The Excavation

The Excavation

 * This is the story of a war over a powerful artifact,

spanning the BIONICLE Galaxy.

15,000,000 years ago...
 * The Lifestone tumbled through space. It acted much like

the mask of life, bringing life to inanimate objects to life. It eventually tumbled to an icy world...

90,000 years ago...
 * The Agori villager, Exca, ran down the trail to the

command center. He and a team of Bara Magna's top archeologists had been working on the ice cold planet of Fro Magna. It was a horrible planet. The terrain was slippery and the nearest star, Heatris Magna, was forty-thousand stellar miles away. The dig team, known as the Ice Choppers, lived in fear of the planets extreme storms.
 * He was heading to the command center because he had heard a

scout had found something protruding the ice.
 * The command center, besides the tents, was the only warm spot

on the planet.
 * " What is it?" Exca asked, pulling down his hood.
 * His colleague, Tana, answered."The scout reported back saying

he found a meteor."
 * "Hmm, do you know were it's from?"
 * "Negative. If anything, its from another galaxy.
 * This complicated things."Send a dig team to investigate."
 * "Which one?" asked the dispatcher.
 * "How about the Ice Cavers," Exca answered."I'll lead."


 * 12:30, midday, temperature, -58°.
 * The small vehicle putted along the icy terrain. The Ice

Cavers and Exca rode in its interior.
 * "Attention!" the intercom blared, " We've reached our

destination."
 * The doors on the vehicle opened and the team deployed.

Exca observed the area. What he saw astounded him.
 * The ice all around them glowed yellow. ''This is no

ordinary meteor,'' he thought to himself.


 * 3:54, early morning, temperature, -160°.
 * Exca awoke to a strange sound. The sound was that of a

humming engine.Explosions were going off everywhere. He looked to see a metallic being rise from the snow and then, darkness.

70,450 years ago.
 * "This is Dardris, I'm home."
 * Dardris, an Agori villager was coming back to the [[Besta Magna

archives]]. She was researching the disappearance of the Fro Magna excavation team.
 * The commander greeted her. "Do you have any information on that

teams dissappearance?"
 * "Yes sir," she answered, "it seems they were wiped out by an

extragalactic being."
 * "What?!?" the commander yelled. " That is impossible."
 * "Apparently not."
 * Outside a pair of eyes watched patiently. What the were talking

about may be The Lifestone his kind was searching for. He had to report to Tagris.
 * On the planet Sinic...
 * Tagris waited for his spy to return.

He finally decided he had waited to long and deployed his forces.
 * His spy on Besta Magna had told him where the Lifestone was and he

was ready to get his metallic claws on it.

60,000 years ago...
 * Dardris looked to the sky, wondering what would happen next.
 * She'd heard that two more excavation teams had been wiped out

by metallic beings. The Galactic Council was preparing for war.
 * Then she heard the strangest sound. It was the sound of Thornax fruit

exploding on metal. The she saw a metallic creature, known as a Silicasapien, rise.
 * "Where is my artifact!!!" the thing yelled.
 * Another one with boosters on its feet flew in. "I found it!"
 * The large one, evidently the leader, followed it.
 * Then she saw the two creatures fly off with a yellow crystalline object.

Then came the explosions.


 * Tagris watched as the planet of Besta Magna was reduced to mere ashes.
 * Excellent, he thought.

5,999-3,800 years ago...
 * War waged between the Agori and Silicasapiens for millenia. It devasted the

universe and destroyed thousands of planets. Only the BIONICLE System was left untuched and uninformed about the war.
 * Eventually, the lifestone was destroyed, and the Silicasapiens retuned to their

home-world.
 * THE END