Kraawa

The Kraawa was a large, long-necked, herbivorous 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. whose defining trait was absorbing any kinetic energy used against it and turning that energy into growth. The only one ever sighted on Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. grew to half the height of a Knowledge TowerKnowledge TowerThe crystalline spires of Ko-Metru that housed memory crystals, sheltered the district's Scholars, and stored much of the city's accumulated knowledge. before it was captured and locked away in the Onu-MetruOnu-MetruThe deep archive-city that made mining and historical records preservation the beating heart of Metru Nui. ArchivesThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface., and it got loose again after 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.. (BIONICLE: Metru Nui, City of Legends; BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts)

Biology and Defence Mechanism#

The Kraawa was a gentle, herbivorous 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 a long neck, more likely to run than to fight. It could absorb any kinetic energy used against it and use that energy to grow, with the size of the growth depending on the strength of the blow. No limit to how large it could become is known, so every attack on it only made the problem bigger. (BIONICLE Adventures 5: Voyage of Fear; BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts)

Among the 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. described in BIONICLE: Rahi BeastsBIONICLE Reference BooksSeven Scholastic and AMEET reference titles published between 2003 and 2009 back up the printed story of the Matoran Universe. This page catalogs what each book contains and where the editions diverge., the Kraawa stood out as a creature that posed no deliberate threat yet could still be very destructive. Its eyes turned from blue to red when it was agitated, and it was skilled at hiding and extremely hard to capture. Like other Rahi, the species was created by the MakutaMakuta (Species)Shadowy Antidermis beings and the Brotherhood's elite, Makuta commanded darkness and shaped the Matoran Universe's fate. to inhabit the Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control.. (BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts; Makuta's Guide to the Universe)

The Specimen in the Archives#

Only one Kraawa was ever sighted on Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive.. It was captured and placed in the ArchivesThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface., but not before it had grown to half the size of a Ko-MetruKo-MetruKo-Metru was Metru Nui's frozen intellectual quarter, home to the scholarly Ko-Matoran race. Knowledge TowerKnowledge TowerThe crystalline spires of Ko-Metru that housed memory crystals, sheltered the district's Scholars, and stored much of the city's accumulated knowledge.. (BIONICLE: Metru Nui, City of Legends)

The Kraawa could not be held in a Stasis TubeStasis TubePreservation devices that slowed life processes to near-stasis, widely used across the Matoran Universe for both archival storage and secure imprisonment., the usual ArchivesThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface. container, because it was too large for one. It was locked up in a secure section of the Archives instead. How the Matoran managed to capture a creature that grew whenever it was struck is not explained. (BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts)

The Protodite Breakout#

The Kraawa did break out. When another Rahi tried to escape from the Underwater Rahi Study, the Kraawa got loose as well, and before it was recaptured it reduced three levels of the ArchivesThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface. to critical condition, forced four more to be evacuated, turned more than a dozen VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. to scrap and set loose hundreds of dangerous Rahi. During one escape attempt, its actions also let a sample of protoditesProtoditeViolent microscopic Rahi native to the Matoran Universe, escaped from the Archives, prey of the Archives Moles, raw material for the Protodax, and the biological substrate of the Piraka leader Zaktan. escape their container and spread through the Archives. (BIONICLE Adventures 5: Voyage of Fear; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

The Great Cataclysm Escape#

After 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., the Kraawa was loose again in Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive.. (BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts)

The Rahaga, and PouksPouksPouks is a Toa Hagah of Stone, distinguished by his golden brown and gunmetal armor and bearing the Great Mask of Emulation. Once a bodyguard to Makuta Teridax and later a Rahaga, he served as a Rahi hunter before reclaiming his Toa form. He carries an Avalanche Spear and Rhotuka Launching Shield, and resides on Spherus Magna. in particular, often worried about how to find and capture it, since it proved very evasive and could not be struck without growing. The books do not say whether they ever caught it. (BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts)

Significance Within the Matoran Universe#

The Kraawa belonged to a small group of 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. whose danger was passive rather than predatory. Unlike the aggressive beasts held in the ArchivesThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface., it only endangered its surroundings when they acted on it, and the harder anyone fought it, the worse things became. (BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts; BIONICLE Adventures 5: Voyage of Fear)

Its rampage through the Archives also shows the limits of Onu-MetruOnu-MetruThe deep archive-city that made mining and historical records preservation the beating heart of Metru Nui.'s containment. A single creature that could not be fought conventionally wrecked several levels and freed hundreds of other Rahi before it could be locked away again. (BIONICLE Adventures 5: Voyage of Fear)