pretty sure it doesn't work like that. Nathan Furst owns the copyright to all his music (through his record label, Rising Phoenix Records), so I don't think Lego actually has a say in whether he sells it or not.

If it does come back, I personally doubt it will be that soon. Lego waited 5 years to bring Bionicle back the first time, and I think they felt better about the prospects of a Bionicle reboot back then than they likely do now (due to the relative success of G2 vs. G1). I think a Bionicle G3 won't come around until/unless constraction themes can prove successful again. Currently Star Wars Buildable Figures are the only constraction sets being released, and even with the Star Wars license attached to them, I get the impression that they don't sell particularly high numbers and might be winding down.

It's interesting to me that you would go to Balta before Lewa Nuva when referencing those swords.

A Glatorian with elemental powers is not the same thing as a Toa - they're still physically pretty different (85% organic as opposed to the 85% mechanical Toa, for starters), and can't use Kanohi. I'm sure that many Toa teams would gladly accept an experienced Glatorian as a team member, though. I don't think a Glatorian could ever be turned into a Toa, at least not without the use of some kind of transformation/mutation powers. They're simply too different, even if the Toa were based on Glatorian.

Great to see an update on this! I was worried that you weren't working on it anymore. It's amazing to have the original books preserved exactly as they were. Ha, yeah, I forgot this was where I first revealed that I was working on it. Toatapio Nuva actually PM'd me after seeing my posts here, letting me know that he already had Word doc versions of all the chapter books and offering to let me use them. If I hadn't made those posts here, he and I likely wouldn't have become acquainted, and who knows how much longer Biological Chronicle would've taken!

I'm not sure, but it's possible the issue is your login username being different from your display name (they're actually separate things on BZP - the username I sign in with is not TuragaNuva). Any idea if you might have set your username to something other than your display name? Alternatively, of course, you can use the email address associated with your account to reset your password instead of using your username, but I'm guessing it's been long enough that you're not sure what email you used. If you can't find/remember either your username or email for your account, I'm not sure what you can do. A staff member might be able to help you out, but I don't know how they would be able to verify that the account is yours.

It's worse. The whole storyline (2004 and 2005 excluded) actually takes up less than two years (one year for 2001-2003 and the other for everything else)... solving every problem that accumulated itself over 100 000 years in that short a time... another thing on which you shouldn't even get me started.Well, technically, everything 2001-2008 plus 2010 (as well as some aspects of 2009, like Reign of Shadows and Mata Nui’s presence on Bara Magna) is Teridax’s fault, so his death would solve a lot of problems. As far as I know, someone once asked Greg how much time had passed since the Toa first awoke on Mata Nui, and he said one year, and later said not much time had passed between that time and the Reformation of Spherus Magna, so all of 2001-2003 and 2006-2011 spanned only one year. According to the final issue of the Ignition comics, at the time Mata Nui awakened it had been one year since the Toa Mata arrived on the island of Mata Nui. Also, I'm curious what you're trying to accomplish with this project that isn't already taken care of by Biosector01's timeline.