Ancients (SP)

## Ancients

The Ancients flee the destruction of their home.

The **Ancients**, are a species that appears in the *SKB's* *Sonic Pokémon* series created by Yuji Naka and Ken Sugimori. They were long-lost and extraordinarily advanced race of extraterrestrial aliens that existed in prehistoric times.

They originally come from an alien planet and sought refuge on Mobius after they were attacked by a mysterious entity that destroyed their home planet. They arrived on Starfall Islands and settled there in hopes for a new home.

However, their settlement on the islands was short-lived because the threat that destroyed their planet followed them, causing them to devise a way to imprison it and fleeing away towards the location of what is now known as Angel Island.

However, the Ancients were wiped out from the Mobius due to unknown circumstances, leaving nothing except their creations on the Starfall Islands and Angel Island. Despite their extinction, a new order was formed to guard their legacy.

"*The Ancients were highly advanced. You know, for being so... ancient.*"

—Amy, about the Ancients.

## Description

### Anatomy and Design

The 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.

Aged Ancients, such as Elder, 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.

### 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.

Despite their technological advancements, the Ancients also relished in simpler pleasures. While inhabiting the Starfall Islands, one of their favorite activities would be to stack stones into large structures and towers. The activity was fiercely competitive, and annual contests were hosted, with the winners being based on the height of their structure, as well as the creativity of it. They also enjoyed knocking the structures down, because it meant that they could be rebuilt.

Much like humans, they also seemed to have a less serious, more playful side. When Sonic questioned why there was a pinball machine in the volcano on Chaos Island, Tails explains that the pinball machine was actually a way to control the volcano. When Sonic pressed again about why it was designed like a pinball machine specifically, Tails could only tell him that maybe the engineer designing it was simply being playful.

## 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.

## Background

### Symbol

"*Faith is an excellent way to shape a group's sense of kinship. However, the markings in the sky are a clear and observable phenomenon, and cannot be the manifestation of a miracle. Perhaps the god of the Ancients despicted by the wall markings still exist out there today.*"

—Sage, explaining about belief of the Ancients.
Despite their highly advanced technology, the Ancients had a form of religion. They worshiped an unknown deity, only identified with a symbol. Sage speculates that, whoever this deity is, it still exists somehow. The symbol of the Ancients appears during the story of *Frontiers*, every time the characters relive the memories of the ancients after helping the Koco complete their mission and find peace. It appears in the sky, close to the recently departed Koco, ominously.

The symbol appears in the base game post-credits sequence on Dr. Spicer's computer when Sage is revived by him with his uncle's help.

## Known Ancients

* Master King (Leader)
* Crane
* Dragon
* Snake
* Tiger
* Elder

## History

### Past

#### Early History

Long before recorded history, the Ancients used to live on a planet far from Mobius, along with other four Ancient tribes. One day, a mysterious entity known as The End posed a threat on the Ancients and their planet, eradicating those four tribes in the progress. 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 Mobius. 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 was able to reach Earth as well. Once the End arrived at Mobius and attacked the Islands, it killed many inhabitants there.

A couple of the Ancients had powered up their most powerful robots known as Titans with the Chaos Emeralds and made a backup plan that consisted of a small surviving 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.

Crane, 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 their death. The Ancients carried out their backup plan and a small surviving group fled towards the island that would later become 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, which inhabit the Starfall Islands. Spicer 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. Spicer suggest that the Master Emerald may have devolved them into the Chao and making them related to Chaos.

## External links

* Ancients *‎‎‎Heroes Wiki*
* Ancients *‎‎‎The Sonic Wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* The Ancients may have been hinted as early as *Team 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 Clan of Mobians who were carrying on their legacy.
* According to Ian Flynn, the Ancients that piloted the Titans had placeholder names in the script of the *Frontiers* in order to identify and differentiate the four of them.
	+ The pilots were left nameless until *The Final Horizon* where they were given names, via the title names of the Trial notifications; Dragon, Snake, Tiger and Crane.