The Drill Hammer

The Drill Hammer, or blasting crystal drill hammer, is the weapon 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. 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. in the 2016 wave of the rebooted BIONICLE line, set on the island of OkotoOkotoOkoto is a world whose known inhabitants include the Toa, the Mask makers, and the Protectors.. It is part drill and part hammer, with a crystal shooter built into it, and it replaced the Earthquake HammerThe Earthquake HammerOnua's weapon in the 2015 reboot, a hammer that splits into two Turbo Shovelers, which Ekimu borrowed to beat Kulta beneath the city of the Skull Raiders. he carried as Master of Earth in 2015. (Onua: Uniter of Earth)

Origins#

The 2016 Toa arrived with new masks, armour and weapons for their Uniter forms, and Onua's was the drill hammer. The sets themselves don't tell the story of how the tool was made. (Onua: Uniter of Earth)

Construction and function#

The weapon pairs a heavy hammer head with a drill, and a crystal shooter is built into it. (Onua: Uniter of Earth)

Position in the Uniter loadout#

Each 2016 Toa was paired with an Elemental Creature. Onua's was Terak, Creature of Earth, released as a separate set the same year. (Terak: Creature of Earth)

Replacement of the Earthquake Hammer#

Onua's 2015 weapon, the Earthquake Hammer, split into two Turbo Shovelers for digging. The drill hammer folds both jobs, smashing and boring, into a single tool. (Onua: Master of Earth; Onua: Uniter of Earth)

Recorded service#

The drill hammer belongs to the 2016 part of the reboot, after the Toa's 2015 campaign against Kulta and the Skull Raiders. (Onua: Uniter of Earth)

Significance within the Uniter armament set#

Like the other 2016 Toa weapons, it marked the move from the Masters of 2015 to the Uniters of 2016. For Onua, that meant trading a hammer that came apart into shovels for one that drills and shoots. (Onua: Master of Earth; Onua: Uniter of Earth)