Energy Siphon Blade

The Energy Siphon Blade, formally the Nihu-Motara Energy Siphon Blade, was a weapon capable of absorbing and using a being's life force. Forged on XiaXiaA hostile island southeast of Metru Nui, home to the Vortixx and their brutal mercenary culture., it drew raw strength from whatever it touched and channelled that stolen energy along its own edge, weakening its target while empowering itself.

Origin and testing#

Orders for the Nihu-Motara Energy Siphon Blade were placed shortly 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.. When TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. seized Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. by posing as Turaga DumeTuraga DumeThe Turaga of Metru Nui for sixteen thousand years, a former Toa of Fire who saved Lhikan's life and was abducted and impersonated by Teridax., he found a use for the ToaToa (2001)Biomechanical heroes bonded to elemental powers and masks. Not born, but chosen and transformed. defending the city. Most were sent to be killed by his hired Dark HuntersThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself., but two were turned to a different purpose: a Toa of Water and a Toa of Stone were shipped to XiaXiaA hostile island southeast of Metru Nui, home to the Vortixx and their brutal mercenary culture. to serve as test subjects for the new weapon. The blade was intended to absorb a being's life force, as a VorahkVorahkVorahk is a black and dark grey Rahkshi of the Kraata species, serving as a servant of Makuta within the Brotherhood of Makuta. Originating from Mangaia, Vorahk commands the power of Hunger and carries the Staff of Absorption. did, but to do more than that by channelling the absorbed energy over its sharpened edge.

Function#

The blade carried a series of prongs at its tip. When scraped against, stabbed into, or even firmly pressed against a being, those prongs absorbed its raw strength and energy at once, powering the sword while weakening the opponent. This made it a dangerous tool against ToaToa (2001)Biomechanical heroes bonded to elemental powers and masks. Not born, but chosen and transformed., SkakdiSkakdiA brutish warrior species from Zakaz whose pair-dependent elemental powers and moral void made them one of Bionicle's few irredeemable factions., and other powerful beings.

Three models were produced. Model B was built for Toa-sized beings, Model C for titan-sized beings, and Model D could change size through the use of Shrink and Enlarge KanokaKanoka DisksMetru Nui's most versatile artifact: flying disks equally at home in sport, combat, and crafting. to accommodate a MakutaMakuta (Species)Shadowy Antidermis beings and the Brotherhood's elite, Makuta commanded darkness and shaped the Matoran Universe's fate.'s shape-shifting; Model D was reserved to 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. alone. A Model A had been conceived for MatoranGa-MatoranThe Water-element Matoran of Ga-Metru and Ga-Koro, exclusively female, who taught the schools of Metru Nui and crewed the boats and bridges of the Mata Nui coast.-sized beings but was scrapped early as unprofitable.

Limits#

The weapon was not without disadvantages. Testing on the Toa of Water showed it highly effective against beings of low or average strength, but testing on the Toa of Stone showed that it could draw only so much from the stronger elements, with Stone, Earth, and Iron offering a greater resistance to its pull. It was assumed the blade could also draw on the life force of a MakutaMakuta (Species)Shadowy Antidermis beings and the Brotherhood's elite, Makuta commanded darkness and shaped the Matoran Universe's fate., but the BrotherhoodThe 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. forbade any test of that kind on pain of death.