New Robotnik Empire

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The New Robotnik Empire, also known as "NRE" for short, is an invading technocratic dictatorship formed to replace the old Robotnik Empire and to conquer all in the name of the mad scientist Dr. Robotnik himself, and an antagonistic faction in Sonic the Comic Online.

is the name announced by the legions of Badniks who invaded Mobius in Sonic the Comic Online Issue 250. While indeed commanded by Doctor Robotnik, this so-called empire is merely a proxy dictatorship controlled from behind the scenes by the Drakon Empire. The Drakons invaded Mobius in order to take control of the Chaos Emeralds, meanwhile letting the crazed doctor keep the planet as his personal plaything, which would probably destroy it. The NRE has yet to achieve total domination of Mobius as the people are resisting in far greater numbers than they ever were during RBR. However, Robotnik's resources are nigh-limitless and his robot armies tireless, so the resistance is not expected to last. To make things even worse, a variety of other, independent nasties lurk Mobius, who make things even harder for the resistance.

Trivia
Many of these robots were derived from Sonic 4 and Sonic Adventure.