The Drill Hammer

The Drill Hammer was the Toa ToolToa ToolsToa Tools were the implements every Toa carried as channels for elemental power and as physical fighting gear, with each tool specific to a wielder's element and form. carried by OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer., Uniter of EarthOnua, Uniter of EarthOnua's second-stage form on Okoto, the Uniter of Earth, equipped with the Drill Hammer and the Unity Mask of Earth, paired with Terak the Creature of Earth for the campaign that hunted the Mask of Control., during the second-age campaign on OkotoOkotoOkoto is a world whose known inhabitants include the Toa, the Mask makers, and the Protectors.. It was a single weapon in the form of a drill-ended hammer, powered by the element of Earth and forged by EkimuEkimu the Mask MakerEkimu was the legendary Mask Maker of Okoto, brother of Makuta, and bearer of the Mask of Creation who struck down his brother's tyranny at the cost of his own consciousness. the Mask Maker for the new role OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. assumed when his transformation from Master to Uniter required a corresponding change in armament. The Drill Hammer replaced the Earthquake HammerThe Earthquake HammerOnua's signature weapon on Okoto, a hammer that doubled as paired Turbo Shovelers and was lent to Ekimu for the final duel against Skull Grinder beneath the city of the Skull Raiders. and the paired Turbo Shovelers that had defined the Master-phase loadout and integrated the digging and percussive functions of the earlier kit into a single drill-and-hammer head.

Forging by Ekimu#

The Drill Hammer was forged by EkimuEkimu the Mask MakerEkimu was the legendary Mask Maker of Okoto, brother of Makuta, and bearer of the Mask of Creation who struck down his brother's tyranny at the cost of his own consciousness. the Mask Maker, the OkotoOkotoOkoto is a world whose known inhabitants include the Toa, the Mask makers, and the Protectors.an figure whose workshop and forge had produced the Golden Masks of Power that the original ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm. had carried and the Hammer of PowerHammer of PowerThe Hammer of Power is a weapon wielded by Ekimu, capable of creating as well as melee and ranged combat. In its powered-up form, the hammer manifests as light, its colors intact. that EkimuEkimu the Mask MakerEkimu was the legendary Mask Maker of Okoto, brother of Makuta, and bearer of the Mask of Creation who struck down his brother's tyranny at the cost of his own consciousness. himself wielded. EkimuEkimu the Mask MakerEkimu was the legendary Mask Maker of Okoto, brother of Makuta, and bearer of the Mask of Creation who struck down his brother's tyranny at the cost of his own consciousness. had been awakened from his sealed sleep beneath the Temple of TimeThe Temple of TimeThe Protectors' most sacred site on Okoto, built to house the Mask of Time and the place at which Ekimu received the vision that prepared the island for the coming of the Toa. during the first-age campaign and had fought alongside the six Master-phase ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm. in the engagement that defeated KultaSkull GrinderThe title borne by Kulta after his alliance with Makuta, marking his role as the wielder of the Mask Stealer Staff, the mask-burner at the Mask Makers' forge, and the first foe to defeat the Toa in single combat on Okoto. and trapped the Skull RaidersSkull RaidersThe ancient pirate band that plagued Okoto before the Mask Makers, was driven into the mountains, allied itself with Makuta, was trapped beneath the island by the cataclysm at Capital City, and dug its way back as the Skull Creatures under Kulta. beneath their collapsed city. With the Master-phase campaign closed, the Mask Maker remained on the island and turned his forge to the production of the new generation of Toa ToolsToa ToolsToa Tools were the implements every Toa carried as channels for elemental power and as physical fighting gear, with each tool specific to a wielder's element and form. that the Uniter transition required.

The Drill Hammer was one of the products of that work. It was forged specifically for OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer., the Master of Earth whose original armament had been the Earthquake HammerThe Earthquake HammerOnua's signature weapon on Okoto, a hammer that doubled as paired Turbo Shovelers and was lent to Ekimu for the final duel against Skull Grinder beneath the city of the Skull Raiders. and the paired Turbo Shovelers, and was sized and balanced for the same ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm.'s frame. The weapon's combination of a hammer head with a drill end reflected the dual nature of OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer.'s previous loadout, which had separated the percussive and boring functions into two distinct configurations of the same tool. The Drill Hammer collapsed the dual configuration into a single integrated head and removed the need for OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. to reconfigure his equipment between the two functions in the field.

Construction and function#

The Drill Hammer was built around a single shaft with a working head that combined a heavy hammer face on one side with a rotating drill bit on the other. The hammer face delivered the percussive strike that the Earthquake HammerThe Earthquake HammerOnua's signature weapon on Okoto, a hammer that doubled as paired Turbo Shovelers and was lent to Ekimu for the final duel against Skull Grinder beneath the city of the Skull Raiders. of the Master phase had been built around, the same crack-the-ground-beneath-an-opponent operating principle that had defined OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer.'s combat profile. The drill end supplied the boring function that the paired Turbo Shovelers had previously handled, allowing OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. to drive a tunnel through earth or stone without having to break his weapon down into a separate digging configuration.

The weapon was powered by the element of Earth, the same element OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. had channelled through the Earthquake HammerThe Earthquake HammerOnua's signature weapon on Okoto, a hammer that doubled as paired Turbo Shovelers and was lent to Ekimu for the final duel against Skull Grinder beneath the city of the Skull Raiders. in the previous phase of his service. The elemental power supplied through the Drill Hammer enhanced both the percussive strike and the boring function, and the same control over earth and the ability to create earthquakes that OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. had exercised through the Earthquake HammerThe Earthquake HammerOnua's signature weapon on Okoto, a hammer that doubled as paired Turbo Shovelers and was lent to Ekimu for the final duel against Skull Grinder beneath the city of the Skull Raiders. was available through the new armament in a more concentrated form. The drill bit, driven by the elemental output, cut through earth and stone at a rate that no manually-operated tool could match.

The integrated head also addressed a working limitation of the earlier loadout. OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. had occasionally found himself in situations in the Master-phase campaign in which he needed both the hammer's seismic strike and the Shovelers' digging capability in rapid succession, and the conversion between the two configurations had required a moment of hands-on reassembly that was tolerable in the controlled engagements of the surface campaign but inconvenient in the running encounters that the Uniter phase introduced. The Drill Hammer's single head removed the conversion step entirely.

Position in the Uniter loadout#

The Drill Hammer was the standing armament OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. carried as Uniter of EarthOnua, Uniter of EarthOnua's second-stage form on Okoto, the Uniter of Earth, equipped with the Drill Hammer and the Unity Mask of Earth, paired with Terak the Creature of Earth for the campaign that hunted the Mask of Control., the role he assumed in the second-age campaign that followed the Master phase. The Uniter transition had altered the entire ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm. team in parallel ways: the six ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm. had received Unity Masks in place of their original Masks, the original Golden Masks of Power had been replaced by Golden Unity Masks, and each ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm. had been paired with one of the new Elemental CreaturesThe Elemental Creatures of OkotoThe six elemental animals of Okoto, partnered with the Toa to recover the Mask of Control, joined by Agil the Creature of Light as Ekimu's seventh. that the Uniter system had introduced. The new tools that EkimuEkimu the Mask MakerEkimu was the legendary Mask Maker of Okoto, brother of Makuta, and bearer of the Mask of Creation who struck down his brother's tyranny at the cost of his own consciousness. forged for the six ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm. accompanied the same transition.

OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer.'s pairing with the Elemental CreatureThe Elemental Creatures of OkotoThe six elemental animals of Okoto, partnered with the Toa to recover the Mask of Control, joined by Agil the Creature of Light as Ekimu's seventh. of Earth, the Creature called TerakTerakTerak is an Elemental Creature of Earth native to Okoto, bearing a distinctive violet, black, and gold coloration. Armed with claws, Terak is devoted to protecting the Region of Earth and to aiding the Toa in their mission., supplied the supporting capability that the Drill Hammer alone did not provide. The Uniter system allowed each ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm. to combine with the CreatureThe Elemental Creatures of OkotoThe six elemental animals of Okoto, partnered with the Toa to recover the Mask of Control, joined by Agil the Creature of Light as Ekimu's seventh. of his element for enhanced elemental output and a unified physical form, and the Drill Hammer remained the operating tool of OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. in both the unfused and combined states. The combination of a Uniter-tier elemental capability, an integrated digging-and-impact weapon, and the supporting CreatureThe Elemental Creatures of OkotoThe six elemental animals of Okoto, partnered with the Toa to recover the Mask of Control, joined by Agil the Creature of Light as Ekimu's seventh. gave OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. a working loadout that addressed the larger-scale operations the Uniter phase introduced.

The Unity Mask of Earth that OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. wore in the Uniter phase, and the Golden Unity Mask of Earth that he wore in the powered-up form, supplied the mask-power dimension of the loadout. The Drill Hammer operated as the physical instrument through which the elemental output was channelled into combat use, in the same working pattern that the Earthquake HammerThe Earthquake HammerOnua's signature weapon on Okoto, a hammer that doubled as paired Turbo Shovelers and was lent to Ekimu for the final duel against Skull Grinder beneath the city of the Skull Raiders. had occupied in the Master phase.

Replacement of the Earthquake Hammer#

The most direct relationship the Drill Hammer had with any other recorded armament was its replacement of the Earthquake HammerThe Earthquake HammerOnua's signature weapon on Okoto, a hammer that doubled as paired Turbo Shovelers and was lent to Ekimu for the final duel against Skull Grinder beneath the city of the Skull Raiders.. The transition was not a transformation of the same tool in the manner of the Energized Ice SwordThe Energized Ice SwordThe single electrical Ice blade carried by Toa Inika Matoro through the Voya Nui campaign, reshaped into the Twin Cutters when the Inika became Toa Mahri in the waters of the Pit.'s conversion into the Twin CuttersThe Twin CuttersThe paired ice blades carried by Toa Mahri Matoro, transformed from his Energized Ice Sword of the Toa Inika era and consumed by the Kanohi Ignika at the moment Matoro gave his life to resurrect the Great Spirit.; the Master-phase weapon was set aside and a new weapon was forged in its place. OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer.'s original Earthquake HammerThe Earthquake HammerOnua's signature weapon on Okoto, a hammer that doubled as paired Turbo Shovelers and was lent to Ekimu for the final duel against Skull Grinder beneath the city of the Skull Raiders. belonged to the second age in its Master register, the period in which OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. had been a Master rather than a Uniter, and the conclusion of the Master-phase campaign and the transition to the Uniter system marked the end of that armament's standing service.

The functional inheritance the Drill Hammer received from the Earthquake HammerThe Earthquake HammerOnua's signature weapon on Okoto, a hammer that doubled as paired Turbo Shovelers and was lent to Ekimu for the final duel against Skull Grinder beneath the city of the Skull Raiders. was nevertheless substantial. Both weapons were Earth-elemental hammers carried by the same wielder. Both were primarily two-handed strikers built around the principle that a heavy percussive head and the elemental output of a ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm. of Earth could combine to produce effects that neither component alone would have produced. Both could be brought down into the ground to crack the surface beneath an opponent. The Drill Hammer extended the inheritance with the integrated drill end, but the core combat profile of an Earth-elemental hammer remained continuous between the two armaments.

Recorded service#

The Drill Hammer's recorded service covered the engagements of the Uniter-phase campaign that followed the defeat of KultaSkull GrinderThe title borne by Kulta after his alliance with Makuta, marking his role as the wielder of the Mask Stealer Staff, the mask-burner at the Mask Makers' forge, and the first foe to defeat the Toa in single combat on Okoto. and the Skull RaidersSkull RaidersThe ancient pirate band that plagued Okoto before the Mask Makers, was driven into the mountains, allied itself with Makuta, was trapped beneath the island by the cataclysm at Capital City, and dug its way back as the Skull Creatures under Kulta. and the closure of the Master-phase confrontation. The weapon was the standing armament OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. carried through the period in which the ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm. cooperated with their Elemental CreaturesThe Elemental Creatures of OkotoThe six elemental animals of Okoto, partnered with the Toa to recover the Mask of Control, joined by Agil the Creature of Light as Ekimu's seventh., confronted the renewed threat that the Uniter campaign addressed, and worked with EkimuEkimu the Mask MakerEkimu was the legendary Mask Maker of Okoto, brother of Makuta, and bearer of the Mask of Creation who struck down his brother's tyranny at the cost of his own consciousness. and the ProtectorsProtectorsThe six elders of Okoto's villages, each wielding elemental powers and guarding their regions before the Toa arrived. toward the resolution of the larger crisis OkotoOkotoOkoto is a world whose known inhabitants include the Toa, the Mask makers, and the Protectors. faced in the second age.

The Drill Hammer was listed in the OkotoOkotoOkoto is a world whose known inhabitants include the Toa, the Mask makers, and the Protectors.an record as the weapon that OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. carried during the Uniter phase, with the Earthquake HammerThe Earthquake HammerOnua's signature weapon on Okoto, a hammer that doubled as paired Turbo Shovelers and was lent to Ekimu for the final duel against Skull Grinder beneath the city of the Skull Raiders. and the paired Turbo Shovelers retained in the record as the armament of the preceding Master phase. The two configurations stood as the successive expressions of OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer.'s standing armament, with the Master-phase tools belonging to the earlier campaign and the Drill Hammer belonging to the later one.

Significance within the Uniter armament set#

The Drill Hammer was one of six new tools that EkimuEkimu the Mask MakerEkimu was the legendary Mask Maker of Okoto, brother of Makuta, and bearer of the Mask of Creation who struck down his brother's tyranny at the cost of his own consciousness. forged for the Uniter-phase ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm., each tool replacing the Master-phase armament of one of the six ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm. and each tied to the element of its wielder. The set as a whole reflected the Mask Maker's view that the Uniter campaign would demand a different working profile from its ToaThe Toa of Okoto: The Six Heroes Summoned to Save the IslandThe six elemental heroes summoned by the Protectors of Okoto, who recovered the Golden Masks, woke Ekimu, fought the Skull Army, and twice banished Makuta to the Shadow Realm. than the Master campaign had demanded, and that the new tools should integrate the multiple functions of the earlier loadouts into more consolidated instruments suited to the running operations that the Uniter phase introduced.

The Drill Hammer's place in that set was the Earth-elemental position, the consolidated hammer-and-drill instrument that combined OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer.'s previous percussive and boring functions into a single tool. The weapon's working principle remained the same one OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. had operated by since the first engagements at the shrine of the Golden Mask of EarthThe Golden Mask of EarthThe Golden Mask of Earth was the elemental Kanohi forged by Ekimu for Onua, Master of Earth, recovered from a shrine in the Region of Earth and stolen by Skull Basher on the approach to the Mask Makers' Forge. in the Region of EarthRegion of EarthThe western elemental region of Okoto, home of the Earth Tribe and the Protector Korgot, a country of treacherous ravines, obsidian fields, and underground tunnels, and the territory through which Onua hunted for the Golden Mask of Earth. at the start of the Master-phase campaign. The Drill Hammer simply collected the principle into a single working head and supplied OnuaOnua, Master of Earth: The Sage Toa of OkotoOnua of Okoto was the Master of Earth summoned by the Protectors, the quiet sage who separated Tahu and Kopaka at the Ancient City and felled the Lord of Skull Spiders with his Earthquake Hammer. with the integrated tool that the Uniter system's altered operating conditions called for.