The guy. The man. Art by TheNovika on twitter. He is the eggman, that's what he is, he is the eggman, he's got the master plan.

So this is different from usual. Every other Without Sonic bot has been haunted by a specific EXE. Eggman is haunted by his own failiure to defeat Sonic, and because Sonic hasn't put any effort into friendships, he has NOTHING to use on him to even try to capture him, resulting in Eggman having a grand total of 0 even partial victories against Sonic.

What, did you think I'd give you Cracked Empire? Nah, you get some gas from cali. Also it makes more sense because it's about being on the road and Eggman's on the road.

I'll add locations to the Lorebook later... it's very late at night and I'm tired.