Egg Fleet
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The Egg Fleet is a fictional group of flying battleships featured occasionally in the Sonic the Hedgehog series among many other flying ships at Eggman's disposal.
[edit] Video Game appearances
The Egg Fleet is introduced in Sonic Heroes, where it is composed of hundreds, if not thousands of ships of various shapes and sizes. The armada first appears to Team Sonic when they defeat the Egg Albatross, flying away from the base, which was described as a distraction from the fleet. The Egg Fleet appears as the final level, where all teams fly from ship to ship, and destroying at least one each, until the level is complete, where it is followed by all teams having to make its way through the Flagship, called the flying fortress. It is here where the final boss for each team's story mode (apart from the final story) is fought, the Egg Emperor. At the end of Team Sonic's story, several of the ships randomly collide together. During the final story, Metal Sonic destroys and fuses with part of the Flagship, becoming Metal Madness, and during Team Super Sonic's fight with the Metal Overlord, Metal Sonic would not hesitate to throw any remaining ships at the heroes. Although the flag ship, and possibly the majority of the egg fleet survive the encounter, the types featured in Sonic heroes have never been seen since.
An Egg Fleet is featured in Shadow the Hedgehog (though referred to as the Eggman Fleet by Eggman). This armada is far less impressive than the older fleet, composing of noticeably fewer ships, with almost no variation between them, of which only five can be fought directly in the Sky troops stage. The player never lands on any of these ships, and engages four normal ships and a flag ship (which is simply a bigger ship with more firepower, and is in no way bigger than any previous flying battleship) using cannons. The Egg Fleet has a minor role, being simply a defensive against the Black Arms flying fortress, which are ald architecture Black Doom, says to have installed on the planet over 2,000 years ago. Due to its small role in a level that is completely avoidable, it is unknown if this is a canonical event in accordance to the final story, or if the Egg fleet won or survived against the Black Arms.
