Always friendly with his cousin Menniker, he helped out his father, Edmund, in enforcing the "new" technology guidelines for the citizens of Echidnaopolis. However, unlike his father, he paid attention to the growing opposition which walked around the city in dark hoods. When he was found out watching a secret meeting of this group, Steppenwolf managed to avoid the laser fire and get a boogie to escape, but the boogie was shot down. He survived the crash and hid. However, members of the group were looking for him and Edmund, who was looking for Steppenwolf, was shot & killed from behind when he attack two of their members. After the members were gone, Steppenwolf cried over his dad's body and was eventually approached by the fire-ant called Christopheles. Christopheles promised to help and trained Steppenwolf in the sciences, built up his strength, and taught him how to access the power of the chaos emerald. Christopheles finally took Steppenwolf to a "secret" top of the line facility called "Haven." Meanwhile, the warring between the followers of the Council new law and the Dark Legion (as it was finally known as) got worse. Steppenwolf approached the Council and reminded them that there's always more than one option in whatever happens just before leaving to confront the Dark Legion. When he approached the Grandmaster, he was very surprised to find out that it was his cousin, Menniker. Steppenwolf still opened the portal to exile the Dark Legion though he didn't like it at all. Years later, Brutus Kintobor came to the Floating Island with evil intentions, but Steppenwolf had the fire-ants mentally attack all the overlanders who ran away promising not to return. This event caused him to allow his son, Moonwatcher, to learn about Haven as the two then alternated duties over watching the Floating Island and checking out the mainland of Mobius for any beings that might try to hurt the echidnas on the Floating Island. He obviously went down in history as a very important echidna among the citizens of Echidnaopolis as many generations later Hawking would show Knuckles a statue of Edmund & Steppenwolf each holding up the Floating Island.