Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25212528-20150102141531/@comment-679780-20150103183532

Yamir24 wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote:

Yamir24 wrote: Don't forget the humans' great architecture as seen in speed highway. Take Windmill Isle, Rooftop Run and Skyscraper Scamper. These zones show domestic homes located outside of roads and paths that Sonic traverse. Some of these roads go loop de loop or break over bottomless pits. I wonder how those people can live there or get to work etc. They use Sonic's anti-gravity shoes from SatAM. My only logical conclusion is that the technology used in Extreme Gear is used in standard automobiles before sports equipment.

A theory of mine is that Sonic's Earth is indeed our Earth (same cosmic locations, same galaxy etc). But what sets it very different from ours is that this version of Earth (alternate universe or different timeline) regularly has the Time of Awakening every 10,000 years or so while our Earth never had to begin with. I also bet the very first Time of Awakening may have brought into existance the Chaos Emeralds. These emeralds often reside in Special Stages which are described as "warps of confusion", areas where logic only has so much meaning. It is these warps of confusion that makes up the power of the Chaos Emeralds.

My guess throughout Earth's history the Chaos Emeralds been scattered around the world and their powers to warp reality has effected the geography of parts of the world so severely that they have become recognised as "zones". Since these geography warps effect urban settlements, such places, humans seems to simply build there lives around the zones either before or after these zones came into existance. The invention of the Extreme Gear was perhaps a way for humans to traverse the terrains of Zones that Sonic and his friends can do without.

At least thats my headcanon theory, I know I am side-tracking.