Hi everyone! 
I see that the final vote on Hagah is now open!
I am very excited to see whose MOC will be canon.
Lately, we’ve been seeing a lot of MOCs built for future contests, like Orde and Lariska.
To be honest, I didn’t want to announce this Orde until just before the contest. Because it’s my first choice for the contest, and I wanted to prevent exceptionally to someonefrom copying the MOC structure.
(I announced Nidhiki because he was my second choice and also as a test to see how things would go if I had announced in advance)
However, Orde contest has getting pretty close, and praying that the contest would continue, I decided to announce this MOC a bit prematurely.
Oh, sorry. It’s been a long talk.
So please enjoy! This is my Orde! 
“The Matoran escaped; ORDE didn’t.
He was finally saved by the rest of his Toa team, but not before enduring days of interrogation.
Only his strength of will had kept him sane.” ─Narrator
【Toa Orde (ver.Bu / for ‘Canon’ Contest)】
【Data】
Kanohi : Sanok
Tool : PSI Blade
Element : Psionics
Notes : The first Toa of Psionics
【Concept】
In designing the Orde, I had to rethink the lineage of the Toa’s appearance in order to explore a more compelling design.
If Helryx is literally the “first Toa”, then Orde is inevitably the “second or later Toa”, and I thought GB should have updated their Toa building techniques.
So I finished the design of him as “Another prototype of Toa Mata” or “A Toa as a ‘Test type’ with Helryx as the ‘Prototype’”.
As I mentioned in the Concept image, the reason why Orde looks more armored than Tahu is because of my hypothesis that Mata was intentionally set to have less armor so that she could wear The Golden Armor.
(Please note that this is just a theory that became necessary when doing the design, and I have no intention of canonizing this hypothesis along with it for Fandom, if I were to win with this MOC)
【Armor design】
BIONICLE’s wonderful designs sometimes share a common design in their armor and masks.
Mahri Jaller has an arched vent (or drain) like design common to his Arthorn and chest armor.
Toa Nuva and Takanuva have triangular holes in common on their Limb Armor and Nuva Armor.
Furthermore, Mister-N has cleverly designed Helryx’s mask to follow this method, working backwards from the Roborider head-armor.
Following this method, I first adopted Sanok, a popular mask for Orde (I am a supporter too).
From there, I chose to harmonize Sanok’s “continuous wave” or “hardened brain” like design with the ribbed hose design used in the good old LEGO Technic.
(Of course, since the rules of the Orde contest are still undecided, his mask may be changed to something different, and I will follow it if that happens, but at least at this point, I felt I had to do the best design I could)
Also, one of Helryx’s biggest features is that she has a large additional ribbed hose on her body.
Whether this is a prototypical structure for Ga-Toa’s powerful cardiopulmonary function or an external energy pathway for muscular strength is unclear, but I’ve decided that it is necessary for her to exist.
(I personality opinion is that Ga-Toa’s cardiopulmonary doesn’t come from function, because they are one of Water’s Elemental power)
And for the Toa, which was created after her but with a structure similar to hers, I assumed that this structure was more “refined” and optimized to be smaller and smaller, eventually becoming the actuators of Toa Mata’s limbs.
So I attached a “smaller ribbed hose” to Orde’s arm as an “energy pathway in the process of improvement”.
Also, GB and its creatures tend to patronize the “continuous circle pattern” for their creations.
I respected this as well, and adopted a piece that has a design of six consecutive circles on his chest and leg armor.
I also intentionally did not use the same piece for the upper and lower parts of the armor, but used a stepped design so that it would blend in with the multifaceted design of the Sanok and BIONICLE pieces.
In summary, I designed the Orde with the most in mind: something that could only be built because the BIONICLE contest was held in the year 2021, and yet still be in harmony with the good old “ancient designs”.
【Toa Tool : PSI Blade】
I am also a supporter of his Tool being a spear or a sword with a long handle, but in order to represent him as someone in between Helryx and Mata, I made it from the common that Helryx’s weapon and Mata’s weapon of “painted with some color instead of a silvery metallic color”.
(Gold is an Elemental color in psionics, so I’m excluding it here)
I also see the design of Tahu’s fire sword as one of the most beautiful BIONICLE pieces.
His spear is based on this design technique.
(It was very difficult to harmonize the “invisible power” of psionics with the weapon, but when I got the idea of “vectors of invisible force”, I arrived at the design of “a spear that draws a large arrow in a unique and overall shape that harmonizes with the mysterious atmosphere of psionics”.)
【Specs as a MOC】
Basically, as you can see, i think his range of motion is sufficient.
This is the most important point.
I gave him the lumbar actuator that is also used in the later Toa Mata and Mata Nui - but in this MOC, it actually follows the movement of the lumbar.
Of course, such a small actuator piece does not exist in LEGO today.
The secret of this structure lies in the fact that I used a kind of “trompe l’oeil” method - the actuator itself does not expand or contract at all, but the ping connecter structure at its base allows it to move freely in all directions, and when the waist is pulled, the bar of the actuator is caught in the hole of this piece #32175 and follows the movement of the waist without pulling out.
(When you actually try to move it, the actuator bar does not pull out of the #32175 unless you bend his waist backwards too much, so you can play with it without stress)
(a state of his upper body tilted forward to try the limit to “pull out” the actuator bar. The bar still gets caught on the edge of the connecter’s hole and does not come loose)
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"I saw flashes of what he has planned for this world. He has to be stopped, Gelu … if there’s still time."ㅤ─Orde
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Thank you!! 
(About Instruction, I will share it when entring contest!)
