Babylonians (Archie)

The Babylonians, also called the Children of Babylon, are a species that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series and its spin-off comics. They are an ancient culture of extraterrestrial aliens who stranded on Mobius over a millennium ago in Babylon Garden. This culture eventually settled down Mobius, integrating with the Mobian population while giving rise to various legends surrounding them.

Anatomy
In spite of being extraterrestrial, the Babylonians are show to closely resemble Mobian birds though their eyes appear to lack pupils.

Characteristics and Culture
The Babylonians were a highly advanced culture in terms of technology, having invented force field enhanced holography which allows holograms to physically interact with the surroundings, the Gravity Ring which could form compressed gravity fields, and wormhole generators that creates shortcuts throughout space-time (though the latter malfunctioned and could create black holes).

History
A millennium ago, the Babylonians crash-landed on Mobius in their spaceship, the Babylon Garden. They discovered that their ship's wormhole generator, which allowed it to travel across space easily, had suffered an irreplaceable malfunction, and any attempt to use it in such a state on Mobius would create a black hole that would destroy the planet in its wake. The Baylon Garden's automated systems, however, detected the malfunction, and would attempt to follow its navigational routine and travel back to its homeworld to be repaired.

Refusing the responsibility for the destruction of Mobius, the Babylonians removed Babylon Garden's ignition matrix from the ship to prevent their spaceship's system from reactivating. To further prevent any future attempts to reactivate Babylon Garden, the Babylonians split the ignition matrix into the Gravity Ring and the Key to Babylon Garden: They then the hid Key away beneath the Gigan Mountains to be protected by Angelus while the Gravity Ring ended up in one of their own families, the Battle Kukkus. Babylon Garden itself was then buried deep beneath where New Mobotropolis would be built.

Having secured Babylon Garden would not be a treat, the Babylonians abandoned the Garden and colonized Mobius, eventually becoming a part of the Mobian population while their history and knowledge were lost to time. While half of the Babylonians embraced travel and independence as they set out on their own, the other half adopted a strict militaristic lifestyle under the Battle Kukkus. The stories of the Babylonians and Babylon Garden persisted regardless, though few knew anything for certain about them. As the Battle Bird Armada rose to power, they became fixated on locating Babylon Garden, as the Battle Kukkus believed their destiny was to conquer Mobius and everyone living under it's skies, and that Babylon Garden could help them achieve that goal.