The Drakon Empire
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[edit] The Drakon Empire
A fictional race from the Sonic The comicseries published by Fleetway Editions
A race of fish that operate on land via humanoid robotic exoskeletons, the Drakons are a brutal galactic empire. Leadership is split between multiple Great Houses, with the mightiest being the Houses of War, Magic and Knowledge. The House of War uses the stone robot Sentinels and the mighty Prosecutors to enforce its will, with the Prosecutors wielding powerful devices known as Drakon Swords.
Long ago, the Drakons invented Chaos Energy, but were unable to control. They then invaded ancient Mobius, then ruled by the echidnas, and discovered that the emeralds in the echidna's Sacred Emerald Mines could be used to safely store Chaos Energy. The seven Chaos Emeralds were created and then stolen by the echidnas, who refused to allow the Drakon's to wield such power. The Great War erupted, of which little is known except that the Drakon's never got hold of the Emeralds but the echidnas completely vanished.
The Aquatic Ruin Zone is the remains of a Drakon outpost, as is Flickies' Island. A Mobius Ring was left on the island, allowing Flickies to warp from Planet Drak to Mobius. The Drakon's figured the primitive Mobians may one day advance to the point where they could be a threat to the Empire, so they left the Mobius Ring for the Mobian's to eventually find; when Robotnik began experimenting with it, the Drakon's knew that Mobius had become a potential threat and immediately stepped in to remove it.
Emperor Ko-Dorr, head of the House of War, realised that Robotnik could help him locate the Chaos Emeralds and use their power to overthrow the other two Houses. He set Robotnik free and worked with him to gain the Emeralds; Robotnik betrayed him, using the Drakon's to take out the Floating Island's security systems so he could get the Emerald's for himself. After that heavy setback, Ko-Dorr never returned to Mobius.
Drakon society is highly militaristic and their justice system is entirely based around trial by combat- if the defendants kill the Prosecutor, they're considered innocent. Sonic was put on trial by combat and was one of the very few defendants in history to actually win.
[edit] Chaos
In the UK, Sonic the Comic comics published by Fleetway Chaos is depicted as a much more intelligent and evil beast. Rather than being captured within the Master Emerald, Chaos was actually imprisoned by the Echidnas in a mystic container of some sort (showed fairly briefly). Dr. Robotnik somehow got hold of this container, but never unleashed Chaos from his prison. However, his assistant Grimer released him when he saw that Robotnik was depressed after losing to Sonic so many times.
In the comics, Chaos has a 'fear factor' that makes anyone near him tremble with incredible fear when they are around him, to the point where they fall to their knees petrified. Chaos also kills one of Sonic the Comic's longest running characters, Johnny Lightfoot. Unlike in the game, in the comic Chaos can talk and is actually a transformed Drakon Guard, a group of fish-like creatures that were at war with the Echidnas.
In following with the game, Chaos absorbs all seven Chaos Emeralds; however, unlike in the games he is less like a snake and more like a blob.
Eventually Super Sonic (who at this point in the comic was separate from normal Sonic) absorbed all of Chaos' energy and Chaos reverts back to his fish state.
Coincidentally, the Sonic Adventure adaptation was also Fleetway's last original story for Sonic the Comic.
