Dark Egg Legion


 * You may be looking for the article on the Dark Legion, the political organization.

The Dark Egg Legion is an army of cybernetically-enhanced Mobians working for the Eggman Empire. The first recorded branch was formed in Downunda after Duck "Bill" Platypus and his fellow Platypus allied with the empire and received cybernetic upgrades in hopes of gaining more power. The Dark Egg Legion was later expanded to include the remnants of the Dark Legion after their cybernetics were removed by Enerjak and relocating from Angel Island. The Platypus branch operates exclusively in Downunda under Duck "Bill"'s command, while the Echidna branch operates in the ruins of New Megaopolis under the command of Grandmaster Lien-Da. Other branches of the Legion subsequently formed in other regions of Mobius, including one under the joint command of Drago Wolf and Razorklaw in the Southern Continent.

Formation of the Platypus Branch
During Sonic's absence in outer space, Dr. Eggman had made another push to control the continent of Downunda. During this campaign, Duck "Bill" Platypus came under pressure from the local platypus to ally with the Eggman Empire and lead them once again. Unable to dissuade them, Bill joined the Empire, becoming Grandmaster of the Platypus branch of the Dark Egg Legion. Establishing a base of operations in the Great Crater where Crocbot once managed a prison camp, Bill deliberately led the Dark Egg Legion forces poorly against his former friends in the Downunda Freedom Fighters until he could explain his seeming betrayal. (SU: #11, #12)

Working with Dr. Finitevus
In late 3237, Duck "Bill" Platypus began secretly working with Dr. Finitevus. Following the latter's instructions, the Platypus Dark Egg Legion chained Angel Island to the surface of the Downunda continent, preventing it from floating away. At the same time, the Master Emerald was attacked by Wing Dingoes, which were ultimately repelled by Vector the Crocodile and Ray. However, with Dr. Finitevus' help, the Dark Egg Legion managed to subdue the Downunda Freedom Fighters along with Knuckles, Vector and Mighty, and successfully captured them. Finitevus then taunted the imprisoned heroes, revealing that the Legion-and by extension the Eggman Empire under the Iron Queen-had offered him access to the Emerald for his research in exchange for his help. Leaving to secure the Emerald, he advised Bill to send men after Julie-Su and Ray. After Finitevus departed, leaving the prisoners to his allies, Bill released his old teammates and the Chaotix and explained to them that his people had pressured him into siding with Eggman, and he had done so to appease them and in hopes of thwarting Eggman's advance. (SU: #9, #10, #11, #12)

Having released the Downunda Freedom Fighters and Chaotix, Bill enabled the two groups to launch a decisive attack against the Platypus Dark Egg Legion, routing their troops which forced them to withdraw from their base in the Great Crater. (SU: #12)

History - Echidna Dark Egg Legion

 * For the earlier history of the group, see Dark Legion.

Formation of the Echidna Branch
When Dr. Finitevus used Knuckles as the new Enerjak instead of either Lien-Da or the brainwashed Remington, both turned against him and used their Flame Legion and Frost Legion factions of the Dark Legion in an effort to subdue the chaos demigod. However, Enerjak's power proved far too much for the Legion's weaponry, and as part of his plan to restore Echidnas to their former glory, Enerjak used his Chaos powers to remove all cybernetic enhancements from all legionnaires, as well as restoring Remmington's lost memory. Enerjak went on to teleport all of the Echidnas to Albion, with the exception of Lien-Da and her few loyal followers, who were enraged at the loss of their cybernetic enhancements. After the devastating attack by Enerjak, Lien-Da sought out the help of Dr. Eggman to restore the Dark Legion's cybernetics as well as her level of authority and power. After allying with Eggman and submitting to his rule, Lien-Da found out that Dimitri had already been promised the role of Grandmaster over the rechristened "Dark Egg Legion". (StH: #181, #184)

Ground Troops of Eggman's Empire
Prior to any major post-Enerjak offensives against it, members of the Dark Egg Legion were seen patrolling the ruined city of New Megaopolis in Egg Mobiles when Mighty the Armadillo was sent there under the mind control of Mammoth Mogul. Even as Mogul's slave, Mighty proved to be too much for them when he was directed to return to New Mobotropolis and ripped his would-be captors' vehicles apart.(StH: #186)

Not long afterwards, Knuckles led the Chaotix and Sonic the Hedgehog against the Dark Egg Legion in New Megaopolis. Holding himself responsible for their alliance with Eggman due to his actions as the new Enerjak, Knuckles hoped to convince their leader to change their mind and end their alliance with Eggman. By this point, the Dark Egg Legion was re-equipped with cybernetic enhancements and weapons, but still proved ineffective against the Chaotix and Sonic. Though Knuckles did his best to persuade Lien-Da to end their alliance with Eggman, she declined, still feeling resentment for Knuckles' actions as Enerjak and blaming him for their situation. Backup soon arrived in the form of Dimitri with a massive preying mantis-like robot body. Dimitri exchanged words with both Knuckles and Julie-Su, finally ordering the Dark Egg Legion to simply attack the Chaotix. Despite his help, the Dark Egg Legion was no match, and in the end of the battle, the communications relays station were successfully destroyed, and Lien-Da ordered the Legion to withdraw further into the inner city. Shortly afterwards it was explained by Dimitri he was deliberatly weakening the Eggman Empire from within by leading the Dark Egg Legion to constant defeat, which was why he allied with Dr. Eggman. (StH: #189, #190)

Following this, Dimitri confronted Eggman with regards to him having time to produce Metal Sonic and Metal Scourge while not supplimenting the Dark Egg Legion. During this conversation, Dr. Eggman revealed he had placed explosive devices within the Dark Egg Legion's cybernetics in order to prevent mutiny. Dimitri soon discovered Eggman was not bluffing when he examined Lien-Da. (StH: #192)

After this, the Dark Egg Legion remained within the Eggdome as the rest of New Megaopolis lied in ruins. When Snively ordered Lien-Da and another Legionnaire to salute him, they simply laughed in his face as he was just as much a subordinate of Eggman as they were, much to Snively's indignation. (StH: #194)

During the big push against the Eggman Empire by the Knothole Freedom Fighters and the Chaotix, the Dark Egg Legion under Lien-Da's command was first positioned in the outskirts of the ruins of New Megaopolis. They seemingly halted the advance of the Freedom Fighters until they were flanked by the Chaotix. Forced to retreat and regroup, they set up a defensive posture and refused to surrender. Before they could fire their weapons however they were deactivated by Tails' Neutralizing Mines. Dr. Eggman then arrived in his new Egg Phoenix and attacked the two Freedom Fighter groups, nearly killing the Legion in the process. After the Egg Phoenix was destroyed the Dark Egg Legion retreated back to the Eggdome where they were ordered to set up a series of defensive lines, as well as build a barricade with a hole just big enough to allow Sonic to get in while keeping the others trapped out, as part of Dr. Eggman's plan to face off against Sonic alone. Once the Freedom Fighters and Chaotix pushed into the Eggdome, the Dark Egg Legion was forced back but eventually managed to blunt their momentum. At this point however they were ordered to stand down, and pull back, as part of Snively's plan to allow the downfall of Dr. Eggman. After Eggman's defeat, the Dark Egg Legion welcomed their new benefactor, the Iron Queen, by supervising the landing of her dirigible. (StH: #198, #199, #200)

Soldiers under the Iron Dominion
Because the Dark Egg Legion's cybernetics had been equipped with explosive devices by Eggman to prevent mutiny, Dimitri came before the Iron Queen and requested that the bombs in the Dark Egg Legion be removed. The Iron Queen explained that the cybernetics Eggman provided were too complicated and that she could not remove the bombs, but as a compromise, she gave him a brief-case filled with micro-chips that would block the detonation signal once installed in the Dark Legionnaires. Dimitri took the chips, but he showed obvious signs that he didn't believe her. (StH: #201)

Although their worries of the bombs exploding were apparently only partially put to rest, the Dark Egg Legion remained allied with the Iron Dominion. Lien-Da soon oversaw the counter-attack against Sonic and Monkey Khan, who were trying to infiltrate the city. After the Dark Egg Legion received a fair beating from Sonic and Monkey Khan, Lien-Da ordered them to fall back as support and let the Yagyu Ninja Clan take care of them. The two groups were soon joined by the Iron King, Espio the Chameleon, and Lightning Lynx, who defeated Sonic and Khan. The Iron King then forbade the Legion from attacking the fleeing heroes, wanting them to spread the tale of their defeat. (StH: #202)

The Legion were soon faced with another problem as Dr. Eggman escaped using his Egg-Tortoise. Failing to stop him, they were left in charge of maintaining New Megaopolis while the Iron Queen set out in pursuit, though some legionnaires were dispatched with the Yagyu Clan to pursue and recapture Dr. Eggman. Despite locating the derranged scientist, the small Dark Egg Legion force along with the Yagyu Clan were beaten back along with the Iron King, Iron Queen and Snively and forced to retreat. During this time, Lien-Da learned from Dimitri he had modified a single one of the microchips provided by the Iron Queen to make the user immune to the queen's Magitek. Rather than allow Dimitri to modify all of the microchips, she disabled his cybernetics and installed the sole modified chip in herself, after which she hid Dimitri in a box. Following this she distributed the rest of the chips to the Dark Egg Legion, leaving her able to possibly control the army with her own thoughts. Claiming Dimitri had fled, Lien-Da was promoted to Grandmaster of the Dark Egg Legion. (StH: #205, #206)

Later, they initiated a successful invasion of New Mobotropolis alongside the Yagyu Clan. They were led by the Iron King into the defenseless city, thanks to the Iron Queen taking over NICOLE. Having successfully invaded the city, the Legion, along with the Yagyu, began rounding up and imprisoning as many citizens as they could find. Patrols of Legionnaires would continue chasing after resistance fighters like Amy Rose and Antoine D'Coolette until the intervention of Geoffrey St. John, allowing all of them to escape. The Legion also gathered in the New Mobotropolis Coliseum as spectators and participants in the Legionization of a number of captives including Rotor Walrus, but attempted to stop Amy, Antoine, and Geoffrey when they interrupted the event to free the prisoners. The arrival of Monkey Khan and a team he had taken to the Dragon Kingdom to break the ties between the Dominion and its Clans added to the confusion, and with the departure of the Yagyu the Legion found itself alone in supporting the Iron King and Queen. Seeing her two oppressors occupied with the Freedom Fighters, Lien-Da announced to the Legion that they would be taking control of the Eggman Empire. When the Iron Queen learned of this treachery, she attempted to dominate them using the chips, only for Lien-Da to reveal her deception. The Iron Queen promptly set off the bomb in Lien-Da's cybernetics, injuring her and freeing the other Legionnaires. With both Iron Dominion leaders occupied and Snively fleeing in terror, the Legion retreated for the Eggdome, taking Lien-Da with them. (StH: #208, #209, #210, #211)

Rejoining Eggman
After their return to the Eggdome they came under Eggman's control once again. With their Grandmaster's current state of health and in dire need of medical aid, they had no other choice than serving him in exchange for emergency cybernetics. (StH: #212)

Formation and Debut
Princess Sally discovered the Southern Continent chapter of the Dark Egg Legion-composed of former members of both the newly reformed Wolf Pack Nation and the ancient Felidae of the Mysterious Cat Country-while investigating the disappearance of the Ancient Onyx, an artifact sacred to both peoples the chapter's members originally belonged to. Given their activities at a time of such tension between the two groups, she quickly deduced that they were planning on instigating a war. She was then set upon by Drago Wolf and Razorklaw, joint Grandmasters of the chapter and former members of the two societies in whose territory they were operating. After briefly resisting capture, she surrendered and was taken into the chapter's base of operations in the Mystic Ruins, a region that neither the Felidae or the Wolves would enter due to ancient taboo and the borders of the other. (StH: #213)

While a captive of the two Grandmasters, Sally was able to goad Drago into sharing information about the group. He had joined the Eggman Empire leaving the Destructix, and upon being outfitted with implants was made a Grandmaster along with Razorklaw. For his part, Razorklaw had been a Felidae warrior, but had been exiled after losing a fight to the Guardian Locke over a year previously. He and others of his kind so treated had then joined up with Dr. Eggman when he came into the region seeking allies. They were subsequently joined by Wolf Pack members who had gone missing after the mass De-Roboticization of Mobius' inhabitants and remained unaccounted for after the formation of the Wolf Pack Nation. The group was then attacked by both Wolves and Felidae, who had been led there by Sonic after he had deduced where a hostile party might be hiding. After the details of their membership were exposed to their enemies, the Legionnaires were defeated by the combined force, whilst the Grandmasters met defeat at the hands of both Sonic and Big the Cat. They subsequently retreated to a secret bunker, while their enemies allowed them to retreat. (StH: #214, SU #15)

Formation
The Northern Tundra chapter of the Legion was first learned of after the Arctic Freedom Fighters sent a message to New Mobotropolis to inform them of the capture of the Walrus Herd by that same group. (StH: #214)

Equipment

 * Laser Rifles: Standard equipment for legionnaires of every branch, a potent energy weapon capable of taking down even the strongest of Mobians in sufficient numbers.
 * Egg Mobiles: Mainly utilized by the New Megaopolis branch of the DEL, a single person craft capabal of flight. Used for patrols and strategic overview. Attachable to larger crafts.
 * Wing Dingoes: Mainly utilized by the Downunda branch of the DEL, a robotic canine capable of flight. Used as scouts and air support in Downunda, they made up the majority of Crocbot's fighting force during the First Robotnik War.
 * Implants: The extent of individual legionnaire cybernetics is currently unknown.
 * Writer Ian Flynn suggested on his forum that about 30% of the echidna branch's bodies have been replaced as of joining the Eggman Empire.

Background Information

 * The first two Dark Egg Legion chapters introduced were both composed exclusively of monotremes, mammals that lay eggs.
 * Despite being called an army of cyborgs, the cybernetic implants of the legionnaires are hardly ever seen and are usually just mentioned.
 * At first, the Dark Egg Legion was believed to just be the renmants of the Dark Legion renamed with the "Egg" motif when they became Dr. Eggman's standing army in New Megaopolis. This was disproved after the introduction of the Downunda chapter which claimed to exist before the Echinda branch.
 * According to Drago Wolf, the Dark Egg Legion didn't get it's name until the "dreadheads" joined, as revealed in 214.
 * There are many more chapters of the Dark Egg Legion present on Mobius other than those revealed. As hinted by Bill in SU #12, this would indicate the Legion did not actually start in Downunda, but just expanded to include a chapter local to that continent. Dialogue in SU #11 suggested that the platypus branch came before the echidna one however, likely some time while Sonic was still in outer space, and as Bill put it: We were "upgraded" with cybernetics and made a chapter of his growing "Dark Egg Legion." This indicated at least a third branch, and dialogue in StH #210 revealed that some citizens of New Mobotropolis had been subjected to Legionization and sent to global legion chapters, further evidence of which was given by Espio the Chameleon in #212, where he revealed that Mighty the Armadillo's sister was currently a member of one.
 * A third chapter's membership was confirmed as of #213, differing from the previous two chapters in that it was made up of two Mobian races-Wolves and Felidae-neither of which were monotremes.