Eccentric Rock

The Eccentric Rock was a weapon made on XiaXiaA hostile island southeast of Metru Nui, home to the Vortixx and their brutal mercenary culture. by the VortixxVortixxThe amoral weapons dealers of Xia who sold to anyone willing to pay., built from modified rock material to resemble an ordinary stone but with a hollow center filled with sticky ProtodermisProtodermisThe engineered substance building the Matoran Universe, protodermis exists in countless refined states from mundane metal to diamond-hard crystal to the destruction-or-transformation force of energized form.. When thrown at a target it burst open, splattering the sticky substance into a cage that trapped whatever it struck.

Function#

The Eccentric Rock was developed from modified rock material, shaped to look like an ordinary stone while concealing a hollow center filled with a sticky form of ProtodermisProtodermisThe engineered substance building the Matoran Universe, protodermis exists in countless refined states from mundane metal to diamond-hard crystal to the destruction-or-transformation force of energized form.. When fired or thrown at a target, the rock exploded, scattering the sticky Protodermis around the target and forming a cage that held it in place. The rocks were normally small, no larger than a fist, which limited the amount of Protodermis each could carry, so ArchivistsMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. often needed several at once to contain a large RahiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts.. The effect generally lasted about an hour before the cage dissolved, though the duration varied with how much Protodermis had been used. The weapon took its name from the strange, irregular shapes of the cages it produced.

Users and variants#

The MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. and VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. used the Eccentric Rock to trap RahiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts. before sealing them in Stasis TubesStasis TubePreservation devices that slowed life processes to near-stasis, widely used across the Matoran Universe for both archival storage and secure imprisonment., a practice carried on in the time before the Great CataclysmThe Great CataclysmThe day Makuta Teridax put the Great Spirit to sleep, the Great Spirit Robot fell from the sky, Metru Nui flooded, and Voya Nui tore loose from the Southern Continent.. A larger variant was developed at the request of the Brotherhood of MakutaThe Brotherhood of MakutaAn organization of Makuta created by Mata Nui to police his universe and build Rahi, later seized by Teridax and turned into the instrument of the Plan that overthrew the Great Spirit., the size of a boulder and meant to trap opponents in battle rather than to capture RahiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts.. This version was named the Eccentric Boulder, and because of its weight it was launched using catapults rather than thrown by hand.