#kestora

[bagea]

The Kestora.

another headcanon-y kind of description of inhabitants of the matoran universe, since we do technically have images of them, albeit very blurry ones. so much was left up to my imagination.

[sepublic]

Can't believe the Kestora wasted the Red Star's last functioning teleport on a dude who could've teleported himself back to the Matoran Universe anyway... I'm surprised Mata Nui did nothing over what should be a major function/organ of his not working properly; Surely Artakha and the Mask of Creation could've fixed the teleporter, right? Especially when you get onto Botar's species, and how apparently only Botar ever got revived on the Red Star since its teleporter broke down, and his mind conveniently got scrambled in the resurrection process.

I'm still stuck over the fact that Gaardus could've easily fixed this entire problem by using his power to teleport the newly-resurrected back to the Matoran Universe; But I guess he really is that bitter over a few Matoran mutating him, so screw everybody stuck on the Red Star, right? There's probably so many problems that could've been avoided if the resurrected were able to return. Hell, it arguably works in Gaardus' personal interests too; Given he made it a routine to wait for the Nynrah Ghosts who experimented on him at their respawn point, just so he could keep killing them in revenge.

Gaardus outright muses that maybe he should've just gone back to the Red Star to begin with, if he wanted to continue his revenge; And given the amorality of the Kestora, it'd have been easy to work out an arrangement where he teleports the revived back to the Matoran Universe, and in return they keep repairing and sending back the rogue Nynrah Ghosts to Gaardus for him to murder. In fact, the very Matoran who gave Gaardus his teleporting powers might've been able to help, right? If they've visited the Red Star multiple times now...

But who knows how Gaardus' teleportation works; When he received it, could he teleport to every place he'd already visited up until that point, or only places he'd visited since he received his powers? If the Kestora have the means and components to repair just about anyone, even mutations that weren't part of the Great Beings' or Mata Nui's schematics (hence Gaardus), I feel like it should've been possible for them to give somebody the same teleportation range as Botar's species.

This makes me wonder if there used to be stories about people who died with their brains intact managing to return good as new, restored by the Great Spirit himself; So people figured out the brain was the final weakness of all beings in the Matoran Universe. But then people stopped respawning period, no matter how light the damage to their bodies was, and people just dismissed the whole thing as some creation myth. I wonder if there's a Matoran Universe equivalent to Cain, the first person who figured out you could permanently kill somebody by going for the brain.

[venoblade-bionicles]

Kestora, caretakers of the red star, fixers of the dead, unaffected by Velika's awakening. They had no emotion, only programming to fix, or did they?

The great beings, for as cold and distant as they were, were not cruel. They knew that death and resurrection would be a painful experience for any being, have they emotions or not, so they put one emotion into the kestora: kindness.

You awake on the red star, your joints aching, and your mechanical parts squeaking as you sat up, you were crushed by a large rock. You should be dead, but you aren't. You're repaired. You're alive.

"How?" You think to yourself. "How am I still alive?"

Before you have time to process, a being walks into the room. They're as tall as a Toa, with a face made of lines, none of which intersect. You're scared. You've never seen anything like them before.

"You are awake!" They say in a kind voice. That calms you, at least a little. "How are you feeling?" It asks.

Despite the fear you feel, you also feel as if things... will be alright.

[writerfromtheshore]

Loose ends I have questions to

So I am working on a story about Tahu and the Golden armor post Journey’s end, and research on Biosector has led me to find some interesting things about a lot that Greg wrote for the end of Bionicle. In no particular order:

1) Did the Dark Hunter Kraata Kal survive the whole golden armor ordeal? I think he did because of the mutation. It seems like his mutation made him more than solid antidermis, so it seems as if he is going to survive into the post canon. 

2) In “The Powers That Be”, Chapter 3 into Chapter 4 in the Kopaka-Pohatu Story:

All three little beings produced wicked looking hand weapons. (Chapter 3) 

The three Kestora raised their weapons higher in answer and began to squeeze the triggers. In an instant, Pohatu had seemingly vanished. When he reappeared, the Kestora had been disarmed and he held all their weapons.

“I said – oh, never mind, you know what I said,” Pohatu chuckled. “Now what’s all this about coming and going? What is this, some kind of a transport hub?”

“In a sense,” said one of the Kestora.

“Yes, you might say that,” said the second.

“Or you might not,” the third interjected. “Anyway, the three of you need to be going. You got what you came here for, time to leave.” (Chapter 4) 

I am wondering, what were these devices? What did they do? The Kestora said Pohatu and Kopaka had gotten what they had came for, so does this mean that they were supposed to get three of these hand weapons? And if so, what were they for?

Going down the rabbit hole with this... 

Maybe they were supposed to somehow cross paths with Orde, Chiara, Zaria and Gelu from the Yesterday Quest, and get these weapons to them? Maybe these weapons were supposed to work on a Great Being gone biomech, and that this could have been pivotal in the battle, possibly banning Velika to the Star. 

3) From the end of Reign of Shadows:

The Great Being should have been pleased by all this. After all, it was he and his brothers and sisters who had created Mata Nui and sent the robot on its mission, which culminated in the restoration of the planet. But things had changed a great deal in the last 101,000 years. What might once have been cause for celebration now provoked very different emotions.

They will seek the Great Beings now, he thought. They will want to tell us that all is well. Toa and Glatorian, Matoran and Agori, will join together on this 'joyous' mission. But all is not well ... and if they go in search of those who brought so much glory and so much misery to this world ... I fear they will find nothing but death.

Yes, there is a big hint in the second paragraph foreshadowing Marendar in the future sequels. However, let’s look at the first paragraph: 

But things had changed a great deal in the last 101,000 years. What might once have been cause for celebration now provoked very different emotions.

It seems as if maybe the agenda of the Great Beings could have possibly changed. Could they have for some reason no longer wanted the planet whole and rejoined, or am I simply looking too deep into this? Is this still alluding to Marendar, or is this something else?

4) Again, from Reign of Shadows:

Angonce studied his ancient equipment. It told him much about the state of the newly restored Spherus Magna. Mata Nui had gone dormant, at least temporarily;

I wonder if Mata Nui had some other mission that he was eventually going to attend to. I like to think that even though his GSR body was destroyed, he retained a lot of the files from his 100,000 year venture through the stars and had reports to log somewhere. 

This also leads me to wonder... as kind of a 4a.... there are mentions of several Great Being bases throughout Spherus Magna. 

Valley of the Maze

The mad Great Being’s tower

The place Orde et al were supposed to reach at the end of TYQ that was where they were made

The Great Being Lab visited in the Legend Reborn

What other ones could there have been?

[mocsbylexan]

The Kestora

Sorry, no Matoran Morphology this week. Have a blatantly non-canon interpretation of a canon species instead.

[ghost-mantis]

do you think the kestora are some sort of "anti-matoran"? (i still would like to see more stuff of them, they're cool!)

Oooo, this is a really good question! Okay, so I don’t think they are specifically designed as anti-Matoran, but there is little doubt that they’re amoral assholes. They have no compunctions about murder, dissection, maiming, and if the Takanuva pocket dimension storyline counts, genocide of an entire race of beings so they could live in their city.

The Kestora are the only beings that we know of that were not part of the Awakening, so they’re not fully sentient and are more or less bound by their programming. However, I think they were never Awakened because they are far more useful the way they are. Remaining bound by their programming prevents them from feeling horrified or becoming scarred by all the dead bodies they were sent or from seeing the trauma their resurrection process puts other beings through. None of them seemed more than annoyed by the fact that the Red Star was broken and full of maimed and crazed beings.

Each Kestora needs to have the skill to rebuild entire beings and transfer minds, equivalent to each individual being skilled in medicine, surgery, neurology, engineering, mechanics, and Mata Nui knows what else. They also have to be comfortable being confined in the narrow quarters of the Red Star for many many millennia. There is nowhere to go and no time or resources for any non-work pursuit or interest. Any normal sentient being would rapidly go mad under these conditions, but a machine fulfilling it’s programming literally could not care less. Velika probably planned on restoring the Red Star at some point, so the Kestora remained far more useful as sane tools than insane playthings. 

So the Kestora are essentially machines, but each has been allowed enough intelligence and flexibility to make their own decisions and hold conversations with sentient beings. They will do anything to fulfill their function and probably fall firmly in the “do not trust” category of the Bionicle universe. 

[sepublic]

I love how The Powers That Be portrays Gaardus as being wrongfully blamed by the Kestora for breaking the Red Star, it’s just an unlucky coincidence… Meanwhile the entire fandom agrees that’s what happened because god such an incomprehensible horror would surely make the system malfunction. We are ALL Kestora actually and I totally get why they came to that conclusion. Likewise, I understand Gaardus for killing the Nynrah Ghosts for making him like this; Other characters have been horrified by their mutations before, but Gaardus’ anguish and rage is the one I get the most.

[sepublic]

I just realized that Gaardus could’ve easily fixed the Red Star’s overpopulation issue by just teleporting people with him back to the Matoran Universe in lieu of the actual device that broke down. He just chose not to because he’s a dick I guess. And apparently every teleporter the Red Star revived wasn’t able to do that either for X reasons. Man the older I get the more sympathetic I am towards the Kestora hating Gaardus and blaming him for everything.