#kestora

The Kestora.

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.

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.

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:

The Kestora

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.