Guns and weapons that resemble realistic firearms in Bionicle canon

[Keplers]

Where would we be without that wonder of engineering…

Oh, yeah. Exactly where we are with it.

[Atobe_Brick]

I’m not sure that Cordak blasters are realistic firearms. They have fins and a giant red button

[Winger]

in a fantasy world, “realistic” is subjective.

also that looks kinda like a minigun with a shortened barrel.

[NewDrewBuilder1992]

First, Welcome to TTV

Second, I see what you’re saying, to some degree. I know in canon, there were disk launchers, Zamor launchers, Cordak Blasters, Midak skyblasters, etc. So firearms aren’t outside the level of possibility. But as for firearms like the pistols, I see your point.

[HewksDKowlihad]

i dont see any problem in allowing bionicles to open carry m4 carbines

[Jathru_Cranli]

@Keplers

The secret that people won’t tell you is that guns are a part of BIONICLE canon. Not firearms, necessarily, but “guns.” Let me give you a list:

• Cordak Blaster
• Lightstone Rifle
• Hagah Plasma Cannon
• Energy Extraction Rifle
• Firework Revolver
• Impact Crystal Launcher
• Judgement Cannon

Furthermore, there are the semi-canon weapons from the Voya Nui Online Game. While not strictly a part of canon, I like to consider them canon as mass-produced, cheap weapons that are common throughout the parts of the MU that the story didn’t explore in depth. The reason we didn’t see them in canon is because all the characters we dealt with in the story were highly-skilled, specialized fighters who could afford or were issued unique weapons. I couldn’t find any images of the [Element] Launchers from VNOG, but they are very clearly rifles that fire whatever element is in their name; by extrapolation, an Iron Launcher would effectively be the same as a real-life firearm and a Plasma Launcher would pretty much be a science-fiction plasma weapon such as a Star Wars blaster.
Here is the Nui Blaster from VNOG, which deals Air, Fire, and Water damage simultaneously in-game:

If you’re creative or willing to bend the confines of what is “canon,” then guns are certainly a possibility. I prefer to give them a certain “BIONICLE” twist (Iron Launchers, for example, aren’t firearms, but get the job done). There are many, many ways to achieve the same results as a firearm in BIONICLE without actually using a gunpowder cartridge and a projectile.

Loopholes are such beautiful things, aren’t they?

[Keplers]

Mmm, if you want to call it that, yeah.

[NewDrewBuilder1992]

* thinking of possibilities for my MOCs *

[Toa-of-Snow]

Thank you for citing the Xian Weapons - they get forgotten all too often.

[Keplers]

I’m a roleplayer. It’s my job never to forget the weapons that other people forget about.

[NewDrewBuilder1992]

However this raises some questions about vehicles in the Matoran universe, can we still apply that to motorcycles in the Matoran universe?

[Keplers]

Destral Cycle is canon.

[NewDrewBuilder1992]

True.

[TheJerminator]

@Keplers

Destral Cycle is canon.

It’s worth noting, though, that the wheels of the Destral Cycle seem to be some kind of top-secret cutting-edge technology; no other vehicles in the Matoran Universe have wheels, and Jaller was unable to comprehend what he was even seeing when he first laid eyes on Umbra’s feet.

EDIT: The chariot included in the Piraka Stronghold set also had wheels, although I’m not sure if that detail is canon.

After doing some reading, I found that one of the early rules of Bionicle was “no wheels”.

[Keplers]

Oddly enough, Jaller commands a crab-pulled cart in the Dark Mirror universe, suggesting at least the possibility that wheels existed there. Perhaps under Toa Tuyet’s dictatorship the sciences and field of engineering were advanced to supplement her brutal regime, leading Matoran to invent the wheel long before it is normally discovered on Spherus Magna in the primary continuity.

[Toa-of-Snow]

Or it used levitation disks, perhaps?

[Keplers]

Impossible. Such a device would be repelling the ground itself, and repelling nature is morally abhorrent.

[Racie02]

But there is no more Toa code there. They’re all immoral.

[Toa-of-Snow]

Also Metru-Nui airships, which do exactly this.

[TheJerminator]

@Keplers

Such a device would be repelling the ground itself, and repelling nature is morally abhorrent.

@Toa-of-Snow

Also Metru-Nui airships, which do exactly this.

The only way to make sense of this is to nitpick the specifics of each power.

To me, the difference is that Levitation disks only cancel out gravity, while the Crast can actively create a force in any direction.

I still have no idea why the Crast is immoral (if anything, Levitation is more immoral since you are preventing a natural force from occurring), but there’s the difference.