Babylon Garden (Archie)

The Babylon Garden was an ancient spaceship that brought the ancient Babylonians to Mobius after it crash-landed over a millennium ago. They discovered that the warp-drive that allowed the ship to travel easily in space had malfunctioned, and using it in this state would create a black hole, destroying the planet in its wake. Babylon Garden's systems, detecting the malfunction, would automatically attempt to travel back to its point of origin for repairs. Not wishing to cause this destruction, the Babylonians removed the ignition matrix's components to prevent the system's reactivation. The Gravity Ring ended up being passed down to the Battle Kukkus and the Key to Babylon was hidden in ruins under the Gigan Mountains, protected by Angelus.

The ancient Babylonians then abandoned the Garden and began to colonize Mobius, with the location of their ship lost to time. Stories of Babylon Garden persisted regardless, but even before the Battle Kukkus rose to power, few knew anything for certain. Some believed the Garden to be a vast storehouse of treasure or knowledge. Others thought it was a kind of city or fortress. While it's true nature remained a mystery to them, the Kukkus and their Battle Bird Armada became fixated on locating it. This was all in order to use the awesome power it supposedly contained to achieve their long sought "destiny" of conquering Mobius and everyone living under it's skies.

In 3237, the rogue A.I. A.D.A.M. created a city of Nanites over the long-buried Babylon Garden, hoping to use its warp-drive as part of a plan to collect Chaos Emeralds from the far reaches of the galaxy; however, since the system could not be activated, this plan was abandoned. This, however, resulted in NICOLE unknowingly relocating the people of the Kingdom of Acorn directly over Babylon Garden, as she converted A.D.A.M.'s Nanite City to New Mobotropolis. Thus the city came under attack when the Battle Lord arrived seeking to uncover Babylon Garden; the Battle Fortress was used to blast a massive hole in New Mobotropolis, and the Babylon Rogues used this to enter the Garden. They installed the missing key components, reactivating the Garden; it quickly arose from beneath the ground. However, upon realizing that the Garden was in fact a ship, and that its systems were attempting to send it back into space at the cost of Mobius itself, Sonic the Hedgehog removed the key, causing the Garden to lose all power once again. It crashed into the mountains beyond New Mobotropolis.