The Lhikan: Vahki Transport of the Toa Metru

The LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. was a Vahki TransportThe Vahki TransportThe multi-legged cargo vehicle built by the Vahki of Metru Nui and used by the Toa Metru to escape the city across the Silver Sea after the Great Cataclysm. named by the Toa MetruToa Metru and Toa HordikaSix Matoran elevated by Lhikan to save their city, mutated by Visorak venom, and restored in time to deliver the population to safety. in honour of the fallen Toa MangaiLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama., the Toa of FireLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. who had sacrificed his Toa power to create the team and had been killed by TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. during the closing days of 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 vessel was the converted VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. cargo platform on which the team carried six MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. sealed in Matoran SpheresMatoran SpheresThe silver hibernation pods used by Teridax, posing as Turaga Dume, to capture, store, and transport the entire Matoran population of Metru Nui during the Great Cataclysm. out of the broken city, across the Silver SeaThe Silver SeaThe vast body of unrefined liquid Protodermis surrounding Metru Nui inside the Great Barrier dome of the Matoran Universe., and to the surface island that would later be named Mata NuiMata NuiBuilt by the Great Beings to restore Spherus Magna, Mata Nui sustained an entire civilisation inside his body, was deposed by Teridax, and reclaimed his purpose as a mortal on Bara Magna. after the Great SpiritMata 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. himself. It was the first of two vessels to bear the ToaLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama.'s name, succeeded after its eventual ruin by the Lhikan IIThe Lhikan: Vahki Transport of the Toa MetruThe first of the two Vahki Transports the Toa Metru christened in honor of the fallen Toa Lhikan, the vessel that carried six Matoran in spheres across the Silver Sea to Mata Nui after the Great Cataclysm. that the team built for the return crossing.

Discovery and conversion#

The LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. began its service to the Toa MetruToa Metru and Toa HordikaSix Matoran elevated by Lhikan to save their city, mutated by Visorak venom, and restored in time to deliver the population to safety. as an unremarkable item of VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. equipment. It was found by the team in an underground room during a VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. pursuit, a setting consistent with the storage practice in which decommissioned or older Vahki TransportsThe Vahki TransportThe multi-legged cargo vehicle built by the Vahki of Metru Nui and used by the Toa Metru to escape the city across the Silver Sea after the Great Cataclysm. were held in the lower levels of the city for record-keeping rather than active deployment. The team was being chased by VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. at the time of the discovery and required transport that would take them off the streets. The transport in the underground room supplied the requirement.

The team activated the vehicle and used it to escape the pursuing VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. on the surface, then turned it toward the ColiseumThe ColiseumCentral tower of Metru Nui, serving as government seat, sporting arena, and, during Teridax's masquerade, a prison for the city's Matoran population. at the centre of the city. The decision to head for the ColiseumThe ColiseumCentral tower of Metru Nui, serving as government seat, sporting arena, and, during Teridax's masquerade, a prison for the city's Matoran population. reflected the team's understanding that the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. had been gathered there under the orders of the figure they still believed to be TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities. 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., and the team intended to intervene before that figure could carry out whatever plan was in motion. The intent was sound. The timing was not.

Late arrival at the Coliseum and the sphere recovery#

The LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. arrived at the ColiseumThe ColiseumCentral tower of Metru Nui, serving as government seat, sporting arena, and, during Teridax's masquerade, a prison for the city's Matoran population. too late to prevent the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. population from being sealed into Matoran SpheresMatoran SpheresThe silver hibernation pods used by Teridax, posing as Turaga Dume, to capture, store, and transport the entire Matoran population of Metru Nui during the Great Cataclysm.. The figure on the ColiseumThe ColiseumCentral tower of Metru Nui, serving as government seat, sporting arena, and, during Teridax's masquerade, a prison for the city's Matoran population. throne was not 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. but TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. in disguise, and the spheres had been a means of immobilising the entire MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. population in preparation for the broader plan the MakutaTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. was executing. The team could not undo what had already happened. They could only attempt to recover what could still be recovered.

The LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. was ridden down to the ColiseumThe ColiseumCentral tower of Metru Nui, serving as government seat, sporting arena, and, during Teridax's masquerade, a prison for the city's Matoran population.'s lower levels, where six Matoran SpheresMatoran SpheresThe silver hibernation pods used by Teridax, posing as Turaga Dume, to capture, store, and transport the entire Matoran population of Metru Nui during the Great Cataclysm. were recovered from VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. custody. The six were loaded onto the transport with three placed on each side of the vehicle, the placement that would later prove operationally critical when the vehicle's lack of native buoyancy required improvised flotation. The team's intention at the moment of the loading was to deliver the recovered MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. to the Great TempleGreat TempleThe Great Temple is a structure situated in Ga-Metru, Metru Nui, associated with the Ga-Matoran and the Bordakh. It formerly fell under the influence of Teridax, though it currently holds no such power., a sheltered location they hoped would offer some protection from the unfolding crisis.

The drive to the Great Temple and the bridge#

The route from the ColiseumThe ColiseumCentral tower of Metru Nui, serving as government seat, sporting arena, and, during Teridax's masquerade, a prison for the city's Matoran population. to the Great TempleGreat TempleThe Great Temple is a structure situated in Ga-Metru, Metru Nui, associated with the Ga-Matoran and the Bordakh. It formerly fell under the influence of Teridax, though it currently holds no such power. was not unobstructed. VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. units attacked the transport during the run, and the team was forced to defend the vehicle and the spheres on the move. The engagement closed at the edge of a bridge that crossed a stretch of open water. MatauMatauA former Le-Metru test driver who became a Toa Metru, Matau wielded air, illusion, and shape-shifting before sacrificing his Toa power to wake the sleeping Matoran., the Toa of AirMatauA former Le-Metru test driver who became a Toa Metru, Matau wielded air, illusion, and shape-shifting before sacrificing his Toa power to wake the sleeping Matoran. who had taken the controls during the run, drove the transport to the edge of the bridge and over it. The vehicle fell into the water.

The LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. had not been built to operate on the sea. The Vahki TransportThe Vahki TransportThe multi-legged cargo vehicle built by the Vahki of Metru Nui and used by the Toa Metru to escape the city across the Silver Sea after the Great Cataclysm. design was a multi-legged surface vehicle with no native buoyancy and would, by the standard reading of its specifications, have sunk on contact with the surface of the protodermis sea. The six Matoran SpheresMatoran SpheresThe silver hibernation pods used by Teridax, posing as Turaga Dume, to capture, store, and transport the entire Matoran population of Metru Nui during the Great Cataclysm. attached to the sides prevented that outcome. The sealed sphere capsules provided enough displacement to keep the cargo platform afloat on the protodermis, and the vehicle rode the water rather than sinking through it. The flotation solution was an improvisation that the placement of the spheres at the loading at the ColiseumThe ColiseumCentral tower of Metru Nui, serving as government seat, sporting arena, and, during Teridax's masquerade, a prison for the city's Matoran population. had, by accident or by foresight, made possible.

The Silver Sea crossing and the Toa Seal#

The vessel was christened the LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. in honour of the late ToaLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. at the moment the Silver SeaThe Silver SeaThe vast body of unrefined liquid Protodermis surrounding Metru Nui inside the Great Barrier dome of the Matoran Universe. crossing began, and the team set out across the open water toward the Great BarrierThe Great BarrierThe enormous underground dome of rock and solid Protodermis that enclosed Metru Nui and the Silver Sea, sealed Teridax into a cliff face, and was finally cracked open during the Great Cataclysm. that separated Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. from the surface above. The crossing was not direct. TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna., who had absorbed substantial energy from the city and from the bodies of his recent kills and was pursuing the escapees in a more powerful form, intercepted the Lhikan en route and a combat engagement followed in and around the vessel. The team eventually overcame the MakutaTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. and sealed him in a Toa SealToa SealA cage of Protodermis created by six Toa combining their Elemental Powers, used to trap powerful beings., a binding the six Toa MetruToa Metru and Toa HordikaSix Matoran elevated by Lhikan to save their city, mutated by Visorak venom, and restored in time to deliver the population to safety. constructed jointly using their elemental powers, before continuing the crossing.

The Lhikan suffered some damage during the crossing. Parts of the vehicle melted after a left turn, the recorded specifics of which placed the damage in the working components of the transport rather than in the flotation arrangement. The vessel remained functional. The team continued toward the Great BarrierThe Great BarrierThe enormous underground dome of rock and solid Protodermis that enclosed Metru Nui and the Silver Sea, sealed Teridax into a cliff face, and was finally cracked open during the Great Cataclysm. and the upper reaches of the Silver SeaThe Silver SeaThe vast body of unrefined liquid Protodermis surrounding Metru Nui inside the Great Barrier dome of the Matoran Universe..

The encounter with MavrahMavrahA Metru Nui Archivist who fled his city rather than let Turaga Dume cull his pet sea Rahi, drowned in a feeding frenzy a thousand years before the Great Cataclysm, and was rediscovered alive aboard the Red Star.#

The Lhikan's second major engagement on the crossing was a confrontation with MavrahMavrahA Metru Nui Archivist who fled his city rather than let Turaga Dume cull his pet sea Rahi, drowned in a feeding frenzy a thousand years before the Great Cataclysm, and was rediscovered alive aboard the Red Star., the rogue ArchivistThe 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. who had fled Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. years earlier with a population of large sea 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. and a complement of prototype VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. called KralhiKralhiThe first attempt at automated law enforcement in Metru Nui, the Kralhi were decommissioned for draining their captives into uselessness and later re-emerged in the city's underground waterways.. MavrahMavrahA Metru Nui Archivist who fled his city rather than let Turaga Dume cull his pet sea Rahi, drowned in a feeding frenzy a thousand years before the Great Cataclysm, and was rediscovered alive aboard the Red Star. had settled in a stretch of subterranean waterway in the rivers feeding out from the city and had been living there in the company of his 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. and his KralhiKralhiThe first attempt at automated law enforcement in Metru Nui, the Kralhi were decommissioned for draining their captives into uselessness and later re-emerged in the city's underground waterways. for the years since his departure. The arrival of the Lhikan in the waterway brought the team into contact with him for the first time.

MavrahMavrahA Metru Nui Archivist who fled his city rather than let Turaga Dume cull his pet sea Rahi, drowned in a feeding frenzy a thousand years before the Great Cataclysm, and was rediscovered alive aboard the Red Star. had no information about events in Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. since his exile and reached the only conclusion consistent with his last accurate intelligence: that 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. had finally sent enforcement to drag him back. He ordered the KralhiKralhiThe first attempt at automated law enforcement in Metru Nui, the Kralhi were decommissioned for draining their captives into uselessness and later re-emerged in the city's underground waterways. to capture the ToaWho 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.. A brief struggle followed, the Toa MetruToa Metru and Toa HordikaSix Matoran elevated by Lhikan to save their city, mutated by Visorak venom, and restored in time to deliver the population to safety. were captured and brought before MavrahMavrahA Metru Nui Archivist who fled his city rather than let Turaga Dume cull his pet sea Rahi, drowned in a feeding frenzy a thousand years before the Great Cataclysm, and was rediscovered alive aboard the Red Star., and the subsequent attempt to mediate the situation collapsed into a feeding frenzy when 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. were ordered to attack and turned on the ToaWho 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. and one another. A massive wave from one of the larger animals struck the Lhikan and knocked the Matoran SphereMatoran SpheresThe silver hibernation pods used by Teridax, posing as Turaga Dume, to capture, store, and transport the entire Matoran population of Metru Nui during the Great Cataclysm. containing AhkmouAhkmouA Po-Matoran carver of Metru Nui, one of the six Great Disk holders, who collaborated with Makuta Teridax and later imposed false Turaga rule during Teridax's reign. off the raft into the river. OnewaOnewaOnewa served as Toa Metru of Stone, led Po-Koro through the Dark Time, and constructed the Metru Nui statue honoring the fallen Toa Mahri Matoro. was knocked into the ocean and recovered by WhenuaWhenuaToa Metru of Earth and later Turaga of Onu-Koro, formerly an Onu-Metru archivist whose career in the Archives shaped his role across the rescue of Metru Nui and the long residency on Mata Nui.; the same wave caught MavrahMavrahA Metru Nui Archivist who fled his city rather than let Turaga Dume cull his pet sea Rahi, drowned in a feeding frenzy a thousand years before the Great Cataclysm, and was rediscovered alive aboard the Red Star. and swept him away to his presumed death.

At one earlier point during the encounter, when the Lhikan had been heading toward a whirlpool, OnewaOnewaOnewa served as Toa Metru of Stone, led Po-Koro through the Dark Time, and constructed the Metru Nui statue honoring the fallen Toa Mahri Matoro. had used his Kanohi KomauKanohi KomauThe Mask of Mind Control, forged from Freeze, Weaken, and Remove Poison Kanoka in Metru Nui, capable of dominating the thoughts of sentient beings. to control WhenuaWhenuaToa Metru of Earth and later Turaga of Onu-Koro, formerly an Onu-Metru archivist whose career in the Archives shaped his role across the rescue of Metru Nui and the long residency on Mata Nui. and made him construct a ramp by means of which the Lhikan flew off and over the whirlpool. The control-and-ramp manoeuvre was one of the more unusual operational uses of a ToaWho 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. mask power recorded in the city's history.

Arrival at Mata Nui and the rebuild#

By the time the Lhikan reached the surface island that would later be named Mata NuiMata NuiBuilt by the Great Beings to restore Spherus Magna, Mata Nui sustained an entire civilisation inside his body, was deposed by Teridax, and reclaimed his purpose as a mortal on Bara Magna., very little of the original vehicle was left. The damage from the left-turn melting episode, the combat with TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna., the encounter with MavrahMavrahA Metru Nui Archivist who fled his city rather than let Turaga Dume cull his pet sea Rahi, drowned in a feeding frenzy a thousand years before the Great Cataclysm, and was rediscovered alive aboard the Red Star.'s 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., and the cumulative strain of an open-water crossing the vehicle had not been built for had reduced the vessel to a condition in which a return voyage was impossible without rebuilding. The team's first task on the island was therefore the construction of a successor.

The Toa MetruToa Metru and Toa HordikaSix Matoran elevated by Lhikan to save their city, mutated by Visorak venom, and restored in time to deliver the population to safety. built the Lhikan IIThe Lhikan: Vahki Transport of the Toa MetruThe first of the two Vahki Transports the Toa Metru christened in honor of the fallen Toa Lhikan, the vessel that carried six Matoran in spheres across the Silver Sea to Mata Nui after the Great Cataclysm. from salvage of the original vehicle, from supplies gathered on the surface, and from the branches of the KarzahniThe Karzahni PlantThe sentient prototype plant created by Teridax as the predecessor of the Morbuzakh, abandoned in the tunnels beneath Metru Nui after proving too willful to control. plant, which provided buoyancy in place of the Matoran SpheresMatoran SpheresThe silver hibernation pods used by Teridax, posing as Turaga Dume, to capture, store, and transport the entire Matoran population of Metru Nui during the Great Cataclysm. that had supported the first crossing. The new vessel was designated the Lhikan IIThe Lhikan: Vahki Transport of the Toa MetruThe first of the two Vahki Transports the Toa Metru christened in honor of the fallen Toa Lhikan, the vessel that carried six Matoran in spheres across the Silver Sea to Mata Nui after the Great Cataclysm. to acknowledge its lineage and to carry the ToaLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama.'s name forward into the return voyage. The original Lhikan was the basis of the rebuild and ceased to exist as a distinct vessel at the point the successor was completed.

Significance#

The Lhikan's significance to the broader narrative was the use to which it had been put rather than the vehicle's own properties. As a Vahki TransportThe Vahki TransportThe multi-legged cargo vehicle built by the Vahki of Metru Nui and used by the Toa Metru to escape the city across the Silver Sea after the Great Cataclysm., it had been unremarkable, one of many produced in the VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. workshops of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. for ordinary cargo and detention duties. As the named vessel that carried six MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. in Matoran SpheresMatoran SpheresThe silver hibernation pods used by Teridax, posing as Turaga Dume, to capture, store, and transport the entire Matoran population of Metru Nui during the Great Cataclysm. out of the broken city, it became the platform on which the survival of those six MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. depended through the entire Silver SeaThe Silver SeaThe vast body of unrefined liquid Protodermis surrounding Metru Nui inside the Great Barrier dome of the Matoran Universe. crossing and the platform on which the team's responsibility for the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. was first concretely discharged.

The choice of name placed the vessel at the symbolic centre of that responsibility. The Lhikan was a ToaLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. the team had failed to save. The vessel that bore his name was the vehicle on which the team carried, to whatever safety could still be reached, the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. they had managed to save. The two acts of memorialisation, of LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. himself and of the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. population they had been unable to rescue in full, were folded into the same physical object. When the Lhikan was rebuilt as the Lhikan IIThe Lhikan: Vahki Transport of the Toa MetruThe first of the two Vahki Transports the Toa Metru christened in honor of the fallen Toa Lhikan, the vessel that carried six Matoran in spheres across the Silver Sea to Mata Nui after the Great Cataclysm. for the return voyage, the name was carried forward with the rebuild, and the connection between the lost ToaLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. and the surviving MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. was preserved through the entire span of the team's open-water service.