The 20th Century AD:
AD 1956?—An alien
spacecraft crash-lands near Roswell, NM. The government recovers the
craft and its occupant(s), and takes them to Groom Lake, Nevada,
codename: Area 51, for study.
Conspiracy theory. I mention this
because it could possibly relate to the incident with the Xorda.
AD
1990s - SEGA engineers
receive signals over a prototype device... An artist draws a series
of sketches based upon these signals,. Among the sketches are
pictures of “Chronic the Hedgehog”, “Philharmonic the
Hedgehog”, “Histronic the Hedgehog”, “Moronic the Hedgehog”,
“Hydroponic the Hedgehog”, and “Stereophonic the Hedgehog”.
One sketch, of “Sonic the Hedgehog”, is used as inspiration for a
video-game character. Those involved in the game production have no
idea that the images are of the future of alternate worlds.
--Sonic
2- "In the Beginning";
Sonic-Live- "The Last Game Cartridge Hero".
June 6, AD 2006 – Ivan
Kintobor is born.
Isaac's tale, Sonic 148
*The
(First) Day of Fury—In reaction to the imprisonment and dissection
of their emissary, the alien species known as the Xorda fire their
gene-bombs at the planet, causing massive loss of life, and the
radical mutation and cross-breeding of the remaining organisms.
Also at this time, an Airliner crashes in the mountains of
South America. The survivors take refuge in the extensive caverns of
region, and thus are protected from the effects of the
gene-bombs.
Over time, the survivors rebuild their society,
eventually even creating an artificial environment within the largest
of the mountain’s caverns. The people flourish, and eventually, a
hidden city arises within the mountain, the city-state of "Station
Square".
Day of Fury described in Sonic 124. History
of Station Square mentioned briefly in
Sonic 80, and expanded upon in Sonic Data File 7 (Sonic 106)
*In
the aftermath of the Xorda’s gene-bombs, the remaining life forms
are radically mutated, in some case even exchanging genes, resulting
in bizarre hybrid creatures. Among these was the "First Walker",
who emerged from some sort of "primordial ooze".
Tails
3—The Ancient Walkers, speaking through Tails; Sonic 125.
*A race of sentient reptiles taking
forms reminiscent of the long extinct dinosaurs rise to power,
ushering in the Saurian Age.
Tails 3
*The Adventures
of Sonugh the Boghog…
Sonugh the Boghog and his friends hide
in caves to escape the dominant Saurians, and the mutated humans
known as Overlanders (who are led by the power-hungry caveman
Robughnik.).
One day, they are
visited by a time-traveler from the future, Sonic the Hedgehog, who
teaches them to plant hedges to hide in.
Sonic 12- "A
Timely Arrival"—Captions claim it is 400,000 years prior to
the issue, set in 3235, however, this date is clearly inconsistent
with the later timeline… It is interesting to note that several
Mobian races were living together in the caves at this time, and that
the non-anthropomorphic Saurians were capable of speech.
* The (Second) Day of Fury-- Some
celestial object explodes in the planet’s atmosphere, scattering
shards of Chaos Emerald across the planet’s surface, and creating
ecological disaster great enough to bring about the fall of the
Saurian civilization.
Tails 3… art implies that Saurians
were not driven extinct, as a pterodactyl is later seen worshiping a
Chaos Emerald. That these events are considered a Day of Fury is
conjecture. Of note is that this origin of the Chaos Emeralds is
inconsistent with Isaac's tale in 148.
*Ixus, a woolly
mammoth discovers a Chaos Emerald, which explodes, sending a shard
into his chest, giving him vast powers, including immortality. He
then uses this power to conquer Mobius. He rules for several thousand
years. …Much later, the mammoth would become known as Mammoth
Mogul.
Mecha Madness Special—"Don’t Let the Island Hit
You on the Way Down."; Sonic 56. That Mammoth Mogul's name is
Ixus was revealed in Sonic 163:“Darkest Storm” Part 2.
AD 6016
*"Mobie"
the Cave Bear is frozen in a mountain glacier.
Sonic 32. Uncle
Chuck claimed the Cave Bear had been frozen eight thousand years
ago.
*The Bem first set out to explore the stars.
Sonic
129. Bem said to have begun space exploration "8000 rotational
cycles ago". Assumes "rotational
cycles" to refer to years of about the same length as
Earth's.
*The Bem scientist Ceneca-9009 discovers the
planet Biotex, a planet ruled by sentient machines. Believing
biological life superior to mechanical, and feeling pity
for the Biotexans, she devises a "derobotizer" and uses it
to transform the Biotexans into creatures of flesh. This proves
disastrous, however, as the Biotexans now
become vulnerable to the planet’s deadly microbes, and rapidly
die-off. Before the Bem can take action to correct their mistake, the
Biotexans are driven extinct.
After this, the
Bem declare derobotization illegal.
Sonic 129
AD 10,778
*Ixus the Mammoth is dethroned by a
Hedgehog, an Echidna, and a Cave Bear (among others?).
Mecha-Madness—"Don’t Let the Island…". Mogul
claimed to have ruled for thousands of years. Exact year of defeat
chosen to coincided with the beginning of
the Mobian Era (see below).
A cave-bear is seen in the final
battle with Mammoth Mogul. This may or may not have been "Mobie".
If it was Mobie, Mogul's defeat would have had to be prior to Mobie's
freezing, which occurred in AD 6010.
* With the
dethronement of Ixus, the Mobian Era begins. Later Mobians shall
count their years starting from this point.
That the Mobian Era
begins with the defeat of Mammoth Mogul is pure speculation on my
part. Date based on Issac's assertion in 148 that 12,010 years had
passed since 2006 AD, and on my calculation that Home is in 3238.