Organic life on Aqua Magna

[Toa Doublebee]

While reading this topic, the matter of organic life on Mata-Nui came up.

 

Acording to BIOSector01, all the creatures on the island are not native to it, and we also know that there are no other natural land masses on Aqua Magna.

 

And giving a look at the creatures page, we see that most creatures found on Aqua Magna are well, aquatic.

But what about all the birds and the dragonflies? Where did they come from? Insects and birds need land and vegitation to survive, don't they?

[Clyce]

Yeah, that does make for an interesting point. I would assume it came from within the Mata Nui Robot itself. To a degree it would make sense because the Mata Nui robot was on it's return journey from visiting other world's when Makuta took over and the robot crashed. Makuta was also in charge of creating rahi and maybe some primitive and smaller creatures were kept/archived in order to study for rahi creation. In addition, all of the islands we've seen, with the exception of Mata Nui island itself, are within the actual Mata Nui robot, yet organic birds are seen on Metru Nui and some of the other internal islands. It's also possible that during the creation of the Mata Nui robot internal islands that eggs and smaller creatures existed on the internal vegetation. This is just mere speculation. There's not a lot to go off of here.

Edited September 11, 2016 by Azon

[Lyichir]

To be honest I was never particularly fond of "organic" lifeforms in Bionicle, mainly because they were often next to impossible to suitably MOC with actual Bionicle parts. However, in the case of the birds and dragonflies on this page, I can't even tell when in the story they appeared nor whether that appearance would actually make them indisputably canon (yet another instance when I'd appreciate if BS01 actually cited sources). The creatures gallery does have a picture of an "organic" bird, but from the picture alone I would say it could go either way, and for that matter I don't know which specific animation it appeared in or whether every detail of said animation should be considered canon at face value. And no telling where organic dragonflies supposedly appeared.

[Bfahome]

The creatures gallery does have a picture of an "organic" bird, but from the picture alone I would say it could go either way, and for that matter I don't know which specific animation it appeared in or whether every detail of said animation should be considered canon at face value.

They appear in this video of Onua's arrival:

 

When this animation was used in the opening for The Legend of Mata Nui, though, they were changed to more "biomechanical"-looking birds (@1:03):

 

So this specific kind of bird's canonicity is at least questionable.

[unknown456]

I can't find the exact quote, but I remember reading somewhere on BS01 (I think) that there were small sandbars scattered around Aqua Magna that allowed the birds and stuff to survive the 100,000 or so years between the Shattering and Mata Nui's impact on Aqua Magna. And I assume that the sandbars originally came from some obscure Greg quote from back in the day.

[The Hip Historian Iaredios]

I can't find the exact quote, but I remember reading somewhere on BS01 (I think) that there were small sandbars scattered around Aqua Magna that allowed the birds and stuff to survive the 100,000 or so years between the Shattering and Mata Nui's impact on Aqua Magna. And I assume that the sandbars originally came from some obscure Greg quote from back in the day.

I was thinking the same thing. Glad to know that it may actually be canon.

[Toa Doublebee]

I can't find the exact quote, but I remember reading somewhere on BS01 (I think) that there were small sandbars scattered around Aqua Magna that allowed the birds and stuff to survive the 100,000 or so years between the Shattering and Mata Nui's impact on Aqua Magna. And I assume that the sandbars originally came from some obscure Greg quote from back in the day.

 

I had to Google what a sandbar is   

Sounds pretty rough, living off sandbars for generations.

 

 

 And no telling where organic dragonflies supposedly appeared.

 

I seem to remember seeing dragonflies in some promotional still depicting one of the Toa in thier corresponding region surrounded by the regional wildlife, but I could't find it.

Maybe they are in a couple frames in MOL, as I seem to remember seahorses in a swimming scene with Gali. Its reasonable to assume dragonflies show up at some point.

[Logan McOwen]

I've yet to see anything of fully organic life on Aqua Magna. It wouldn't surprise me if something evolved in the oceans though.

Edited September 12, 2016 by Logan McOwen

[Rahkshi Lalonde]

Yeah this feels like one of those oversights more than anything, Bionicle had issues with the direction its story took and some things suffered for that, I do believe we were initially supposed to just label all animal life as "rahi" and not think so deep, then 2008 made it all confusing...

[SPIRIT]

Life uh... finds a way.

 

 

Or maybe there was algae or dead whales and stuff to live on, I mean it's a big planet and these are alien creatures.  Who's to say they can't live for thousands of years without land.

[Makaru]

mOVING TO S&T

 

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