Zamor Sphere Launcher: A Study in Simplicity
3,833The Zamor Launchers were first created by the Nynrah Ghosts roughly 78,000 years prior to the Great Cataclysm. Toa Jovan and his team used these Zamor Launchers.
Approximately 2,999 years before the Great Cataclysm, the ancient weapons were redesigned by the Nynrah Ghosts. As one of their first team missions, the Dark Hunter duo of Nidhiki and Krekka worked with Lariska to steal the prototypes and destroy the machinery used to make them. While Nidhiki and Krekka were instructed to keep the Dark Hunters' involvement in the mission a secret, the Order of Mata Nui learned of the thieves' affiliations regardless. News reached Xia as well, and the Dark Hunters were unwelcome on the island for a while.
1,000 years after the Great Cataclysm, a group of Dark Hunters abandoned the organization and named themselves the Piraka. They traveled to Voya Nui to search for the Ignika, where Avak constructed seven Zamor Launchers from materials salvaged from the Toa Canisters that they had stolen to reach the island. The Piraka used these to fire Zamor Spheres and enslaved the Matoran on Voya Nui with Antidermis.
A group of Matoran soon stole one of the Piraka's Zamor Launchers. After studying it, the group's inventor, Velika, built a set of launchers of his own and gave them to the Matoran's new allies, the Toa Inika, filling it with Energized Protodermis to counteract the Antidermis. The Inika's launchers were upgraded from the Piraka's, able to hold up to four spheres instead of just one. Balta built another set of launchers, which the Matoran used to free the enslaved Toa Nuva from the effects of the Antidermis virus.
As the Piraka underwent mutations due to exposure to Pit Mutagen, they were rendered incapable of using their weapons and subsequently lost them on Voya Nui. Similarly, when the Toa Inika were transformed into Toa Mahri by the power of the Ignika, they were granted new tools and their Zamor Launchers were lost.