Ga-Koro Town Square

The Ga-KoroGa-KoroGa-Koro is a village on the island of Mata Nui, inhabited by the Ga-Matoran and associated with both Nokama and Gali. The settlement was formerly under the power of Teridax. Town Square was the centre of Ga-KoroGa-KoroGa-Koro is a village on the island of Mata Nui, inhabited by the Ga-Matoran and associated with both Nokama and Gali. The settlement was formerly under the power of Teridax., the floating village the Ga-MatoranGa-MatoranThe Water-element Matoran of Ga-Metru and Ga-Koro, a female Matoran type, who filled the schools of Metru Nui and crewed the boats of the Mata Nui coast. built off the shore of Naho BayNaho BayThe body of water that made up most of Ga-Wahi, named for a fallen Toa of Water and home to the floating village of Ga-Koro on its surface. under Turaga NokamaNokamaNokama served as Toa Metru of Water, endured the Hordika mutation, and led Ga-Koro and later Ga-Metru as Turaga through three eras.. In the village as rebuilt after the Bohrok invasion, the square held a meeting area for the Matoran and a garden, and bridges and walkways ran from it to the rest of the village. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

Layout#

Ga-Koro was built on huge floating pads, its huts made from thick seaweed. After the Bohrok swarms were defeated, the village was rebuilt and greatly expanded around the Town Square, which held a meeting area for the Matoran and a garden. (Mata Nui Online Game; Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

The square connected the village's two ends. Suspended bridges ran from it to the flax-makers' homes and the East Garden on one side and to the shipyards on the other. One lily-pad walkway led to Turaga Nokama's hut, and another led the opposite way to the pad holding the kolhii field and the walkway to the shore. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

NokamaNokamaNokama served as Toa Metru of Water, endured the Hordika mutation, and led Ga-Koro and later Ga-Metru as Turaga through three eras.'s circle#

The second online game fills the rebuilt village with Ga-Matoran for Hahli to meet. Their names come from that game and aren't treated as official by the story team, though the characters themselves are part of the story. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

NiretaNiretaNireta is a light blue and blue Ga-Matoran of Water who has served as both a researcher on Metru Nui and a navigator on Mata Nui. She wears a Kakama and formerly carried a Kanoka Launcher, and currently resides on Spherus Magna. was Ga-Koro's navigator and map maker, and she gave Hahli a map of Ga-Koro for five widgets. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

MackuMackuMacku was a Ga-Matoran of Metru Nui and later Ga-Koro, attendant to Turaga Nokama, Kolhii partner to Hahli at the championship at Ta-Koro, and a member of the Chronicler's Company. was Nokama's right hand, a Ngalawa racer and the Ga-Matoran who escaped the Tarakava attack on the village and fetched Takua to help free the others. She later partnered Hahli on the kolhii team. (Mata Nui Online Game; Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

NixieNixieNixie was a Ga-Matoran Astronomer of Ga-Koro who tracked the Red Star, recorded prophecies, and supplied Takua with the Gnomon that opened the Onu-Wahi Sundial. was the village astrologer, who watched the red star through her telescope to see what the future might bring. She answered Hahli's questions about her work with riddles, and one of her formulas led Hahli to the Crystal of Purity at the Lost Reef. (Mata Nui Online Game; Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

Trade, craft and 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.#

OkothOkothOkoth is a Ga-Matoran of Water who resides on Spherus Magna. Formerly equipped with a Kanoka Launcher, he now carries no tools and works as a trader. He wears a Miru and is colored in shades of dark blue, blue, and light blue. was a trader who bartered and sold goods from her shop. While Nokama was away at the Turaga meeting and the village was closed off, with rough seas keeping other traders away, she had nothing to sell but air bladders at five widgets each. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

KotuKotuKotu was a Ga-Matoran of Water who resided on Spherus Magna. Blue and light blue in color, Kotu wore a powerless Rau and carried a Kolhii Stick, serving at various times as a Rahi Tender, an assistant to Nokama, an athlete, and a guard in the Defense Force. was a Rahi tender and Nokama's left hand, and a skilled kolhii player who had assumed Nokama would choose her for the tournament. When Hahli was picked instead, Kotu was surprised but helped her by building bamboo poles. During the Pahrak attack she had helped try to dismantle the causeway into the village. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle; Mata Nui Online Animations)

KailaniKailaniKailani is a light blue Ga-Matoran craftswoman who resides on Spherus Magna. She wears the Kanohi Ruru and is affiliated with the element of Water. was a craftswoman who made tools such as fishhooks, sickles, hatchets and kolhii sticks, relying on other Matoran to bring her the supplies she needed. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

All of them had come from Metru Nui in Matoran spheres and helped build Ga-Koro under Nokama, using parts of the airships that had carried them to the island. (BIONICLE: World)

The square in events#

Before the rebuilding, the village's centre was the scene of its worst crises. When a Tarakava attacked, Nokama and most of the Ga-Matoran barricaded themselves in a large hut, which the Rahi sank by wrecking its pump, until Takua repaired it and Gali defeated the Tarakava. (Mata Nui Online Game)

Near the end of the Bohrok invasion, the PahrakPahrakStone-aligned Bohrok swarm units that forced the Toa Mata to realize they couldn't win through isolated victories. broke into the village and cornered the Matoran and two Turaga. Nireta, Nixie, Okoth and Kailani were among those who made a last stand before the Toa MataWho are the Toa Mata?Six warriors built to order by Artakha, stored in canisters, dropped into the ocean. This is the origin story of Bionicle's heroes and why their first week of work was entirely amnesiac. defeated the BahragBahragCahdok and Gahdok were the twin queens of the Bohrok, sealed in a protodermis cage by the Toa Mata and later released to finish their cleansing of Mata Nui. and the swarms shut down. (Mata Nui Online Animations)

End and aftermath#

When the Matoran returned to Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive., Ga-Koro was left behind. The Ga-Matoran of the square helped repair the city, and when JallerJallerJaller served as Captain of the Ta-Koro Guard, led the Toa Inika to Voya Nui, and commanded the Toa Mahri through the recovery of the Mask of Life. called a halt to the work to make the Turaga say where the Toa Nuva had gone, they stopped too, before going back to work. (BIONICLE Legends 1: Island of Doom)