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[Leptailurus]

 

12.How did Uncle Chuck create Power Rings, and why did he make them for Sonic before the whole Coupe?

The rings have always been associated with the power of the Chaos Emeralds; being the leftover residue of their radiation. I'm not so sure how Uncle Chuck created them, but the series did suggest them being used as energy sources and amplifiers.

Perhaps that's where the Archie comics got the idea.

The glowing solid in the device producing power rings could have been a specific type of rock which stored some of the chaos potential energy after being exposed to a chaos emerald for a long period of time in the ground. Mobotropolis likely did not have access to chaos emeralds, but they utilised the energised gangue for energy.

Chuck could have designed the device, which captures the chaos energy from the gangue and stores it in manageable amounts within rings which release it in the presence of consumers of the energy, such as appliances, transducers or specific mobians.

During the coupe, Sonic was five years old (as far as I remember correctly), so Chuck probably did not intend for Sonic to use them in combat. Perhaps they were not intended for Sonic at all in the first place. He could have come upon them by chance, discovered that he could enhance his superspeed with them, so Chuck manufactured some for him.

 

4.What Happened to Cat, Robotized, Killed, or other?

I would assume he was Roboticized, given that's what happened to Ari's group.

Which reminds me of the bear and the equid in Blast to the Past part 1, who were captured and roboticised after their sabotage. Based on the fact that the Freedom Fighters were surprised about how promptly they were roboticised, there would most likely be no time for interrogation. Robotnik or Snively must have known that they were associated with the Freedom Fighters of Knothole, because Sonic was detected.

So why weren't they interrogated and Cat was?

[MoKat]

 

So why weren't they interrogated and Cat was?

That's a good question, especially since Robotnik could simply extract the information he wants via the device he used in Spyhog.  Maybe he didn't think the bear & equid had useful knowledge?

Perhaps Buttnik wanted information quickly and thought he could scare it out of Cat?

*shrugs*

Anybody have a better explanation?

[TheRedStranger]

 

 

So why weren't they interrogated and Cat was?

That's a good question, especially since Robotnik could simply extract the information he wants via the device he used in Spyhog.  Maybe he didn't think the bear & equid had useful knowledge?

Perhaps Buttnik wanted information quickly and thought he could scare it out of Cat?

*shrugs*

Anybody have a better explanation?

 

 

Leptailurus asks an excellent question! I will add it to the list when the next round of questions hit.

 

 As for the response, now their might indeed be one reason they could be interrogated and that's basically the same reason Kat was. That would be to find the location of Knothole and other intel pertinent to the weaknesses and whereabouts of Freedom Fighter cells.

[Leptailurus]

That's a good question, especially since Robotnik could simply extract the information he wants via the device he used in Spyhog.  Maybe he didn't think the bear & equid had useful knowledge?

 

 

 

Perhaps Buttnik wanted information quickly and thought he could scare it out of Cat?

*shrugs*

Anybody have a better explanation?

Yes, that is quite possible, but he would have expected resistance. So if it were possible to extract information by roboticisation, it would probably be quicker to roboticise him, considering that he would be roboticised eventually, but Robotnik didn't. He also obviously did not get the information he wanted from Cat. And Cat was placed in the Detention centre, suggesting that further interrogation was planned, and he could have been roboticised instead.

However, if the roboticisation were quicker, the fact that Antoine was also interrogated and not roboticised immediately makes less sense. Well, Robotnik was not present at the "escargot interrogation", and it could all have been Snively's arrangement - and his enjoyment of psychological torture and misrendering of French cuisine was obvious.

 

Another possibility would be that the bear and the equid were detected and automatically captured and roboticised, as a default action when intruders are detected, and without the knowledge of either Robotnik or Snively.

[TheRedStranger]

 This issue is further complicated by Spyhog where Uncle Chuck is given his "attitude-adjustment" by Robotnik. Chuck resisted for a time, but what about it had been a few more hours? I mean this method could break Mobians with less resolve. Why not try to glean info on Knothole this way from all roboticized Freedom Fighters, including these two? Why not zap ol' Ant the same way and plug him in the system?

 

 My answer for Ant is that Snivley was getting his jollies from making Ant' squeal obviously. But I leave that issue for you all to debate. I am interested to see what you  all come up with.