Chutes

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Chutes
Transportation
Mainly Used By	Matoran
Functionality	Transporting Matoran and cargo

The Chute System is centered in Le-Metru and extends out over all of Metru Nui. It is used as a fast way of transportation between locations.

Chutes are made of magnetized Protodermis held in place by an electromagnetic sheath, causing them to flow at rapid speeds. The electromagnetic field pulses, weakening and strengthening every few seconds, meaning that a solid object can pass through the chute's outer field if timed correctly. Also, the field's strength can be altered, so as to make it weaker or stronger, at a chute station. Chutes can vary in size, from small one-Matoran chutes to huge cargo chutes.

Sometimes, when there is trouble in the Chutes, the Chute's speed is slowed or even stopped. Reversing it is believed by the workers to possibly cause the entire system to explode. However, the Chutes survived when Kongu was forced to do it by Nidhiki. It's run by the Le-Matoran, who control the Chutes from Chute Stations.

A badly damaged chute was often closed completely and without notice for repairs, meaning transport in that chute became illegal (on account of the dangers of chute travel in a damaged chute) until the chute's condition was normalized.

Toa Matau found the Le-Metru Great Disk in the Chutes.

[carve] Underwater Chutes

Underwater Chutes connected Metru Nui with other underground land. These Chutes are all over Metru Nui, but they fell into disuse because they were considered unsafe, making them a very good way for different types of Rahi to travel, including the Visorak horde.

Jaller, Hewkii, Kongu, Hahli, Matoro, Nuparu, and Takanuva traveled in an abandoned underwater Chute in Le-Metru to Karzahni.

In Dark Mirror, Lesovikk and Takanuva used a underwater Chute to travel from Karzahni to Metru Nui.

[carve] Boarding

The most common way to board a Chute is from Chute Stations. At a chute station, the Protodermis flow is slowed down and the magnetic field is weakened enough for Matoran to pass through easily, allowing them to enter and exit the chute, or load or unload cargo. However, some Matoran use an illegal and more fun method: chute diving. The Matoran board the chutes by performing precisely timed dives into the chutes at the moment when the field is weakest. This is an extremely dangerous act, since the Matoran may time their dive wrongly and as a result land hard on the chute, possibly falling off it. Given the precipitous height of the chutes this often was a long and hard fall.

[carve] Force Sphere

Occasionally, there is a flaw in a Chute System, which causes a piece of the Chute's field to break off and wrap around itself, becoming a Sphere of magnetic energy, called a Force Sphere. Force Spheres travel through Chutes at high speed, sucking in tools, bits of junk, Kanoka Disks, and other things. The longer the Sphere exists, the stronger it becomes, until it causes the Chute it was traveling in to collapse. The Sphere then implodes under the wreckage, destroying its contents.

During the quest for the Great Disks, Matau had to retrieve Le-Metru's Great Disk from a Force Sphere. The Toa managed to create a tornado inside it to push himself out. After that, the Sphere destroyed The Notch.

[carve] Trivia

• The Rahi known as Chute Lurkers live and hunt inside of Metru Nui's Chutes.

[carve] Appearances

• The Many Deaths of Toa Tuyet
• BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui
• Comic 16: Toa Metru!
• BIONICLE Adventures 2: Trial by Fire
• Lunchable Comic 3
• Comic 17: Disks of Danger
• Comic 19: Enemies of Metru Nui
• BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui
• BIONICLE Adventures 4: Legends of Metru Nui
• BIONICLE Legends 2: Dark Destiny
• Dark Mirror (Mentioned Only)
• BIONICLE: Metru Nui - City of Legends
• BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts (Mentioned Only)
• BIONICLE Encyclopedia (Mentioned Only)
• BIONICLE Encyclopedia: Updated (Mentioned Only)
• Matau's Toa Metru Mini Promo CD (First Appearance)
• Toa Metru Promo Animations
• Vahki Online Animations

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