During Hawking's reign as guardian, the Dingoes attempted to harness nuclear power to destroy echidnaopolis. Don't forget, Echidna technology has always been very advanced so nuclear technology even way back then isn't out of the realm of possibility.

Hawking failed to stop the launch of the missiles so he created the hyper zone projector (think that's what it was called) which transported Echidnaopolis to a safe zone as well as transporting the Dingoes to a different zone. The resulting attack devastated Angel Island and that's why it was more or less uninhabited until in Knuckles #4 when the barriers between the zones began to break down and Echidnaopolis and the Dingoes were both shifted back to Angel Island and have since remained there

Yeesh, sorry; I got carried away again, okay? I'm just making an argument in favor of a theory, and I tend to get a little overpassionate, as you all well know.

Didn't know that it was Tobor; thanks for clarifying that. Just exploring yet another possible origin to Finitevus. As for the one I got beat down for, I would like to point out that some of the arguments I made are logical. Finitevus' appearance would not appear to me to be natural; sure, the white fur could be an albino thing, but how do you explain blacks instead of whites for his eyes? Granted, maybe his powers aren't related to whatever might have made him this way, but then we don't even know the real nature of those powers: are they magic, science, or some combination of the two?

I also acknowledge that experimentation on the part of Albion scientists may not be Finitevus' story, but again it seems rather logical. Albion has previously shown that they have no problem with messing around with anyone or anything; instead of trying to find a way to De-Roboticize the High Sheriff, they were going to take him apart, and instead of asking Knuckles if they could take away his Chaos powers, they had him abducted and forced into a procedure that for all they know might have ended up killing him. The "Albion's Shameful Secret" title would seem to indicate that the people of Albion did something involving Finitevus that went beyond even those acts of questionable morality; their intentions may have been good in those cases, but their actions were far from.

I'm not trying to say that any of this stuff is fact. What I'm saying is that I've extrapolated these theories from what I know about the storyline past and upcoming, and this is the conclusion I came to. If I'm proven wrong, I apologize deeply for offending anyone or trying to sound all high and mighty. If I turn out to be right, I won't be saying I told you so either; I will simply take some small satisfaction in knowing that my reasoning was sound. But again, I'm not saying I will be right; I might be. Any of your theories could be right for all I know, and I will take the story as it comes.

Incidentally, adding to roach2003's report, Hawking did manage to stop the missiles by putting up an energy shield. However, it couldn't stop the fallout from the explosions of those missiles, which is why Hawking had to use the Hyper Zone Projecter (yeah, that is what it was called).

ah. yes. i knew i screwed the story up somewhere along the line. had i been at home i would have quickly just grabbed the issue in question and scanned it to make sure i had it all right. it's been a long time since i went through and read the older issues.

I never felt the Albion echidnas liked to experiment for the heck of things. With Gen. D and Chaos Knuckles they were reacting to (perceived) immediate threats to their citizens safety. The actions they took were extreme and had they thought things thru they may have been able to reach more peaceable ends. I always saw it as a case of "good intentions, bad execution". (If I gave them too much benefit of doubt, we'll find out soon!)
If GalaNa and co. turn out to be kooky mad-scientist types I hope the reveal is as funny as Frankenstein's Monster "Putting On The Ritz".

I remember that now- thx Roach and Spectre. But Von Stryker?

I don't think that Finitevus' origins will be the Albion scientists trying to make a weapon against anyone, or a "Frankenstein's Monster" as it were. More likely, Finitevus was involved in some kind of medical or other experiment that went screwy, or else he was an overly ambitious scientist who lost control and ended up making himself what he was-ala Dimitri-and the people of Albion hold themselves responsible for not trying better to hold him back. It's kind of like how part of Edmund's reason for becoming the first Guardian was to atone for not preventing Dimitri from making the mistake that brought the first Enerjak into being.

Spectre-

If that was true, and if Albion felt that way, wouldn't one of them ascended to the role of trying to stop Finitevus? Edmund did for Dimitri, Triple threat for Robotnik..etc etc There is always an opposing force to plots like these that need to be introduced. Maybe that force is this legendary item Locke needs Sonic and Julie to get.

Maybe Albion has sent someone to clean up their mess, and that person is the item-the legendary Super Saiy-- err I mean something dealing with Echidnas 9_9...

Well, it could be that Finitevus disappeared from their scopes after this whole fiasco happened and they didn't have any idea where he might have gone, and so didn't see any point in sending something after him like they sent Nic and Nack after Knuckles. Their extreme measures in attempting to neutralize Knuckles and kidnapping General D'Coolette aside, Albion seems eager to maintain the isolationist policy of the Echidna people, and it could very well be that Finitevus' joining the Dark Legion and creating so much opposition to himself makes it so that they no longer have to intervene. I'm not sure if that's the case, but we can't really know until #182, now can we?

EDIT: By the way, did anyone have any thoughts about my question regarding the information Finitevus stole from Isaac? You know, about what exactly he might have taken from that gold-plated E-Series repaint?

no negativity meant here but when fin came out i never really liked him, only seen him as a replacement for kragok and a Doctor Zachary combined with spectre rip off. i grew up with the fleetway comics : p. but i have recently been warming up to fin.

i did hear archie was plannign to feature zachary in their comic as a sort of tribute but fans didnt like it, so whats the next best thing? create your own Cool white echidna character (he aint albino in my opinion, he doesnt have pink/red eyes, he has natural yellow black eyes : p lol).

spectre i LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE! your idea! of fin infact being a reformed Luger . it makes the character even more awesome. and yeah i equally agree although i think technically he isnt an albino his black instead of white parts of his eyes is intriguing. im always intrigued by characters who have eyes like that. makes me wonder how they got like that, in a way its kinda boring to say they were born with them. ps personally i think the character would be sooooo much cooler if they kept his third eye in the final character design .

That Luger theory does sound cool, but sadly it's been disproven. Man, that happens to a ton of Echidnas: they show up in one issue, and then they're dead forever!

I'm a big fan of both Spectre and Finitevus too: they're both so mysterious and powerful, not to mention cool! Plus, Fin rock sfor being the guy to bring back Enerjak.

Personally, I don't think much of Zachary, but I don't think much of the Fleetway line in general cause it just looks weird to me. I can respect people liking it, though. The only thing I dislike at all in relation to Finitevus is that the white Echidna deal isn't very original. Fleetway and a ton of fans have come up with a white-furred Echidna, so the idea isn't very original.

Too bad it turned out instead that he has a connection to Knuckles that was wrapped but just crazy enough to make sense.

What were you hoping he'd turn out to be, some kind of Dark Chaos Sorceror who was a fanatical Enerjak worshipper frm before the Legion came into existence?

Cause that would be cool

SPOILERS:

Instead he turned out to be a echidna scientist who tried to de-chaos Knux when he went Emerald happy and instead got turned into Knux's anti-existence/Nobody (take your pick.(

I prefer that he's Knuckles' "Other".

I'm not sure how to feel about Fin's real origins. It works, but I guess, I just felt it's a little bit tame, when you look at how mixed up Fin is. And the negative of green is not white, it's red (i think). And it doesn't explain the psycho-spiral thing on his forehead and the black lines. And the red eye-liner.

I think the "negative" thing refers to his attitude more than his colour. Kinda like how they go on about the Chaos Emeralds having positive and negative energy. If Knuckles was running with the positive half, Fini was corrupted by what was left.

Crazy Cham Lea's on the ball. Finitevus' color scheme isn't what's negative, it's how he has corrupted Chaos energy as is basically the opposite of Knuckles. Sure, they're both kind of violent, but Knuckles has a good cause; Fin just wants to blow stuff up.