Lava Launcher

The Lava Launcher was a dual-purpose SkakdiSkakdiA brutish warrior species from Zakaz whose pair-dependent elemental powers and moral void made them one of Bionicle's few irredeemable factions. weapon carried by the PirakaBionicle Piraka: the Six Skakdi Thieves Who Hunted the Mask of LifeThe Piraka were six Skakdi who quit the Dark Hunters, took over Voya Nui by posing as Toa and went after the Mask of Life in 2006. Here's who they were, how the Voya Nui story played out and what happened to them afterwards. HakannHakannThe Skakdi bully known for pure aggression, from Dark Hunter mercenary to Piraka thief driven by violence and power. during the occupation of Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time.. One end fired hot missiles of magma that melted or burned whatever they hit, and the other carried an energy claw. (Piraka Profiles; BIONICLE: Dark Hunters; BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play)

Function#

The Lava Launcher sent out hot missiles of magma that melted or burned anything they hit. The opposite end carried an energy claw, so the weapon worked at range and up close. (Piraka Profiles; BIONICLE: Dark Hunters; BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play)

That two-in-one design matched the rest of the PirakaBionicle Piraka: the Six Skakdi Thieves Who Hunted the Mask of LifeThe Piraka were six Skakdi who quit the Dark Hunters, took over Voya Nui by posing as Toa and went after the Mask of Life in 2006. Here's who they were, how the Voya Nui story played out and what happened to them afterwards.. Each carried a dual weapon: VezokVezokThe Beast was a Piraka thief split in two by the Spear of Fusion, then imprisoned by the Order of Mata Nui. a harpoon and buzz saw, AvakAvakA Skakdi thief whose perfect prisons made him invaluable to the Piraka's Mask of Life heist. a seismic pickaxe and jackhammer, and ReidakReidakA sadistic Skakdi thug who traded the Dark Hunters for the Piraka and paid the price. a buzz saw and power drill. (Piraka Profiles; BIONICLE: Dark Hunters)

The sources don't agree on its ammunition. The activity book BIONICLE: Piraka says it held only five shots and needed a source of lava to recharge, but in the novels Hakann fires more than five lava missiles at a time. (BIONICLE: Piraka; BIONICLE Legends 1: Island of Doom)

Hakann didn't pick it up on Voya Nui. He had owned it since before he joined the Dark HuntersThe Dark HuntersA band of mercenaries and thieves founded on Odina by the Shadowed One and Ancient, hired out across the Matoran Universe, and left a battered ruin by the time Teridax ruled the universe., and it was damaged in a fight with Lariska before being repaired. (BIONICLE Legends 4: Legacy of Evil)

Hakann's Elemental Constraint#

HakannHakannThe Skakdi bully known for pure aggression, from Dark Hunter mercenary to Piraka thief driven by violence and power. loved extreme heat and was resistant to it, and one of his greatest desires was to control pure fire. But he could only manipulate fire by combining his power with another SkakdiSkakdiA brutish warrior species from Zakaz whose pair-dependent elemental powers and moral void made them one of Bionicle's few irredeemable factions.'s. (Piraka Profiles; BIONICLE Legends 1: Island of Doom)

To make up for that, he had other gifts. His heat vision was the result of experiments by the Makuta Spiriah, and his mental blasts attacked an enemy's mind rather than the body. (BIONICLE: Makuta's Guide to the Universe; BIONICLE: World)

In his fight with the Toa InikaToa Inika and Toa MahriSix ordinary Matoran transformed by lightning from the Red Star into heroes who ultimately revived the Great Spirit itself. 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. in BIONICLE Ignition 3: Showdown, Hakann leaned on his heat vision and a special Zamor sphere meant for BrutakaBrutakaBrutaka guarded the Kanohi Ignika on Voya Nui, betrayed the Order during the Piraka incursion, was mutated in the Pit, and later led the Order's strike team to free Miserix. rather than the Launcher. The weapon was one tool among several, not his whole arsenal. (BIONICLE Ignition 3: Showdown; Hakann, LEGO set 8901)

Loss in the Pit#

After the events on Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time., HakannHakannThe Skakdi bully known for pure aggression, from Dark Hunter mercenary to Piraka thief driven by violence and power. and the other PirakaBionicle Piraka: the Six Skakdi Thieves Who Hunted the Mask of LifeThe Piraka were six Skakdi who quit the Dark Hunters, took over Voya Nui by posing as Toa and went after the Mask of Life in 2006. Here's who they were, how the Voya Nui story played out and what happened to them afterwards. were exposed to the Pit mutagen, which mutated them into creatures with little more than a spine and a face. (BIONICLE: Makuta's Guide to the Universe)

With no hands to work the trigger or the claw, Hakann had no way to use the Launcher in that form, and it drops out of his story. (BIONICLE: Makuta's Guide to the Universe)

Design and Doctrine#

The Lava Launcher was SkakdiSkakdiA brutish warrior species from Zakaz whose pair-dependent elemental powers and moral void made them one of Bionicle's few irredeemable factions. gear, not ToaToa (2001)Biomechanical heroes bonded to elemental powers and masks. Not born, but chosen and transformed. equipment. Like the other Piraka dual weapons, it paired a ranged attack with a close-quarters tool, which suited fighters as brutal as the PirakaBionicle Piraka: the Six Skakdi Thieves Who Hunted the Mask of LifeThe Piraka were six Skakdi who quit the Dark Hunters, took over Voya Nui by posing as Toa and went after the Mask of Life in 2006. Here's who they were, how the Voya Nui story played out and what happened to them afterwards.. (Piraka Profiles; BIONICLE: Dark Hunters)

It served Hakann through the whole Voya Nui campaign and long before it, and only stopped being useful when the mutagen took away the body that carried it. (BIONICLE Legends 4: Legacy of Evil; BIONICLE: Makuta's Guide to the Universe)