The Yesterday Quest

The Yesterday Quest was the post-Reformation expedition that sent a small team of 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. into the unmapped jungles of Bota MagnaBota MagnaA verdant jungle moon separated from Spherus Magna for 100,000 years, then restored by Mata Nui himself at the climax of the Core War. to find the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed. and report that 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.'s mission of repair had been completed. The party comprised three Toa unknown to one another, ChiaraChiaraChiara is a blue and white Toa and former Vo-Matoran who wields the element of Lightning and possesses the power of Stealth. She carries a spear and wears the Great Volitak, replacing the Powerless Volitak she wore as a Matoran, and serves as a Protector of Matoran on Bota Magna, Spherus Magna. of LightningLightning: The Elemental Power of ElectricityLightning was the elemental power over electricity in the Matoran Universe, carried by Vo-Matoran, Toa of Lightning, and the Bohrok-Kal Tahnok-Kal, among others., OrdeOrdeOrde is a blue and gold Toa of Psionics of the Matoran species who resides on Spherus Magna. He wields a mace and formerly served as a member of Orde's Toa Team. of PsionicsPsionics: the elemental power of the mindOne of the elemental powers of the Matoran Universe, Psionics granted command over psychic energy: telepathy, telekinesis, and even control over other minds. Its wielders were almost all female., and ZariaZariaZaria is a Toa of Iron and a former Fe-Matoran, distinguished by gunmetal gray and burnt orange armor. Armed with a staff, Zaria commands the elemental power of Iron and resides in the Bota Magna region of Spherus Magna. of Iron, led on the ground by the GlatorianAckarVeteran Glatorian of the Fire Tribe and prime fighter for Vulcanus, Ackar served from the Core War through the defence of Spherus Magna. scout GeluGeluGelu is a Glatorian of the Ice Tribe, native to Bota Magna, who formerly served as a secondary Glatorian for the city of Iconox. White and dark blue in color, he wields an Ice Slicer and a Thornax Launcher and resides on the reformed Spherus Magna.. The journey produced contact with a militarised VoroxVoroxThe warrior caste of the Sand Tribe, reduced to feral pack hunters in the wastes of Bara Magna after the collapse of their civilisation in the Core War. unit under KabruaKabruaKabrua led an organised Vorox community on Bota Magna, retained the speech and intelligence lost by his desert kin, and captured a Toa expedition in 2010., the discovery that a Great BeingThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed. had been hiding inside the Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control. for a hundred thousand years, and AngonceAngonceThe Great Being who named Mata Nui, refused to work on the Baterra, remained on Bara Magna to observe the Agori, and went looking for Marendar when the Toa returned to Spherus Magna.'s failed race to the vault containing MarendarMarendarThe Great Beings' anti-Toa failsafe weapon, awakened on Spherus Magna and left deliberately unresolved. before its escape onto the reformed planet.

The brief and the briefing#

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.'s last act as the unbound Great Spirit had been to reform Spherus MagnaThe Battle of Bara MagnaThe Great Spirit Robot fell from the sky carrying Teridax in stolen flesh, and the desert world below produced a champion who carried Mata Nui's consciousness back into the fight. and pass a wish to his lieutenants: the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed. had to be told the work was finished. The reformation closed the assignment they had given him a hundred thousand years earlier, and the closing of the loop required an audience with the makers themselves. Only one of them, AngonceAngonceThe Great Being who named Mata Nui, refused to work on the Baterra, remained on Bara Magna to observe the Agori, and went looking for Marendar when the Toa returned to Spherus Magna., was known to remain anywhere on the surface in traceable capacity; the rest had gone to Bota MagnaBota MagnaA verdant jungle moon separated from Spherus Magna for 100,000 years, then restored by Mata Nui himself at the climax of the Core War. or beyond, into territory the new Spherus Magnan coalition had not crossed.

The briefing for the chosen team was delivered by OnuaOnuaOnua was the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva of Earth, a quiet, deliberate warrior whose patience and underground mastery anchored his team across the Matoran Universe. in the open desert near the site of the Battle of Bara MagnaThe Battle of Bara MagnaThe Great Spirit Robot fell from the sky carrying Teridax in stolen flesh, and the desert world below produced a champion who carried Mata Nui's consciousness back into the fight.. TahuTahu, Toa of FireTahu served as Toa Mata, Toa Nuva, and Toa Mistika of Fire, leading his team from the first landing on Mata Nui to the destruction of the Rahkshi army on Bara Magna.'s absence was structural rather than incidental: he was working with AckarAckarVeteran Glatorian of the Fire Tribe and prime fighter for Vulcanus, Ackar served from the Core War through the defence of Spherus Magna. and KiinaKiinaKiina is a Glatorian of the Water Tribe who served as the secondary Glatorian for the village of Tajun on Spherus Magna. Colored in shades of dark and light blue, she wielded a Vapor Trident and a Thornax Launcher in combat. Following the reformation of Spherus Magna, she continued to reside on the restored world. on AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system.-MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. integration disputes that the end of the battle had not resolved, and Gali had been given a separate mission of her own. The party that left was therefore not the established Toa NuvaToa NuvaThe form the Toa Mata took after stepping into the Energized Protodermis beneath the Bahrag, with new masks, new tools, and the elemental scale to fight Karda Nui. but a hand-picked team of three Toa unknown to one another, with a GlatorianGlatorianTribal warriors of Spherus Magna who settled disputes through arena combat, until the Skrall conquest enslaved most of them. guide selected for his independence.

The three Toa#

ChiaraChiaraChiara is a blue and white Toa and former Vo-Matoran who wields the element of Lightning and possesses the power of Stealth. She carries a spear and wears the Great Volitak, replacing the Powerless Volitak she wore as a Matoran, and serves as a Protector of Matoran on Bota Magna, Spherus Magna. was a Toa of LightningToa of LightningVo-Matoran elevated to Toa form wielded Elemental Lightning, an unstable and scarce power in the Matoran Universe, with few named figures on record. with a reputation as a loner, unusual in a Toa of her element. Her record before the quest included a single-handed operation during the VisorakVisorakSpider-like Rahi created by Makuta Chirox, conquered for the Brotherhood by Gorast, broken at Metru Nui, and ultimately destroyed in a volcanic eruption on Artidax. occupation of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. in which she infiltrated the spider camp, electrified the colony drones whose energy the VisorakVisorak (Rahi)Spider-like Rahi employed by the Brotherhood of Makuta whose name meant 'Stealers of Life' and whose swarms threatened the Matoran Universe. fed on, and picked off more than fifty of the hordes one at a time as they were forced to disperse for food. She had demonstrated, against an enemy that drained Toa, that she could hold a position without backup.

OrdeOrdeOrde is a blue and gold Toa of Psionics of the Matoran species who resides on Spherus Magna. He wields a mace and formerly served as a member of Orde's Toa Team. was a Toa of PsionicsToa of PsionicsThe first Toa of Psionics tried to calm a group of Zyglak with telepathy and made them more savage instead. Every Psionics Toa after Orde was made female in response., and his selection rested on a debt the Toa community had owed him. During an earlier incident he had used his powers to break a dozen MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. out of a Dark HunterThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself. holding. The MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. escaped; OrdeOrdeOrde is a blue and gold Toa of Psionics of the Matoran species who resides on Spherus Magna. He wields a mace and formerly served as a member of Orde's Toa Team. did not. He was interrogated for several days before his own team retrieved him, and only the strength of his mind kept him sane through it.

ZariaZariaZaria is a Toa of Iron and a former Fe-Matoran, distinguished by gunmetal gray and burnt orange armor. Armed with a staff, Zaria commands the elemental power of Iron and resides in the Bota Magna region of Spherus Magna. was a Toa of IronToa of IronToa of Iron were the rare Toa drawn from Fe-Matoran stock, commanding metal at a scale that let them tear open Makuta armor and forced the Brotherhood to hunt them across the Matoran Universe., one of the last of his element to survive the Brotherhood of MakutaThe Brotherhood of MakutaAn organization of Makuta created by Mata Nui to police his universe and build Rahi, later seized by Teridax and turned into the instrument of the Plan that overthrew the Great Spirit.'s long purge of his subtype. He had killed a member of the Brotherhood during that purge, a necessary action that nevertheless violated the Toa code against killing. Reports circulated afterwards that he had begun to dispatch his other enemies as a matter of habit, though no firm evidence existed. TahuTahu (2001)Tahu was the Toa Mata of Fire and leader of the team, from his first landing on Ta-Wahi Beach to the destruction of Teridax's Rahkshi army on Bara Magna with the Golden Armor.'s reasoning for assigning him to the team was that ZariaZariaZaria is a Toa of Iron and a former Fe-Matoran, distinguished by gunmetal gray and burnt orange armor. Armed with a staff, Zaria commands the elemental power of Iron and resides in the Bota Magna region of Spherus Magna. needed a mission large enough to absorb his energies, and ZariaZariaZaria is a Toa of Iron and a former Fe-Matoran, distinguished by gunmetal gray and burnt orange armor. Armed with a staff, Zaria commands the elemental power of Iron and resides in the Bota Magna region of Spherus Magna. was also useful for his power: he could pin both ChiaraChiaraChiara is a blue and white Toa and former Vo-Matoran who wields the element of Lightning and possesses the power of Stealth. She carries a spear and wears the Great Volitak, replacing the Powerless Volitak she wore as a Matoran, and serves as a Protector of Matoran on Bota Magna, Spherus Magna. and OrdeOrdeOrde is a blue and gold Toa of Psionics of the Matoran species who resides on Spherus Magna. He wields a mace and formerly served as a member of Orde's Toa Team. in place at a gesture when their argument became operational.

GeluGeluGelu is a Glatorian of the Ice Tribe, native to Bota Magna, who formerly served as a secondary Glatorian for the city of Iconox. White and dark blue in color, he wields an Ice Slicer and a Thornax Launcher and resides on the reformed Spherus Magna. and the road to Bota MagnaBota MagnaA verdant jungle moon separated from Spherus Magna for 100,000 years, then restored by Mata Nui himself at the climax of the Core War.#

The fourth member of the party was GeluGeluGelu is a Glatorian of the Ice Tribe, native to Bota Magna, who formerly served as a secondary Glatorian for the city of Iconox. White and dark blue in color, he wields an Ice Slicer and a Thornax Launcher and resides on the reformed Spherus Magna., a white-armoured veteran GlatorianGlatorianTribal warriors of Spherus Magna who settled disputes through arena combat, until the Skrall conquest enslaved most of them. who had retired from the arena before the Battle of Bara MagnaBara MagnaA desert world of tribal warfare and scarce resources, one of three landmasses that formed Spherus Magna. and who was selected as the team's guide. The selection was not popular with him; OrdeOrdeOrde is a blue and gold Toa of Psionics of the Matoran species who resides on Spherus Magna. He wields a mace and formerly served as a member of Orde's Toa Team. read it off his mind on first contact and announced it openly. GeluGeluGelu is a Glatorian of the Ice Tribe, native to Bota Magna, who formerly served as a secondary Glatorian for the city of Iconox. White and dark blue in color, he wields an Ice Slicer and a Thornax Launcher and resides on the reformed Spherus Magna. briefed the Toa on their mounts, on their week of supplies, and on the rule that he would tell them which of the strange things they were about to see needed to be worried about.

The first leg took them out of the inhabited region around the site of MakutaMakuta (Species)Shadowy Antidermis beings and the Brotherhood's elite, Makuta commanded darkness and shaped the Matoran Universe's fate.'s fall and into the unmapped jungles of Bota MagnaBota MagnaA verdant jungle moon separated from Spherus Magna for 100,000 years, then restored by Mata Nui himself at the climax of the Core War. proper. GeluGeluGelu is a Glatorian of the Ice Tribe, native to Bota Magna, who formerly served as a secondary Glatorian for the city of Iconox. White and dark blue in color, he wields an Ice Slicer and a Thornax Launcher and resides on the reformed Spherus Magna.'s instincts as a tracker registered the change immediately. The party was being shadowed on the path, and ChiaraChiaraChiara is a blue and white Toa and former Vo-Matoran who wields the element of Lightning and possesses the power of Stealth. She carries a spear and wears the Great Volitak, replacing the Powerless Volitak she wore as a Matoran, and serves as a Protector of Matoran on Bota Magna, Spherus Magna. confirmed something in the trees by hurling lightning at it. The route ran along an exposed valley because the woods were too thick for the sand stalker mounts to push through, and the exposure was where the ambush was waiting.

The VoroxVoroxThe warrior caste of the Sand Tribe, reduced to feral pack hunters in the wastes of Bara Magna after the collapse of their civilisation in the Core War. of Bota Magna#

The ambush was a net trap. Explosions panicked the mounts, drove the riders forward into a rising net, and dropped the entire party in a tangle of animals and webbing. GeluGeluGelu is a Glatorian of the Ice Tribe, native to Bota Magna, who formerly served as a secondary Glatorian for the city of Iconox. White and dark blue in color, he wields an Ice Slicer and a Thornax Launcher and resides on the reformed Spherus Magna. identified the captors with disbelief: they were VoroxVoroxThe warrior caste of the Sand Tribe, reduced to feral pack hunters in the wastes of Bara Magna after the collapse of their civilisation in the Core War., the savage pack-hunting tail-stinger species he had known on Bara MagnaBara MagnaA desert world of tribal warfare and scarce resources, one of three landmasses that formed Spherus Magna. under SkrallSkrallA black-armored warrior species from Spherus Magna that dominated northern Bara Magna under Tuma's rule. suzerainty, and yet they were carrying sophisticated ranged weapons of a class he had not seen since the Core War. The weapons fired spheres of explosive force, and they were a Core War technology the backwards Bara Magnan VoroxVoroxThe warrior caste of the Sand Tribe, reduced to feral pack hunters in the wastes of Bara Magna after the collapse of their civilisation in the Core War. could not have possessed.

The alpha male of the unit approached the net, sniffed the air, and then did something else no Bara Magnan VoroxVoroxThe warrior caste of the Sand Tribe, reduced to feral pack hunters in the wastes of Bara Magna after the collapse of their civilisation in the Core War. had been known to do: he spoke, in fluent AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system.. This was KabruaKabruaKabrua led an organised Vorox community on Bota Magna, retained the speech and intelligence lost by his desert kin, and captured a Toa expedition in 2010., the only VoroxVoroxThe warrior caste of the Sand Tribe, reduced to feral pack hunters in the wastes of Bara Magna after the collapse of their civilisation in the Core War. ever named in the serials, commanding a Bota MagnaBota MagnaA verdant jungle moon separated from Spherus Magna for 100,000 years, then restored by Mata Nui himself at the climax of the Core War. VoroxVoroxThe warrior caste of the Sand Tribe, reduced to feral pack hunters in the wastes of Bara Magna after the collapse of their civilisation in the Core War. unit that was organised, technologically equipped, and operating with professional military discipline. KabruaKabruaKabrua led an organised Vorox community on Bota Magna, retained the speech and intelligence lost by his desert kin, and captured a Toa expedition in 2010. also possessed a power-dampening device of unidentified origin that suppressed Toa elemental powers within its range, which explained why ChiaraChiaraChiara is a blue and white Toa and former Vo-Matoran who wields the element of Lightning and possesses the power of Stealth. She carries a spear and wears the Great Volitak, replacing the Powerless Volitak she wore as a Matoran, and serves as a Protector of Matoran on Bota Magna, Spherus Magna. and ZariaZariaZaria is a Toa of Iron and a former Fe-Matoran, distinguished by gunmetal gray and burnt orange armor. Armed with a staff, Zaria commands the elemental power of Iron and resides in the Bota Magna region of Spherus Magna. were unable to break out of the net by force.

The interrogation that followed gave OrdeOrdeOrde is a blue and gold Toa of Psionics of the Matoran species who resides on Spherus Magna. He wields a mace and formerly served as a member of Orde's Toa Team. the opening of the quest. While part of the unit pursued GeluGeluGelu is a Glatorian of the Ice Tribe, native to Bota Magna, who formerly served as a secondary Glatorian for the city of Iconox. White and dark blue in color, he wields an Ice Slicer and a Thornax Launcher and resides on the reformed Spherus Magna. and OrdeOrdeOrde is a blue and gold Toa of Psionics of the Matoran species who resides on Spherus Magna. He wields a mace and formerly served as a member of Orde's Toa Team. further into the jungle and another element kept ChiaraChiaraChiara is a blue and white Toa and former Vo-Matoran who wields the element of Lightning and possesses the power of Stealth. She carries a spear and wears the Great Volitak, replacing the Powerless Volitak she wore as a Matoran, and serves as a Protector of Matoran on Bota Magna, Spherus Magna. and ZariaZariaZaria is a Toa of Iron and a former Fe-Matoran, distinguished by gunmetal gray and burnt orange armor. Armed with a staff, Zaria commands the elemental power of Iron and resides in the Bota Magna region of Spherus Magna. pinned by the dampener, OrdeOrdeOrde is a blue and gold Toa of Psionics of the Matoran species who resides on Spherus Magna. He wields a mace and formerly served as a member of Orde's Toa Team. used his psionics during a river confrontation to read KabruaKabruaKabrua led an organised Vorox community on Bota Magna, retained the speech and intelligence lost by his desert kin, and captured a Toa expedition in 2010.'s mind. What he found there was the central revelation of the surviving chapters: one of the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed. had been living disguised inside the Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control. for the previous hundred thousand years, was now back on the reformed planet, and had a plan, framed in KabruaKabruaKabrua led an organised Vorox community on Bota Magna, retained the speech and intelligence lost by his desert kin, and captured a Toa expedition in 2010.'s own knowledge as something horrible, for what came next.

AngonceAngonceThe Great Being who named Mata Nui, refused to work on the Baterra, remained on Bara Magna to observe the Agori, and went looking for Marendar when the Toa returned to Spherus Magna., MarendarMarendarThe Great Beings' anti-Toa failsafe weapon, awakened on Spherus Magna and left deliberately unresolved., and the parallel race#

The surviving chapters intercut the ground party with AngonceAngonceThe Great Being who named Mata Nui, refused to work on the Baterra, remained on Bara Magna to observe the Agori, and went looking for Marendar when the Toa returned to Spherus Magna., the only Great Being known to remain on the surface, and a vault he was racing to reach. The vault held MarendarMarendarThe Great Beings' anti-Toa failsafe weapon, awakened on Spherus Magna and left deliberately unresolved., an extremely powerful robotic weapon the Great Beings had built as a last-resort safeguard against 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. themselves. The reasoning had been the simple worry that, if any Toa ever turned evil and the AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system. were forced to confront them on the open surface of Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint., the AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system. would be powerless. MarendarMarendarThe Great Beings' anti-Toa failsafe weapon, awakened on Spherus Magna and left deliberately unresolved. was the answer; its name, in AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system., meant salvation.

The trigger for MarendarMarendarThe Great Beings' anti-Toa failsafe weapon, awakened on Spherus Magna and left deliberately unresolved.'s awakening was the appearance of large numbers of Toa on the planetary surface, which the deactivation of the Great Spirit and the reformation of Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. had produced. AngonceAngonceThe Great Being who named Mata Nui, refused to work on the Baterra, remained on Bara Magna to observe the Agori, and went looking for Marendar when the Toa returned to Spherus Magna. understood the trigger the moment the integration began and set out for the vault, but he arrived too late. The vault had been built from metallic protodermisProtodermisThe engineered substance building the Matoran Universe, protodermis exists in countless refined states from mundane metal to diamond-hard crystal to the destruction-or-transformation force of energized form.; the living weapon had smashed its way through that cage and was already gone. Its programming was unconditional: eliminate every Toa on the planet, including the four-being team that the quest's other thread was sending into the same wilderness it had escaped into.

The hidden Great Being identified in KabruaKabruaKabrua led an organised Vorox community on Bota Magna, retained the speech and intelligence lost by his desert kin, and captured a Toa expedition in 2010.'s mind, recorded in surviving accounts as the long-running Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control. agent VelikaVelikaVelika is a Great Being who disguised himself as a Po-Matoran on Mata Nui, wearing a powerless Komau and bearing an affinity for Stone. Colored in golden brown, grey, and orange, he worked as an inventor and carried Power Carvers as his tools. He was last known to be located on Bota Magna., ran an independent thread. He had emerged onto Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. with the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. population and intended to kill the planet's most powerful beings to clear the way for a rule by the Great Beings themselves. The quest's three open threats, MarendarMarendarThe Great Beings' anti-Toa failsafe weapon, awakened on Spherus Magna and left deliberately unresolved.'s escape, VelikaVelikaVelika is a Great Being who disguised himself as a Po-Matoran on Mata Nui, wearing a powerless Komau and bearing an affinity for Stone. Colored in golden brown, grey, and orange, he worked as an inventor and carried Power Carvers as his tools. He was last known to be located on Bota Magna.'s plan, and KabruaKabruaKabrua led an organised Vorox community on Bota Magna, retained the speech and intelligence lost by his desert kin, and captured a Toa expedition in 2010.'s armed VoroxVoroxThe warrior caste of the Sand Tribe, reduced to feral pack hunters in the wastes of Bara Magna after the collapse of their civilisation in the Core War. unit on the team's path, were converging on the Toa party at the point at which the serial was discontinued. None of the three resolutions reached the page.

What the unfinished arc established#

Even truncated, the Yesterday Quest set down material the wider Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. history now rests on. It established Bota MagnaBota MagnaA verdant jungle moon separated from Spherus Magna for 100,000 years, then restored by Mata Nui himself at the climax of the Core War. as a coherent operating region with its own population of organised VoroxVoroxThe warrior caste of the Sand Tribe, reduced to feral pack hunters in the wastes of Bara Magna after the collapse of their civilisation in the Core War. rather than an unmapped blank on the post-Reformation map. It introduced three Toa types not previously active in the main story, PsionicsPsionics: the elemental power of the mindOne of the elemental powers of the Matoran Universe, Psionics granted command over psychic energy: telepathy, telekinesis, and even control over other minds. Its wielders were almost all female. through OrdeOrdeOrde is a blue and gold Toa of Psionics of the Matoran species who resides on Spherus Magna. He wields a mace and formerly served as a member of Orde's Toa Team., Iron through ZariaZariaZaria is a Toa of Iron and a former Fe-Matoran, distinguished by gunmetal gray and burnt orange armor. Armed with a staff, Zaria commands the elemental power of Iron and resides in the Bota Magna region of Spherus Magna., and a working LightningLightning: The Elemental Power of ElectricityLightning was the elemental power over electricity in the Matoran Universe, carried by Vo-Matoran, Toa of Lightning, and the Bohrok-Kal Tahnok-Kal, among others. Toa through ChiaraChiaraChiara is a blue and white Toa and former Vo-Matoran who wields the element of Lightning and possesses the power of Stealth. She carries a spear and wears the Great Volitak, replacing the Powerless Volitak she wore as a Matoran, and serves as a Protector of Matoran on Bota Magna, Spherus Magna., and gave each of them a recorded biography. It produced MarendarMarendarThe Great Beings' anti-Toa failsafe weapon, awakened on Spherus Magna and left deliberately unresolved. as a loose threat on the reformed planet that no one had been warned about. And it confirmed that one of the Great Beings had been hiding inside the Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control. for the entire run of the main story, an identification that ties back into The Powers That BeThe Spherus Magna Murders: The Hunt for the Power KillerA string of killings on the reunified Spherus Magna struck at the most powerful beings in the universe, drawing Kopaka and Pohatu into an investigation that led them to the Red Star. and the parallel killings of the surviving Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control. leadership.

What it never resolved was the meeting it had been organised to bring about. The team was on its way to find the Great Beings, the Great Beings had not yet been found, and the report 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. had asked be delivered was never delivered. The Yesterday Quest remains the open trailing thread of the post-Reformation record: the mission the Toa leadership commissioned, the mission the chosen team set out on, and the mission no surviving chapter ever brought to a close across the jungles of Bota MagnaBota MagnaA verdant jungle moon separated from Spherus Magna for 100,000 years, then restored by Mata Nui himself at the climax of the Core War..