Eggman Empire/History

This is the history of the *Eggman Empire* from the *Sonic the Hedgehog series*.

## History

### Past

For many years, Dr. Eggman himself would dream of annexing the whole world into his own Eggman Empire to create a utopia he dubbed Eggmanland, unifying the entire planet into a single, global political body. It was the doctor's evident selfishness and lack of common sense that convinced him that a world government under his hands would turn the planet into a much better place and benefit all of its inhabitants.

In his bid to conquer the world and annex it into the Eggman Empire, Eggman would establish MeteorTech. Despite appearing as a legitimate weapons/security manufacturing company, the doctor was using it to seed his robots everywhere. When ready, he would then issue a call to them to make them start a rampage that he could use to take over the world and then finally build Eggmanland. He also began planning to build an interplanetary amusement park to harness the Wisps' Hyper-go-on.

### Present

During the South Island incident, Dr. Eggman heard of legends claiming that the six Chaos Emeralds were hidden on the island. Seeking to find the Emeralds and exploit their power to expand his Eggman Empire on a global scale, the doctor immediately invaded South Island and kidnapped the local Animals to turn them into robotic soldiers known as Badniks. However, the scientist's plans were put to ruins when Sonic found the Chaos Emeralds first and set the Animals free, before invading the villain's base and making it crumble down.

Next, Eggman attempted to find the seven Time Stones on Little Planet when the tiny planet appeared over Never Lake, but this plan was foiled by Sonic too. He then set his sights on West Side Island, where the six Chaos Emeralds, along with a seventh one, were said to lay dormant in the aftermath of the incident on South Island. This time around, he wanted to use the Emeralds to fuel his most powerful weapon, the Death Egg, a massive space station to take over the planet with. However, Sonic and his new ally, Miles "Tails" Prower, were able to liberate West Side Island from the doctor's forces and make the Death Egg crash-land on Angel Island. Detecting the power of the incredibly powerful Master Emerald there, Eggman plotted to use it to energize the Death Egg and resume his plans for world conquest. He subsequently built a base on the island to repair the space station with while transforming the island and producing new Badnik workers from the island's Animals. He also met Knuckles the Echidna, the sole inhabitant and guardian of Angel Island. Passing himself off as a benevolent scientist who had come to study the Death Egg, he tricked him into thinking that Sonic and Tails were coming to the island to steal the Master Emerald. The echidna thus aligned himself with the scientist, thus unwillingly helping him with his plans. Knuckles and Eggman would attack Sonic and Tails several times when they arrived on Angel Island. Eventually, the Death Egg was fully repaired, and the doctor was able to relaunch it relatively undisturbed into the skies. However, Sonic and Tails were able to board the station in time and make it crash again, this time on Lava Reef. Eventually stealing the Master Emerald from the Hidden Palace for his space fortress while Knuckles was fighting Sonic, Eggman was able to escape with the massive gem and use it to re-launch his craft once more. However, after the Death Egg had made it into space, Sonic and Tails would engage the scientist and his Master Emerald-powered Giant Eggman Robo onboard the vessel. Upon the villain's defeat, the fortress was destroyed. the doctor then made a final attempt to escape with the massive gem in his Final Weapon but was defeated by the hedgehog. Sometime later, an Eggrobo and Mecha Sonic Mk. II attempted to steal the Master Emerald, but they were stopped by Knuckles, with the unexpected help from Sonic.

Later, Dr. Eggman would make several attempts to establish his empire, but all of these were in vain. Eventually, he made an attempt to establish Eggmanland, which he sought to build over the ruins of Station Square after destroying it. To do that, he released an ancient deity called Chaos from the Master Emerald and searched for the Chaos Emeralds in order to make Chaos evolve into Perfect Chaos and have it destroy Station Square. Eggman also prepared Final Egg and the Egg Carrier. However, his plans went south when Sonic and his allies ruined his operations and Chaos turned on him, leaving it to the heroes to stop it.

Soon after, Eggman took another drastic effort to establish his Eggman Empire. Learning of the Guardian Units of Nations' (G.U.N.) top secret weapon called Shadow the Hedgehog that his grandfather, Professor Gerald Robotnik, had created, the doctor attacked Prison Island and released the black hedgehog, who turned out to be the "Ultimate Lifeform". Shadow promptly led Eggman to Space Colony ARK, where he had him take control of the Eclipse Cannon, a weapon capable of destroying planets that was created by Gerald. The scientist thus planned to supply it with the Chaos Emeralds and use it to force the President of the United Federation to surrender, thereby establishing the Eggman Empire on a global scale. He was also joined in his campaign by Rouge the Bat, who was secretly an agent working for the government. After getting six Emeralds, Eggman demonstrated his newfound power to the world by blowing up half of the moon, before forcing the world to surrender itself to the Eggman Empire's rule. However, Eggman ended up saving the world alongside Sonic and his allies when his scheme to use the Eclipse Cannon led to the activation of a program onboard the Space Colony ARK installed by his grandfather that would have destroyed the planet.

A few failed attempts to establish the Eggman Empire had followed suit, including building various new space stations for his agenda. Eventually, Neo Metal Sonic imprisoned Dr. Eggman and took control of the empire in his bid to establish his own global robot kingdom, and finally defeat his rival Sonic for good. To this end, he mobilized the doctor's Egg Fleet to launch a full-scale assault on the world while copying the data of Teams Sonic, Dark, Rose and Chaotix, who got caught up in the events. At the same time, Eggman hired Team Chaotix to find and release him. In the end though, Neo Metal Sonic was defeated by the combined forces of the four teams and was reverted to his original form. Meanwhile, the scientist took back control of the Eggman Empire, although not before trying to avoid paying the Chaotix for their services. At a later point, the villain would attempt to exploit the destructive powers of the ancient weapon Gizoid to conquer the world.

Soon after, the Eggman Empire waged against the Black Arms when they invaded the earth, as Eggman could not establish his empire if the aliens destroyed the planet. He also had to contend with being attacked by G.U.N. as well. At the end though, the doctor helped with the attack on the Black Comet and the eventual destruction of the Black Arms, thus saving his plans for the Eggman Empire.

Eggman would later have several interactions with his descendant from the far future, Eggman Nega. Together, these two teamed up twice to create a universe-encompassing Eggmanland upon Sonic's universe and the Sol Dimension. To pull off this scheme, they sought the power of both the Chaos Emeralds and the Sol Emeralds. However, both of their plans were foiled thanks to the combined efforts of Sonic and Blaze. Additionally, on two occasions, Nega would overthrow Eggman and attempt to destroy the world while disguised as his ancestor, first by turning the planet into cards, and later by unleashing the Ifrit. Fortunately, though, thanks to the combined efforts of Sonic, his friends, and Eggman himself, Nega's plans were never realized.

Various encounters with the Eggman Empire, the Babylon Rogues, and Sonic and his team would occur in the next few incidents. Also, in an aborted timeline, Eggman learned of the Flames of Disaster and Mephiles the Dark, both of whom were the respective halves of Solaris, a deity with the power to reshape time itself. He thus sought to gain control of the deity's power and use it to dominate the world with his empire across all of time. To this end, he attempted to kidnap Princess Elise the Third of Soleanna, who held the Flames of Disaster inside her. He also managed to secure the Scepter of Darkness, which contained Mephiles. However, despite numerous attempts to secure both Mephiles and the Flames for himself, Eggman's plan was ultimately thwarted by Sonic and his numerous allies. The doctor would later ally himself with his enemies to help destroy Solaris when the deity was reformed and sought to destroy time. When history was later rewritten so Solaris never existed, the Eggman Empire's plans for Solaris never came to be.

During the Dark Gaia incident, Eggman launched a space armada under the guise of seeking to conquer the world. In fact though, this was all a part of a plot to lure Sonic and the seven Chaos Emeralds to his Chaos Energy Cannon. Tricking Super Sonic into the heart of the cannon, the doctor used the power of the Emeralds to break the earth into several fragments, thereby leading to the premature start of the time of awakening, where two primordial entities - Dark Gaia and Light Gaia - would clash. Eggman then ejected Sonic, who had become Sonic the Werehog in the process, from the Chaos Energy Cannon. As the next part of his plan, Eggman sought to harness Dark Gaia's power in order to use its energies to fuel the construction efforts of Eggmanland. Although the beast's dispersion across the globe put a hamper on his plans, the doctor soon gathered enough of its energies to finally build his city on a small continent. Unfortunately for Eggman, Eggmanland got torn down after Sonic and Light Gaia arrived in the city. It then seemingly collapsed in on itself when the hole leading to the earth's core that it was built upon was opened. In addition, Eggman was unable to control Dark Gaia, who swatted him away before being stopped by Sonic.

Next, the Eggman Empire took over numerous planets populated by Wisps with the purpose of draining them of their powers, which were to serve as energy sources for a Mind Control Ray with which Eggman planned to brainwash the entire universe into serving him. To have easy access to the planets, the doctor dragged the planets to Sonic's world and made them a part of an interstellar amusement park known as Egg Planet Park, which he claimed to the public was built as an apology for his past misdeeds. Sonic and Tails soon discovered though that behind the benevolent façade of the park, Eggman was kidnapping the Wisps left and right. Although the doctor got surprisingly close to getting everyone on Sonic's world under his control, an energy leak in the cannon made by Sonic caused the mind control cannon to malfunction and create a black hole that destroyed the entirety of Egg Planet Park. Despite this, Eggman decided to destroy Sonic anyway, but was eventually defeated and left stranded in space. There, he came across the Time Eater, an entity with the power to erase time and space. Hatching a new plan to ensure the Eggman Empire's dominance, he took control of the monster and began erasing Sonic's actions from history, which in turn would undo the empire's past defeats and ensure its rule over the world. As the universe fell into chaos, Eggman used the Time Eater to kidnap the hedgehog and his friends and sent them to White Space, a dimension without time. He then kidnapped his past self, whom he teamed up with to perfect the Time Eater. Ultimately, however, they were defeated when they were confronted by Modern and Classic Sonic, who destroyed the Time Eater and left the Eggmen stranded in White Space.

Later, Eggman moved his empire's operations to the Lost Hex, a floating continent where he had enslaved a group of villainous Zeti known as the Deadly Six with the Cacophonic Conch and forced them into serving as his enforcers and gathering Animals for him. There, he began building an army of Badniks for his empire to take over the world with while experimenting with his Extractor, a device he had built on the Lost Hex that could extract the world's life, which he planned to use to power his ultimate weapon. However, the doctor lost his grip on the Deadly Six when Sonic got rid of the Cacophonic Conch and had to escape the Zeti when they retaliated. Eggman and his lackeys then had to team up with Sonic and Tails to stop the Deadly Six when they took control of the Eggman Empire's forces and began using the Extractor to destroy the world. After later faking his death, the scientist tried double-crossing the heroes after the Deadly Six were defeated in an attempt to take over the remains of the world using his ultimate weapon. However, he was soon defeated by the hedgehog. Tails, in turn, would use Eggman's Extractor to return the energy the machine had stolen to the world, restoring it to its former self.

Eventually, Eggman found a mysterious yet very powerful jewel that he dubbed the Phantom Ruby, which allowed him to control virtual reality. Soon after, he made a jackal mercenary, who would later be known as Infinite, the leader of his Eggman Army. Needing the perfect weapon to defeat Sonic and conquer the world, the doctor created several Phantom Ruby prototypes to research the powers of this gem, and implanted the real ruby on Infinite. This granted the jackal the ability to produce Phantom Copies. Using copies of Shadow, Metal Sonic, Chaos and Zavok, Infinite shockingly defeated Sonic. After that, Eggman imprisoned the hedgehog onboard his Death Egg. Without his despised nemesis to oppose the Eggman Empire, its forces conquered 99.9% of the world over the next few months, initiating a period of wars and chaos. Several places in the world and the outer space surrounding it fell under the influence from the evil scientist. In addition, paradisiacal locations like Green Hill were destroyed by desertification and then industrialization to serve as a weapons depot]], while industrial areas like Chemical Plant were expanded to other regions on the planet, serving as both a chemical factory and a spaceport. However, after six months of the doctor's tyrannical reign, the Eggman Empire was pushed back after Sonic broke out of prison. He, alongside Classic Sonic, the Avatar, and the Resistance, would soon after defeat Eggman and Infinite, and send the Phantom Ruby back to the past, bringing an end to the empire's rule.

1. ↑ *Sonic the Hedgehog CD* (iOS) English instruction menu, "Characters (Cont.)".
2. ↑ *Sonic Heroes* (PlayStation 2) Japanese instruction booklet, pg. 20.
3. ↑ *Sonic the Hedgehog* (2006) leaked script. "名は体を現す。タマゴ体型の科学者。IQは300と非常に高く、優れた科学者（特にロボット工学の権威）だが、あまりにも童心たっぷりなため、世界征服などという実際どうしていいのかよくわからない妄想を現実にしようと躍起になっている。ロマンチスト且つフェミニスト。自称紳士のええかっこしい。ちなみに英語でＥＧＧＨＥＡＤとはいやみなインテリハゲをさす。ソニックを生涯の宿敵とみなし、ソニック打倒と世界征服が彼の悲願であるが、心の奥ではどこかソニックを憎からず思っている節があるようである。"
4. ↑ Sonic Team, CRI Middleware (22 February 2008). *Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity*. PlayStation 2. Sega. "**Mother computer**: System error detected. All commands canceled. / **Eggman**: My Eggman Land plans are in ruins, after all these years!"
5. ↑ Sonic Team, CRI Middleware (22 February 2008). *Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity*. PlayStation 2. Sega. "**Tails**: He's probably planning to use the stones' power to issue an order to all the worlds' robots from this tower. Sooner or later, he was planning to set the robots rampaging. / **Amy**: That was probably his reason for forming the MeteoTech in the first place. / **Sonic**: The Eggman Land project again, huh? He never gives up, does he?"
6. ↑ *Sonic Colors* (Wii) United States instruction manual, pg. 3.
7. ↑ *Sonic Colours* (Nintendo DS) United Kingdom instruction manual, pg. 3.
8. ↑ *Sonic the Hedgehog* (Sega Mega Drive) Japanese instruction booklet, pgs. 7-10.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sonic The Hedgehog 4. Sega. Archived from the original on May 30, 2013. Retrieved on January 26, 2015.
10. ↑ *Sonic the Hedgehog 2* (Sega Mega Drive) Japanese instruction booklet, pgs. 4-8.
11. ↑ *Sonic the Hedgehog 3* (Sega Mega Drive) Japanese instruction booklet, pgs. 4-6.
12. ↑ *Sonic the Hedgehog 3* (Sega Mega Drive) Japanese instruction booklet, pgs. 34-36.
13. ↑ Sonic Team (15 November 2005). *Shadow the Hedgehog*. GameCube. Sega. "**Eggman**: Those idiots! They're destroying everything! How can I take over the city and build the Eggman Empire if there is no city?"