HISTORY OF THE SEGASONIC UNIVERSE

Good stories need detail. That's why I slowly daydreamed up a world for Sonic to live out his adventures. You can call this Alternate Universe if you like, but honestly, Sonic Team is so general and repetitive with its game stories (chaos emerald get!), so uninterested in accuracy and good storytelling (how many chaos emeralds? 6, 7, 14?) that the fanfiction universes out on the net (Netraptor, Murr-Quan) are more realistic and better explained than the real games. So here's my spin at the world of Sonic.

Important Countries & Land-Masses

The Northern Dominion
Home of: The late Starlight City (Labyrinth, Spring Yard), Genocide City, Metropolis (Oil Ocean, Tidal Plant, Atomic Destroyer, Scrap Brain), Hill Tops, Mystic Caves

The northern half of the main continent, the ND is subject to some more extreme colds and has some rather chilly winters. A liberal country promoting peace and tolerance, Dr. Robotnik chose his under-defended homeland as the first target of his worldwide takeover. The Doctor has destroyed Staright City and built a new "perfect city" overtop to serve as his primary base of operations. The government still controls the rest of the country, but has slowly grown into disarray thanks to increasing badnik strikes on the population and robotic raids on natural resources. The population diminishes every year as citizens flee the country and The Doctor's Metropolis slowly expands like a robotic cancer on the land.


The United Provinces
Home of: Station Square, Corvalis, Never Lake & The Little Planet, The Mystic Ruins, Emerald Coast

A sunny and moderate climate overall, the country is divided into five provinces, all of which are booming with cities, natural resources and wealth. The largest and most powerful of the countries. The government of the U.P. has continually cast a blind-eye to the plight of its northern neighbours, in an attempt to remain unprovoked by Robotnik's wrath. The country will, however, offer military aid for considerable trades in resources. Though its army is under-funded and low in manpower, it is by far the strongest.


The Westside Island Republic
Home of: Chemical Plant, Casino Night, Aquatic Ruins, Emerald Hills

A series of long, sandbar-like tropical islands united in a common government. A booming tourist trap with its many ancient ruins and glittering casinos. A major manufacturer of many chemical products. The Westside Islands prefer to remain neutral in the mainland's battle with Dr. Robotnik; rumors even surfaced that the nation was engaged in trade with the city of Metropolis. This apparent alliance did not keep the country safe, as Dr. Robotnik eventually came looking to raid its natural gas deposits, wildlife and chemical factories.


Angel Island
Home of: Hydrocity, Marble Garden, Sandopolis, Sky Sanctuary, Azure Lake (a.k.a. Launch Base), Red Mountains, IceCap Mountain, The Hidden Palace and tons of rainforest

A landmass suspended in the sky by the omnipotent energies of the Master Emerald. Created centuries ago as a safe haven for the Controller, it preserves nearly all the remaining cities and technology of the Echidna race. For generations the species devoted itself to protecting the Master Emerald. Now, their numbers have dwindled to a single Guardian.


South Island
Home of: The Green Hills, Sonic.

An insignificant dot on the map, South Island has nevertheless an amazing animal population. Enough to tempt a certain mechanical dictator into coming down there for badnik batteries. Totally undeveloped by real estate.

*Other Countries are confirmed to exist on a separate land-mass, but they have yet to provide any contribution to the story-arc that warrants mention.*

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History of the SegaSonic Universe

Approx. 50 Years before Sonic Adventure
* News reports shock the globe: a freak meteor collision with the Space Colony ARK has reduced mankind's greatest achievement in aerospace technology into orbital slag. Life-support was the first system to shut down. The world mourns the death of many respected scientists, including Professor Gerald Robotnik.

* Military Kingpins congratulate themselves on a successful operation. The previously uncooperative Prf. Robotnik and his colleagues who survived the raid on the Colony are escorted to Prison Island to "willingly" engage in weapons research in a more "supervised" environment.


Approx. 20 Years before Sonic Adventure
* Starlight City University's Biannual Science Symposium. Among the scientists presenting and proposing new discoveries is a member of the university's own teaching staff. Ivo Robotnik, a young, but promising member of the science faculty, makes a presentation on a revolutionary source of energy that he claims will satisfy consumer needs and "make endangered species useful enough to protect". His research, which involves converting thermal energy from animal bodies into electric current, is met with controversy and outrage. When the University Directors discover Ivo embezzled department funds to further his "abominable" research, they agree he is a media-scandal and public-relations controversy to be avoided. Very quietly, Ivo is ejected from his teaching position, cut off from all university facilities and funds and blacklisted.

* Professor Edward Cliffs, creator of the "Cliff's Cannon" (later renamed) escapes Prison Island with stolen data and his colleague's diary. Intelligence officials are hot on his trail.

* The slightly deranged doctor tracks down Ivo and presents him with "the truth about Space Colony ARK", showing a diary made by the teacher's grandfather for confirmation. In the middle of the revelation, a military task force guns down the professor but Ivo escapes. A warrant is put out for his arrest for "aiding and abiding a known terrorist". In his escape efforts, Ivo looses his grandfather's diary. Convinced it was destroyed, Ivo is overcome with guilt.

* His bank account blocked off, his name ruined, and all proof of Cliff's story "destroyed", Ivo takes what bits of his research he can and smuggles himself overseas, retreating into the shadows.


21 Years before Sonic Adventure
* Amelia Weasel "welcomes" her sixth child into the world. Her husband hopes the runt will die, as the family is cash-starved and just plain starved, living in the projects. After surviving a month despite malnutrition, the parents change their boy's name, seeing as he has such a knack for surviving. His resilient streak would continue throughout Nack's life.


17 Years before Sonic Adventure
* Deep inside the Hidden Palace, a lone egg hatches before the Master Emerald. Raised and nourished by the energies of the Controller, Knucles the Echidna begins his birthright as Guardian of Angel Island.


16 Years before Sonic Adventure
* A hermetic hedgehog couple welcomes their first-born son into the world.


14 Years before Sonic Adventure
* Lindsay Arella gives birth to a beautiful baby girl, two weeks late from the expected delivery date. Though owner of an odd set of eyes, she and her husband Paul are overjoyed and relieved with their daughter's birth.

* The Little Planet appears over Never Lake and a team of scientists begins their exploration for the year. They meet with several locals, one a family of hedgehogs who introduce their newborn daughter to the team.


12 Years before Sonic Adventure
* Maxwell Prower is stunned with his son's birth. It is a healthy boy, average size, good weight but possessing a disturbing deformity: a second tail.

* Her parents mysteriously vanished, young Amy Rose is taken to an orphanage in a town outside Never Lake. The girl becomes a local oddity for her ability to predict the appearance of the Little Planet.


6 Years before Sonic Adventure: Sonic 1
* The government of Starlight City receives a disturbing, if not laughable video transmission. An obese lunatic who appears to be a look-alike of the late and respected Prf. Gerald Robotnik confronts them, claiming to be his grandson and heir. The madman demands that the city relinquish control to him within a week and prepare to "transcend this flawed world".

* Receiving no response after a week, the lunatic presents his demands again, this time transmitting live. The mayor flatly denies his requests and tells the man to seek psychiatric help. "Dr. Ivo Robotnik" expresses his condolences at the mayor's stupidity and warns him of the consequences.

* One week later, an army of warships and mechanical animals sacks Starlight City. Ivo Robotnik warns the federal govt. not to retaliate and claims the city as his own, christening it Metropolis, which will become a test site, to show the world the mechanical utopia he will deliver- by force if necessary.

* The Northern Dominion sends army troops to Starlight City in an attempt to fight off the mechanical hordes. There are no survivors.

* Ivo Robotnik sends teams of badniks to tropical islands to begin harvesting workers for his new city. The team sent to South Island is met with swift retaliation. Angered by the loss of his troops, The Doctor personally supervises a second attack on the small island. His shock troops are destroyed and the scientist's hovercraft badly damaged by a ten-year-old blue hedgehog named Sonic. Robotnik escapes with what "badnik batteries" he can, some being young anthropomorphs and good friends of the brash Sonic.

* The Doctor retreats back to Starlight City with the hedgehog hot on the trail of his kidnapped friends. After skirting through an abandoned amusement park, Sonic sneaks into Starlight City via an underground labyrinth beneath the city. He makes it so far as The Doctor's sanctuary – the Scrap Brain – and deals enough damage to set Robotnik's operations' back several years.

* Freeing his friends and many captives, Sonic is met as a world-wide hero. Among his honours, a philanthropist grants his wish to receive flying lessons and a plane, which the young Sonic dubs The Tornado.


4 Years, 2 Months Before Sonic Adventure: Sonic 2
* Sonic takes his plane for a vacation to the Westside Island Republic. It isn't long before his speed and acrobatics attract a disheveled young orphan fox – with two tails. Always eager for attention, Sonic lets the strange boy tag along, but zips away whenever his idolizing shadow tries his patience.

* Badniks attack the island country, making raids on large chemical manufacturers and fuel depots. This is the first known movement of Dr. Robotnik in almost two years, his counter-intelligence technology frustrating all attempts to see if he was even alive in Metropolis. Cocky and overconfident, Sonic pursues the badnik teams, sure of his success in beating the loony again. The fox "Tails" pursues the hero, much to Sonic's displeasure.

* Sneaking in through city's the oil refineries, Sonic arrives in Metropolis just in time to see The Doctor's ultimate weapon launch: The Death Egg. With the press of a button, an entire city (hence known as The Genocide City) is obliterated by the spherical fortress's awesome power. With a little help from Tails – a natural pilot – Sonic boards the Death Egg, squares off with Robotnik's secret weapon: Sonic Steel 01, the Silver Sonic and manages to trash the space station's power supply.

* Sonic is just barely saved by Tails and the Tornado. There is little hope assumed for Robotnik.

* Knuckles the Echidna, bothered by a continual disturbance from the Master Emerald, is awaken suddenly by an impossible earthquake. Sunken in Azure Lake, he finds a gigantic head! After some cautious exploration by the technology-starved Guardian, Knuckles discovers a strange, rotund creature inside the metal beast. Curious and lonely, Knuckles tends to the horribly injured thing and accepts its friendship. Robotnik leaves the island a little prematurely for the young echidna, but promises to come back and clean the mess his station has left…


3 Years, 7 Month Before Sonic Adventure: Sonic CD
* Hearing rumors of the Little Planet and its freedom from the bonds of time, Dr. Robotnik investigates Never Lake. A naïve little hedgehog is kind enough to tell the stranger when the satellite will arrive. Robotnik scours the planet, finding two Time Stones. Their magic is enough to secure a "Time-Bubble" around a section of the Little Planet where time is non-existent. They also secure the Eggman against the effects of age.

* Robotnik builds Metallia City within his sanctuary from aging and devotes his time to perfecting his Sonic Steel Series, among other projects. His hopes are to collect all seven Time Stones and revert time to before his Death Egg crashed. In no more than a day on Earth, machinery overruns the Little Planet, Dr. Robotnik's technology gains years of advancement and Sonic Steel 02, codename Metal Sonic is born.

* The Little Planet happens to be Sonic's latest vacation spot and he has attracted a new fanatic: Amy Rose, his regretfully chosen tour guide; the girl seems just smitten to have discovered another hedgehog, and a handsome one at that.

* Detecting the hedgehog, Robotnik sends Metal Sonic to kidnap Amy and lure Sonic onto his new HQ. Collecting the missing Time Stones along the way, Sonic makes his way to Metallia City, where he and Metal Sonic participate in the ultimate race upon the Stardust Speedway. Sonic survives – barely – and is forever scarred by a hidden fear of his superior double.

* Sonic nabs the remaining Time Stones and reverts the Little Planet to life before the Eggman. Robotnik leaves, but hardly defeated. Metal Sonic and most of his technology are recovered and secret repairs on the Death Egg are still proceeding nicely.

* When her hero leaves Never Lake, Amy Rose packs her things and shortsightedly trails after him. In the few times she manages to catch up with him, Sonic never accepts her beyond an unstable friend, but she is not easily thrown away.


~At this point, the various secondary, blatantly-not-following-any-main-story-arc (or any story whatsoever) Sonic games may be inserted into the timeline: Tails Adventure, Sonic Labyrinth, Sonic Drift, Sonic 3D Blast, etc.~

* For months, Dr. Robotnik reappears around the globe causing destruction and vandalism with no apparent goal. His true intentions are to keep the world busy as the Death Egg nears its completion. Sonic and Metal Sonic meet several times more. From conversations with Knuckles, Robotnik develops a curiosity in gems such as the rather secret Master Emerald. He learns about and collects the scattered chaos emeralds and designs a more powerful reactor for the Death Egg, which will harness their power.


2 Years, 1 Month Before Sonic Adventure: Sonic Triple Trouble
* Tragedy strikes Metropolis: a test-reactor for the Death Egg explodes, scattering the chaos emeralds again and crippling Robotnik's perfect city. With resources stretched to repair his city, The Doctor is forced to rely on outside to help retrieve his power stones…

* Nack the Weasel, unsuccessful bounty hunter operating under the name Fang the Sniper, receives a commission from a certain mechanical dictator that forever boosts his reputation. The rat encounters Sonic and Tails during his emerald hunt and the two begin their own search for the emeralds Robotnik wants so much. Metal Sonic is also dispatched and a month long, triple-way hunt begins!

* Nack eventually nabs all the gems and is pursued by fox and hedgehog back to Metropolis. They sneak in through the labyrinths – now a complex plumbing system, and Sonic fights Nack, Metal Sonic and the Eggman for possession of the emeralds.

* While sneaking through the city and exploring its computer network, Tails accidentally answers a transmission from "Angel Island". Someone named Knuckles is reporting to say the Death Egg repairs are near complete. Tails asks the trusting voice on the other end of the line for the island's coordinates and hurries off to find Sonic.

* Sonic makes off with the emeralds and Tails informs him that they may be up against something big…


Two Years Before Sonic Adventure: Sonic 3 and Knuckles
* Having uncovered the location of Angel Island, Tails and Sonic speed off for the coordinates and receive a poor welcome. Knuckles the Echidna, fed for years on stories of a "murderous hedgehog and his mutant fox helper" attacks and nabs the chaos emeralds. Sonic and Tails race for the opposite end of the island, where Robotnik has constructed a launch base for the almost-ready Death Egg.

* The Death Egg attempts to take-off, but doesn't get far before Sonic removes the chaos emeralds powering it. It falls on Angel Island again, this time landing smack dab in the middle of the Red Mountains, and perilously close to the Hidden Palace and the omnipotent Master Emerald. Again, Sonic and Tails run across the island.

* The duo accidentally find their way into the Lava Reef and by luck and reflex get past the Palace's defense network. Sonic and Knuckles fight one last time. Robotnik, having repaired his station rather quickly, decides to end his subterfuge and makes a grab for the Master Emerald.

* Hurt beyond measure by the treachery his human friend, Knuckles partners up with Sonic and helps them to reach the ascending Death Egg. But first, Sonic clears up things with Metal Sonic. In a terrible battle, Sonic wins by a scratch and sends Metal plummeting to the shores of Angel Island, presumably dead. Knuckles bids the two good luck as they board the space station.

* The Death Egg reaches outer space. Sonic and Tails total its reactor, causing a chain reaction which rips the fortresses outer shell, leaving a skeletal junk pile with a ring of orbiting debris. Tails is returned to Earth in an escape pod; Sonic remains to finish thing once and for all.

* One unsuccessful battle later, Robotnik abandons his ruined station in a space-mech, nabbing the Master Emerald for the trip. Sonic harnesses the energies of all seven chaos emeralds and gives chase as Super Sonic. The hedgehog sends The Doctor crashing back to Earth. It is hoped (but never believed) that Robotnik burns up on re-entry. Sonic returns the Master Emerald to a yet untrusting Knuckles. Their rivalry will not be over soon.


1 Year, 12 Months, 50 Weeks before Sonic Adventure: Sonic and Knuckles
* Somewhere among the chaotic rubble now over Angel Island, Metal Sonic reactivates. Rage fills him: Sonic defeated him once more and The Doctor apparently abandoned him to rust! He gathers what badnik forces remain on Angel Island and uses them as a distraction. He searches out the Hidden Palace to plunder the Master Emerald.

* Knuckles fights his way to the empty Palace and follows the trail of the assassin-mech to the Sky Sanctuary where they battle. Defeated by the "inferior echidna", Metal makes a final stand: Surpassing every barrier between machine and flesh, Metal accepts power from the Master, gaining the invincible energy of Super Sonic! The first mechanical to harness the power of the Controller, Hyper Metal Sonic attacks Knuckles with new zeal.

He is defeated still. This time, Metal is cast into the ocean.


Two Years Pass.


~All news of Robotnik vanishes. The populace of the world begins to presume he died with the Death Egg.
~Amy Rose settles down in Station Square, traveling occasionally to cities where the vagabond Sonic is said to stop in. She gradually loses contact with him, but not any infatuation.
~Tails, during a tiff with Sonic, finds his way to the Mystic Ruins, where an exploration team is excavating temples. With the new rail line recently constructed, they no longer need the airfield for supply runs. They offer the aging mechanic's shop to Tails and he gladly accepts, beginning to modify it into his personal workshop.
~Knuckles clears what scrap and pollution he can from Angel Island, but certain areas will remain scarred forever by Robotnik's activities. His heart hardens tenfold to all outside visitors; but, deep down, Knuckles still wishes he had his old friend Ivo with him…
~Sonic spends much of his time with Tails, but eventually leaves the fox to his own doings and hops from city to city, enjoying life without the fear of Metal Sonic.
~Though no one dares tread near Metropolis, everyone accepts that The Doctor is gone forever.

Hardly.

~Ivo Robotnik takes a long sabbatical to rethink his methods. He begins new research projects, leading to the development of the Egg Carriers and other devices of destruction. He pursues a renewed interest in the chaos emeralds and researches scraps of archeology and mythology – anything to tell him more about the gems. Two new outposts, Final Egg and Mecha Isle are constructed in and outside the shores of the United Provinces.
~Metal Sonic is detected and retrieved from the ocean in awful condition. Observing his chief badnik's memories, Robotnik learns of Metal's new power to harness chaos energy as if he were a living being. He fears the mech's potential but cares too much for his creation to destroy it. Instead he locks up Metal's memories of the Master Emerald and his power. Metal is sealed a stasis tube, and Robotnik prays the day never comes when he needs to reactivate his most dangerous soldier.
~After much research, Robotnik puts together a new Master Plan, which requires the construction of a new city, somewhere along the equator (which provides an excellent trajectory for space launches). Station Square is the selected target.
~Only weeks before his intended strike, Robotnik stumbles upon a new development in his research of echidnas and chaos emeralds. Quite literally, he finds Chaos…


Sonic Adventure
Destruction of the Master Emerald and release of Chaos and Tikal. Sonic reunites with Tails, Amy and Knuckles. Robotnik reveals himself to the world again. Creation and rebellion of the E-100 series. The Great Chaos.


Immediately after Sonic Adventure: Fallen Angel
At a shelter for the refugees of The Great Chaos, Amy Rose befriends Sarah Arella, twice robbed of a home by The Doctor and newly orphaned. They become invaluable to each other for their comfort and support. When Sarah's Grandfather is found alive, the girls leave for the city of Corvalis together.


3 Months After Sonic Adventure: Sonic Steel
Dr. Robotnik's Master Plan continues…