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I am always in the mood to speak of Echidna history. I think today I would like to speak of Mobius history as a whole. Perhaps some of the other Mobian species here would have insights into the differences between our worlds if I explained the history of our world.
Dr. Robotnik began his existence as Julian Kintobor of the House of Ivo, born in the city of Megalopolis. He studied under the genius scientist, Dr. Nate Morgan, for an extended period of time. Once his mentor passed unto him everything he knew, Julian conspired against Morgan and had him banished. During the breakout of the Great War between the Mobians and Overlanders, Julian worked as a high-profile weapons engineer for the Overlander armies.
But when his superiors discovered that he was using live test subjects to perfect his inventions, Julian was tried in court by the Minister of Justice, Colin Kintobor (his brother), and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. Sometime after his arrest, Julian somehow escaped confinement.
After barely evading a death squad sent after him, Julian made it to the Mobian border and found himself rescued by Sthe father of Sonic the Hedgehog, Jules Hedgehog, and uncle Sir Charles; both hedgehogs brought him to the Kingdom of Acorn, where he was welcomed. In gratitude, Julian swore allegiance to King Max and pledged to impart inside knowledge on the Overlanders to turn the tide of the war..
In addition to the Royal Family, a titled "Warlord" was charged with overseeing military matters. The Warlord at the time of Julian's arrival was a scheming lion named Kodos, who tried to take Julian under his wing in a plot to overthrow King Maximillian and rule. Kodos planned to stage a coup and send his enemies, such as King Maximillian, to the Zone of Silence. Julian liked the idea of conquering the Kingdom, but would never share power. Instead he tricked Kodos and banished him to the Zone of Silence. Following Kodos' "disappearance", Julian assumed the mantle of Warlord.
After defeating the Overlanders in the Great War, Warlord Julian used Charles' invention, the roboticizer, to his own twisted ends. After sabotaging it to turn Charles' brother Jules into a drone, he secretly had Sonic's mother, Bernie, roboticized as well. Bernie's roboticization was blamed on a lab accident, and soon Tails' father Amadeus was likewise turned into a robot. Julian's plotting culminated with a successful coup to overthrow the kingdom, using the 'dismantled' fleet of warships and an army of robotic troopers to take over. Changing his name from Julian Kintobor to Ivo Robotnik, he transfigured the once beautiful capital city of Mobotropolis into an industrial wasteland he dubbed Robotropolis. Robotnik's most symbolic victory was exiling King Maximillian Acorn into the Zone of Silence.
Once his power was secure, the tyrant then focused his attention on consolidating the rest of the planet. Soon enough, he had nearly all of inhabited Mobius under his thumb; only a select few managed to hide from his expanding reach. He would continue to rule Mobius with an iron fist, with his loyal robotic henchmen and his wayward nephew, Snively. As time went on, Robotnik disseminated various regional governors across the planet called "sub-bosses" to enforce his will and to lead campaigns against local rebels.
Championed by Sonic, the Freedom Fighters became a real threat to Robotnik's reign. He continually attempted to crush the resistance for years, until he began an attempt to have Princess Sally killed and Sonic framed for the murder. Robotnik also infiltrated the rebel base using a robot clone of King Acorn. With Knothole's location now known, Robotnik arrived at the Freedom Fighters' doorstep and held them at gunpoint. Rather than kill all of them immediately, Robotnik decided to make his victory more symbolic by using Knothole as a testing ground for his new "Ultimate Annihilator", a satellite weapon capable of warping reality. Sonic attacked Robotnik as the Ultimate Annihilator backfired, tearing the sparring adversaries apart atom by atom. However, while Sonic and Knothole emerged unscathed, Robotnik remained vaporized by his own weapon.
Later on, another Robotnik from an alternate reality appeared, calling himself "Robo-Robotnik." In his universe, Robotnik succeeded in crushing the Freedom Fighters along with the royal family, essentially conquering Mobius; however, rather than kill Sonic and his cohorts once he captured them, Robotnik transformed each into cyborgs with half robotic/half organic bodies; this proved to be a mistake once the cyborg Freedom Fighters retained their self-awareness and mounted an assault on Robotropolis. In a desperate move, Robotnik used his own Roboticizer on himself, becoming Robo-Robotnik.
Robo-Robotnik first sought a legendary giant robot called the Giant Borg. With the help of Scourge the Hedgehog (aka "Evil Sonic"), he succeeded in discovering it. Robo-Robotnik piloted the Borg by himself, wreaking havoc until he was struck down by the force of thousands of alternate Sonics, each arriving from their own reality to pummel the Borg to pieces. The scattering of Robo-Robotnik's weapon seemingly destroyed him, reducing him to a severed head. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, however, he survived by transferring his brain to an empty space station in orbit, where he remained in a stasis.
Meanwhile, the Dr. Robotnik of Mobius Prime was vaporized by E.V.E., a machine that was designed to kill Sonic, but ended up attacking Robotnik instead. Rather than dying, Robotnik was actually sent to the alternate reality of Robo-Robotnik, where he met his robot self. Robo-Robotnik appeared on a monitor and explains that the station itself was still incomplete, keeping him mired in space until his systems ran down. After assisting Robotnik Prime in returning home, he later followed him to Mobius Prime. After conspiring from the shadows for several months, Robo-Robotnik - wearing a skin disguise to fool everyone into thinking he was Robotnik back from the dead - eventually lured Sonic and the Freedom Fighters to his orbital platform in space. A brief battle with Sonic ended with Robotnik being doused with acid, removing his disguise.
The Freedom Fighters enlisted the help of Snively to blow up the orbital platform with Robo-Robotnik in it. His body destroyed, Robotnik retreated into a new robot shell back on Mobius, a design unknown to anyone, and unseen. With his new body he took on a new name: Eggman. While in this form, he also briefly had the power to roboticize anyone by touch. If the victim was unwilling to be roboticized, however, they are rendered little more than a metallic statue instead, a fate shared by the Overlander Nate Morgan and others.
Eggman continued to lose his body numerous times, only to download himself into a new robot shell. He later found himself, Snively (who had by this point been roboticized), Sonic, and Tails captured by an alien race known as the Bem. Eggman and Snively were transformed back into flesh and blood, and forced to battle for their lives against a roboticized Sonic and Tails in order to prove whether or not flesh is superior to metal. Eggman and Snively were later re-deposited on Mobius without being changed back, and have remained that way ever since, unable to re-roboticize themselves (due to an after-effect of the Bem's deroboticizer).
Not long after this, Mobius was attacked by another alien race: The Xorda. After Sonic was lost in outer space, Eggman took advantage of his absence by creating the "Eggman Empire." He struck a deal with the Dingoes, providing weapons and other support for them, in return for their allegiance and becoming his enforcers on Angel Island. With the Dingoes as an ally, he successfully conquered Angel Island and maintains control of it to date. His robot legions were controlled by a sentient computer named A.D.A.M. (short for Autonomous Digital Assault Microbe), prior to A.D.A.M.'s betraying his 'father' and subsequent destruction. Eggman also changed his main base of operations from the nuclear wasteland of Robotropolis (after being tricked into lowering the shields he had over the city, nuclear missiles infiltrated the city and irradiated the area) to New Megalopolis.
Most recently, he launched a large-scale offensive against the Kingdom of Acorn, using an Egg Fleet that inflicted heavy damage via aerial bombardment, and taking nearly the entire population prisoner with the intention of using them to power his operations via his Egg Grape Chamber. He also engaged in a one-on-one duel versus Sonic wearing a fearsome suit of power armor, thrashing the hedgehog physically and psychologically before departing, though he would come to regret leaving Sonic free when the Hedgehog and a handful of other survivors launched a rescue mission that foiled his plans and liberated the prisoners, though he is intent on rectifying this, deploying his Egg Fleet to the newly-revealed New Mobotropolis to try again. When he arrived, he had Snivley and the Egg Fleet open fire on New Mobotropolis' shield. Sonic, the Freedom Fighters, and the Chaotix fought and defeated Eggman, sending him back to his base.
However, Angel Island remained desolate from Eggman's assault, with over ninety percent of the Echidna population slain by assaults, including the Echidna cities of Albion and Echidnaopolis. The Dark Legion, split into factions as it is, remains the strongest concentrated Echidna population. However, with the Dark Legion split as it is, and in a state of civil war, there is little hope for the Echidna race, and we now border on extinction. Still, I maintain my position as Technomage to Grandmaster Lien-Da, and hold fast to the hope that we will wipe out Eggman and his empire once and for all.
Dr. Robotnik began his existence as Julian Kintobor of the House of Ivo, born in the city of Megalopolis. He studied under the genius scientist, Dr. Nate Morgan, for an extended period of time. Once his mentor passed unto him everything he knew, Julian conspired against Morgan and had him banished. During the breakout of the Great War between the Mobians and Overlanders, Julian worked as a high-profile weapons engineer for the Overlander armies.
But when his superiors discovered that he was using live test subjects to perfect his inventions, Julian was tried in court by the Minister of Justice, Colin Kintobor (his brother), and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. Sometime after his arrest, Julian somehow escaped confinement.
After barely evading a death squad sent after him, Julian made it to the Mobian border and found himself rescued by Sthe father of Sonic the Hedgehog, Jules Hedgehog, and uncle Sir Charles; both hedgehogs brought him to the Kingdom of Acorn, where he was welcomed. In gratitude, Julian swore allegiance to King Max and pledged to impart inside knowledge on the Overlanders to turn the tide of the war..
In addition to the Royal Family, a titled "Warlord" was charged with overseeing military matters. The Warlord at the time of Julian's arrival was a scheming lion named Kodos, who tried to take Julian under his wing in a plot to overthrow King Maximillian and rule. Kodos planned to stage a coup and send his enemies, such as King Maximillian, to the Zone of Silence. Julian liked the idea of conquering the Kingdom, but would never share power. Instead he tricked Kodos and banished him to the Zone of Silence. Following Kodos' "disappearance", Julian assumed the mantle of Warlord.
After defeating the Overlanders in the Great War, Warlord Julian used Charles' invention, the roboticizer, to his own twisted ends. After sabotaging it to turn Charles' brother Jules into a drone, he secretly had Sonic's mother, Bernie, roboticized as well. Bernie's roboticization was blamed on a lab accident, and soon Tails' father Amadeus was likewise turned into a robot. Julian's plotting culminated with a successful coup to overthrow the kingdom, using the 'dismantled' fleet of warships and an army of robotic troopers to take over. Changing his name from Julian Kintobor to Ivo Robotnik, he transfigured the once beautiful capital city of Mobotropolis into an industrial wasteland he dubbed Robotropolis. Robotnik's most symbolic victory was exiling King Maximillian Acorn into the Zone of Silence.
Once his power was secure, the tyrant then focused his attention on consolidating the rest of the planet. Soon enough, he had nearly all of inhabited Mobius under his thumb; only a select few managed to hide from his expanding reach. He would continue to rule Mobius with an iron fist, with his loyal robotic henchmen and his wayward nephew, Snively. As time went on, Robotnik disseminated various regional governors across the planet called "sub-bosses" to enforce his will and to lead campaigns against local rebels.
Championed by Sonic, the Freedom Fighters became a real threat to Robotnik's reign. He continually attempted to crush the resistance for years, until he began an attempt to have Princess Sally killed and Sonic framed for the murder. Robotnik also infiltrated the rebel base using a robot clone of King Acorn. With Knothole's location now known, Robotnik arrived at the Freedom Fighters' doorstep and held them at gunpoint. Rather than kill all of them immediately, Robotnik decided to make his victory more symbolic by using Knothole as a testing ground for his new "Ultimate Annihilator", a satellite weapon capable of warping reality. Sonic attacked Robotnik as the Ultimate Annihilator backfired, tearing the sparring adversaries apart atom by atom. However, while Sonic and Knothole emerged unscathed, Robotnik remained vaporized by his own weapon.
Later on, another Robotnik from an alternate reality appeared, calling himself "Robo-Robotnik." In his universe, Robotnik succeeded in crushing the Freedom Fighters along with the royal family, essentially conquering Mobius; however, rather than kill Sonic and his cohorts once he captured them, Robotnik transformed each into cyborgs with half robotic/half organic bodies; this proved to be a mistake once the cyborg Freedom Fighters retained their self-awareness and mounted an assault on Robotropolis. In a desperate move, Robotnik used his own Roboticizer on himself, becoming Robo-Robotnik.
Robo-Robotnik first sought a legendary giant robot called the Giant Borg. With the help of Scourge the Hedgehog (aka "Evil Sonic"), he succeeded in discovering it. Robo-Robotnik piloted the Borg by himself, wreaking havoc until he was struck down by the force of thousands of alternate Sonics, each arriving from their own reality to pummel the Borg to pieces. The scattering of Robo-Robotnik's weapon seemingly destroyed him, reducing him to a severed head. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, however, he survived by transferring his brain to an empty space station in orbit, where he remained in a stasis.
Meanwhile, the Dr. Robotnik of Mobius Prime was vaporized by E.V.E., a machine that was designed to kill Sonic, but ended up attacking Robotnik instead. Rather than dying, Robotnik was actually sent to the alternate reality of Robo-Robotnik, where he met his robot self. Robo-Robotnik appeared on a monitor and explains that the station itself was still incomplete, keeping him mired in space until his systems ran down. After assisting Robotnik Prime in returning home, he later followed him to Mobius Prime. After conspiring from the shadows for several months, Robo-Robotnik - wearing a skin disguise to fool everyone into thinking he was Robotnik back from the dead - eventually lured Sonic and the Freedom Fighters to his orbital platform in space. A brief battle with Sonic ended with Robotnik being doused with acid, removing his disguise.
The Freedom Fighters enlisted the help of Snively to blow up the orbital platform with Robo-Robotnik in it. His body destroyed, Robotnik retreated into a new robot shell back on Mobius, a design unknown to anyone, and unseen. With his new body he took on a new name: Eggman. While in this form, he also briefly had the power to roboticize anyone by touch. If the victim was unwilling to be roboticized, however, they are rendered little more than a metallic statue instead, a fate shared by the Overlander Nate Morgan and others.
Eggman continued to lose his body numerous times, only to download himself into a new robot shell. He later found himself, Snively (who had by this point been roboticized), Sonic, and Tails captured by an alien race known as the Bem. Eggman and Snively were transformed back into flesh and blood, and forced to battle for their lives against a roboticized Sonic and Tails in order to prove whether or not flesh is superior to metal. Eggman and Snively were later re-deposited on Mobius without being changed back, and have remained that way ever since, unable to re-roboticize themselves (due to an after-effect of the Bem's deroboticizer).
Not long after this, Mobius was attacked by another alien race: The Xorda. After Sonic was lost in outer space, Eggman took advantage of his absence by creating the "Eggman Empire." He struck a deal with the Dingoes, providing weapons and other support for them, in return for their allegiance and becoming his enforcers on Angel Island. With the Dingoes as an ally, he successfully conquered Angel Island and maintains control of it to date. His robot legions were controlled by a sentient computer named A.D.A.M. (short for Autonomous Digital Assault Microbe), prior to A.D.A.M.'s betraying his 'father' and subsequent destruction. Eggman also changed his main base of operations from the nuclear wasteland of Robotropolis (after being tricked into lowering the shields he had over the city, nuclear missiles infiltrated the city and irradiated the area) to New Megalopolis.
Most recently, he launched a large-scale offensive against the Kingdom of Acorn, using an Egg Fleet that inflicted heavy damage via aerial bombardment, and taking nearly the entire population prisoner with the intention of using them to power his operations via his Egg Grape Chamber. He also engaged in a one-on-one duel versus Sonic wearing a fearsome suit of power armor, thrashing the hedgehog physically and psychologically before departing, though he would come to regret leaving Sonic free when the Hedgehog and a handful of other survivors launched a rescue mission that foiled his plans and liberated the prisoners, though he is intent on rectifying this, deploying his Egg Fleet to the newly-revealed New Mobotropolis to try again. When he arrived, he had Snivley and the Egg Fleet open fire on New Mobotropolis' shield. Sonic, the Freedom Fighters, and the Chaotix fought and defeated Eggman, sending him back to his base.
However, Angel Island remained desolate from Eggman's assault, with over ninety percent of the Echidna population slain by assaults, including the Echidna cities of Albion and Echidnaopolis. The Dark Legion, split into factions as it is, remains the strongest concentrated Echidna population. However, with the Dark Legion split as it is, and in a state of civil war, there is little hope for the Echidna race, and we now border on extinction. Still, I maintain my position as Technomage to Grandmaster Lien-Da, and hold fast to the hope that we will wipe out Eggman and his empire once and for all.