The Great Kanohi Kraahkan

In another place... Angonce, one of the Great Beings, had fought down his fear. It would do no good to panic at this stage. He had to be calm and go through the situation point by point. Maybe then he would find an answer. When the Great Beings created the Mata Nui robot, their plan was a simple one. Mata Nui would return when the time was right, heal the shattered remains of Spherus Magna, and then power down. Neither it, nor the beings inside who kept it running, would be needed anymore. Some Great Beings wanted to keep a few intact to study; others felt the materials could be better used in other projects. No one advocated letting Toa, Matoran, etc. run free on Spherus Magna. They weren't independent beings with a right to life and liberty, after all. They were tools to be used to keep the Mata Nui robot functioning... weren't they? Things had not gone quite as planned. There had evidently been glitches in the AI of Mata Nui, Makuta, and the Great Beings' other creations. Instead of a simple repairing of the planet, there had been a robot war and the bizarre sight of nanotech creations nobly sacrificing themselves in battle and, in many cases, dying to save others. That was not the behavior of bio-mechanical servitors. That was an actual, new species fighting and dying for its freedom. Ordinarily, this would have been a cause for celebration. But at the same time that the Great Beings had failed to predict the future, they had also planned a little too well. During the Core War, the Great Beings had unleashed a “doomsday weapon” that came to be called "baterra." Their role was to end the war by force by eliminating any armed combatant they encountered. Once it became inevitable that the Shattering would happen, the Great Beings tried to use their failsafe to shut the baterra down. It failed, and the baterra remained active to this day. That failure made them think about how much power each Toa would have. If something went wrong upon Mata Nui's return, and the Toa were unleashed, the Agori would stand no chance against them. Suppose the Toa went bad? Suppose they wanted to conquer this new world? If so, then once again Spherus Magna would be in mortal danger as a result of the Great Beings' actions. That could not be allowed to happen. They had little time, but they put it to good use, designing and building a new creation. It existed for one purpose, and one alone: to destroy Toa. The Great Beings believed no single Toa, or team of Toa, could hope to stand against it. It was christened Marendar, an Agori word meaning "salvation," and placed in a vault. Angonce knew the abrupt appearance of so many Toa on Spherus Magna might well activate Marendar. He hurried to the vault, but too late – the living weapon had already smashed its way through three feet of metallic protodermis and was gone. It would carry out its programming and kill any and every Toa on the planet. They think they have found a new world, the Great Being said to himself. How could they know nothing waits here for them... but death? That's an excerpt from 'The Yesterday Quest' featuring the Marender, a powerful war machine, programed to hunt Toa down, capable of smashing it's way threw five feet of Steel Protodermis, it is the Marender! So I made a Moc of it (see below) which took me an hour and a half to make. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0041.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0063.jpg There's those creepy claws able to slash threw solid protodermis! I used two Vorox blades, a Raanu's shield piece in silver, a Rock steed's tail and some various conector pieces. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0075.jpg This is the right hand consisting of two Raanu's shield pieces, one black and one silver, One of the Top pieces for Nektann's Sword, which Antroz also used as twin weapons, two of Mata-Nui's Shield Pieces in silver, Two black Mantax Claws and some other various connecting pieces. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0062.jpg That's it's tail, I wanted to use a thornax launcher on one of it's weapons but it would have gotten in the way of it's slashing and shreding, so I put a thornax launcher on it's tail, along with two Rackshi pieces and a Makuta Wing giving it the appearence of a stinger tail like the vorox. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0077.jpg This is the Marendor without it's weapons even though I think there attached to his body. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0081.jpg Excluding the weapons, I'll review it below. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0082.jpg That's it's head. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0083.jpg I used a normal glatorian head and turned it around, but just normal is the same thing... http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0084.jpg It's just a Zamour launcher... http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0085.jpg Tail http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0086.jpg Conector...no point in showing this... http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0087.jpg Top of the tail...not much point in showing this ether... http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0088.jpg Arms http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0089.jpg Here's a comparison, I used to diffrent pieces so one arm is slightly taller then the other... http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0090.jpg There's it's armor http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0091.jpg There's it's legs, diffrent color armor but unlike the arms their identical http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0093.jpg Diffrent? http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0095.jpg Torso http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0097.jpg It wielding it's blade And that's all...hope you like it. Those pictures are massive! I've converted them to links for now, but you can follow this tutorial to reduce their sizes to fit within the site's image guidelines. - 3D Brickthing

Yep!

Mine would be the wastelands (if you consider them a tribe but their more like individual packs with diffrent leaders) there so awesome! Second would be Roxtus and third Terasa.

Pretty good. I think you just inspired me!

The moc of Sandrix is pretty good, but it would be better if you blended the pieces together a bit more, when I first reading the story I was thinking how you would tie it into the actual storyline but you pulled it threw smoothly, over all it was a good story and a nice moc.

Can I join?

I'm still standing... The sky flashed bright white, revealing hundreds of warriors, he guessed over six hundred, clad mostly in blank armor, he saw spots of red from wear he was perched, among them were about one hundred or so mounted troops, most of them riding Rock steeds and they were all marching towards him. The rain poured down upon his body, feeling as if it was soaking his scarlet armor, rain drops rolled off his crimson helmet into his eyes, he looked towards his right, towards the other twin mountain, he saw a few of his troops, the rest of his battalian were well hidden. It was time, he moved swiftly down the mountain side, the rain weakened as he reached the base of the mountain, the clouds moved and dissapated, streaks of sunlight shone threw the mass of thunder clouds, bathing the mountain side in light, the warrior cursed under his breath, his troops were to take the opposing army down in the cover of the rain but now if they attacked them they would be fighting a losing battle. He had two choices : Number one, pull back and return to the village in defeat or Number two, push foward and cut through opposing ranks with battle cries on their lips. It didn't take long for him to decide, he singled to Praxa to advance, the battalian charged from the twin mountins, as the two sides clashed all hell broke loose. He hacked though the opposing ranks with his crude sword, he dispatched a mounted Skrall, he grabed a spear from the dead soldier's hands, he thrusted it into the side of a Rock steed as he snatched a long sword from the ground, two Skrall attacked from ether side of him, he blocked the right one with his crude sword and the left with the long sword he picked up, he struggled to hold of there combined strenght, he withdrew both swords and spun slashing at both the Skrall's stomaches. In all the chaos something flew past his head just missing him by a inch, he was knocked of his feet by a brute carring a broadsword. He found himself being pulled back, he looked up to see Perditus, Perditus stoped draging him and moved around him blocking a blow from a Skrall but was knocked a side by who he thought to be Stronius, he tried to get up but intead he howled out in pain as a Rock steed broke his arm, he tried to get up again but everything went black. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ He awoke in a dimly lit cave. He layed on a slabe of stone, facing upward, he felt a throbbing pain, and remembered what happened. He knew he shouldn’t be alive...but somehow, there he was. Felling a sharp sting in his left arm he let loose a slight cry. Looking to his left he saw Praxa mashing some herbs in a small bowl, the warrior looked over,"Oh...your awake!" Said Praxa with a hint of exciment in his voice. "Yea" he said weakly. "The entire battalion was wiped out..." he said with sarrow as he handed his commander a cup of water,"Your the one who sent each and every one of them to their deaths, when you could have given the retreat...so they could pull back and see their loved ones once more...you and you alone had the power to save each and every one of their lives but you didn't...because of your own personal pride" Xiar recoiled, the words wern't spoken with hate or anger, but sadness, even though he wasn't dead, he felt empty. Empty and dead inside, he was their death, he sent them to thier deaths while he lived. He seemed to have no purpose or goal in life, happiness turned to nothing, what once had been a heart full of pride and joy was replaced with hate and thoughts of revenge. "I have to go" he said as he stood up. "But your wounds aren't healed yet" Praxa said in protest. "I don't care!" Xiar said emoitionless. "Really?" Praxa asked, "You don't care about the ones who have just lost their lives? You may have gaven the order that sent them to their doom but they did it because they respected you they would follow you to your grave, I would follow you to the ends of the universe, we might have not tasted victory that battle but we took down five hundred of their troops considing there was only one hundred of us...if I were you I would be proud..." Xiar stoped, a weak smile spread across his face,"Mabey I'm to proud...to proud to let them go..." he said in sorrow,"Just to proud..." He walked outside, and looked at the looked at the carnage of dead soldiers, Stronis's army didn't even bury their own troops, he swiftly moved down the mountian, without his armor he was more swift and fluid, as he reached the bottom, he saw two his close friends, Travana and Craxia, he took a flat stone and started digging, he kept digging into the night, at first day break, he finished the grave and placed Travana in it, he pushed the dirt over his dead friend, after that he took two pieces of wood and made a crude makeshift sign, he carved the name Travana, after that he kept on digging with the help of Praxa, he dug graves for each of his fallen comrades, he dug graves for each enemy soldier and dug graves for each Rock steed to have fallen in the battle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Once he was done the desert was a graveyard, about six hundred graves littered the ground. "Praxa..." he asked,"Do you think we did a good enough job?" "A good enough job" Praxa asked in desbelief,"We spent six months digging these graves...yes we did do a good job..." He payed one final respect to his falled comrades with a staff in hand and a broken arm by his side, he limped off towards the horizon. Praxa caught up with him and walked along side his commander, the Legendary Xiar.