Imperator Ix

Ix as you should know is the Roman numeral for the number nine. Imperator Ix makes his appearence in the DS game Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.

Who is he?
He is the leader of a race of echindas that was supposedly extinct. Everyone in Sonic's world only them as 'The Fourth Great Civilization' when in reality his clan is one that rivaled Knuckles' clan, the Pachacamac. Imperator Ix' clan is known as the Nocturnus. He is a power-mad ruler who is bent on ruling the outside world of which he was taken from. After he was taken, he arrived in a nightmare dimension known to its inhabitants as the Twilight Cage which consists of little planetoids.

Personality
He is shown as a bit war-hungry. He is war-hungry because he wars with the inhabitants of the Twilight cage as soon as he arrives.

The planetoid inhabitants
There are six planetoids in the Twilight Cage total. There a total of five different races living in these planetoids. They are: the Kron who are rock-like in appearence, The Nrrgal, who appear to look like giant transparent slugs, the Zoah who are a war-like race, the Voxai who look like floating manta rays who happen to have two planetoids, and then the Nocturnus who are the most recent additon to the Twilight Cage which is basically another clan of echindas.

Ix's intentions
Ix is very interested in the Chaos Emeralds, so much so that he sends some of his echinda soldiers to Sonic's world to steal them. Right now Sonic and the gang don't know that these are more echindas but that they are a group of theives who they call The Marauders, the leader of whom is an echinda named "Procurator" Shade. This is also not know by our heroes until later events in the story cause Shade to reveal her identity.

Ix's plan
Ix's soldiers had succeded in taking all seven of the Chaos Emeralds with no problem. The game stars out as a search for Knuckles who had been kidnapped by the Marauders. After Sonic and friends rescue Knuckles, they make a horrible discovery: Angel Island, the resting place of the Master Emerald of which Knuckles looks over, was gone. As it turns out Ix had come with the "Marauders" to Sonic's world just so he could steal the Master Emerald. Before the rescue of Knuckles was known, there is a movie at the beginning of the game that tells of how a long while ago Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails had taken part of a plan to destroy Eggman's Egg Carrier. When they take down the Egg Carrier, Eggman goes down with it and is then presumed dead. The disapearence of Angel Island makes Sonic and friends think that maybe Eggman did survive the crash. It is revealed that he did indeed survive the crash and that he is not responsible for the disapearence of the floating island. He is angry that someone else would reprogram his robots. Eggman then tells Sonic and friends that he has "turned over a new leaf" and will help them to be rid of the Marauders. Eggman and Tails build a device to track the runaway island and find that it is in the Metropolis area which has seen better days when rediscovered by Sonic and friends. Sonic and Tails split up into teams when they reach the location of the island. Sonic and Knuckles were on one team, Tails and Eggman were on the other. Now Sonic and Knuckles board a Marauder ship that is just about to take off just in time. When the two reach the island, they see Imperator Ix for the first time. He sends two waves of Marauders which are now called Nocturnus at the two of them. Ix is fought four times during the couse of the game.