While the final draft isn't finished and I need to do a bit more research to do a full version, here's my theory on Sonic's world.
In the comics, they say that around the later part of this century, a race of aliens called the Xorda invade and destroy Earth and in the wake of their attack the Chaos Emeralds where left behind (still researching that origin). While the human population was decimated from 7 billion to mere millions. Though in a way this was better for the Earth, with less people on the planet, pollution levels went down, food supplies increased, less people meant more trees were growing so oxygen levels increased and as you would expect with less humans taking up space, animal populations began to explode. Though humanity proves its resilence and the remaining humans began to rebuild.
However the Chaos Emeralds had simply been scattered around the planet and it was some time before anyone found them or knew what they were or what they did. A scientist was out in the woods when he stumbled across the blue one in an area with a lot of hedgehogs around. A strange thing occured that the hedgehogs expose to this blue Emerald caused an anomialy that turned their fur blue (these are Sonic's anscestors). Imagine a regular hedgehog with a slight blue hue to him. The scientist took a few of these blue hedgehogs back to his lab for study and after many tests saw an increase in brain functionality. Somehow prolonged exposure to the Chaos Emeralds led to higher brain functioning in animals but oddly enough they experimented on humans and it seemed to have no affect on the human brain as if our evolutionary progression had plateued.
As the years progressed, though other emeralds were eventually found and contained, they had already had their influence on the many animal species of Earth. Animals all over began showing signs of increased intellegence. One scientist visited a mysterious island where huge energy emissions were emerging (Angel Island) and found an enmormous Emerald but as soon as he got close was attacked by a group of Echidnas who appeared to worship it as some sort of god. This started to raise questions of how would humanity handle now sharing a planet with animals intellegent enough to band together and defend themselves.
So as you can imagine as the years continued the animals of Mobius (Earth renamed after the Xorda attack) began to realize how humans viewed them and the human race saw them as a threat. Once the animals gained the ability to walk and talk they began demanding the same basic human rights we have and if history has taught us anything, it's that people don't like things that are different from them. Segregation occured. Animals and humans had their own cities and rarely interacted with each other and those who did were often ostricized. Wars broke out frequently and if Rise of Planet of the Apes taught us, taking an animals that's stronger and faster than us and giving it our level of intellgence leads to dire consequences.
In the comics, during the Endgame story they do a short backstory of the great war that occured prior to the events of Sonic's story. That the Mobians went to war with who they called the "Overlanders" one pannel shows this battle and it's clear that the anthros are fighting humans and in this battle Eggman was an escaped convict who for whatever reason was taken in by Sonic's father, Jules and his Uncle Chuck but having a human on their side let them win the war but of course Eggman turned around and took over their world.
So that's my idea of the origin of Sonic's world.
Who devotes a bunch of his life to trying to make a girl cry so he can destroy the world, and then "repents" and tells someone else how to save the world after him while he sits back and does nothing.
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