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Phase shifter

2012-09-07T23:41:41Z

24.34.11.146: /* Prime cartoon */

:''The phase shifter is a piece of technology from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:TunnelVision phase shifter.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
The '''phase shifter''' is an [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] relic that grants the user the ability to pass through solid objects.

==Fiction==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
The phase shifter was stored in the [[Vaults]] at [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] until late in the war, when it was ejected into space as a safety measure when [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]'s forces stormed the [[Autobot]] capital. It made its way to [[Earth]] where it landed in the area where the [[human]]s would eventually build [[New York City|Manhattan]]. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] and a unit of [[Decepticon]]s discovered the relic in a Manhattan subway. At that time, none of the Autobots or Decepticons sent to find it knew what powers it possessed until Bumblebee accidentally activated it after retrieving it from Knock Out. The train which was barreling towards him passed straight through him and [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] explained what the device was after they had defeated Knock Out. {{storylink|Tunnel Vision}} Bumblebee then took it back to base with Miko in the opposite seat singing about their victory. {{storylink|Hurt}} [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] later commandeered it and used it to cleverly remove [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] from the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]]. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

[[Category:MacGuffins]]
[[Category:Prime technology]]
[[Category:Iacon relics]]

Ark (WFC)

2012-09-03T16:00:39Z

24.34.11.146: /* Transformers: Fall of Cybertron */

{{faction|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Ark}}
:''The Ark is an Autobot starship from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)| War for Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:WFCArk.jpg|thumb|250px|upright|]]
The '''''Ark''''', aka '''Project Generation One''', was the city-sized ship that the [[Autobot]]s left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] on during the [[Great Exodus]]. Unlike other [[galactic transport]]s, the ''Ark'' was extremely large, and had other special modifications made by Optimus Prime, such as its gold color, as other transports were gray.

==Fiction==
===''Exodus''===
When [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] removed the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]] poisoning Cybertron's [[core]] with [[Dark Energon]], it informed him that while healing, the planet could not sustain a fraction of the life it currently did, and the Autobots needed to leave. Optimus announced Project Generation One to his comrades, many of whom deemed the notion suicidal as the Cybertronians had not left the planet since the [[Golden Age]]. Regardless, [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] said he would rather die on a starship than on a planet, and declared "Let's build this ''Ark''."

[[Alpha Trion (Prime)|Alpha Trion]] oversaw the ''Ark'''s construction in the [[Well of All Sparks]], installing [[Teletraan-1]] inside, while Optimus drew out and crashed [[Trypticon (Prime)|Trypticon]] aboard the ''[[Eight Track (WFC)|Eight Track]]''. When they returned, the ''Ark'' was completed and they boarded the ship. [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] was appointed the pilot. Alpha Trion refused a place, aware [[Vector Sigma]] would keep him alive, while [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]], [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]], [[Ultra Magnus (Prime)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Springer (WFC)|Springer]] and the [[Wrecker]]s sacrificed a chance to leave, giving time for the ''Ark'' to launch by keeping Trypticon at bay.

However, Trypticon transformed into the ''Nemesis'' and pursued the ''Ark'' into the last [[space bridge]], but when it emerged, the Decepticons were nowhere to be found. The ''Ark'' was outside an unknown [[Milky Way|spiral galaxy]] where the [[AllSpark]] was detected. [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] asked Optimus if they knew the way home: he replied the [[Matrix of Leadership]] would guide them back one day. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

===''Exiles''===
{{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (360/PS3/PC)===
{{Quote|I have commissioned a new galactic transport for us, an ''Ark'', in which we shall make our journey through the stars.|Optimus Prime}}

After defeating [[Trypticon (Prime)|Trypticon]], Optimus gathered Bumblebee, [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]], [[Ironhide (Prime)|Ironhide]], [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]], [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]] and [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]] around him, telling them he had commissioned a new ship, the ''Ark'', to take them off Cybertron when it was time for them to leave. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (DS)===

Upon Trypticon's defeat, Optimus said once Megatron's threat was contained on Cybertron, they would leave the planet in the Ark.
{{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
{{stub}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

Classified as the first ''Vanguard''-class Deep Space Interceptor (though referred to by [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] as a "glorified cargo hauler"), the ''Ark'' was larger and more streamlined in design than previous [[Galactic transport|galactic transports]]. According to [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]]'s evaluations, the ''Ark'' possessed insufficient armor plating and was armed with ''only'' 16 particle combustion cannons and 16 laser emitters, though a series of twin-barreled pulse cannons were seen to be activated during the [[Trypticon (Prime)|''Nemesis'']]' attack. It did however possess an "adequate" propulsion system, leading to the conclusion that it was meant to outrun and evade instead of going in guns blazing. The ''Ark'''s main purpose was more spiritual than practical: to carry the Autobots' hopes and dreams from a dying [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].

And in that, it succeeded. Despite a surprise attack from the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] that drained the ''Ark'''s [[Energon|energon]] supply and the [[Combaticon (WFC)|Combaticons]] shooting down an Autobot refinery transport carrying the energon from [[Shockwave (Prime)|Shockwave]]'s collapsed [[Space bridge|space bridge]] tower in the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]], the ''Ark'' nevertheless launched thanks to the sacrifice of [[Metroplex (FOC)|Metroplex]], who transferred his entire energon supply into the ''Ark'' at the cost of his life. After launching into space, the ''Ark'' found itself confronted by the [[Trypticon (Prime)|''Nemesis'']] and the two ships engaged in a fierce battle that was abruptly concluded when both passed through an unstable space bridge portal.

==Notes==
*The ''Ark'', and "Generation One", are, of course, references to the original ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]].
* It is hinted (p. 226-7, 233) that Project Generation One was a contingency plan that had been in place since the Breaking of the [[Thirteen|Primes]] and had been a subject of discussion between Prime and Trion after the Core's corruption. Later, Optimus tells Jetfire the Core itself told about Project Generation One (p. 242), though it never uses the term in its entire speech.

==References==
{{reflist}}

===Foreign names===
:''Japanese'': '''Ark''' (アーク ''Āku'')

[[Category:Autobot bases]]
[[Category:Autobot starships]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron]]

Ark (WFC)

2012-08-28T18:46:45Z

24.34.11.146:

{{faction|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Ark}}
:''The Ark is an Autobot starship from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)| War for Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[Image:WFCArk.jpg|thumb|250px|upright|]]
The '''''Ark''''', aka '''Project Generation One''', was the city-sized ship that the [[Autobot]]s left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] on during the [[Great Exodus]]. Unlike other [[galactic transport]]s, the ''Ark'' was extremely large, and had other special modifications made by Optimus Prime, such as its gold color, as other transports were gray.

==Fiction==
===''Exodus''===
When [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] removed the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]] poisoning Cybertron's [[core]] with [[Dark Energon]], it informed him that while healing, the planet could not sustain a fraction of the life it currently did, and the Autobots needed to leave. Optimus announced Project Generation One to his comrades, many of whom deemed the notion suicidal as the Cybertronians had not left the planet since the [[Golden Age]]. Regardless, [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] said he would rather die on a starship than on a planet, and declared "Let's build this ''Ark''."

[[Alpha Trion (Prime)|Alpha Trion]] oversaw the ''Ark'''s construction in the [[Well of All Sparks]], installing [[Teletraan-1]] inside, while Optimus drew out and crashed [[Trypticon (Prime)|Trypticon]] aboard the ''[[Eight Track (WFC)|Eight Track]]''. When they returned, the ''Ark'' was completed and they boarded the ship. [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] was appointed the pilot. Alpha Trion refused a place, aware [[Vector Sigma]] would keep him alive, while [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]], [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]], [[Ultra Magnus (Prime)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Springer (WFC)|Springer]] and the [[Wrecker]]s sacrificed a chance to leave, giving time for the ''Ark'' to launch by keeping Trypticon at bay.

However, Trypticon transformed into the ''Nemesis'' and pursued the ''Ark'' into the last [[space bridge]], but when it emerged, the Decepticons were nowhere to be found. The ''Ark'' was outside an unknown [[Milky Way|spiral galaxy]] where the [[AllSpark]] was detected. [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] asked Optimus if they knew the way home: he replied the [[Matrix of Leadership]] would guide them back one day. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

===''Exiles''===
{{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (360/PS3/PC)===
{{Quote|I have commissioned a new galactic transport for us, an ''Ark'', in which we shall make our journey through the stars.|Optimus Prime}}

After defeating [[Trypticon (Prime)|Trypticon]], Optimus gathered Bumblebee, [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]], [[Ironhide (Prime)|Ironhide]], [[Jetfire (WFC)|Jetfire]], [[Air Raid (WFC)|Air Raid]] and [[Silverbolt (WFC)|Silverbolt]] around him, telling them he had commissioned a new ship, the ''Ark'', to take them off Cybertron when it was time for them to leave. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (DS)===

Upon Trypticon's defeat, Optimus said once Megatron's threat was contained on Cybertron, they would leave the planet in the Ark.
{{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
{{stub}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

Classified as the first ''Vanguard''-class Deep Space Interceptor (though referred to by [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] as a "glorified cargo hauler"), the ''Ark'' was larger and more streamlined in design than previous [[Galactic transport|galactic transports]]. According to [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]]'s evaluations, the ''Ark'' possessed insufficient armor plating and was armed with ''only'' 16 particle combustion cannons and 16 laser emitters, though a series of twin-barreled pulse cannons were seen to be activated during the [[Trypticon (Prime)|''Nemesis'']]' attack. It did however possess an impressive propulsion system, leading to the conclusion that it was meant to outrun and evade instead of going in guns blazing. The ''Ark'''s main purpose was more spiritual than practical: to carry the Autobots' hopes and dreams from a dying [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].

==Notes==
*The ''Ark'', and "Generation One", are, of course, references to the original ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]].
* It is hinted (p. 226-7, 233) that Project Generation One was a contingency plan that had been in place since the Breaking of the [[Thirteen|Primes]] and had been a subject of discussion between Prime and Trion after the Core's corruption. Later, Optimus tells Jetfire the Core itself told about Project Generation One (p. 242), though it never uses the term in its entire speech.

==References==
{{reflist}}

===Foreign names===
:''Japanese'': '''Ark''' (アーク ''Āku'')

[[Category:Autobot bases]]
[[Category:Autobot starships]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron]]