
Described as "grotesquely huge", the space station is so large that it is easy to get lost in there. The Space Colony ARK's exact dimensions are not exactly known, but it is easily gargantuan its sheer size makes it capable of exterminating all life on earth should it collide with the planet. Some of these bodies house research centers of their own, with one even having a massive tower surrounded by laboratories and machines. Surrounding the ARK are several astronomical bodies like meteorites, asteroids and planetoids, which include the "Capsule Planet", the "Spherical Planet", and the "Holy Planet".
Eggman as well), with two concave eye sockets and a very sharp nose which houses the Eclipse Cannon. The Space Colony ARK is a hemispherical, gray-colored, Bernal sphere-type space station that vaguely resembles the face of Gerald Robotnik (and of Dr.
3.1 Sonic Chronicles: The Dark BrotherhoodĪ map of the ARK, from Sonic Adventure 2. 2.1.4 Contact with the Black Arms and aftermath. In the present day, the ARK is still orbiting the earth, but has been left abandoned since the aftermath of Project Shadow. Shortly afterwards, with the government fearing the risks the experiments onboard the colony posed, the military raided the space station and shut it down. The ARK thus served as the "birthplace" of Shadow the Hedgehog and the Biolizard, the two results of the program. However, the ARK is most famously known for being where Project Shadow, a military program with the aims of creating and weaponizing an immortal lifeform, took place. It is the first space colony that was created by humanity.Īs a top-secret research center, the ARK was historically used for scientific testing and experimentation, and several weapons of mass destruction and other advanced contraptions were being created and researched there, such as the Eclipse Cannon and the Artificial Chaos. It is a Bernal sphere space station that was built over fifty years before the present day, by Professor Gerald Robotnik, the grandfather of the infamous Dr. The Space Colony ARK ( スペースコロニー・アーク, Supēsu Koronī Āku ?), also known as simply the ARK, is a location that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Adventure 2 Not many people know that the ARK contained a top-secret research facility where weapons of mass destruction were being created.
The ARK was the first space colony created by mankind.