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LuckysixFroggy wrote: I have some pet peeves with the opening of sonic unleashed. First suoer sonic falling for that trap it was just sllly. Second the chaos emeralds got drained from the laser HOW? there have limitless power they should have been corrupted by dark gaia instead. While I can't explain the details, what is confirmed is that Sonic and his friends are capable of surviving in the thermosphere without the need of spacesuits. This natual resistance is first shown in the Sonic 2. After Death Egg stage where after destroying the space station, Sonic falls back down to Earth. Despite the vacuum of space or the re-entry not at all killing him, it would of been likely the impact of the fall would of killed him if it wern't for Tails rescue.

Sonic Adventure 2 is another example of mobians resistance to the logic of space given the various stages around the exterior of the Space Colony ARK, though one could pressume these stages have artificial gravity and air or something.

So the intro of Sonic Unleashed which also shows Sonic fighting Eggmans forces on the exterior deck of a space ship shows Sonic resistance to space.

As for how the chaos emeralds got drained from the laser, there is actually two logical explanations.
 * The emeralds power are infinite but can still be over-whelmed or removed, as proven when Perfect Chaos once removed the negative energy of the emeralds. The Gaia Temples merely jump-start the chaos emeralds power by restoring it's connection to the Earth.
 * The emeralds are tens of thousands of years old, much older than the echidnas who lived 4,000 years a go. Knuckles tribe merely adopted the emeralds into their culture and named them after the creature that guarded it at the time. The Gaia Manuscripts say that Gaia awakens every ten-thousand years or so and the Chaos Emeralds are needed to restore the world. So the reason why the chaos emeralds could be drained is simply the result of Gaia's awakening. The emeralds can turn thought into power, but the Gaia Temples show the emeralds also have a connection to the earth, thus are needed in the restoring of the world.

Sonic Unleashed may have a wierd story of werehogs and eldritch horrors but the games story is full of interesting lore that corrosponds to almost all Sonic games.