Airship

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Airship
Transportation
Mainly Used By Matoran of Metru Nui
Functionality Transports goods throughout Metru Nui
Status In use in various places

Airships were a flying class of vehicle used across the Matoran Universe. The Matoran of Metru Nui used them primarily to transport cargo. Cargo usually included Rahi shipments to Onu-Metru, solid Protodermis blocks and tools to Po-Metru, and other bulk items to be carried to points around the city. Until the Great Cataclysm, Airships were one of the primary methods of transportation in Metru Nui, along with the Protodermis canals and the Chute network. Like all forms of transport, they were based at the Moto-Hub in Le-Metru.

An Airship above Metru Nui.
An Airship above Metru Nui.

Airships utilized a complicated system of levitation and weight increase Kanoka Disks. A Matoran pilot controlled pulleys that caused either the levitation or the weight increase Kanoka Disks to strike the Airship's framework, causing the Airship either to rise or to fall.

A portion of a transport Chute capped at both ends was built into the back of the Airship. It provided forward thrust when it let a small portion of the liquid Protodermis that was under high pressure jet out from the back.

Airship pilots were highly respected because it could have taken years for them to master this complicated piloting system. Airships were built, maintained, and piloted by the Le-Matoran of Metru Nui.

The Visorak destroyed all Airships in Le-Metru when they invaded the city. As a result, the Toa Hordika and the Rahaga had to find the resources needed to build six Airships to carry all of the sleeping Matoran of Metru Nui through a rift in the Great Barrier and onward to Mata Nui.

Passenger Airships were never put into use because they are much slower than Chutes and Ussal carts. Prior to the Great Cataclysm, travel via airship was strictly prohibited for ordinary Matoran without a supervisor's authorization.

The Toa Metru once sneaked aboard a cargo Airship taking off from Le-Metru during their search for Lhikan, but also on board were several Vahki and the Dark Hunters Nidhiki and Krekka. The two Dark Hunters were ejected from the Airship in mid-flight over Ta-Metru.

Trivia

  • The Airships used to transport the Matoran Spheres to Mata Nui were melted down and used in the construction of the six Koro.

Appearances

An Airship as seen in the Comics.
An Airship as seen in the Comics.


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