Sonic's World


 * For other versions of Sonic's World, see: Zone.

Sonic's World is the homeworld of the Mobians and humans and it is the main setting of the comics and where the majority of events take place. Much of the world is governed by the United Federation which is itself led by the President, while some territories are under the control of the Eggman Empire. However even territories that are not completely controlled by the Eggman Empire have bases stationed within them which are run by Egg Bosses. The world, in this form, came into being after the Super Genesis Wave altered the original version of the Multiverse and the Prime Zone.

Ancient History

 * Many eons ago, the world came into existence in the beginning of time. In that era, Dark Gaia and Light Gaia came to reside on it. Following a constant cycle, Dark Gaia awakens once every couple of million years to destroy the world and Light Gaia then restores it in an event known as the "time of awakening". The two of them would then return to sleep in the planet's core until they can awaken to continue the cycle. (StH: #258)
 * Roughly 4,000 years ago: the ancient Echidna clan, the Knuckles Tribe, sought to take the mysterious Master Emerald and harness its power. Their attempted raid angered the gem's guardian, the water beast Chaos, who, in a fit of rage, did away with the tribesmen. With Chaos dangerously enraged, Tikal sealed herself with Chaos into the emerald, and the resulting burst of energy caused the land to rise from the ground, becoming Angel Island. (VG: SA/SADX)

50 Years Ago

 * Aboard the Space Colony ARK, Professor Gerald Robotnik was forced by the President of that time to create the "Ultimate Life Form". Aided by the alien warlord Black Doom, they created Shadow the Hedgehog. (StH: #60)

Modern History

 * Dr. Ellidy's daughter Nikki passes away, prompting him to create a computer program to try and replicate her. The end result is a small, handheld computer. (SU: #72, #73)
 * Gerald's grandson, Dr. Eggman, becomes King Acorn's trusted advisor. A young Sally Acorn grows up in Mobotropolis with her father and Rosie Woodchuck. Dr. Ellidy retires from the kingdom and gives Sally his computer, whom she names "NICOLE". A young Antoine D'Coolette comes to Mobotropolis as part of an apprentice exchange programme, with the intention of becoming a royal guard. Meanwhile, in a colder region of the planet, a young Rotor The Walrus runs away from home for a better life after constant abuse from his father. (SCO: #1, #2, #3, SU: #71)
 * Dr. Eggman's coup d'état takes place, with Dr. Eggman banishing King Acorn and the royal wizard Walter Naugus into the Special Zone. Sally, Antoine and the other children are spirited away to Knothole Village by Professor Charles the Hedgehog and Rosie Woodchuck. Rotor has the misfortune of arriving in the city during the invasion, but quickly retreats to Knothole with everyone else. (SCO: #1, #2, #3, #4)
 * Bunnie has half of her limbs replaced by cybernetic parts by Uncle Chuck, in order to save her life from an injury sustained during Eggman's first attack. She is rechristened "Bunnie the Rabbot". (SCO: #4)
 * Dr. Eggman lays siege to South Island in search of the Chaos Emeralds, while Sonic the Hedgehog sets out to stop him. (SCO: #7)
 * Sonic successfully defeats Dr. Eggman at the Final Zone and foils his plans, which inspired the formation of the Knothole Freedom Fighters. (SCO: #7)
 * With the aid of Dr. Julian Snively, Eggman tricks the guardian Knuckles the Echidna into revealing the location of the Master Emerald when the Death Egg crashed down on Angel Island.(SU: #69, #70)
 * On one occasion, Eggman kidnapped Tails and held him for ransom. During his quest, Sonic ran afoul with the Super Special Sonic Search & Smash Squad and rescued a hedgehog named Breezie, who later betrayed him.(StH: #268, #269)
 * Eggman learns of the ancient water beast Chaos, and releases it from the Master Emerald. He attempts to gather the Chaos Emeralds to help it grow more powerful, with Sonic and friends constantly getting in the way. Chaos eventuall grows to its perfect form and turns on its master, before flooding Station Square. Super Sonic manages to quell the monsters anger, restoring it to its peaceful state. Chaos returned with Tikal to their pocket dimension within the Master Emerald, finally at peace. (VG: SA/SADX)
 * During this time, Angel Island falls into the ocean after the Master Emerald is shatter. Archaeologist Relic the Pika takes this opportunity to explore it, but the island rises back into the sky after the emeralds restoration, isolating Relic from the surface world below. (SU: #63)
 * Dr. Eggman uncovers the diary of his late grandfather, Professor Gerald, and learns of Project: Shadow. He decides to release Shadow from his stasis on Prison Island, and the duo (later joined by an undercover Rouge the Bat) plan to use the professors weapon of destruction, the Eclipse Cannon on the Space Colony ARK, to take over the planet. When the Chaos Emeralds are used to activate the cannon however, the professors final act of revenge is set in motion, and the ARK begins hurdling towards the planet. Sonic and Shadow manage to prevent the ARKS crash in their super transformations, but Shadow loses his remaining power and falls toward the planet, leaving Sonic and the others to believe he'd perished. (VG: SA2/SA2B)
 * In actuality, Shadow was rescued by one of Eggman's robots. The comatose antihero was put into stasis in an Eggman base. (VG: ShtH)
 * Metal Sonic is resurrected as "Neo Metal Sonic" and takes on the identity of Dr. Eggman, helping Breezie construct her casino empire in exchange for making it a deathtrap for Sonic and his friends. Later, Sonic and several other heroes, including the Chaotix, do battle against Metal Sonic's new form, Metal Overlord. (StH: #259, #270, SU: #63)
 * Emerl is activated, destroyed, rebuilt as Gemerl and rescued; now acting as a companion to Cream and Cheese. (StH: #257)
 * The Black Arms invade the planet and are defeated thanks to Shadow the Hedgehog, with the Black Comet destroyed by the Eclipse Cannon. During the conflict, Commander Abraham Tower finally overcame his long-held hatred of Shadow. (SU: #59, #60, #61)
 * An incident involving evil management at MeteorTech happens. (StH: #270)
 * Sonic and Tails go on an adventure to rescue the Wisps. Silver the Hedgehog was also involved in said adventure. (StH #252)
 * Bunnie and Antoine marry. (StH #255)
 * A mishap involving Dr. Eggman's scheme to control a mysterious entity known as the Time Eater happens, trapping the doctor within a white void. He comes into contact with Dr. Wily, an evil scientist from an alternate reality through the power of the blue Chaos Emerald, that had somehow ended up in Wily's universe. The two construct the Skull Egg Zone so that they can meet in person and construct the Wily Egg. (StH: #273)
 * Naugus imprisons King Acorn and forces Nicole to create a ring to restore his magic. (StH: #252)
 * Rotor and Tails construct the Sky Patrol airship in the Mystic Ruins. (StH: #253)
 * Antoine is sent to Knothole to watch over Uncle Chuck. (StH: #254)
 * Bunnie is sent on an undercover mission to the Metropolis Zone. (StH: #254)
 * Sally heads to Artika to infiltrate the Death Egg. (StH: #252)
 * Amy Rose mysteriously vanishes while guarding the Sky Patrol. It's later revealed that the power of the Sol Emeralds summoned her to the Sol Zone to assist in the defeat of Captain Metal. Cream the Rabbit and Cheese, Bean the Dynamite and Bark the Polar Bear are also summoned to the Sol Zone under the same circumstances. (StH: #253, SU: #58)
 * Doctor Eggman sends the Tails Doll to attack Mobotropolis. Sonic and Tails return from an adventure to rescue King Acorn as well as to follow-up on NICOLE, only to find the Tails Doll attacking New Mobotropolis. (StH: #252)
 * As these events unfold, Eggman and Wily launch the second Genesis Wave on their zones. With Mobius reset once again, the events of Worlds Collide take place: Sonic the Hedgehog and the hero of Dr. Wily's universe, Mega Man, team up in an adventure that takes them to the Skull Egg Zone, being pitted against the Roboticized Masters (Roboticized versions of Sonic's friends) Dr. Wily's time-cloned Robot Masters, and many more. The Doctors attempt to use all seven Chaos Emerald to launch the "Super Genesis Wave", which will completely alter their respective worlds to the Doctors liking, with no limitations. Using the emeralds power to access their super forms, Sonic and Mega Man both attempt to reverse the wave. Super Mega Man successfully restores his world to normal, while Super Sonic's attempt to restore Mobius is disrupted by Dr. Eggman, resulting in reality being shattered, creating the Genesis Portals. (MM: #24, #25, #26, #27, SU: #51, #52, #53, #54, StH: #248, #249, #250, #251)

Recent History

 * From a reader's point of view, everything from here on picks up from where the original timeline ended.

200 Years Later
 * Sonic awakens back in Mobotropolis feeling disoriented, suddenly experiencing memories of an alternate timeline (the Pre-SGW continuity) and is completely clueless as to his current situation. Inside Castle Acorn, Nicole developes an odd glitch which makes it so whoever comes into contact with her handheld body gains memories of the same alternate timeline. Naugus is the first to get this jolt of new memories, and flees the castle in terror. As the heroes continued to deal with the monstrous Tails Doll, Tails finds Nicole and becomes the second to revive memories from the other reality (as well as briefly regaining his memories of Worlds Collide). After the Tails Doll was defeated, Sonic and Tails discussed this confusion with their memories, at which point Sonic's own memories of the current timeline begin coming back, before freeing King Acorn from his imprisonment, and setting out on a new adventure to round up the separated Freedom Fighters, and to defragment Nicole by using her to give the Freedom Fighters their alternate reality memories. Elsewhere, Eggman, Orbot and Cubot, also having just returned from the events of Worlds Collide and similarly disoriented from memories of the other timeline, crash-land somewhere in the Efrika plains. The group begin their effort to get back to the Death Egg in order to find out what's happening to their world. (#252)
 * Sonic and Tails venture to the Mystic Ruins where they meet Big the Cat and, soon after, are reunited with Rotor, who was next to have his memories of the old world return after coming into contact with Nicole. Providing the duo with their next lead, they set out to Knothole Village. Back in the Efrika plains, Eggman and his lackies finally run into some help, in the form of the Efrika Egg Army, led by Egg Boss Axel the Water Buffalo. (#253)
 * Sonic and Tails venture to the Wood Zone, where they are reunited with Uncle Chuck and Antoine, meeting Ben Muttski in the process. Antoine has his memories restored, but Chuck and Muttski do not. Antoine gives Sonic and Tails the location of where Bunnie was: the Metropolis Zone. Meanwhile, Eggman arrives in Avalon and gains the aid of Lord Hood, converting his Egg Mobile into an Egg Walker for storming a G.U.N. Base before leaving. (StH #254)
 * Sonic and Tails link up with Bunnie in the Metropolis Zone and obtain a shield generator for the Sky Patrol. Meanwhile Eggman meets with Tundra the Walrus of the Artika Egg Army and obtains transportation back to the Death Egg. (StH: #255)
 * Amy Rose and Cream return to Mobotropolis in time to help rescue Sally from a chasing Metal Sonic. Sonic and Tails return to defeat the robot. Both girls regain their memories in time for a horrible revelation: the Super Genesis Wave has caused the multiverse to collapse on itself (and then recreated) and the planet, unable to contain the Chaos energies from it, shatters into pieces. (StH: #256)
 * Angel Island is rattled by the shattering of the world, Chaos is pulled from the Master Emerald and into the ocean below, and a mysterious force instructs Knuckles to search for a "spirit" that would help to restore the world. Knuckles leaves Relic the Pika to guard the Master Emerald in his absence. (SU: #63)
 * G.U.N. begins Operation: Triage to deal with the situation of the planet breaking apart. Meanwhile the Black Arms, now led by Black Death, return to the solar system in the New Black Comet to consume the planet. Commander Abraham Tower sends Team Dark and Spider Troupe to the comet to destroy it with a nuclear bomb. During their mission, the group run afoul of Black Death and Eclipse the Darkling, Shadow briefly falls victim to Black Death's mind control, and Spider Troupe are captured with the intention of being made into the eventual first meal for the Dark Arms, before being rescued. Soon, Shadow manages to hunt down Black Death and slay him in their final battle, before the nuke is detonated, blowing up the comet. Eclipse the Darkling, however, manages to escape the blast by fleeing in an escape saucer. (SU: #59, #60, #61, #62)
 * The Freedom Fighters begin a rescue operation in a heavily hit Station Square. Meanwhile, Eggman learns of Professor Pickle and his research of the Gaia Manuscripts. This leads to him kidnapping the professor, along with Uncle Chuck. (StH: #257)
 * The Freedom Fighters track the kidnapped professors to the Soleanna Forest Zone, where they are being held aboard the moving Egg Train. After Sonic defeats Badnik horde commander E-106 Eta, the professors are rescued and taken back to the Sky Patrol, leaving their research, and the Gaia Manuscripts, in the hands of Eggman. (StH: #258, #259)
 * While managing repairs to Casino Park following the world shattering, the 6S uncover a Chaos Emerald and bring it to Breezie the Hedgehog. She decides to hold a fighting tournament, with the emerald as a prize. (StH: #271)
 * After days of searching through the Sky Rail Zone and Pumpkin Hill Zone, Knuckles is attacked by a horde of Dark Gaia monsters, before the Chaotix show up to assist him. He agrees to help in their mission from Princess Sally to find the Chaos Emeralds. After running afoul of the Hooligans, the group track down the spirit, a skittish, amnesiac little creature, whom Charmy names "Chip", and a red Chaos Emerald in the Aquatic Mine. During Knuckles absence, Eclipse the Darkling's escape saucer lands in the Mushroom Hill Zone. Relic and Fixit head out to investigate, only to find a mysterious black and red root from the ground. (SU: #62, #63, #64, #65, #66)
 * The Knothole Freedom Fighters begin their hunt for Gaia Temples and Chaos Emeralds: Sonic, Amy and Rotor are sent to the underwater city of Meropis to find a Gaia Temple. Down there, they gain the aide of Razor, Coral and Pearly. After fighting off Dark Gaia's Minions, the group discover that Chaos is the one keeping the oceans from draining from the shattered planet. They return to the Sky Patrol without uncovering a Gaia Temple. Meanwhile, Sally, Tails, Antoine and Nicole venture into the Crystal Cave to snag a Chaos Emerald that the Egg Army had been mining for. The group successfully evade hazards and return to the Sky Patrol with the emerald. (StH: #260, #261, #262, #263)
 * After Knuckles and the Chaotix successfully rescue Chip from the Hooligans, he's taken to the safety of Angel Island, and the Chaotix agree to let Knuckles hold on got to the Chaos Emerald until the Knothole Freedom Fighters have gathered the other six. While on the Island, it is revealed by Tikal that Chip is in fact Light Gaia. (SU: #66)
 * Tracking Eclipse after his escape, Team Dark arrive on Angel Island to hunt down the alien. Knuckles reluctantly agrees to aide in their search, leaving Shadow and Relic to guard the Master Emerald, only for Eclipse himself to appear to the both of them. (SU: #67)
 * Sonic, along with Sally and Amy, reunite with Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel in the Rocky Jungle Zone, where they team up to retrieve the grey Chaos Emerald from an Egg Army digging site. They raid the area only to be caught in an electrical field where they are paralyzed. The stress of the situation causes Sonic to finally tip over the edge and become the Werehog. After regaining control, Sonic decides to stay to undergo training with Moss the Sloth to overcome his beastly transformation, while the Freedom Fighters try to obtain a Chaos Emerald in the Sand Hill Zone. While Sonic manages to control his primal urges, the group's mission turns out to be a failure. They group back together and continue their search. (StH: #264, #265, #266)
 * Having obtained an Chaos Emerald, Breezie holds a fighting tournament to distract everyone from the worldwide crisis; the winner wins the emerald. She selects three certain members of the Freedom Fighters to participate, while Eggman enters Team Hooligan to even the odds. Meantime, Espio sneaks Knuckles' name into the list of contenders while he and Chip were busy scouting the casino lobby for Master Emerald shards. The fight escalates till only Sonic and Knuckles are the only contenders remaining, but their match is interrupted by the untimely arrival of Metal Sonic. Before he could snatch the prize Emerald from the unsecured vault, however, he is quickly dispatched by Tails, winning the emerald in the process. As the heroes make their exit, Sally receives a distress call aboard the Sky Patrol from the priest of Apotos, Gregorios. (StH: #266, #267, #268, #269)
 * At some point during the tournament, Eggman discovers the Lost Hex. (StH: #270)
 * While aboard the Sky Patrol, Nicole recieves another distress call from her creator, Dr. Ellidy, and transmits herself to his location in the Digital World. Sally, Big, and Tails fallow suit and journey to Ellidy's abode on Isolated Island. Upon being revived, Ellidy explains that he uncovered a mysterious phenomenon known as the Red Star Rings; and while exploring its properties, a mysterious glitch appeared in the island's mainframe and tried killing him while trying to fix it. Sally later learned of Ellidy's intentions for creating Nicole and why he despised her so, only to be attacked by both Dark Gaia's minions and the mysterious entity controlling the island's badniks. With Sally and Ellidy's help, Nicole is able to fight off the rouge virus known as Phage and lock it out of the system.(SU: #71, #72, #73, #74)
 * At some point aboard the Sky Patrol, Sonic briefly zones out and gets a weird feeling that he had just saved the world from something terrible with the help of his old buddy Mega Man... Aboard the Death Egg, Eggman awakes from a nap with the sudden feeling that a plan by his old colleague Dr. Wily had been thwarted somehow. He decides that he'll hold off on invading the Lost Hex until another time. (MM: #52)
 * Later at the Blue Coast Zone, Sonic has a brief encounter with Eggman's Egg SWATs when a mysterious portal opened in the sky, unleashing the once-imprisoned Ifrit. With help from Silver the Hedgehog, who had been sent to deal with the phenomenon, they were able to lure the beast back into its fiery domain. Before long, Sonic, Antoine, and Chip had managed to locate Gregorios at a local temple, where he showed them the hidden Gaia Gate and gave them a list of locations which the families possessing keys to the Gaia Temples resided. Shortly after defeating a Dark Gaia Titan that night and locating another shard of the Master Emerald, the Freedom Fighters received a call from Rouge the Bat, telling them that G.U.N. had managed to locate another Chaos Emerald in the Crystal Desert Zone. (SCO: #6; StH: #271)
 * Upon arriving in the Crystal Desert Zone, the Freedom Fighters are immediately attacked by Metal Sonic, who makes off with the new emerald. Sonic ends up chasing the robot through a Genesis Portal into the Burning Ruin Zone, where he meets up with Silver again. The two hedgehogs team up to get the emerald back from Metal, before tricking him into flying through another Genesis Portal to parts unknown. Sonic returns to Crystal Desert Zone, emerald in hand. (SU: #75)
 * During a run through the Green Hill Zone, Sonic finds another Master Emeralf shard embedded inside one of the craters of the shattered earth. (SU: #76).
 * In an alternate timeline, Eggman goes ahead with his invasion of the Lost Hex, which inadvertently draws him and the rest of his world into an evil plot by Sigma, a Maverick Reploid from another world in the distant future, to merge numerous worlds and drain them of their power for himself. Teaming up once again with Mega Man, as well as other heroes from across time and space, Sonic and his allies successfully put an end to Sigma, but not before he'd left Sonic and Mega Man's fused worlds in an irriversable state. Fortunately, these events ended up being undone by a time paradox caused by Xander Payne. (StH: #272, #273, #274, #275, SU: #75, #76, #77, #78, SB: #8, #9, #10, MM: #50, #51, #52, WUB: MM, StH)
 * Sonic travels to the planet's northern regions in search of a Gaia Key, only to run afoul of Tundra the Walrus. Meantime, Dr. Eggman sets out into an unknown void to recover Metal Sonic. (StH: #276)
 * After joining forces with Lupe Wolf to stop one of Robotnik's Super Badniks, Sally and Bunnie set out to retrieve the final Chaos Emerald which leads to a confrontation between them and the Egg Bosses, Cassia and Clove.
 * Sonic, Antoine, and Big travel to Shamar, where they team up with the local Shamar Freedom Fighters to locate the next Gaia Key. In the process, they faced off against the Shamar Egg Army under Egg Boss Nephthys. (StH: #277, #278, #279)
 * The Onyx City Council comes to power and forms a dystopian society. (SU: #79)
 * Silver the Hedgehog investigates the Genesis Portals with the help of Professor Von Schlemmer. (SCO: #6)

Unknown Placement

 * At some point, a young Amy Rose was kidnapped by Metal Sonic and held captive on Little Planet, only to be rescued by Sonic later on. (VG: SCD, StH: #260)
 * Eggman and his forces attack the Wolf Pack at Thunder Plains Zone. The assault is stopped by the Freedom Fighters. (StH: #277)
 * Knuckles and the Chaotix stop Eggman's operation on Isolated Island. (VG: KC, SU: #71)

Main Political Factions

 * Eggman Empire
 * Egg Army
 * Kingdom of Acorn
 * United Federation

Continents

 * Artika
 * Efrika
 * Eurish
 * Midesta
 * Northamer
 * Soumerca
 * Tralius
 * Yurashia

Islands

 * Angel Island (floating)
 * Isolated Island
 * South Island
 * Westside Island

Oceans

 * Great Blue Realm
 * Northern Oceans
 * Southern Oceans

Cities & Territories

 * Meropis
 * Kingdom of Acorn
 * Mobotropolis
 * Knothole Village
 * United Federation
 * Station Square
 * Soleanna
 * Central City
 * Spagonia
 * Westopolis
 * Empire City
 * Chun-Nan
 * Mazuri
 * Empire City
 * Apotos
 * Shamar
 * Eggman Empire
 * Metropolis Zone
 * Bullet Station
 * Avalon

Zones & Areas

 * Wood Zone
 * Mystic Ruins
 * Soleanna Forest Zone
 * Rail Canyon Zone
 * Sky Rail Zone / Pumpkin Hill Zone
 * Aquatic Mine
 * Crystal Cave
 * Anostos Rift
 * Rocky Jungle Zone
 * Harbor Heights
 * Sand Hill Zone
 * Casino Park
 * BINGO Highway
 * Underground Zone
 * Scrambled Egg Zone
 * Emerald Coast
 * Casino Night Zone
 * Crystal Desert Zone
 * Green Hill Zone
 * Chemical Plant Zone
 * Thunder Plains Zone
 * Stone Stormlands Zone

Neighboring Planetoids

 * Little Planet
 * Lost Hex

Background Information

 * According to a post by Ian Flynn, only three video games have not occured in the post-Super Genesis Wave world: Sonic Unleashed (as that is the current storyline), Sonic Lost World (which Ian says that he wants to deal with, but he can take his time to get there), and Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (due to the ongoing litigation with Ken Penders and the fact that, storywise, it takes place two years into the future). Thus, unless contridicted in-story, it can be assumed that all video games are canon to the post-Super Genesis Wave world.
 * There has been some debate as to whether or not the planet is still named Mobius or Earth in the current continuity. It's been stated by Ian Flynn that a SEGA mandate declares that Sonic's world cannot be named, thus the names "Mobius" and "Earth" have been dropped. Whether the planet is still officially called Mobius in-universe is unknown.
 * Despite this, other names that make reference to the planet's former name, such as New Mobotropolis, are still retained.
 * Ian Flynn has confirmed on his Twitter that the calendar system from the old continuity no longer applies, nor does he have any intention of introducing a replacement calendar.