Frost Beetle

The Frost Beetle was a large, beetle-like 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. of Ko-MetruKo-MetruKo-Metru was Metru Nui's frozen intellectual quarter, home to the scholarly Ko-Matoran race. on Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive.. Heavily armored and equipped with razor-sharp claws, it was more than capable of driving away smaller 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., but it spent most of its time attempting to break into the Knowledge TowersThe Knowledge TowersThe crystalline scholar-towers of Ko-Metru, where Ko-Matoran seers used knowledge crystals to record observation and prediction for the city of Metru Nui. of the district to consume the Memory Crystals that grew within them.

Habits and habitat#

Frost Beetles were heavily armored insectoid 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. with razor-sharp claws that they used to defend themselves from predators. They were strong enough that they could easily have driven away other, smaller Rahi and claimed most of Ko-MetruKo-MetruKo-Metru was Metru Nui's frozen intellectual quarter, home to the scholarly Ko-Matoran race. for themselves. Instead, they spent most of their time trying to force their way into the Knowledge TowersThe Knowledge TowersThe crystalline scholar-towers of Ko-Metru, where Ko-Matoran seers used knowledge crystals to record observation and prediction for the city of Metru Nui. of the district in order to consume the Memory Crystals stored there, the same crystals from which new Knowledge Towers grew.

The beetles were never seen on the island of Mata NuiMata Nui: Great Spirit of the Matoran UniverseBuilt by the Great Beings as a biomechanical guardian, betrayed by Teridax, and returned in a smaller form to reshape Spherus Magna., and it is not known whether they migrated to Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. along with the other surviving Rahi species after the end of the Matoran Universe.

The hive-mind theory#

MatoroMatoroA quiet Ko-Matoran translator who became a Toa Inika and then a Toa Mahri, Matoro gave his life with the Mask of Life to restore Mata Nui. once put forward a theory to account for the beetles' fixation on the Memory Crystals. He suggested that they actually absorbed knowledge from the crystals they consumed and shared it among themselves through a sort of hive-mind, so that the intelligence of the entire species increased with what any one of them ate. The idea was regarded as far-fetched, but it would have explained the beetles' otherwise puzzling behavior.

The species was also known to the Brotherhood by reputation. MutranMutranMutran is a Makuta of the Brotherhood of Makuta who serves as the Makuta of Voya Nui and is among the most prolific Rahi creators within the organization. Hailing from the Southern Islands, he wears the Great Shelek and commands the powers of Shadow and Silence alongside the full range of Kraata abilities, wielding a Shadow Blade, Shadow Spear, and Tridax Pod in combat. once threatened to turn VamprahVamprahVamprah hunted in absolute silence, but silence wasn't enough when Tahu outmaneuvered him in the swamp. into a Frost Beetle.