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## The Death Egg MK.I (Mobius-777)

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The Death Egg MK.I is an object that appears in the early years of Robotnik's villainous career. It is a massive orbital fortress and space station, constructed by Dr. Ivo Robotnik, and the first and most famous of his space stations. Described as 'the doctor's great fortress', the Death Egg is a vast stronghold that hosts some of the villain's deadliest creations of all time. It has as well served as his ultimate weapon and key component in his various quests for world dominance.

The Death Egg's first incarnation surfaced during the "Death Egg saga" when Dr. Eggman tried to obtain the Chaos Emeralds to fuel his infamous space station. Despite his plans, however, the space station was brought down by the efforts of Sonic and Tails. However, the Death Egg MK.I proved to be robust, surviving both a fall from space and a failed launch before eventually making it back into orbit. Although the original battle station was destroyed at the end of the Angel Island incident, Dr. Robotnik has continued to rebuild it in later incarnations.

## History of The Death Egg MK.I (Mobius-777)

### The Westside Island incident

Dr. Robotnik found Westside Island, where the Chaos Emeralds rested. Plotting to use the gems to power his Death Egg MK.I, which was in orbit around Mobius, and then conquer the world, he went about turning the island's Animals into Badniks in an effort to create more workers to finish his new plans for the project. However, the doctor's plans were foiled when Sonic and his new sidekick Miles "Tails" Prower got the Emeralds first.

Eventually, Sonic and Tails went for an assault on the Death Egg MK.I itself. Hitching a ride into space on the space rocket when Dr. Robotnik made his escape from the Wing Fortress, the hedgehog made his way inside the space station, where he fought Mecha Sonic and then the villain himself in the Death Egg Robot. After a heated battle, the hero defeated his nemesis one-on-one, and the Death Egg MK.I began to explode. Sonic escaped by hurling himself out of an airlock into space. He was soon after saved from his fall by Tails, who came to his rescue in the Tornado after seeing the Death Egg explode in the sky.

### The Angel Island incident

Following the Westside Island incident, it turned out the Death Egg had survived its own explosion. Eventually falling from orbit, the space station crash-landed in a lake on the floating Angel Island, its impact destroying the island's mountains and forests, and forced the floating island itself into the sea. Having escaped the Death Egg's crash, Dr. Robotnik set out to rebuild it while plotting to harness the large source of energy on the island for his operations. He soon after encountered Knuckles the Echidna, the guardian of Angel Island and the Master Emerald. Having seen the Death Egg, the echidna believed it to be the egg of a legendary dragon inscribed on the Master Emerald's altar that was rumored to bring about the end of the world.

Scheming to use Knuckles as his bodyguard for when Sonic and Tails inevitably came to destroy the Death Egg, Dr. Robotnik claimed he had come to study the stronghold and warned him that the heroes were on their way to steal the Master Emerald. Believing the villain's lie, the echidna kept the duo occupied when they arrived. Meanwhile, Robotnik would repair the Death Egg by constructing a Launch Base around the crash site and prepping it for launch.

By the time Sonic and Tails had caught up to Dr. Robotnik, the scientist attempted to re-launch the Death Egg. Using massive rockets, it was able to achieve lift-off. However, the heroes managed to jump onto the bottom of the spacecraft's hull when it took off. There, the villain returned to defeat his nemeses through excessive force, which proved to be his own undoing. By the time Robotnik was defeated, the battle had taken its toll on the Death Egg during a critical point of its launch, and the Death Egg plummeted back to Angel Island.

After its failed launch from the Launch Base on Angel Island, the Death Egg crashed back onto a volcano on the island, over Lava Reef. Having not given up yet, Dr. Robotnik began rebuilding the Death Egg again. Meanwhile, Sonic, who had escaped the crash, set out with Tails to destroy the infamous space station once and for all. When they later made their way through Lava Reef, the near finished Death Egg used its eye lasers to reactivate the volcano, all in an effort to slow down the heroes.

In a last ditch-effort to fix the Death Egg, Dr. Robotnik stole the Master Emerald from Knuckles, making the echidna realize at last that the doctor was the real villain and that Sonic and Tails were trying to help all along. With the Master Emerald's power, the space station was able to take off. While Sonic and Tails followed the Death Egg through the Sky Sanctuary as it rose into space, the spacecraft released numerous Eggrobos to attack them. Eventually though, the heroes managed to leap onto the rising Death Egg from a tall pillar that crumbled beneath them.

Inside the Death Egg, Sonic and Tails navigated a horrendous Zone full of rocket launchers, electrical hazards, and Badniks. Along the way, they also had to destroy two of Dr. Robotnik's elite creations. The first was the Red Eye, followed by the Death Ball, the latter controlled by the scientist himself from a safe distance. At the end, the heroes faced off against their nemesis in his Giant Eggman Robot, a massive mech powered by the Master Emerald. Despite the overwhelming odds stacked against them, the duo defeated the machine, thereby causing a chain reaction that made the space station fall apart. As Dr. Robotnik escaped into space with the massive jewel in a Final Weapon, Sonic transformed into Hyper Sonic and chased after him into The Doomsday Zone while the Death Egg was finally destroyed.