Autobot Ship (Animated)

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The Autobot ship is a spaceship in the Animated continuity family.

Quiet down back there, or I'll turn this ship around!

The Autobots' ship is a relatively small (by Transformers standards) former military ship, retrofitted into a 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. While it also possesses some offensive weaponry, these systems were disabled when it was turned into a repair ship. 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.

Fiction

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"Mr. Prowl, engage!"

While piloting the ship on a standard space bridge repair mission in a remote sector of Autobot-controlled space, Optimus Prime and his crew discovered the lost, legendary AllSpark. Almost immediately, they were located by the Decepticon warship Nemesis. The Decepticons' leader, Megatron, assaulted the Autobots' ship directly, attempting to melt through its hull, but he was sabotaged with a bomb by his lieutenant, Starscream. After the bomb went off, the ship went careening through an asteroid field almost totally out of control. From within the ship's hold, the AllSpark activated a nearby space bridge portal, which exploded after the ship 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 ship 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. Their remained on the bottom of Lake Erie, should they need it. Transform and Roll Out!

When Decepticons tracking the AllSpark's energy signature became a problem, Optimus Prime ordered the Autobots to repair their ship 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. Lost and Found

Time to reorient the furniture 45 degrees.

Ultimately, Ratchet was forced to take the vessel airborne, first to evade the Decepticons, and subsequently to try to transport the AllSpark offworld. Both of these attempts failed, resulting in the ship ultimately crashing into the caldera of the dormant volcano on Dinobot Island. Megatron Rising - Part 2

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Trivia

• This ship has never actually been referred to by a proper name during the show. At BotCon 2007, the Hasbro representatives repeatedly named this ship the Ark. At BotCon 2008, lead writer Marty Isenberg claimed the ship is not the Ark, but merely a repair vessel. However, lead artist Derrick Wyatt immediately responded that it very much is the Ark. The model sheet for the ship even labels it the Ark. The IDW comic treats both the ship and its semi-sentient onboard computer system as a single entity, Teletran-1; so far, this is the only name for the ship to have appeared in public media.

• This of course isn't the first Autobot ship to end up embedded in the craggy face of a dormant volcano.

• The colors of the ship are very similar to Generation 1 Omega Supreme. This, combined with the disabled defense system codenamed "Omega", has lead some to speculate that the ship itself may transform into an Animated equivalent of the character.