Phantom Ruby

The Phantom Ruby, from Sonic Forces: Speed Battle

The **Phantom Ruby** is a gemstone of incredible power that was used by the Ancients as a tool to access Cyberspace. **Spectral Fragments** are the remaining shards of the **Phantom Ruby's** power after it was shattered.

## Description

### Appearance

The Phantom Ruby is a magenta icosahedron ruby with black ripple patterns along its surface. It is also small enough to fit in the palm of a hand. After being Shattered, the fragments share the same colour scheme but have various shapes and sizes.

### Powers and Abilities

The Phantom Ruby is a remarkably powerful gemstone that was created to be used in tandem with the **Chaos Emeralds**(Page To Be Created), and has the ability to manifest objects, buildings and creatures from **Cyber Space**. When the Ruby is powered, the ruby can draw upon the information within **Cyber Space**, and the manifest or create the location, object or creature within reality. Additionally, the Ruby draws upon the memories and perceptions of the user and creatures surrounding the Phantom Ruby, to store more information within **Cyber Space**.

The Phantom Ruby's exact powers are to create the user's memories within **Cyber Space**, and then manifest those memories within reality. **Cyber Space** is a constantly shifting digital world, the terrain of said world is constantly shifting, due to the dimension itself gathering data through the Phantom Ruby and it's Fragments. The Ruby can only create what a creature remembers or perceives, and cannot create anything on its own. However, it stores all of this data within **Cyber Space**, and so a user can draw upon the information stored within **Cyber Space** to manifest as well. The remains of the Phantom Ruby, known as Spectral Fragments share its powers, but cannot manifest as effectively or efficiently as the Full Gemstone. The fragments however will fuse when brought together, however due to their instability have a chance of shattering and scattering across the world if the resulting Gemstone is overloaded.

Additionally, a wielder of the Phantom Ruby or a Fragment can peer into the Phantom Ruby or its Fragments, and interact with the world within. As the gem is incomplete, the user will only have an incomplete and glitchy view of within Cyber Space. A wielder of a Fragment can even possibly meet with broken fragments of previous wielders, or other current wielders of a Fragment. However the user can also possibly encounter one of the many beings sealed within Cyber Space.

The Ruby or its Fragments can only achieve a small fraction of what the full Ruby is capable of however, without a power source. As the Phantom Ruby was designed with use in tandem with the **Chaos Emeralds**, without a power source what the Ruby or a Fragment can manifest is limited. The Ruby and Fragments have an internal energy storage, and draw from the user to use its own abilities. If overused, the user's energy and physical form will be turned into pure energy to recharge the ruby or fragment, and then the user's mind and being will be stored within **Cyber Space**.

## History

### Ancient History

Tens of thousands of years ago, the technologically superior race known as the **Ancients** fled their home planet in the wake of the destruction caused by the void entity known as **The End.** They brought with the seven powerful gemstones to act as a power source for their spaceships to escape. After their arrival on Earth, they colonised the Starfall Islands, and devised a tool to help them rebuild. The used the Emeralds power to create **Cyber Space**, a digital dimension to incribe their knowledge and the essence of their soul for safekeeping. However, they needed a key to Cyber Space, as well as a way to draw from their memories to bring the memory of their home planet to reality. And so they created the **Phantom Ruby**, a powerful tool to draw from their memories and perceptions and store it within Cyber Space, and then manifest those thoughts into reality.

After the Titan's confrontation with The End, the remaining Ancients fled Starfall Isles, and brought the Chaos Emeralds and Phantom Ruby with them. When they arrived to Angel Island, they realized the danger of keeping the Phantom Ruby whole, as a being could use its power to free The End from its prison within Cyber Space. Using the Chaos Emeralds power one last time, this time in tandem with the Master Emerald, they shattered the Phantom Ruby into 15 Spectral Fragments, and then scattered and buried them across the planet.

### Recent History

Over the next thousands of years, the Spectral Fragments have been found and fought over by several individuals and groups. A certain individual by the name of Senzuishi had gathered a majority of the Spectral Fragments, however he overused their power and despite delaying his inevitable consumption, he was sealed within Cyber Space as well. Later six of the shards were formed into 3 Family Heirlooms, and given to members of the family to protect known as the **Crimsonaries.** In the modern day of Eternium, there are currently 4 known wielders of the Spectral Fragements.

* Rashid: Wields Controls one fragment.
* Luminaria: Defender of a Crimsonary
* Anahita: Defender of a Crimsonary
* Adhira: Defender of a Crimsonary

The locations of the remaining 8 Fragments of the Phantom Ruby are currently unknown.