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A documentary that covers the Sonic Scene from its beginning to its "end", written by [[User:Ayla|Nayr T'nargh]] in 2002.  Updates to it are now being added by Nayr T'nargh on a monthly basis starting at the end of 2005.

:[[I. Introduction]]
:[[II. Dawn]] -- The Sonic community gains another subsection
:[[III. Ethiopia]] -- The Sonic secrets community gains stature
::A. Overall happenings and history
:::1. Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog
:::2. Andy’s Sonic Hacking Station
:::3. The handshake
:::4. Area 51
::B. Achievements
:::1. The SSRG
::C. Message boards
::D. Members
:[[IV. “The Golden Age”]] -- The SSC’s finest moments of secret finding emerge
::A. Overall happenings and history
:::1. Sonic 2 beta
:::2. The race for HPZ
:::3. Why the heck’d they do that? THEORIES!
:::4. Hoaxes
::B. Achievements
:::1. Sonic 2 Beta
:::2. Sonic 1 Beta HOAX
:::3. Sonic 2 Final’s HPZ
::C. Message boards
:::1. Sonic Pandemonium
:::2. Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog
::3. Area 51
::4. Sonic 2 Beta
:::D. Members
:[[V. Hackers]] -- The Sonic community looks to hacking for answers
::A. Overall happenings and history
:::1. “Sonic 2 Hacking Guide”
:::2. Sonic 1 Beta Hoax
:::3. The 2nd handshake
:::4. Debug-o-matic
:::5. Maze-o-matic
:::6. Sonic 2 Beta
:::7. Sonic Hacking Community
:::8. Simon’s Sayonara
::B. Achievements
:::1. Debug found
:::2. Sonic 1 successfully hacked
:::3. First hacking guides
:::4. First hacking utilities
::C. Message Boards
:::1. Area 51
:::2. “Sonic 2 Beta”
:::3. Sonic Cult
:::4. SHC Boards 1 & 2
::D. Members
:[[VI. The Dark Age of Light]] -- while the hacking scene was thriving, the basis of the golden age had been nearly forgotten
::A. Overall happenings and history
:::1. X-team
:::2. Sonic 2 Delta HOAX
:::3. wrapping up loose ends: Nemesis
:::4. The “Epsilon”
::B. Achievements
:::1. alpha sprite location found
:::2. alpha sprite art found through location
:::3. Sonic 2 Delta HOAX
::C. Message Boards
:::1. Area 51
:::2. Pelord’s “Sonic 2 Beta”
:::3. Sonic Cult
:::4. “SHC Boards 1 & 2” / Sonic Cult SHC
::D. Members
:[[VII. The Cleansing]] -- with the realization of the previous age, a return to the golden age is attempted. However old grudges aren’t easily forgotten, driving the community into a Civil War.
::A. Overall happenings and history
:::1. The first death of the SSRG
:::2. The death of Area 51
:::3. “The Early Scene”
:::4. Simon Returns
:::5. Sonic 2 Beta returns to Simon
:::6. SSC becomes SSRG
:::7. Andy hands over SSRG ownership
:::8. The SSC Civil War
::B. Achievements
:::1. Music hacking
:::2. Sonic Advance hacking
:::3. Sonic Secrets Center (“Epicentre”)
:::4. Sonic Advance 2 Alpha Hoax
::C. Message Boards
:::1. Sonic Classic (Pelord’s “Sonic 2 Beta”)
:::2. Sonic 2 Beta
:::3. SSC / SSRG
:::4. Sonic Cult
::D. Members
:[[VIII. A New Start]] -- a broken community scatters to other boards, namely Sonic Cult.  Some, however, drag SSC out of the burning ruins of SSRG in hopes of “righting old wrongs”. (Jan. 29, 2003 -- Feb. 2, 2003)
::A. Overall happenings and history
:::1. SSC re-established
:::2. Chaos resigns
::B. Achievements
::C. Message Boards
:::1. Sonic Classic
:::2. Sonic 2 Beta
:::3. SSC
:::4. Sonic Cult
:[[IX. Deception: The Hacker]] -- with the twin destruction of SSRG and SSC in one fell swoop, a shadow emerges from the ashes with one intention: destruction.
::A. Overall happenings and history
:::1. SSC destroyed
:::2. Conspiracy
:::3. Cult Attacks
:::4. The message
::B. Achievements
::C. Message Boards
:::1. Sonic Classic
:::2. Sonic 2 Beta
:::3. Sonic Cult
:[[X. Astray and Confusion Abounds]] -- after persistent measures taken, the hacker gives up for the time being and retreats into dormancy.  Two pinnacles of strength are all that remain of the community...
::A. Overall happenings and history
:::1. Sonic Classic moves
:::2. The hacker stops
:::3. Sonic Classic vs. Sonic Cult
::B. Achievements
:::1. Original Sonic 2 hacking document found
::C. Message Boards
:::1. Sonic Classic
:::2. Sonic 2 Beta
:::3. Sonic Cult
:::4. ??SSC??
:[[XI. Armageddon]] -- The last two towers fade away, bringing the community to a swift end.(mid March -- June 9, 2003)
::A. Overall happenings and history
:::1. New management
:::2. Sonic Cult shuts its doors... again
::B. Achievements
:::1. Sonic Advance 2 hacking
::C. Message Boards
:::1. Sonic Classic
:::2. Sonic 2 Beta
:::3. Sonic Cult
:[[XII. Rebirth]] -- A dying community is plucked from the jaws of death by an unlikely force and is granted new life (June 9, 2003 -- December 2003)
::A. Overall happenings and history
:::1. The return of SSRG
:::2. The return of Area 51 message boards
:::3. The return of the Sonic Cult message boards (SCARAD)
:::4. A new focus is revealed by senior members of Area 51
::B. Achievements
:::1. Assembly programming: beyond hacking
::C. Message Boards
:::1. Sonic Classic (drifting away from secrets scene to simply "Sonic Scene")
:::2. Area 51
:::3. Sonic Cult
:::4. SSRG
:[[XIII. Conclusion]]
:[[XIV. Versions]]
:[[XV. Credits]]

A similar document, [[The Sonic Community: More Than A Perfect Existence]] has been drawn up by [[User:RattleMan|RattleMan]].

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