Babylonians (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

The Babylonians, also known as the children of Babylon, are a species that appears in the AngieYaz/RoseOfSharon reboot of the Sonic Underground television series, emigrated from the mainline Sonic the Hedgehog series. They were an ancient alien civilization and the ancestors of the Babylon Rogues who got stranded on Mobius in the far past, where they gained a reputation as legendary thieves. Extremely technologically advanced back in those times and in the present day, the Babylonians are responsible for the creation of Babylon Garden, the Arks of the Cosmos and the earliest form of Extreme Gear.
The legends surrounding the Babylonians and their legacy form the basics of the storylines for the "Journey to Babylon" arc of the Sonic Underground reboot.
==Description==
===Anatomy===
The Babylonians' exact anatomy is largely unknown, though legends depict them as humanoid beings with pointy faces, feather-like fingers and quills on the back on their heads. Supposedly, they had the characteristics of genies and presumably either resembled terrestrial, anthropomorphic birds or their descendants attained avian characteristics after breeding with anthropomorphic birds on Mobius. Chances are, both of these two assumptions have some element of truth.
===Characteristics and culture===
The Babylonians were initially implied to be genies, although their alien ancestry might imply something else entirely. They were highly advanced in terms of technology, being ages ahead of Mobius' time. Even in ancient times, their technology was more advanced than those in the present day. As a testament to their prowess, their creations have the potential to possibly dominate or even destroy the world.
The ancient Babylonians used a unique writing system, utilizing symbols resembling foreign letters or syllables. While this type of writing has seemingly been abandoned over time, the descendants of the Babylonians and treasure hunters like Knuckles still know how to read them.
On Mobius, the Babylonians proved to be treasure hunters and robbers by nature and would fly around the world to search of treasure. Contributing to the fact that their crimes were great enough to incur the wrath of the Gods, it would suggests that the Babylonians were a somewhat amoral and unethical people. In addition to their thieving reputation, they were also known to be Extreme Gear specialists.
==History==
===Arrival and colonization===
Much of the Babylonians' history is shrouded in mystery, and their original home world is unknown. A highly advanced people in terms of technology, the Babylonians traveled through space in an ancient spaceship known as Babylon Garden, which was powered by the Arks of the Cosmos, devices that harnessed the power of gravity. When they passed by Mobius in the ancient past however, a malfunction caused by the Babylonians' inability to control the Arks of the Cosmos threatened to make their ship's engine core create a black hole―a "lightless black"―that would consume everything. Reaching a decision, the Babylonians condemned themselves by disconnecting the Arks of the Cosmos from their ship and sending them into Mobius' orbit while Babylon Garden crash-landed there. There, the Babylonians could only wait for the Arks of the Cosmos to resurface as they had hoped so they could use them to return to their home planet. As such, whenever they saw a shooting star, they would wish to go back home in hopes that it was an Ark of the Cosmos landing on earth. As speculated by Amy, the tradition of "wishing upon a star" may have originated from the grounded Babylonians' yearning to return to space and get back to their home world.
Starting a new life on Mobius, the Babylonians settled down on the still-floating Babylon Garden and built an island for themselves around its substructure, Astral Babylon. Over time, the Babylonians built up a reputation as a legendary band of great thieves and robbers known as the Babylon Rogues, who would roam the world, stealing treasure and loot alike. According to stories, the Babylonians gave a boy an "Angel Wing" made from the their advanced technology as a gift at one point, which stories said allowed the boy to "rule the world." 
During the time of Stolen, the thirteenth leader of the Babylon Rogues, the Babylonians completed their ultimate invention, the Magic Carpet (the prototype for the first Extreme Gear), which would let them travel all over the world to gather treasure without the effort needed to keep themselves flying. Thanks to that invention, the Babylonians and their descendants would become specialists in the art of Extreme Gear.
===Reclaims and losses===
Over time, Babylonians recovered two Arks of the Cosmos that fell from orbit. To keep them safe and their dangerous power out of reach, the Babylonians sealed one Ark of the Cosmos on Gigan Rocks and the other in the Crimson Crater until it was safe to re-launch Babylon Garden.
While the Babylonians seemingly lived on by breeding, they and their history slowly faded and would become legends. In addition, their descendants would forget all about their alien origins and achievements, leaving nothing behind but misunderstood legends about Babylon Garden's treasures and their scattered relics. Those descendants that remembered or otherwise learned of their heritage believed their ancestors were genies, and not necessarily aliens. Many of the technological achievements of the Babylonians were also forgotten, and the knowledge of the Arks of the Cosmos' ended up as stories spoken of in the legends of the Babylon clan, the only known family of Babylonians known to this day. This clan continued their thieving ways as the Babylon Rogues for generations to come, with the Key to Babylon Garden, a relic from the Ancient Babylonians' which could return Babylon Garden to the skies, being passed down along with them.
===Legacy===
In the present day, the only known descendants of the Babylonians are Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow and Storm the Albatross. They would also attempt to use the inventions and treasures of the Babylonians to achieve world domination. These attempts involved instigating the reemergence of Babylon Garden in order to steal the Magic Carpet, the Treasure of Babylon, and attempting to the procure the Arks of the Cosmos.
The present-day generation of Babylon Rogues uncovered Babylon Garden with the aid of the Key to Babylon Garden and the seven Chaos Emeralds. Thanks to the combined power of the key and the Emeralds, Babylon Garden was unearthed and returned to the skies. Someone tried to steal the Treasure of Babylon, hoping it was like the Angel Wing mentioned in the stories about the Babylonians, which let its wielder "rule the world". However, the Hedgehog Dynasty and the Babylon Rogues got to the treasure first and discovered it was an ancient flying carpet. A few months later, the Babylonians' true nature as alien genies came to light following the series of events that started when the last Arks of the Cosmos landed on Mobius. Upon discovering the Arks, Infinite tried to use them to take control of all the world's robots, but he was stopped by Sonic and Jet. In the aftermath, however, SCR-HD, under the influence of the Arks of the Cosmos's programming, stole all the Arks of the Cosmos and brought them to Babylon Garden, causing a black hole to be unleashed. Fortunately, this catastrophe was stopped by the roysl family and the Babylon Rogues. Afterwards, the Babylon Rogues decided to stay on Mobius instead of going back to their ancestors' home planet, just as the ancient Babylonians dreamed of.
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