Template:Infobox LocationsEaster Island, known to locals as Rapa Nui, is an island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile. The Sixth Vertex is hidden beneath the island.
Fictional History
Early History
A long time ago, a race of super-ancient beings built a vertex beneath Easter Island (the exact geological status of it at the time is unclear), and presumably carved the moai statues scattered around what became the island, explaining their somewhat odd looks.
Estimated dates of initial settlement of Easter Island have ranged from 300 to 1200 CE, coinciding with the arrival of the first settlers in Hawaii, though Rapa Nui has more recently been considered to have been settled in the narrower range of 700 to 1100 CE. When the Spanish arrived and plundered the island and enslaved the locals, they took them away to die as slaves, ruining any chance of discovering the history of the moai or the superancient men.
In the following years, Napolean Bonaparte attempted to locate basalt statues guarding a Vertex in Egypt, unaware that the shrine he was looking for was on Rapa Nui.
Several statues, including two of the four basalt moai, were taken by Britain during the late 1800's. In more recent years, the new locals were demanding to have the basalt moai returned, since all the British were doing with them was keeping them in a museum food court.
The Six Sacred Stones
Members of the Japanese Blood Brotherhood went to Easter Island during the autumnal equinox. At the Great Pyramid beneath the island, they performed a ceremony which nullified the power of Tartarus.
A diagram of Easter Island with the locations of the moai statues was included in Wizard's notes, though he had crossed it out, believing he was wrong about it.
The Five Greatest Warriors
As Carnivore already knew the location of the sixth Vertex, he and his team went there as soon as they got their hands on the sixth Pillar. The Americans, have also already learned of its location in advance, had their Chinese collaborators pay off the Chilean government so that they could get access to the island when the time for the Pillar's placing came.
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As the final Pillar was set in the Vertex, the inverted pyramid activated, firing a beam of light which struck the Earth's core, accompanied by the light beam from the other five Vertices, causing a series of harmonic waves that repelled the Dark Sun.
Features
The Sixth Vertex
The Sixth Corner of the Machine, the Greatest Shrine of All, is located beneath Ahu Vai Mata in the North-Western corner of Easter Island. The cavern is shaped like a funnel, and there is are spikes lined around it which hides the safe route, which is transcibed onto the plaque describing each vertex. At the bottom of the 'funnel' is the abyss and an outlying ledge which leds to the inverted pyramid, and contains a battlement at the edge of the spiked zone. Once the Pillar is placed, the incantation etched into the Twin Tablets of Thuthmosis must be spoken aloud to activate the Machine. The Sixth and final Pillar was placed on 20 March 2008, not during a Titanic Rising as the others were, but during the Dual Equinox, when both the Sun and the Dark Sun are shining on the Vertex.
Moai
The large stone statues known as moai were in reality carved from 1100–1680 CE. A total of 887 monolithic stone statues have been inventoried on the island and in museum collections so far. Although often identified as "Easter Island heads", the statues have torsos, most of them ending at the top of the thighs, although a small number of them are complete, with the figures kneeling on bent knees with their hands over their stomachs. Some upright moai have become buried up to their necks by shifting soils.
Almost all (95%) moai were carved out of distinctive, compressed, easily worked solidified volcanic ash or tuff found at a single site inside the extinct volcano Rano Raraku.
Trivia
- The Vertex's inverted pyramid beneath Easter Island is the same Pyramind that Wolf mentions the Japanese used, though how they got through the traps, used it in conjunction with the Golden Capstone's polar opposite, or learned of its location is never clear.
- In addition, Wolf's statement makes it seem like the inverted pyramid beneath the island is common knowledge; if this were the case, Jack's team might have figured out the Vertex's location sooner.