Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors./@comment-24261123-20140201151719/@comment-24261123-20140317001343

Ok, I've got the ultimate origin story for Eggman.

51 years ago, 5-10 year old Ivo shows a bright intuition in robotics inspired by his grandfather, Gerald Robotnik. When his grandfather was executed on television, he was enraged. He believed that the government was corrupted and imagined a utopian society where everything went his way. The Robotnik Empire was born.

Ivo graduated college with his PhD, becoming Dr. Robotnik. He then became a romanticist, feminist, gentleman, and entrepreneur, keeping the dream of his legacy in mind.

Using Robotnik Inc and MeteorTech, he gained most of the resources he needed to build a nation with one thing eluding him: a power source. He decided to use the local animals as power for his robots, and the Chaos Emeralds for his other machinery. So he searched South Island for them, and the rest is history.