It was supposed to extract energy from our world, but the machine is unstable. Once it reaches full power it can't be shut off. It will drain our world dry!
The Extractor is a several stories tall cylinder-shaped machine with a funnel-like suction component on the bottom. It is located in Lava Mountain on the Lost Hex, where it is hanging over edge of a cliffside, with the bottom pointing straight down to the surface of Earth. Attached to the Extractor is a pipeline that leads to several storage containers for the harvested energy.
Features and abilities
When activated, the Extractor sucks up the latent energy of the planet and everything on it, such as plants, animals and the air, in the form of green particles. The energy is then pulled into the Extractor and converted into a storable green liquid.
Because the world only have limited recourses of energy, if the Extractor drains too much, it will cause the landscape to turn completely white and eventually cause everything living to wither away and die. If the Extractor were to drain a planet completely of its energy, it will completely destroy it, leaving it empty, cold and dead. Furthermore, the Extractor is unstable; if left operational for too long, its levels will fluctuate and create an unstable reaction, resulting in the Extractor locking into overload once it reaches full power. This means that the Extractor cannot be shut down manually unless the shutdown sequence is reworked into it.
History
Sonic Lost World
In Sonic Lost World, the Extractor was built by Doctor Eggman as a part of one of his schemes for world domination, where he planned to use the energy he harvested from the Extractor to conquer the world. Because of the machine's instability, however, when Eggman tried to use the Extractor, he could only borrow a limited amount before he had to shut it down to prevent it from destroying the planet.
When the Deadly Six broke free from Eggman's control due to Sonic breaking the conch, the group began using the Extractor themselves, intending to use the extracted energy to make themselves stronger and destroy Earth. Realizing that the Deadly Six were using the Extractor in ways that it was not meant to, Eggman formed an alliance with Sonic and Tails to stop it. The plan was then for Sonic to bring Eggman past the Deadly Six to the Extractor so that he could rework its shutdown sequence into it, since they could no longer shut it off manually, as simply destroying the Extractor as Sonic planned to would create a cataclysmic explosion that would ravage anything within a hundred miles.[1]
The Extractor continued to drain the world of its energy, dealing a large amount of damage to the planet. When Sonic and Eggman reached Lava Mountain, Eggman faked his death and snuck to the Extractor while Sonic kept the Deadly Six occupied, where he shut it down and used some of the energy it had collected to power his Eggrobo. After Sonic and Tails arrived at the Extractor and Sonic defeated Eggman in his mech, Tails reprogramed the Extractor to return the planet's energy before shutting down the machine for good.
A similar device to the Extractor was created in Fleetway's Sonic the Comic. This one device was created by the Plax to drain the life energies of both Mobius and Earth, so there would be nothing to stop the Plax invasion.
Gallery
Screenshots
Gallery
The Extractor seen from below.
The Extractor's main storage tank with the world's energy filling it.
The Extractor's main console.
The Extractor draining energy from Earth.
The Extractor draining the world of energy to the point where it loses color.
The Extractor draining the world of energy to the point where life withers.
References
↑"If you wish to create a cataclysmic explosion that will incinerate everything within a hundred mile radius, please, smash away." - Dr. Eggman in a cutscene in Tropical Coast, Sonic Lost World.
