Echidna Empire

The Echidna Empire is a group that appears in the Sonic the Comic series published by Fleetway Editions. They are ancient race of Echidnas that resided on Mobius over 8000 years ago.

History
The Echidna Empire was a powerful nation that lived on ancient Mobius some 8000 years ago. When the Drakon Empire arrived on Mobius and took of the echidnas' sacred Emerald Mines to find emeralds to serve as ideal vessels for their artificial energy source, chaos energy. In doing so, the Chaos Emeralds were created from the sacred emeralds of the echidnas. To keep the Drakons from syphoning the chaos energy into thousands of emeralds to conquer the galaxy, Pochacamac, leader of the Echidna Empire, led his men against the Drakon and managed to recaptured the Chaos Emeralds, sparking a conflict with the Drakons.

Two days after stealing the Chaos Emeralds, Pochacmac and Tikal transported Sonic to their time to help them fight the Drakons. When Tikal brought Sonic the Hedgehog to Pochacamac, the echidna leader promised Sonic that he would get his answers soon and showed him the Chaos Emeralds. Shortly after, they came under attack from the Drakons once again.

Pochacamac tried to have the Drakon Prosecutor deliver a message so their sides could discuss peacefully. However, the Drakon forces attacked Megopolis City, and Pochacamac called in reinforcements. In the insuring battle, the Chaos Emeralds were struck by an energy beam, causing the captured Drakon Prosecutor to be doused in chaos energy and transforming him into Chaos. As Chaos was about to kill Sonic, Pochacamac harnessed a proportion of the Emeralds' power and used it to send Sonic back to his time while draining Chaos' power enough for Knuckles to take care of it.

After driving the Drakons out of Megaopolis City, Tikal worried about Sonic well-being, but Pochacamac insisted that sending him back was the only way to save him. As Knuckles thought about his future, Pochacamac told him that it would become clear, but that they were now in a war that would determine the fate of the Echidnas.