Ancients

The **Ancients** (古代人, *Kodaijin*?) are a race that appear in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* series. They were extraordinarily advanced aliens that existed in prehistoric times. They originally come from an alien planet and sought refuge on earth after they were attacked by a mysterious entity that destroyed their home planet. They arrived on Starfall Islands and settled there. However, their settlement on the islands was short-lived because the threat that destroyed their planet followed them, causing them to flee towards the location of what is now known as Angel Island. However, the Ancients were wiped out from the earth due to unknown circumstances, leaving nothing except their creations on the Starfall Islands and Angel Island.

## Concept and creation

The Ancients were created by Sonic Team, pitched as an alien race to explain the origin of the Chaos Emeralds. When writing for *Sonic Frontiers*, Ian Flynn proposed that the Ancients were ancestors to the Chao, as he felt there were already too many "random aliens" on the *Sonic* series, and this got approved.

## Description

### Anatomy

* Male Ancient.pngA male Ancient, from *Sonic Frontiers*.
* Female Ancient.pngA female Ancient, from *Sonic Frontiers*.
* Warrior Ancient.pngAn Ancient warrior, from *Sonic Frontiers*.
* Child Ancients.pngChildren Ancients, from *Sonic Frontiers*.
* Elder Ancient.pngElder, an old Ancient, from *Sonic Frontiers*.
1/5The Ancients share many similar characteristics as Chaos 0, being humanoid creatures with a long body that seem to be made out of some sort of energy. They have claw-like hands with three fingers on each hand, and two fingers on each foot. They have a protrusion at the top of their head, two usually long protrusions at the back of their head, and usually protrusions from their shoulders and hips, and they have two glowing eyes. The Ancients exhibit sexual dimorphism: Males have a masculine torso and shoulder and hip protrusions pointing upwards and females have longer protrusions from the back of their heads, dropped shoulders, a feminine torso, and thinner shoulder and hip protrusions hanging downwards. Ancient warriors are similar to normal male Ancients except they have pronounced eyebrows and larger shoulder and hip protrusions. Child Ancients are smaller, shorter, have much shorter head protrusions, and lack shoulder and hip protrusions. Elder Ancients tend to bend forward. The protrusions on their head go in a zig-zag direction and they drag downwards. The shoulder and hip protrusions also drag downwards a bit. Additionally, Elders appear to have a pronounced vascular system visible on the surface of their bodies.

The ancients don't normally wear clothes; however they contain Koco in their torso as some sort of good luck charm or they act as their life source.

## History

Long before recorded history, the Ancients used to live on a planet far from earth. One day, a mysterious entity known as The End posed a threat on the Ancients and their planet, in an attempt to escape, the Ancients built machines called Chaos Engines that harnessed the power of the Chaos Emeralds in order to power their spaceships, and escape from the impending doom.

Once they were successful, they mounted their spaceships and escaped while witnessing the explosion of their home planet. During their travel, they become close to the planet earth and the Chaos Emeralds on their ship start reacting to the Master Emerald on earth. As a result, the Ancients lost navigation of their ships and the emeralds drew them towards earth. The Ancients land on the Starfall Islands and start rebuilding their civilization from there. Among these creations were altars that harnessed the energies of the Chaos Emeralds, the Cyber Space which stored all the Ancients' hopes, dreams, memories and data and can be accessed through portals they created. They also created weaponry and towers and an army of robots in order to defend themselves if The End were able to reach earth as well.

Once The End arrived at earth and attacked the Islands, it killed many Ancients. A couple of the Ancients powered up their most powerful robots known as Titans with the Chaos Emeralds and made a backup plan that consisted of a small group of Ancients taking the Chaos Emeralds to the location of the Master Emerald. Four of the Ancients piloted the four Titans and fought The End, but it proved far more powerful than the Titans. The Ancient piloting the Titan known as Supreme came up with the plan of binding their Titan with The End and asked the other three Ancients to seal them in Cyber Space. However, the process of binding the Titan with The End caused the death of the Ancient piloting that Titan. The Ancients carried out their backup plan and a small group fled towards the land of later becomes known as Angel Island. Any other remaining Ancients that survived on the island have presumably died as their spirits were stored into their good luck charms that later became the Koco that inhabit the Starfall Islands. Eggman believes they died a generation later.

Not much is known about the Ancients that fled to the Master Emerald; though the DNA analysis from Dr. Eggman suggest that the Master Emerald may have devolved them into the Chao and making them related to Chaos.

## Personality

The Ancients' emotions are very akin to humans. They are capable of expressing various emotions such as sadness, happiness, amazement and love. They valued their hopes and dreams and memories as much as they valued their knowledge and information, they were also a group of archivists as evidenced by the Cyber Space that they created for the purpose of storing data in hopes of passing it to their younger generations or to those who would inherit the earth after them.

## Powers and abilities

The Ancients are extremely intelligent, with marvels such as the Cyber Space network and Guardians being far more advanced than modern-day technology. They are also able to telekinetically control their creations, and are competent pilots of spaceships and Titans. In addition, they speak in a somewhat otherworldly language beyond that of humans.

## List of known Ancients

* Elder
* Giganto pilot
* Knight pilot
* Supreme pilot
* Wyvern pilot

## Trivia

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* The Ancients may have been hinted as early as *Team Sonic Racing* in 2019, with carvings at the end of the Sky Road track showing heads that resemble that of Chaos and/or what seems to be an Ancient.
* The Ancients share their name and many characteristics with the group from the *Sonic Boom* series.
* The Ancients are known as "los Ancestros" (*the Ancestors*) in the Spanish dub of *Sonic Frontiers*. This dub change also acts as foreshadowing, as is later revealed that they are the ancestors of the Chao.
* According to Ian Flynn, the Ancients that piloted the Titans had placeholder names in the script of *Sonic Frontiers* in order to identify and differentiate the four of them.

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