Zamor Sphere

Zamor SpheresZamor SpheresHollow spheres carrying gas, liquid, or energy, fired by Zamor Launchers and used by the Piraka to enslave the Matoran of Voya Nui, by the Toa Inika to free them, and by a long list of older operators going back to Toa Jovan. aren't weapons in the traditional sense. They're delivery systems, which is a much more unsettling thing to be. A Zamor Sphere is a hollow shell that can carry virtually anything inside it: toxic gases, liquids, energies, or even concentrated essence. When fired from a Zamor LauncherZamor LauncherThe Zamor Launcher is a weapon belonging to the Shooting Zamors group, formerly wielded by the Piraka, the Toa Inika, and Toa Jovan. It is no longer in use., the sphere's surface becomes momentarily intangible, allowing whatever's inside to pass clean through anything in its path. It's elegant in its cold cruelty.

A Weapon With History#

The concept isn't new, though the modern form is. Toa JovanJovanJovan led the Toa team that retrieved the Kanohi Ignika during the Great Disruption, then served as Turaga over the population that became Voya Nui. wielded a Zamor LauncherZamor LauncherThe Zamor Launcher is a weapon belonging to the Shooting Zamors group, formerly wielded by the Piraka, the Toa Inika, and Toa Jovan. It is no longer in use. roughly 79,000 years before the modern era, making it one of the oldest known weapons in the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. Universe. How exactly he used them remains murky, buried in serials and scholarly retellings. But the Zamor SpheresZamor SpheresHollow spheres carrying gas, liquid, or energy, fired by Zamor Launchers and used by the Piraka to enslave the Matoran of Voya Nui, by the Toa Inika to free them, and by a long list of older operators going back to Toa Jovan. you see in recent conflicts come from an entirely different lineage. The Nynrah GhostsNynrah GhostsThe Nynrah Ghosts were Fe-Matoran weapons engineers from the island of Nynrah whose sabotage of Brotherhood war machines led to their near extinction., master smiths and artificers who called the island of NynrahNynrahNynrah was a contested island in the Matoran Universe whose Fe-Matoran population produced the weapons engineers known as the Nynrah Ghosts. home, engineered modern Zamor Launchers about 3,000 years ago. That technology didn't stay proprietary for long. NidhikiNidhikiOnce a guardian of Metru Nui, Nidhiki traded his Toa honor for Dark Hunter gold and paid the price. and KrekkaKrekkaA brutish but ineffective Dark Hunter with no powers or masks, Krekka was outmatched from his first moments in Metru Nui., two Dark Hunter operatives, stole prototypes directly from NynrahNynrahNynrah was a contested island in the Matoran Universe whose Fe-Matoran population produced the weapons engineers known as the Nynrah Ghosts.'s workshops and destroyed the manufacturing machinery to slow MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. production. It's a common play in the game of power: steal the weapon, burn the factory, buy yourself time.

The AntidermisAntidermisAntidermis was the physical substance that composed every Makuta, a revelation that fundamentally altered how fans understood the brotherhood's origin. Variant#

Fast forward to the conflict over 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., and Zamor SpheresZamor SpheresHollow spheres carrying gas, liquid, or energy, fired by Zamor Launchers and used by the Piraka to enslave the Matoran of Voya Nui, by the Toa Inika to free them, and by a long list of older operators going back to Toa Jovan. take on a new, genuinely terrifying role. 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., a group of renegade Dark Hunters who'd seized their own independence, seized Zamor Launchers from Xia and repurposed them in ways their designers never intended. Their leader, ZaktanZaktanMutated Skakdi leader of the Piraka, formerly a Dark Hunter whose body was dissolved into a colony of Protodites by the Shadowed One and reformed with its consciousness intact., saw an opportunity: construct a massive vat to harvest and concentrate AntidermisAntidermisAntidermis was the physical substance that composed every Makuta, a revelation that fundamentally altered how fans understood the brotherhood's origin., the liquid essence of TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. himself. Filling Zamor SpheresZamor SpheresHollow spheres carrying gas, liquid, or energy, fired by Zamor Launchers and used by the Piraka to enslave the Matoran of Voya Nui, by the Toa Inika to free them, and by a long list of older operators going back to Toa Jovan. with a being's concentrated essence is no longer a delivery mechanism. It becomes a tool of absolute control. The MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. 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., faced with this existential threat, managed to steal one launcher and reverse-engineer its design. Their inventor, 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., built new launchers for the Toa InikaToa Inika: six Matoran struck by lightningSix Matoran of Metru Nui chased the Toa Nuva to Voya Nui and were struck by lightning from the red star. That strike made them the Toa Inika., their allies in this struggle. But these weren't simple copies. 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. upgraded them to hold four spheres instead of one. That extra capacity mattered in every battle that followed.

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Compiled from primary sources by Lore Fortress editorial. Reviewed by Joe Garratt, Editor-in-Chief.