Yeah, so basically, they’re putting LSD in the food in this amusement park as some sort of scheme to get people to either come back here and buy more food, or just straight up go buy more acid maybe? They’re just putting WAY too much in and, oops! Killing people!!!!

The dingoes and the echidnas have been at war for generations, with no clear explanation for how it started. Knuckles’ racist great-great-great-great-great-grandpa Hawking said “The Dingoes had been at war with the echidnas even before there was a Floating Island! They’d raise a stink about something, we’d beat them back, they’d stay quiet for awhile, and the cycle would begin again.” Since the echidnas are stated to be from Albion, not the area Angel Island took off from, it’s hard not to read the echidnas as colonizers here, and therefore the ones at fault. Hawking would never admit this because, again, racist

Anyway, things got worse when the echidnas decided to hoist Angel Island into the sky to avoid that meteor, with the dingoes and their simpler technology now stuck in the fucking SKY with them. The fighting continued, and eventually the dingoes started “looting” (Hawking’s choice of words) echidna technology to fight back. This included, uh, nuclear warheads! Yes, the peaceful echidnas just left all their fucking weapons of mass destruction lying around after allegedly abandoning their technology. Here’s a relevant exchange from issue 5

Hawking: You have to understand - the dingoes were warlike because that was how they survived.

Knuckles: They seemed to grasp echidna technology pretty well!

Hawking: Comprehend it, yes! But they weren’t innovators! They couldn’t conceptualize! They could only copy and adapt that which they learned from others! All they could see was that echidna society had something they wanted, never stopping to think what they would do with the technology once they stole it!

So, basically, the echidnas terrorized this other race for generations, then left a bunch of weapons lying around, and blamed the dingoes when they found said weapons lying around and used them to fight back. Those damn dingoes! If only they weren’t so violent, unlike the wise and peaceful echidnas who have never wronged anyone. And then the dingoes morphed into Nazis I guess and they have no women or children or civilians so they can be more cartoonishly evil and easier to hate and now they all wanna kill everybody. Except for Harry, who’s the token good one

We’re getting a little bit of backstory for Charmy thanks to his acid trip, apparently. Now, I know what you’ve all been thinking. “These Sonic comics are good, Bobby, but what they really need is even more of a fixation on royalty.” Well, good news! It turns out Charmy Fucking Bee’s a prince too!!!