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The Unity Engine is an object that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. It is a model of powerful devices created by Sigma in order to draw upon the power of worlds, such as Sonic's World and Mega Man's World, in order to grant him greater power.
Description[]
Features and traits[]
The Unity Engines are designed with technology from the year 21XX in Mega Man's world. They accomplish their purpose of feeding Sigma power by linking and then fusing worlds together, and channeling the power from those worlds they accessed into the Master Engine, which in turn feeds the power into Sigma. According to Sigma, employing an engine on a single world would cause rapid destruction, such that the planet would be destroyed before any power could be harvested from it. As such, fusing two or more worlds is ideal for Sigma's plan.
History[]
Worlds Unite[]
After conceiving the idea of the Unity Engines, Sigma set Eggman and Wily to work building them in his base on the Lost Hex. As Sigma contemplated the power the engines would grant him, he wondered what his old foe X would think of him after the engines granted him the power of the two worlds he was seeking to conquer.[1]
After Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man were captured and turned into Roboticized Masters Sonic Man and M'egga Man, each was sent to the other's world with a Unity Engine to place in Mega City and Mobotropolis, respectively.[2] Despite some local resistance, Sonic Man and M'egga Man accomplished their mission and the devices were activated, managed to set up their engines. The machines began fusing Sonic's World and Mega Man's World together into the Unified World with devastating consequences for the inhabitants, while Sigma was empowered by their energies. Sigma thus anticipated gaining control of the Genesis Portals and all of reality, while the restored heroes and new allies such as X set out to stop him.[3][4]
After linking up with the heroes, Eggman and Wily revealed Sigma's master plan: to merge other worlds together using other Unity Engines and thus gain god-like power. However, Sigma's enhanced power came at the cost of destroying the worlds fused by the Unity Engines, though with a delayed effect to enable him to absorb as much energy as possible.[5]
Trivia[]
- The Unity Engines have some parallels with the Extractor from Sonic Lost World. Both machines drains the power from their respective worlds and both can cause the destruction of said worlds when used excessively.
References[]
- ↑ Sonic Universe #76, "Worlds Unite! Part One: Across Time and Space"
- ↑ Sonic Boom #8, "Worlds Unite Part Two: Broken Heroes"
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #273, "Worlds Unite Part Three: Clash of the Corrupted"
- ↑ Mega Man #50, "Worlds Unite Part Four: Death and Destruction"
- ↑ Sonic Universe #77, "Worlds Unite" Part Five: Everybody in the Same Boat"