Art by Roberto Corona and Nigel Dobbyn.
Kansas is one of 50 states in the United States of America, Earth. Officially created in 1854, the state entered the "Wild West" era soon after.
History
For full details, see "Out of Time".
In 1860, as part of the Sonic the Comic universe, areas of the state were governed by a sheriff, one of which was plagued by outlaw Butch. The lawman was eventually bested by the criminal, but was aided by the arrival of Amy Rose and Tekno the Canary. After some brief introductions, Tekno sped off to investigate the sighting of robots, but was shot down mid-flight. Rescued by Amy, the county's new deputy sheriff, they soon realised that Colonel Granite was behind the upheaval. Having built a Time Machine, Granite planned to conquer 1860s America with modern technology and become ruler of the world. Keen to stop this, Amy and Tekno pushed Granite back to his own time and destroyed the time machine. Granite then turned his attentions towards conquering Mobius.