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It is a different canon, yes.

I'm just saying if the Sonic Boom franchise followed an era of time similar to the games, I would say Rise of Lyric takes place roughly when Sonic Heroes would take place in the main game franchise.

Purely speculation. Maybe Team Sonic of the Boomiverse just recently came together over Team Sonic of the main games. The reason why my theory is because Rise of Lyrics is a tad bit like Sonic Heroes. Colourful, heavy on team-based gameplay and so on.