The Power Asteroid is a meteorological phenomenon that passes by Sonic's world on a unknown schedule. It is the catalyst for all of Sonic and co's superpowers, and the reason people in Silver's future all have powers.
History[]
The first recorded passover of the Power Asteroid was 1000 years after the Ancients defeated The End. The reason for this is part of it's creation. During the first defeat of The End, parts of it managed to slip away from the sealing process. These parts carried a plan to go reform, but no sentience besides that, and so they formed into the Power Asteroid over a year, and eventually passed over Sonic's World due to a mysterious physics defying gravity path.
This blessed all the species that had formed at the time with superpowers, giving Flickies inherent magic and the ability to use Giant Rings to go to their own dimension, giving the recently evolved Chao the ability to copy traits from animals and certain energies and granting Sonic's people occasional powers and enhanced flexibility. This last trait would prove critical for the world, as Sonic was not the first to use his enhanced flexibility to turn his body into a weapon, people had been Spin Attacking and Rolling for millenia. Sonic was just the one who turned it into a force through clever applications of his superspeed combined with it. However, there were two critical beings that had not gained powers, as they had been just small cells at the time, which could not handle the asteroid's energies. These being Humans and Critters.
Because of the opposition from Sonic's people and humanity's evolved skills, the humans would form a series of interconnected villages that would form into the United Federation, and a group of fighters shared between the villages that grew into the Guardian Units of the Nations. Eventually, Eggman came to be and everything just went from there, until the return of the Power Asteroid during the Badnik Corps era.
The second passover not only gave humanity powers for the day and for forever after, but enhanced the rate of power growth for Sonic's People and allowed the world to study it's energy. While the results of the study were insightful, the energy was very limited. When The End was properly destroyed though, for the third and final time, research into the energy spiked due to having proper access to decent amounts of it.
Much of The End was reduced to gaseous Power Energy upon it's destruction, which spread out quickly and thus wasn't easily collectible, but small chunks of The End's body remained, and fell to Earth as meteors. These chunks were analyzed to figure out the composition of Power Energy, before being turned into gaseous Power Energy. With the structure of Power Energy figured out, fortunately, it could be replicated, and over time, synthetization was made faster, until eventually the normal and synthesized Power Energy was harnessed to guarantee superpowers for the next generation.
The study was only further refined until Silver's era, where the technology was so advanced that powers could be activated or changed with special cufflinks. It is unknown when the Power Asteroid will come back.
Other Names[]
- Spark of Hope: Team Dragoon
- Shard of my power: The End
- End Fragment: Team Dark
- Annoying chaos catalyst!: Eggman
- Shard of The End: G-U-N