Nova Blast
"Even as he gloats over his triumph, I am summoning every last bit of moisture from the air for hundreds of kios around. I am merging it together, bending it to my will, preparing to unleash all my elemental power in one single explosion of force. And I do ... and I hope to the Great Beings I never will again. "
— Toa Nuva Gali, Toa Nuva Blog
| Nova Blast | |
 Toa Jaller preparing a Fire Nova Blast | |
| Ability | |
| Users | Toa |
| Expression | Exertion of all the Toa's elemental energy at once |
A Nova Blast,[1][2][3][4] also called Nova Burst,[5] is an explosive release of all the elemental energy that a Toa contains.[6][7]
Description
A Nova Blast is a destructive, indiscriminate release of a Toa's elemental powers over a large radius.
An average Toa's Nova Blast would encompass an area larger than the city of Metru Nui.[8] Safeguards within the Mata Nui Robot likely prevented Nova Blasts from causing collateral damage in other domes; a Nova Blast used outside the Mata Nui Robot can be powerful enough to wipe out all life on a planet or even destroy a planet entirely.[9] Due to its destructive power, Toa only use this ability rarely, as a last resort.
To perform a Nova Blast, a Toa builds up their power reserves and enters a state when a Nova Blast is primed without being fully unleashed. It takes willpower to remain in this state, and during this time, it is possible to halt the process, but this requires tremendous effort, as the energy that the Toa has built up must quickly be suppressed. By relaxing the mental control over built up energy, a primed Toa can unleash the burst.[10][11] The scale of the effect is proportional to the current power reserve of the user.[12] In addition to using their own power reserves, a Toa can draw upon the element in the surrounding environment to further boost the blast.[13] After releasing a Nova Blast, a Toa cannot access their Elemental Powers until their elemental energy has recharged, which can take considerable time.[14]
A maskless Toa can perform a Nova Blast, although the blast would be significantly weakened.[15] The Toa Hordika lost their ability to unleash a Nova Blast when they were mutated by the Visorak. In their new state of mind, they lacked the willpower to control their elemental energy, and while there was no limit to how much power they could put into their Rhotuka, by trying to charge it up to levels similar to Nova Blast, they would risk losing control of their powers and destroying Metru Nui.[16][17][18][19][20][21] Due to their heightened elemental powers, the Toa Nuva's Nova Blasts possess greater strength, range and duration than those of regular Toa.[22] A Toa Kaita performing a Nova Blast would involve all three component elements.[23]
Makuta cannot perform Shadow Nova Blasts,[24] although they possess an ability that is similar in nature, as was shown by Mutran.[25][26] With their weakened elemental powers, it would not be worth the effort for a Turaga to attempt the equivalent of a Nova Blast.[27] If Takanuva were to have performed a Nova Blast while he was a Toa of Light and Shadow, the two elements would have blasted in opposite directions, to his left and right respectively.[28][29][30][31][32]
The Glatorian imbued with Elemental Power by Mata Nui can also perform the equivalent of a Nova Blast, though it would likely kill the Glatorian in the process; this is because their bodies, being primarily organic, are not made to withstand that amount of energy.[33][34][35]
Effects
Although few Nova Blasts were demonstrated, the specific results of many Nova Blasts are known:
- Fire - if used underwater and outside the Mata Nui Robot, it vaporizes hundreds of miles of water;[36][9] used on land, it creates a massive firestorm[37]
- Water - unleashes a massive wall of water a thousand feet in height that can flood an entire island;[38] if used outside the Mata Nui Robot, it would potentially raise the sea level of a planet such as Aqua Magna enough to flood most landmassess on its surface[9]
- Stone - covers everything for miles around with stone[39]
- Earth - covers everything for miles around with earth[39]
- Ice - acts as a super flash freeze, freezing everything for miles around[40][41]
- Shadow - cloaks a large area in darkness[42][43]
- Light - incinerates and blinds everyone with a big flash of light as brilliant as the sun; severely damages and weakens Makuta[44][45][46][47][48][49]
- Lightning - strikes everything in the affected area with lightning[50]
- Magnetism - generates a massive wave of magnetic force, which can either magnetize every metallic object in the blast radius, or serve as an electro-magnetic pulse[51][52]
- Gravity - creates a large scale decrease or increase in gravity;[53] a creates a black hole[54]
- Iron - covers a wide area in metal and sends metal shards in all directions[39][55][56]
- Sonics - creates a sonic boom[57] or a massive sonic wave[58]
- The Green - covers area at least the size of Mata Nui with vegetation and tangles any beings in plants to the point they cannot move.[59][60][61]
- Plasma - produces a massive amount of plasma[62]
- Psionics - creates a severe mind-damaging mental shock, causing the minds of all surrounding beings to burn out and fall unconscious[63][64][65][66][67]
- Life[note 1] - brings everything (including objects) to life, ages everything, or extinguishes all life, in a certain range[68][69]
- If six Toa of different elements unleashed a Nova Blast at the same time, it would cover a large area with Toa Seal.[70][71]
Example Usage
Gali unleashed a Water Nova Blast, drawing in all the moisture from the air for hundreds of kio around and releasing it along with all of her Water powers at once, leveling all of Karzahni in the process.
Trivia
- The Nova Blast was first acknowledged in the non-canon BIONICLE: The Game as a "Nuva Blast." Greg Farshtey later confirmed that the Nova Blast is canon.[citation needed]
References
Notes
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