Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26167440-20160111225919/@comment-679780-20160128234051

The reason why I pressume the Chaos Emeralds become "instable" after awhile is because chaos is chaotic. Either someone puts the Chaos Emeralds back into the Special stages after awhile or as part of their destabilization, the emeralds warp back to the Special Zones themselves.

If you're talking about the power of the Chaos Emeralds indefinately, I believe that the answer is the Special Zone/Warp of Confusion itself. This "zone" to my best description is a pocket universe where natual destruction and creation is constant, simultainious and everywhere in this place. It has has matter but absence as well, structure but senseless, design but coincidental. Sonic 1 it is depicted as a maze of cube like crystals with rotating gravity, Sonic 2 a series of half-pipe run ways and Sonic 3 depicted as spherical planetoids. It is a place that is changing and always different in future games because the place is always changing. This constant flux of creation and destruction in this warp of confusion is channeled through the emeralds as chaos energy.

My belief is that the Special Zone is an embodiment of the "chaos" and perhaps the source of power the Chaos Emeralds can channel, if that makes any sense. Even if it hardly does, the Special Zone is a senseless place. So if the Special Zone is removed that means the Chaos Emeralds will not have a place to return to to stablize. Given the source of their chaos power is cut off, that means they'll just end up like they did in Sonic Unleashed, though not even the Gaia Temples would restore their power... maybe.

"But how is Sthere gravity and other laws of physics? How is Sonic able to breath air in a sub-microverse?" I don't hear you ask. Well it's a "pocket universe" located on Earth and part of it. Even though the Zone is it's own universe and has no trees or planets in the Special Stages (not including the planetoids of Sonic 3 Special stages which have it's own gravity) Earth's laws of physics as well as it's atmosphere is still part of the Special Zone no matter how crazy it is in there.