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It was aboard Space Colony ARK that Professor Gerald Robotnik worked on Project Shadow in an attempt to create the "Ultimate Lifeform" as the first step towards discovering the secret of immortality (he did this in order to find a cure for his terminally-ill granddaughter, Maria Robotnik ). Thus, the ARK was the "birthplace" of both the Biolizard and Shadow The Hedgehog . When Project Shadow was shut down, Robotnik refused to end his work before he had found the cure he sought. Thus, the military invaded the Space Station to end the program by force. Maria Robotnik was killed during the raid, and the news of her death sent her grandfather into despair. He plotted revenge against the entire planet. The Biolizard remained aboard ARK, having nearly decimated the invaders, and Shadow The Hedgehog fled to Earth in a stasis tube. During '' Sonic Adventure 2 '', a reawakened Shadow The Hedgehog led Doctor Eggman and Rouge The Bat to the ARK as part of his own plans to get vengeance for the death of Maria . They planned to activate the Eclipse Cannon , a powerful weapon that, when powered by Chaos Emerald s, could Destroy A Planet . When six of the seven emeralds were connected to the power supply, Eggman demonstrated the power of the Cannon by blowing up half of the moon. When Sonic The Hedgehog (along with his friends Tails , Knuckles and Amy ) tried to intervene, Eggman stole the seventh Chaos Emerald s from them. However, when he inserted the final emerald, rather than activating the full power of the weapon, a recording made by Gerald Robotnik appeared on several monitors, and the ARK itself began hurtling towards Earth. This was Robotnik's revenge plan: when warmongering humans attempted to activate the Eclipse Cannon, the energy from the Chaos Emeralds would be transferred to the engines and the colony would crash into the Earth, destroying all life on the planet. In an attempt to stop it, Sonic and Knuckles made their way to the core. However, they were waylaid by the Biolizard , which had also been awoken when the seventh emerald had been connected to the Cannon. At the same time, Amy Rose ( Chris Thorndyke in Sonic X ), convinced Shadow that Maria's final wish was that he should protect mankind, not destroy it, and Shadow quickly went to help by distracting the Biolizard. This allowed Knuckles enough time to deactivate the power of the Chaos Emeralds by using the Master Emerald . However, they were not safe for long as the Biolizard used Chaos Control to merge with the Colony itself, becoming the Final Hazard, and continue its descent to the planet. Sonic and Shadow used the power of the Chaos Emeralds to become Super Sonic and Super Shadow respectively. The two fought and defeated the Final Hazard, then used Chaos Control to teleport the entire colony a safe distance from Earth again. However, this used the last of Shadow's strength, and he fell to Earth, believed dead. The story of Space Colony ARK appeared in '' Sonic Adventure 2 '', ''Sonic Adventure 2 Battle'', in the Shadow Saga of '' Sonic X '', ''Archie Comics'', and in Shadow's new game, '' Shadow The Hedgehog ''. However, the true purpose of the Eclipse Cannon was not to destroy entire planets; instead, it was intended to destroy the Black Arms' base of operations (a comet) in order to save the planet from the evil intentions of its leader, Black Doom. It is also revealed in " Shadow The Hedgehog " that the GUN Commander was also aboard the ARK fifty years ago, and shared a sibling-esque relationship with Maria. It is unclear how he survived the GUN invasion of the ARK, but he holds a strong grudge against Shadow, blaming Shadow for the death of everyone, his family and Maria included, aboard the ARK. The Eclipse Cannon only hits the earth once, in Shadow the Hedgehog. If the player followed the pure dark storyline, they played a level called "The ARK". After the level's boss battle against Blue Falcon, Shadow and Black Doom took over the Eclipse Cannon and fired it at the White House in Central City. Since the cannon was not yet fully charged by all the Chaos Emeralds (Shadow had not collected them all yet), the result was not world destruction, but an with it. Rumours suggest that the Space colony ARK and the Eclipse Cannon will appear in the future Sonic games because not even all the mysterys have been solved, like the fact of the Chaotix being in the ARK in the end of Shadow the hedgehog game and how the Biolizard fits in. |
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