22,002 years ago, a spherical object is heading for Earth from beyond the Oort Cloud at a constant speed. But then suddenly, as the object approached a spot between the orbit of the Moon and Low Earth orbit, it turned into a humanoid shape and slowed down in speed. It was actually a gigant robot controlled from the inside by biomechanical beings that we would know as Bionicles. They called their huge robot Mata Nui and they were using the robot as a scientific exploration implement and a transport unit. They were looking for new worlds to live on, to escape from an evil force known to both us and them as the Makuta. The Mata Nui robot carefully landed somewhere in what is today the Bering Sea, west of Alaska and north of the Aleutian Islands, when it stood tall, its height was 7,576 feet high from the bottom of its feet to the top of its head. Standing tall like a towering giant over the prehistoric land bridge of Beringia, Mata Nui began analyzing the conditions of the world it had landed on, with the Bionicles operating him from the inside seeing the world they had come across from his eyes. They were being satisfied by the results of Mata Nui's analysis of the planet Earth. It was cold, but habitable. But suddenly and without warning, a small chunk of meteorite slammed straight into the torso of the Mata Nui robot, knocking out its power source and causing it to go into a deep slumber as it fell to the ground and came to rest. The Bionicle inside knew that without power, the robot couldn't open its doors to let them outside. So they decided to keep the interior systems of the robot in prime condition. So they did do so, until all Bionicles fell asleep 20,000 years later. The year, was 0 AD, the same time that Caeser Augustus of the Roman Empire was in the halfway point of his reign, by that time Beringia along with Mata Nui and the Bionicle inside him sank beneath the waves of the Bering Sea, buried in layers of soil accumulated over 20,000 years of inactivity. For the 2,002 years after the Bionicles inside Mata Nui would fall asleep, the robot would remain beneath the Bering Sea, and that year 2002 is where our story begins.