Omega Supreme (TFA)


 * The Ark is a spaceship in the Animated continuity family

The Ark is a relatively small (by Transformers standards) repair/maintenance vessel under the command of Optimus Prime. It has a crew of five, including its captain, and its systems are managed by its computer's artificial intelligence, Teletran 1. The ship's equipment includes a set of six emergency stasis pods, an extendable boarding/docking tube, and a pair of large manipulator arms that emerge from roof panels and are controlled manually from the bridge. It either has no offensive weaponry or was unable to employ whatever it did have during its one known mission. Its navigation protocols include automatic course-correction for navigating through obstructions such as asteroid fields. It is also meant to have an emergency defense system codenamed "Omega", but in the interests of conserving energon, said system is currently disabled. However, it still has active sensors for detecting unwanted or unauthorized invasion by foreign objects.

Animated cartoon
While piloting the Ark on a standard space bridge repair mission in a remote sector of Autobot-controlled space, Optimus Prime and his crew discovered the lost, legendary All Spark. Almost immediately, they were located by the Decepticon warship Nemesis. The Decepticons' leader, Megatron, assaulted the Ark directly, attempting to melt through its hull, but he was sabotaged with a bomb by his lieutenant, Starscream. After the bomb went off, the Ark went careening through an asteroid field almost totally out of control. From within the ship's hold, the All Spark activated a nearby space bridge portal, which exploded after the Ark plunged through it. The ship emerged out of warp in low orbit over the planet Earth, with all hands still on board—along with Megatron. Once Prime managed to force Megatron out through the docking tube, he piloted the Ark through its last stages of reentry, steering it clear of a populated area while the rest of the crew got into their emergency stasis pods. Once the ship was past the city and over water, Prime too got into a stasis pod, and the ship crashed into Lake Erie. Fifty years later, an invading glob of nanites penetrated a crack in the hull, activating the ship's intruder alarm system, which wakened the crew. In the aftermath of investigating the glob and helping the natives it was threatening, the Autobots set up a base in an abandoned car factory in downtown Detroit. The Ark remains on the bottom of Lake Erie, should they need it.

When Decepticons tracking the All Spark's energy signature became a problem, Optimus Prime ordered the Autobots to repair the Ark so that it could be moved away from Earth. Ratchet revealed to Sari that prior to being pressed into repair service the vessel used to be a military ship. Utilizing Sari's key, he was able to bring the decommissioned weapons systems back online to defeat the Decepticons that were attacking.