Dark Legion

The Dark Legion is a fictional organization from the Sonic the Hedgehog comics. It is composed of a group of technocratic Echidnas. It later dissolved into the Flame Legion and the Frost Legion, which then merged back together and joined the Eggman Empire, becoming the Echidna Dark Egg Legion. They change locations, and thus names, twice - first being the New Megapolis Dark Egg Legion, and finally becoming the Albion Dark Egg Legion.

Origins and Early activities
Founded by Menniker, son of Dimitri, the Dark Legion was originally made up of a group of disgruntled Echidnas opposed to the Brotherhood of Guardians and their ban on excess technology. After their first battle, the Legion was banished to the Twilight Zone, a realm where time passed differently than on Mobius proper, resulting in four Mobian generations to every single Dark Legion one. However, they would later return over the years to battle the Guardians and strike at the Echidna people. Overall, the primary goal of the Legion has been to first dominate Angel Island, and then the rest of Mobius.

The main identifying trait in the ranks of the Legion is their devotion to technology. These echidnas are so obsessed with mechanics that they even replace parts of their own bodies with machine implants. They also believe themselves superior to other species.

First appearing as a terrorist organization, the Legion launched devastating strikes against Echidnaopolis. After failing to defeat the Guardian Steppenwolf, they were trapped in the Twilight Zone, only to reemerge for a second strike which likewise failed, despite conspiring with the Overlanders. Later, they launched a mass assault on Echidnaopolis, resulting in the accidental switching of Tobor and Moritori Rex.

Actions against Knuckles
When the barrier between Mobius proper and the Twilight Zone was erased by the Ultimate Annihilator, the Dark Legion began a long campaign against Echidnaopolis. This involved several incidents of open warfare, kidnappings, and even an attempt to grab at political power. Later on, however, Dimitri apparently wished to reunify the Echidna people, and attempted to establish peace between the Legion and the people of Echidnaopolis.

Dimitri's efforts appear to have been somewhat successful, as the Dark Legion was the resistance force on Angel Island against the Eggman Empire backed Dingoes. However it was revealed that since they worked together with the Freedom Fighters and Chaotix against the combined threat, the Legion had splintered into two groups: the Frost Legion, controlled by a brain-addled Constable Remington, and the Flame Legion, still under the command of Lien-Da. Both groups then became entangled in a civil war with each other, which only stopped when former Dark Legion member Doctor Finitevus asked for a truce, allegedly because he planned to use the Master Emerald to grant a reunited Legion the power to deal with the threat of Dr. Eggman and save the rapidly-dwindling echidna people.

Once it became clear that Dr. Finitevus would not honor his promises and had instead granted Enerjak's power to a brainwashed Knuckles the Echidna in a bid to "cleanse" the world, the warring factions put aside their differences in order to deal with the new threat. When the Legion tried to defeat him using conventional weapons, he restored them all to normal Echidna forms and transported most of them to Albion, with the exception of those who, like Lien-Da, were repulsed by the idea of losing their bionic enhancements.

Rise and fall of the Echidna Dark Egg Legion
Knowing that her diminished forces could not return to power alone, she made a deal with Dr. Eggman, asking for his aid in replacing their bionics in exchange for the Dark Legion's servitude. Robotnik agreed, making them part of the Eggman empire as his "Dark Egg Legion", but revealed to Lien-Da that she would not be Grandmaster; that role would be filled by Dimitri, who had already approached Robotnik in hopes of destroying Enerjak. The new Legion would soon find themselves tested against Sonic, Knuckles, and the Chaotix.

After acting as the workers on board the Death Egg Mark 2, the Echidna Dark Egg Legion were sent to take over Albion, once there they easily managed to take over the city, until Team Fighters arrived and battled them, the battle ended when a sudden spark knocked everyone out. Thrash the Tasmanian Devil arrived a short while after this and banished the Echidnas of the Dark Egg egion to the Twilight Cage.

Light Mobius
In the possible future of Light Mobius, the Dark Legion remains under the control of Lien-Da. In the unaltered timeline, their role has been reduced to little more than a social group. However, in the alternate Light Mobius, the Legion serve as military support for King Shadow the Hedgehog, working as brutal law enforcers and going by the name Chaotix. They were commanded by their old enemy Knuckles, who later turned traitor and joined a battle against Shadow. Following Shadow's defeat, they were presumably all imprisoned.

Dark Mobius
In the possible future of Dark Mobius, the Dark Legion acted as the army of Enerjak, though they started to become less and less useful and may have been destroyed in favour of the Prelates, as Lien-Da is seen amongst Enerjak's Prelate army.

Dimitri
Father of Menniker, founder of the Dark Legion, Dimitri later assumed command of the Legion from Kragok while in his Enerjak persona. Following the drain of his powers by Mammoth Mogul, he was sustained by a vast number of cybernetic implants. He was later immobilized, and handed over leadership of the Legion to Lien-Da. In the Light Mobius story, Dimitri has been reduced to a cyborg head in a floating glass orb. This incarnation is his current form in the present comics as well. He was working with Dr. Finitevus (who is responsible for Dimitri's floating head form) to unite the Dark Legion and bring back Enerjak, but later abandoned this plan to warn Knuckles that Enerjak had returned. After the inhabitants of New Mobotropolis proved less that cooperative, he turned to Dr. Robotnik, who had succeeded in capturing Enerjak using his Egg Fleet, to neutralize him. After Enerjak defeated Robotnik's forces, the two made a new plan, which fit right in as Lien-Da approached Robotnik with a deal to replace his lost troops with the Dark Legion. Dimitri, now equipped with tentacles, took over as the Dark Legion's Grandmaster once again.

Both the Dimitri of Light Mobius and the Dimitri of Dark Mobius were former members of their respective futures Dark Legions.

Dr. Finitevus
Originally serving Lien-Da as chief medical adviser, Dr. Finitevus used Hunter's attack on the Angel Island resistance to Dr. Eggman to facilitate his disappearance. Since then, he has apparently gone renegade, assembling his own force of villains including the Destructix and Scourge the Hedgehog. Among his actions have been the prevention of A.D.A.M.'s seizure of the Master Emerald and assuming the duties of the Guardian, all the while intending to use the Emerald to change Knuckles into Enerjak to destroy and re-shape the world.

Enerjak
A spirit residing in the Chaos Force which temporarily took possession of Dimitri, Enerjak was as revered to the Dark Legionnaires as his counterpart even after his powers were drained by Mammoth Mogul. This led Dr. Finitevus to create a new Enerjak using the energy contained within the Master Emerald. Originally Knuckles, this Enerjak was not a member of the Dark Legion and in fact effectively disbanded it by reverting all the members to their unmodified forms and destroying all their technology. Only Lien-Da and a few of her followers remained together on Angel Island.

Knuckles
In the possible future from which the first Lara-Su originated, Knuckles eventually lost his mind after absorbing a tremendous amount of Chaos energy. Afterwards, he apparently took over as Grandmaster of the Dark Legion, and his fate was concealed from Lara-Su by Julie-Su, who told her instead that her father had been killed by Constable Remington.

Others

 * Menniker - founder and first Grandmaster of Dark Legion
 * Moritori Rex - former Grandmaster of Dark Legion
 * Luger - former Grandmaster of Dark Legion
 * Kragok - former Grandmaster of Dark Legion
 * Lien-Da/Kommissar - former Grandmaster of Flame Legion/Echidna Dark Egg Legion/Dark Presence (Light Mobius reality)
 * Julie-Su (formerly)
 * Grandmasters' Spouses
 * Cynthia-Wa - Dimitri's wife, Menniker's mother
 * Vera-Lo - Menniker's wife, Moritori's mother
 * Regi-Na - Moritori's wife, Luger's mother
 * Merin-Da - Luger's first wife, Lien-Da and Kragok's mother; died due to an unknown ailment
 * Mari-Su - Luger's second wife, Julie-Su's mother; apparently assassinated by Lien-Da
 * Eli-Za - Kragok's wife and Remington's mother; defected from the Dark Legion to protect her son
 * Remington - former Grandmaster of Frost Legion
 * Simon (formerly; deceased)
 * Floren-Ca (formerly; deceased)
 * Xenin (deceased)
 * Rykor (deceased)
 * Syntar
 * Gae-Na
 * Kanewisher (deceased)
 * Mechanauts - robotic soldiers of the Dark Legion
 * Metal Knuckles - Metal Series robot assigned to the Echidna Dark Egg Legion.
 * Rutan - in the Light Mobius future.
 * Cobar - in the Light Mobius future.
 * Misty-Re - member of the Dark Presence in the Light Mobius future.
 * Dark Eyes - spies of the Dark Presence in the Light Mobius future.
 * Dark Hands - soldiers of the Dark Presence in the Light Mobius future.
 * Prelates - in the Dark Mobius future.

Hovercrafts
The Legion's most common form of transportation.

Mechanauts
Originally, Mechanauts were labor robots meant to serve the Echidna people. However, when Dimitri became the third Enerjak, he reprogrammed them into war machines with the intent of forcing his will upon the beings the Mechanauts had been intended to serve. The Mechanauts became more like SWATbots, enforcing order on those who resisted, though the majority of them were apparently placed in storage when changes in Echidna society outlawed nonessential technology. Resisting the changes to their way of life, the Dark Legion assembled their own warlike Mechanauts, and these robots came with them after the Ultimate Annihilator allowed them to make their final escape from the Twilight Zone.

Benedict
An Echidna android-similar to the concept of Robotnik's Auto-Automatons-built by the Legion in the hopes of taking over Echidnaopolis through politics. Well spoken, he had much of Echidnaopolis behind him with the notable exception of Constable Remington. Later, he was destroyed when an unconscious Knuckles generated an EMP in his headquarters.

Quantum Beam
The Quantum Beam was a powerful weapon that transported Angel Island's entire populace to another dimension. It was destroyed by Tobor, and the effects of the beam were later reversed by Chaos Knuckles.

Frost Legion
Dark Legion soldiers equipped with weaponry powered by liquid nitrogen. Composes one half of the Dark Legion's common troops.

Flame Legion
Dark Legion soldiers armed with flame swords. Composes the other half of the Dark Legion's standard soldiers.

Cybernetic implants
As part of their near worship of technology, all Dark Legionnaires had cybernetic implants to replace various body parts. The most common form of this is replacing at least one dreadlock with a mechanical one. This practice came to an end when the new Enerjak restored all members of the Dark Legion to fully organic forms.