Ark (WFC)

2011-06-16T21:50:28Z

72.173.32.38: /* Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC) */

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:''The Ark is an Autobot starship from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)| War for Cybertron]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
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The '''''Ark''''', aka '''Project Generation One''', was the city-sized ship that the [[Autobot]]s left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] on during the [[Great Exodus]].
==Fiction==
===''Exodus'' novel===
When [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] removed the [[Plasma energy|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 (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] oversaw the ''Ark'''s construction in the [[Well of All Sparks]], installing [[Teletraan-1]] inside, while Optimus drew out and crashed [[Trypticon (WFC)|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 (WFC)|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}}''

==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 (WFC)|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)}}

===''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)}}

==Notes==
*The ''Ark'', and "Generation 1", are of course references to the original ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and [[Generation 1 (franchise)|G1]].
* 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 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.

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