Unity Engine

This object exists primarily or exclusively within the Post-Super Genesis Wave continuity. Information in this article may not be canonical to the storyline of the games or any other Sonic continuity.

Unity Engine
A Unity Engine, from Sonic the Hedgehog #273.
Appearances
First appearance	Sonic Universe #76
Statistics and overview
Creator(s)	Sigma
User(s)	Sigma
Purpose	Merging dimensions/planets
Description	A red and black machine.

The Unity Engines are objects that appear in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. They were 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. They accomplish their purpose by linking and then fusing worlds together, and channeling the power thus accessed into the Master Engine, which in turn feeds the power into Sigma.

Description

The Unity Engines are designed with technology from the year 21XX in Mega Man's world, which by some means enables them to fuse worlds together. They are designed to harness the energy of worlds and feed them into the Master Engine, which in turn feed it 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

After conceiving the idea of the Unity Engines, Sigma set Eggman and Wily to work building them in his base on the Lost World. 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.

The Unity Engines effect on Sonic's World and Mega Man's World, from Mega Man #50.

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. 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.

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 thus fused by the Unity Engines, though with a delayed effect to enable him to absorb as much energy as possible.

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.