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Long ago, MAIA was one of the MAIA units running [[Lyric's Weapon Facility]], where [[Lyric the Last Ancient]] created an [[Sentinel (Sonic Boom)|army of robots]] to destroy all organic life on [[earth]]. However, MAIA went rogue and plotted against her creator. She eventually met [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom)|Sonic]] and [[Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic Boom)|Tails]] who had been sent from the future by MAIA's future self to get the map to the [[Chaos Crystal]]s to stop Lyric in the future. Understanding it, MAIA asked the duo to clear the path to a [[Sentinel (Sonic Boom)|Sentinel]]―the only weapon powerful enough to stop Lyric―and she would help them. Once a Sentinel was secured, MAIA interfaced with it and lead Sonic and Tails to the map room, while she trashed Lyric's facility and helped imprison Lyric. |
Long ago, MAIA was one of the MAIA units running [[Lyric's Weapon Facility]], where [[Lyric the Last Ancient]] created an [[Sentinel (Sonic Boom)|army of robots]] to destroy all organic life on [[earth]]. However, MAIA went rogue and plotted against her creator. She eventually met [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom)|Sonic]] and [[Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic Boom)|Tails]] who had been sent from the future by MAIA's future self to get the map to the [[Chaos Crystal]]s to stop Lyric in the future. Understanding it, MAIA asked the duo to clear the path to a [[Sentinel (Sonic Boom)|Sentinel]]―the only weapon powerful enough to stop Lyric―and she would help them. Once a Sentinel was secured, MAIA interfaced with it and lead Sonic and Tails to the map room, while she trashed Lyric's facility and helped imprison Lyric. |
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| − | One thousand years later, MAIA met [[Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic Boom)|Knuckles]] and [[Amy Rose (Sonic Boom)|Amy]] while searching for Sonic at the [[Abandoned Research Facility]] since Lyric had returned. After Knuckles revealed where Sonic was, MAIA found him and Tails (who had yet to meet MAIA at that point) as they looked for a Crystal. |
+ | One thousand years later, MAIA met [[Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic Boom)|Knuckles]] and [[Amy Rose (Sonic Boom)|Amy]] while searching for Sonic at the [[Abandoned Research Facility]] since Lyric had returned. After Knuckles revealed where Sonic was, MAIA found him and Tails (who had yet to meet MAIA at that point) as they looked for a Crystal. As such, MAIA instructed them to activate a time machine which they could use to find the map to the Crystals in the past (thereby leading to MAIA's first meeting with Sonic and Tails). As MAIA calibrated a time portal though, [[Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom)|Shadow]] attacked Sonic and Tails, their fight taking them through several time portals. Once Shadow was disposed into a portal leading to the near future, MAIA took Sonic and Tails to their intended location with a new portal, and presumably helped them get back. |
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MAIA is a protagonist who appears in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. She is a robot designed by Lyric the Last Ancient and is one of the MAIA units that operated Lyric's Weapon Facility. However, she rebelled against her creator and helped ensure Lyric's downfall one thousand years ago with the aid of Sonic and Tails
Appearance
MAIA 1,000 years ago.
MAIA is a spherical dark grey robot with a rounded, yet long and thin white plating which covers the middle of her front body and stretches far behind it, akin to a fin. This plate has Ancient runes on it and one large, completely blue eye in the middle, along with a smaller lamp above and below it. She also has an oblong white and dark grey handle with lamps hovering on each side, along with two round-shaped black and blue lamps on the bottom of her body and a ball on her rear. She also has a retractable antenna on one side.
After 1,000 years, MAIA has slightly changed in appearance. In addition to her eye being dirty and seemingly fractured, her body is covered in rust and green moss. Most of her lights have also gone out.
History
Games
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
Long ago, MAIA was one of the MAIA units running Lyric's Weapon Facility, where Lyric the Last Ancient created an army of robots to destroy all organic life on earth. However, MAIA went rogue and plotted against her creator. She eventually met Sonic and Tails who had been sent from the future by MAIA's future self to get the map to the Chaos Crystals to stop Lyric in the future. Understanding it, MAIA asked the duo to clear the path to a Sentinel―the only weapon powerful enough to stop Lyric―and she would help them. Once a Sentinel was secured, MAIA interfaced with it and lead Sonic and Tails to the map room, while she trashed Lyric's facility and helped imprison Lyric.
One thousand years later, MAIA met Knuckles and Amy while searching for Sonic at the Abandoned Research Facility since Lyric had returned. After Knuckles revealed where Sonic was, MAIA found him and Tails (who had yet to meet MAIA at that point) as they looked for a Crystal. As such, MAIA instructed them to activate a time machine which they could use to find the map to the Crystals in the past (thereby leading to MAIA's first meeting with Sonic and Tails). As MAIA calibrated a time portal though, Shadow attacked Sonic and Tails, their fight taking them through several time portals. Once Shadow was disposed into a portal leading to the near future, MAIA took Sonic and Tails to their intended location with a new portal, and presumably helped them get back.
Personality
MAIA is an artificial intelligence, capable of making her own decisions. While she uses a very robotic and computer-based speech pattern and follows protocols accordingly, she is remarkably life-like. Not only can she express both gratitude and closeness, but she can also give into peer pressure and even say rather strong, emotional quotes. Though she sometimes require times to process inputs, she has shown noteworthy understanding of complex explanations.
MAIA appears to have a defined sense of justice for a Lyric robot, given how she went rogue on her own and openly rebelled against her creator in order to protect organic life forms, and stayed true to that goal even after a thousand years.
Powers and abilities
MAIA is able to levitate and can scan objects with her eye. Being a prime component in Lyric's operations, she can also interface with any machine in the Abandoned Research Facility/Lyric's Weapon Facility, allowing her to take complete control of them.
Relationships
Friends/allies
Enemies
Quote
- "Peer pressure acknowledged. Acquiescing in 3... 2... Blue hedgehog is neccessary to stop Lyric. Disclose hedgehog location immediately."
- —MAIA giving into peer pressure, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
- "Scanning life forms. Hedgehog and fox confirmed. It is agreeable to see you both once again!"
- —MAIA meeting Sonic and Tails after a thousand years, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
- "Processing... that makes sense."
- —MAIA understanding the complexity of time paradoxes, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
Trivia
- MAIA is the second of Lyric the Last Ancient's robots to go rogue and convert to good, the other being Q-N-C.
- In one cutscene, Q-N-C's dialogue suggests that MAIA is mass-produced.
- An unused character profile for MAIA in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric says that her name stands for "Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Administrator" and that she is the boss program that runs Lyric's Weapon Facility.
Gallery
Concept artwork
