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Lost Light

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:''The ''Lost Light'' is a starship from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:Mtmte28-cover-lost-light.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The name is in ''no way'' an indication that tragic events, melancholy proceedings, momentously wrong decisions, and sorrowful beings will be found aboard it. Not at all.]]

Originally a vessel owned by a group of neutral Transformers, the '''''Lost Light''''' is now the starship utilized by [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] and about 230 other assorted [[Transformer]]s on a quest to find the mythical [[Knights of Cybertron]].

Though apparently unremarkable by Transformer standards, the ship is quite large - described by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] as 15 miles in length, and 10 miles wide, and large enough for an entire extra chamber to be attached to it in secret without anybody onboard noticing. It contains numerous habitation suites for its crew, various offices and workshops for those who require them, a bar redubbed "[[Swerve's]]" after the ship's launch, and a large [[oil]] reservoir where introspective bots sometimes go to ponder. The ship's hangars carry at least half a dozen shuttlecraft, including the ''[[Leading Light]]'' and [[Rodpod]]. Rodimus upgraded the ''Lost Light'''s armament with a batch of proton missile launchers after a visit to [[Hedonia]].

The ''Lost Light'' is a "hop ship" which utilizes insanely advanced [[quantum jump|quantum engines]] to travel almost instantaneously across vast distances, though those distances can be limited by the amount of power available to the ship. (You don't want to be standing next to these engines when they activate, as they break the laws of physics in ways that can be very unhealthy.) On top, the ship carries a group of "fuel quills", essential to its operation. Deep within its bowels are the ship's fuel furnaces, powered or at least partly dependent upon nucleon rods, and manned by the [[Pyrobot]]s.

The ship was known by its [[Lost Light's former owners|previous owners]] as the '''''Unitrex-1'''''.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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The ''Unitrex-1'' was constructed in the city of [[Unitrex]] five million years ago, the first ship oufitted with new experimental generator on board. A crew had been selected for the vessel, including the [[Duobot]]s, but before it could launch, it was infiltrated by two very unexpected visitors: a time-travelling [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]], who had come from five million years in the future and wound up stranded when their [[time case|time machine]] ran out of power. Seeking to recharge the device, Rodimus used [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]'s knowledge of future quantum science to upgrade the ''Unitrex-1''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s generator so that it could perform the task, in the process retroactively creating the very first quantum generator. As he worked, Cyclonus fought off the ship's sole guard, blasting him with a [[Sparkeater Gun]] and locking him in one of the ship's chambers. Once the time case was fully charged with quantum energy, a reaction between the case and generator caused the unmanned ''U1'' to quantum jump away through time and space, its fate unknown to anyone. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}

Eventually, the ''Unitrex-1'' was discovered drifting near [[Vela Pulsar]] by a group of [[Mortilus]]-worshipping [[NAIL]]s who had left Cybertron during the war. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} Finding the guard, who had mutated into a ravenous [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]], they kept it alive and docile using [[turbofox]] meals. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}}

[[File:Mtmte-01-liarsatod-p19-panel345-boom.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|"Farewell, my friend. Though we die, at least our enemies are taken with us. Well, [[Overlord (Masterforce)|one of them]], anyway."]]
The ''U1'' was among the NAIL ships that returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] at the end of the war. It was purchased by [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] (with the help of [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] and [[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]]) during the [[Festival of Lost Light]] for ''one billion'' [[Shanix]] from its former owners and renamed the ''Lost Light'' after the festival. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} Rodimus was unaware of any of the ship's history when it was given to him as a present from Drift. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

Rodimus decided to use the ship after he was denied the use of [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] in his quest to find the Knights of Cybertron, a group from Cybertron's ancient past. He intended to follow a map discovered in the halves of the now empty [[Matrix of Leadership]] by Perceptor and [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]], hoping that the knowledge and power of the Knights could be used to bring Cybertron into a new golden age. Rodimus gave a rousing speech on the day prior to the launch, intending on swaying the varied Transformers currently inhabiting and feuding on Cybertron to accompany him. While [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] predicted Rodimus would fail to convince anyone to leave with him, at least 200 answered the call. After being checked and cleared by a diligent [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], the passengers boarded the ''Lost Light'', along with a "[[Whirl (G1)|weapon of mass destruction]]" brought on board by [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]], an unconscious and crippled [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]], and mysterious cargo smuggled aboard on Prowl's orders.

The ship launched on schedule, but something went wrong. As the ''Lost Light'' lifted off, it was rocked by an explosion and [[quantum jump]]ed before it was ready. The last that was seen of the ship from Cybertron was a massive fireball; it was assumed that all aboard were killed.

When he learned of the event some while later, Orion Pax thought even with the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "destruction", Rodimus and his crew were still alive. {{storylink|Syndromica (1)}}

The ship's fate was far more complicated, however: its hyper-advanced quantum engines malfunctioned, narrowing its choice of destinations not to a single point in space, but to ''two'' points in space. The ship responded by arriving at both points, having created a quantum duplicate of itself, and everyone and everything on board. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

====On-course ''Lost Light''====
The jump placed the ''Lost Light'' over its intended destination, but also caused one of the rear thrusters to explode. Rung was lost in the explosion. Perceptor and [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] found that the reason for the explosion was that [[Ore]] had been standing close to one of the quantum generators when they were activated, and was mashed into it.

[[File:Mtmte32-p1-lost-light-shattered.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Look close! You can count the number of decks the ship has, as well as seeing the hexagonal corridor tubes running through the ship. Those hexagon-shaped passageways actually show up in interior scenes elsewhere in the series, because Milne is ''just that good''.]]
The Sparkeater that none of the Autobots knew of broke out during their journey, killing [[Shock (G1)|Shock]] before going on a hunt for the "brightest [[spark]]" on the ship: [[Animus]]. Rodimus had the rest of the crew locked in their quarters and, using Animus as bait, lured the Sparkeater to the engine room, where he mashed it into a generator when the ''Lost Light'' did its next quantum jump. Unfortunately the bold captain miscalculated, and his head became emeshed in the generators as well, killing him. The crew held a [[Transformer funerary practices|funeral]] according to spectralist rites, and interred Rodimus's body within a coffin made from the ship's engine casings.

No longer feeling beholden to Rodimus, Drift made a confession to now-commander Ultra Magnus: secreted below the lowest level of the ship was a hidden chamber, a "slow time" cell, in which a captive [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] was suspended.

Meanwhile, Rewind began keeping a travelogue of the ship's adventures, and Crosscut finished his play ''[[Information Creep]]'', announcing its debut performance in his newly opened playhouse space. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

Unbeknownst to the crew, [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] was a Decepticon sleeper agent (though he was not dedicated to the Decepticon cause). {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}} For reasons unknown, he deactivated the slow cell to unmask Overlord's energy signature and then summoned the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] to get rid of him. In exchange, the Division agreed to leave everyone else alone to maintain Brainstorm's cover. The DJD caught up with the ship near the lectureworld of [[Ofsted XVII]] and entered to find Drift was there... at which point they decided they had to kill him too and, well, once they had ''started'' they just couldn't ''stop''. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}}

[[File:Slaughterhouse mtmte -32 djd attack.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|''We're too weak after the exertion of destroying the asteroids. Our firepower -- no match'']]
Rewind was forced to film the entire slaughter, with [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]] promising they'd spare Chromedome if he did. The captive Overlord was indeed killed, as the Division gleefully sawed his head off. Storming the ship's bridge, they annihilated the command crew. Tarn dispatched Ultra Magnus with a single blast; one of the DJD subsequently pulled his inner Minimus Ambus form out of the Magnus Armor. Perceptor, Mainframe, Swerve, and Whirl were killed off in nearly the same moment. Some of the deceased had their brain modules yanked out by Helex and placed in their mouths; others were forced to transform to [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] before being executed and their transformation cogs harvested to feed Tarn's transformation addiction. The mounting casualties included Pipes and Red Alert (killed by Helex), Cyclonus (blasted by Vos, wielded by Tarn), Cosmos (killed by Tesarus), and Dipstick and Chromedome (killed by Kaon). {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

In a final act of cruelty, Chromedome was forced to erase his memories of Rewind or die—Chromedome chose death. Rewind was abandoned and went into shutdown. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

17 months later, a massive battle occurred around the derelict ship and on the surface of Ofsted XVII between the [[Black Block Consortia]] and the [[Galactic Council]] over the quantum engines. When the Decepticon Justice Division arrived to find them, both organic factions teamed up and kerbstomped the DJD; two of their number were left damaged and helpless on the planet's surface while the others fled. The ''Lost Light'' itself was ripped to pieces, its quantum foam left drifting through space among its shattered chunks, while Rodimus's coffin broke free and drifted away. {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} {{storylink|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}

One month later, the ''Lost Light'' and its deceased crew were erased from existence when crew members from its quantum duplicate arrived and shut down its quantum engines. The sole remnants of its tragic journey were Brainstorm's briefcase... and Rewind. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}
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====Off-course ''Lost Light''====
[[File:MTMTE2 Lost Light.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|'''''Silence.''''' ''For over <s>four</s> six milllion years, nothing disturbed the crypt-like atmosphere within that dormant structure.'']]
The jump placed the ''Lost Light'' over an unknown planet somewhere in space and caused one of the rear thrusters to explode, resulting in a fire and a hull tear in one of the hangars on the upper decks. Before the tear could be sealed, 40 Autobots were ejected through the breach. Rodimus ordered the ''Lost Light'' to be set down on the planet's surface so the lost Autobots could be recovered. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} Perceptor and [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] found that the reason for the explosion was that [[Ore]] had been standing close to one of the quantum generators when they were activated, and was mashed into it. By the time the rescue mission was done and the ''Lost Light'' left the planet, [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] joined the crew while [[Hyperion (G1)|Hyperion]] and [[Polaris]] had been found dead. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}}

[[File:Mtmte-03-lost-light-quantumjump.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|''The Autobots labored to purchase a craft to propel them into the void... a craft dubbed -- the '''Lost Light.''' '']]
The Sparkeater that none of the Autobots knew of broke out during their journey, killing [[Shock (G1)|Shock]] and [[Animus]] before going on a hunt for the "brightest [[spark]]" on the ship: [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]. Rodimus had the rest of the crew locked in their quarters and, using Rung as bait, lured the Sparkeater to the engine room, where he mashed it into a generator when the ''Lost Light'' did its next quantum jump. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}}

The crew then had a celebration at [[Swerve's|Swerve's recently opened bar]]. Rodimus ordered Rewind to give Tailgate a history lesson about the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}}

[[File:Spotlight-trailcutter-p13-lost-light-lockdown-ship.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|''Peace. An alien concept to the Autobots aboard the Lost Light, whose backs have long borne the burden of a quest begun eons ago by the feckless Rodimus.'']]
The ship was damaged when it unexpectedly struck a piece of space debris. After some quick repair work by Chromedome, Brainstorm and Highbrow (oh, and Trailbreaker was there too), the debris - actually a thumb belonging to the legendary [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] - was brought aboard. This new cargo attracted the interest of [[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]]'s [[Titan Hunter]]s, who arrived and boarded the ship while the entire crew was accidentally frozen in place by one of Brainstorm's inventions. Only quick thinking by Trailbreaker (still active due to his forcefield's protection) kept the Decepticons with making off with the Metroplex fragment. {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}}

Ultra Magnus would later teach Tailgate the [[Autobot Code]]. Meanwhile, Red Alert told Rung he was hearing noises below his room in the Sparkeater chamber; Rung recognized the sound as a slowed-down voice saying "kill... me..." over and over again. Meanwhile, Ratchet, Drift, and Pipes investigated a significant decline in survival rates at the Delphi medical center; Ratchet and his comrades returned with new crew members including the freshly reactivated [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}}

Despite attempts to give him therapy, Maximus - traumatized by his defeat and torture at the hands of Overlord - shot a bunch of crew members, before taking Rung and Whirl hostage so he could demand the ship be taken back to Cybertron. Swerve and Rewind, who had been replacing rivets on the ship's hull, attempted to shoot him through the window, but accidentally injured Rung instead. Elsewhere, Red Alert used the deceased Ore's drill arm to find the source of the noise he had heard earlier. Drilling through the floor of the Sparkeater chamber, the lowest level of the ship according its schematics, he found a hidden chamber in which a captive [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] was suspended, begging to be killed. {{storylink|Interiors}}

[[File:MtMtEAnn2012-The Benign Intervention.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Yes, even by our Autobot standards, the '''''Benign Intervention''''' is '''very''' large..."]]
The ''Lost Light'' finally reached its first major destination, the planet of [[Theophany]], where the crew expected to find the [[Circle of Light]]. Instead, however, all that remained was the razed and deserted ruins of the Circle's Crystal City. The [[Galactic Council]]'s enforcement ship, ''[[The Benign Intervention]]'', also appeared on the scene, giving the Autobots one hour to explore the planet's surface. Rodimus's exploration team discovered a slumbering [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] beneath Crystal City... but Chromedome's attempts to hack into the behemoth's mind caused it to reactivate and fire a blast of energy into space, damaging the ''Benign Intervention'' and incurring the full wrath of its troops. The ''Lost Light'' was contained in an [[incineration shell]] and was seconds away from total annihilation when Rodimus's team freed the Metrotitan, who in turn teleported the ''Lost Light'' and her crew away from Theophany. Theorizing that the Decepticons were behind the destruction of Crystal City, Rodimus decided to take the ''Lost Light'' near the [[Argon Nebulae]], where Decepticon activity had been reported. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

The Decepticon group that the crew engaged turned out not to be linked to the disappearance of the Circle of Light. Several members of the crew were injured fighting the group - including Rewind, causing Chromedome to agree to work with [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] on the Overlord project. {{storylink|Before & After}}

The ship later stopped at [[Hedonia]], where the crew got some much needed R&R while testing out Brainstorm and Rung's new holomatter avatars. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} While there, Skids, Whirl and Rewind met two other races of transforming beings - the [[Ammonite]]s and their enemies, the [[Terradore]]s. The meeting ended with Whirl killing the leader of Terradores.

Some time later, the ship encountered the legendary [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]] and his ship, the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]''. Much to the dismay of Rodimus, Thunderclash also turned out to be in pursuit of the Knights of Cybertron and required the ''Lost Light'''s quantum engines to repower his ship. Thunderclash's second in command Paddox turned out to be a group of combined Ammonites; he was neutralized by Swerve and Rung, and the two ships departed with Thunderclash promising to inform the Knights of Cybertron of Rodimus' sacrifice if he encountered them first. {{storylink|Little Victories}}

During one of Chromedome's cerebral incursions into Overlord's mind, the [[Phase Sixer]] escaped from his slow cell on the bottom of the ship's hull {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} and went on a killing spree through the ship that left Ultra Magnus critically injured. The combined efforts of Chromedome, Fortress Maximus and Rewind forced him back into his cell, which was jettisoned from the hull and destroyed - though at the cost of Rewind's life. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} After Overlord's rampage, a mass funeral was held for the half dozen casualties of the attack. Meeting with Rodimus, Drift agreed to take the fall, allowing himself to be banished for allowing Overlord on board. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}

[[File:Mtmte17-p11-lost-light-luna-one.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Shortly after the funeral, Ultra Magnus suddenly sat bolt upright from his medibay bed, ''levitated'' to the shuttle bay, and departed the ''Lost Light'' aboard a stolen shuttle. Rodimus set the ship on a pursuit course, arriving at a huge dimensional portal. Passing through it, the crew made a discovery beyond their reckoning: the long-lost Cybertronian moon, Luna 1.

The ship remained in orbit while a small crew went to the surface to investigate. Soon, however, the ''Lost Light'' was invaded by an army of the giant golden robots known as [[Legislator]]s, {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} who teleported aboard and soon overran the crew despite their best efforts, taking them captive, while Rodimus's surface team was likewise captured by the forces of the unhinged [[Chief Justice]] [[Tyrest (G1)|Tyrest]], who had set up shop on Luna 1. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}} The ship was liberated when Tailgate shut down all the Legislators by repealing the code of law that controlled them, though the ship was left in thoroughly trashed condition; stopping Tyrest's schemes also resulted in the destruction of Rodimus's half of the Matrix - along with its crucial map.

Eager to put the depressing detour behind them, the crew of the ''Lost Light'' soon departed from Luna 1, leaving behind Red Alert and Fortress Maximus to keep watch over the rogue moon. Having lost their guide, the next plan was to find and join forces with Thunder Clash. {{storylink|Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|This Calamitous Life}} {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} An effort to get the Circle of Light survivors to join the quest did little except persuade them to go find Thunder Clash themselves. {{storylink|Little Victories}}

Some time later, Rodimus's guilt over the Overlord incident got the better of him, and he came clean to the crew about his role in the fiasco. Invoking the [[Crisis Act]], he had the ship's crew vote on his leadership. Though the majority favored him remaining in command, a large minority voted against him, a fact he tried to keep in mind by carving the vote results on his palm. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}}

The ''Lost Light'' next answered a distress call from none other than Orion Pax himself, materializing above Pax's ship in time to rescue it from the gravity well of [[Gorlam Prime]] as it collapsed into a [[Dead Universe]] portal. The ''[[Skyroller]]'' was brought into one of the ''Lost Light'''s shuttle bays and its small crew was happily welcomed aboard, but the mood changed when [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] contacted the ship, wanting to speak with Cyclonus about Cybertron's growing [[Dead Universe]] problems. {{storylink|Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1|Dark Dawn}} The ''Lost Light'' remained in orbit over the planet-consuming portal while Pax and a small team prepared to enter the Dead Universe and confront the source of its latest upheavals, with Pax, Magnus and Rodimus killing time in Swerve's while Brainstorm readied protective fields for them. After Pax's crew departed, the ''Lost Light'' made ready to pursue war criminal [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] - only to be pulled off course, literally, when the fragment of Metroplex began levitating and pushing against the ship's bulkheads. Deducing that Metroplex was calling his missing piece home, Ultra Magnus made the decision to change plans and take the ship to answer the call.

[[File:Rid23-p23-lost-light-underwater.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|You can hem and haw about "off-model designs" and "inconsistent art", or you can bask in the glory of "artistic interpretation". Your choice.]]
One quantum jump later, the ''Lost Light'' materialized at the bottom of a reddish sea, surrounded by unknown robotic entities {{storylink|Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|Winners & Losers}} who soon engaged the crew in a massive battle, with the opening salvo blowing out the ship's bridge windows and flooding the bridge. During the fight, a small crew aboard the Rod Pod found their way to Metroplex himself, journeying into the Titan's head. {{storylink|Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss}} Finding him ill, they sought his brain (missing), then headed for his spark. {{storylink|No Exit: Dark Cybertron Chapter 6|No Exit}} Outside, the crew of the ''Lost Light'' was led in battle against the attacking Ammonites by Hound. Their foes suddenly turned and headed for Metroplex; the exploratory team was soon on the verge of being overwhelmed. {{storylink|The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|The Dead Are Not Enough}} Finally locating Metroplex's brain, Ultra Magnus contacted the ship's bridge and had a portion of its power used to recharge Metroplex, revitalizing his depleted systems. Empowered once more, Metroplex teleported himself and the ''Lost Light'' back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}}

The ''Lost Light'' arrived over Cybertron with such force that it was unable to avoid a crash landing on Cybertron's surface. Metroplex went to work on the Necrotitan that was threatening the planet's inhabitants, at one point preventing the undead giant from damaging the ship. When Megatron managed to space bridge the thumb fragment out of the ''Lost Light'''s hold and reunite it with its owner, Metroplex was cured of the ailment that had disabled him, and quickly destroyed the Necrotitan. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}}

As the combatants basked in this victory, the ''Lost Light'' served as both a medical center - Ratchet patched up the wounded Megatron there, and Arcee was rebuilt into a new form - and as a place of relaxation, as Transformers from both factions found their way to Swerve's for drink and recuperation. Swerve himself nearly had a cerebral hemorrhage when Blurr showed up in the bar. This downtime was short-lived, however, as Shockwave's final endgame revealed itself with the arrival of 70 billion Ammonites and the incipient collapse of space-time. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}}

[[File:Rid27-p6-lost-light-amonites.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|"That... '''thing''' you wouldn't have me put down sealed itself inside the main engine room... and started tearing stuff apart!"]]
Amid swarming masses of foes, the ''Lost Light'' frantically lifted off, but soon set down again to discharge Megatron, Bumblebee, and a small team, with the intent of taking the fight to Shockwave. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} After dropping off the strike team, the ship took to the air once again, its weapons picking off some 10,000 Ammonites as the battle raged. The Ammonite army spontaneously exploded shortly thereafter, and the ship's crew used the ''Lost Light'' as a battering ram to smash Monstructor - the last combatant still standing - into his component Transformers. They then dropped down in time to rescue the strike team from the collapsing singularity that resulted from the derailment of Shockwave's plans, and set down before Metroplex. The last to disembark were Optimus Prime and Megatron, the latter braced to unveil his new decision to join the Autobots... {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

In the wake of the great battle, [[Atomizer]] oversaw having the ship's name painted on the sides, while Perceptor and the crew restored the ship to full function. The ship's departure was stalled, however, by the trial of Megatron. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} The ''Lost Light'' was used to transport many Transformers to Luna 2 for the trial. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}}

[[File:Mtmte30-p23-lost-light-disintegrates.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"'''Fact:''' the ''Lost Light'' is by far the best trans-stellar transporter on Cybertron, making it the optimum choice, regardless of its condition."]]
Six months after the defeat of Shockwave's plans, the ''Lost Light'' finally departed Cybertron once more. A number of new faces had joined the crew... including its new co-captain, [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]! {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} Among other changes, Swerve assigned the reprogrammed Legislator "[[Ten]]" as his new bouncer, Whirl was appointed as "Entertainments Officer", bringing on a large cache of Earth movies, and Bluestreak became the latest bartender at Swerve's.

As the ship headed towards its next destination, it encountered a coffin floating in space. Megatron had it brought aboard; right about then, things began to disappear - a batch of nucleon rods, one of Swerve's Engex vats, bits of signs, doors, bulkheads, even whole crew members. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} Rodimus was shocked when Megatron showed him the contents of the coffin: it was his own deceased body! His shock was soon compounded as the ''Lost Light'' itself began to disintegrate, more and more pieces vanishing into thin air. The crew evacuated aboard the ship's shuttles, as the ''Lost Light'' disappeared completely. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} Soon, all of her original crew would vanish as well, leaving only those who had joined after the return trip to Cybertron. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}}

Those few remaining soon discovered the grisly remains of the quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'', with Rewind as the only survivor among the murdered crew. Eventually, Nautica worked out what had happened, explaining how the two versions of the ship split during the original quantum jump. Once she directed Megatron and Rewind to deactivate the duplicate ship's quantum drums, the intact ''Lost Light'' and its vanished crew were restored to existence, while the shattered duplicate and its slaughtered inhabitants - with the exception of Rewind and Brainstorm's briefcase - ceased to be.

Celebration aplenty could be found on the restored ship... until Brainstorm arrived in Swerve's, opened his mysterious briefcase, and knocked everybody out. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

[[Rung (G1)|Rung]] had brought a model of the ''Lost Light'' with him during the Autobots' trip through time, {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}} and was casually putting it together during another stop in their journey at roughly four million years ago. He was observed by the local timeframe's [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and [[Quark]] {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}} - as well as [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]], who - realizing he'd been followed back in time - promptly fled the scene. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}}

{{stub|{{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}} {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}} {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}}}}

==Crew==
===Initial Crew===
Its crew at launch included:
{{collist|3|
*[[Ammo]]
*[[Animus]]
*[[Aquabat]]
*[[Aquafend]]
*[[Aquastar]]
*[[Atomizer]]
*[[Blades (G1)|Blades]]
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
*[[Bob (IDW)|Bob]]
*[[Borer]]
*[[Boss (G1)|Boss]]
*[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]
*[[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]
*[[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]
*[[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]]
*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]]
*[[Deftwing]]
*[[Dipstick]]
*[[Doubletap]]
*[[Drift (G1)|Drift]]
*[[Fervor]]
*[[Fizzle]]
*[[Flex]]
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]]
*[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]]
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]]
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]
*[[Hyperion (G1)|Hyperion]]
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]
*[[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]]
*[[Kindle]]
*[[Lancet]]
*[[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]]
*[[Lockstock]]
*[[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]]
*[[Ore]]
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
*[[Pincher (G1)|Pincher]]
*[[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]]
*[[Pointblank (G1)|Pointblank]]
*[[Polaris]]
*[[Powerflash]]
*[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]]
*[[Rad (G1)|Rad]]
*[[Railspike (G1)|Railspike]]<ref>Letters page of [[Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|''More than Meets the Eye'' #19]].</ref>
*[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]]
*[[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] (''director of security'')
*[[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]]
*[[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] (Co-Captain, former Captain)
*[[Rollout (G1)|Rollout]]
*[[Rung (G1)|Rung]]
*[[Shock (G1)|Shock]]
*[[Siren (G1)|Siren]]
*[[Skater]]
*[[Slapdash (G1)|Slapdash]]
*[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
*[[Spoke]]
*[[Sprocket (G1)|Sprocket]]
*[[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]]
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]]
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]]
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]
*[[Toaster]]<ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=309015#309015 The James Roberts Q&A, IDW forums]</ref>
*[[Toxin]]
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker/Trailcutter]] (''director of security'')
*[[Tripodeca]]
*[[Turbine]]
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] ''(second-in-command)''
*[[Waverider]]
*[[Xaaron]]
}}

===Additions after launch===
Joining the crew after their journey was underway:
{{collist|3|
*[[Ambulon (G1)|Ambulon]]
*[[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]]
*[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]] ''(presumably)''
*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
*[[Getaway]]
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]
}}
===Additions after return to Cybertron===
Joining the crew after [[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|their return to Cybertron]] or after their subsequent second departure:
{{collist|3|
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]]
*[[Doublecross]]
*[[Groove (G1)|Groove]]
*[[Grotusque]]
*[[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]]
*[[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]<ref>[https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/461576635947708417 All of the Protectobots were confirmed to be on the Lost Light by James Roberts via his Twitter account]</ref>
*[[Joyride (G1)|Joyride]]
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (Co-Captain)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]
*[[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]]
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]
*[[Repugnus (G1)|Repugnus]]
*[[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]]
*[[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]]
*[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]
*[[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]]
*[[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]]
}}

==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
The ''Lost Light'' was exploring a distant planet when it came under attack by mysterious forces. [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] went to investigate and faced off against the [[Ammonite]]s along with a group of Decepticons from another starship. {{storylink|Into the Abyss}}

==Notes==
*According to Roberts in an online interview, [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] intended to join the crew of the ''Lost Light'' but was talked out of it at the last minute by "someone with a vested interest".<ref>http://www.craveonline.com/comics/interviews/182693-james-roberts-and-the-transformers-renaissance</ref>
*At least one member of the ''Lost Light'' crew was the result of artist error. In [[The Gloaming|issue #16]], a misdrawn Chromedome was transformed into the unofficial [[Unofficial conventions|TFCon]] fan-character "[[Toxin]]" by colorist [[Josh Burcham]] via an edit to the character's lineart and colors. Additionally, a scripted appearance for Generation 1 Landmine in ''[[The Reluctant Specialist|Spotlight: Trailcutter]]'' was drawn instead as [[Landmine (Energon)|''Energon'' Landmine]], although this wiki currently treats this as an appearance for the G1 character.
* A panel in [[Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|issue #2]] of ''More Than Meets the Eye'' makes clear that the bridge is located at the front tip of the ship, in the huge band of windows. An observation deck is located there as well.
* Speaking of huge, the 10x15 mile dimensions of the ship given in "Into the Abyss" don't jibe with almost any of the artwork. While the ship is clearly ''big'', the given size would make characters invisible alongside it, but they are commonly visible next to it throughout the ''Dark Cybertron'' event. When set down on a planetary surface, the ship's upper reaches, presumably 5 or more miles up, should fade off into the stratosphere. Its huge size certainly would not lend itself to the shuttle-like tasks that it undertakes in ''Dark Cybertron'', either.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Autobot starships]]
[[Category:IDW Generation 1 starships]]

Lost Light

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:''The ''Lost Light'' is a starship from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:Mtmte28-cover-lost-light.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|The name is in ''no way'' an indication that tragic events, melancholy proceedings, momentously wrong decisions, and sorrowful beings will be found aboard it. Not at all.]]

Originally a vessel owned by a group of neutral Transformers, the '''''Lost Light''''' is now the starship utilized by [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] and about 230 other assorted [[Transformer]]s on a quest to find the mythical [[Knights of Cybertron]].

Though apparently unremarkable by Transformer standards, the ship is quite large - described by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] as 15 miles in length, and 10 miles wide, and large enough for an entire extra chamber to be attached to it in secret without anybody onboard noticing. It contains numerous habitation suites for its crew, various offices and workshops for those who require them, a bar redubbed "[[Swerve's]]" after the ship's launch, and a large [[oil]] reservoir where introspective bots sometimes go to ponder. The ship's hangars carry at least half a dozen shuttlecraft, including the ''[[Leading Light]]'' and [[Rodpod]]. Rodimus upgraded the ''Lost Light'''s armament with a batch of proton missile launchers after a visit to [[Hedonia]].

The ''Lost Light'' is a "hop ship" which utilizes insanely advanced [[quantum jump|quantum engines]] to travel almost instantaneously across vast distances, though those distances can be limited by the amount of power available to the ship. (You don't want to be standing next to these engines when they activate, as they break the laws of physics in ways that can be very unhealthy.) On top, the ship carries a group of "fuel quills", essential to its operation. Deep within its bowels are the ship's fuel furnaces, powered or at least partly dependent upon nucleon rods, and manned by the [[Pyrobot]]s.

The ship was known by its [[Lost Light's former owners|previous owners]] as the '''''Unitrex-1'''''.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
{{ongoing}}
The ''Unitrex-1'' was constructed in the city of [[Unitrex]] five million years ago, the first ship oufitted with new experimental generator on board. A crew had been selected for the vessel, including the [[Duobot]]s, but before it could launch, it was infiltrated by two very unexpected visitors: a time-travelling [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]], who had come from five million years in the future and wound up stranded when their [[time case|time machine]] ran out of power. Seeking to recharge the device, Rodimus used [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]'s knowledge of future quantum science to upgrade the ''Unitrex-1''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s generator so that it could perform the task, in the process retroactively creating the very first quantum generator. As he worked, Cyclonus fought off the ship's sole guard, blasting him with a [[Sparkeater Gun]] and locking him in one of the ship's chambers. Once the time case was fully charged with quantum energy, a reaction between the case and generator caused the unmanned ''U1'' to quantum jump away through time and space, its fate unknown to anyone. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}

Eventually, the ''Unitrex-1'' was discovered drifting near [[Vela Pulsar]] by a group of [[Mortilus]]-worshipping [[NAIL]]s who had left Cybertron during the war. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} Finding the guard, who had mutated into a ravenous [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]], they kept it alive and docile using [[turbofox]] meals. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}}

[[File:Mtmte-01-liarsatod-p19-panel345-boom.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|"Farewell, my friend. Though we die, at least our enemies are taken with us. Well, [[Overlord (Masterforce)|one of them]], anyway."]]
The ''U1'' was among the NAIL ships that returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] at the end of the war. It was purchased by [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] (with the help of [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] and [[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]]) during the [[Festival of Lost Light]] for ''one billion'' [[Shanix]] from its former owners and renamed the ''Lost Light'' after the festival. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} Rodimus was unaware of any of the ship's history when it was given to him as a present from Drift. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

Rodimus decided to use the ship after he was denied the use of [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] in his quest to find the Knights of Cybertron, a group from Cybertron's ancient past. He intended to follow a map discovered in the halves of the now empty [[Matrix of Leadership]] by Perceptor and [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]], hoping that the knowledge and power of the Knights could be used to bring Cybertron into a new golden age. Rodimus gave a rousing speech on the day prior to the launch, intending on swaying the varied Transformers currently inhabiting and feuding on Cybertron to accompany him. While [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] predicted Rodimus would fail to convince anyone to leave with him, at least 200 answered the call. After being checked and cleared by a diligent [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], the passengers boarded the ''Lost Light'', along with a "[[Whirl (G1)|weapon of mass destruction]]" brought on board by [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]], an unconscious and crippled [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]], and mysterious cargo smuggled aboard on Prowl's orders.

The ship launched on schedule, but something went wrong. As the ''Lost Light'' lifted off, it was rocked by an explosion and [[quantum jump]]ed before it was ready. The last that was seen of the ship from Cybertron was a massive fireball; it was assumed that all aboard were killed.

When he learned of the event some while later, Orion Pax thought even with the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "destruction", Rodimus and his crew were still alive. {{storylink|Syndromica (1)}}

The ship's fate was far more complicated, however: its hyper-advanced quantum engines malfunctioned, narrowing its choice of destinations not to a single point in space, but to ''two'' points in space. The ship responded by arriving at both points, having created a quantum duplicate of itself, and everyone and everything on board. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

====On-course ''Lost Light''====
The jump placed the ''Lost Light'' over its intended destination, but also caused one of the rear thrusters to explode. Rung was lost in the explosion. Perceptor and [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] found that the reason for the explosion was that [[Ore]] had been standing close to one of the quantum generators when they were activated, and was mashed into it.

[[File:Mtmte32-p1-lost-light-shattered.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Look close! You can count the number of decks the ship has, as well as seeing the hexagonal corridor tubes running through the ship. Those hexagon-shaped passageways actually show up in interior scenes elsewhere in the series, because Milne is ''just that good''.]]
The Sparkeater that none of the Autobots knew of broke out during their journey, killing [[Shock (G1)|Shock]] before going on a hunt for the "brightest [[spark]]" on the ship: [[Animus]]. Rodimus had the rest of the crew locked in their quarters and, using Animus as bait, lured the Sparkeater to the engine room, where he mashed it into a generator when the ''Lost Light'' did its next quantum jump. Unfortunately the bold captain miscalculated, and his head became emeshed in the generators as well, killing him. The crew held a [[Transformer funerary practices|funeral]] according to spectralist rites, and interred Rodimus's body within a coffin made from the ship's engine casings.

No longer feeling beholden to Rodimus, Drift made a confession to now-commander Ultra Magnus: secreted below the lowest level of the ship was a hidden chamber, a "slow time" cell, in which a captive [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] was suspended.

Meanwhile, Rewind began keeping a travelogue of the ship's adventures, and Crosscut finished his play ''[[Information Creep]]'', announcing its debut performance in his newly opened playhouse space. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

Unbeknownst to the crew, [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] was a Decepticon sleeper agent (though he was not dedicated to the Decepticon cause). {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}} For reasons unknown, he deactivated the slow cell to unmask Overlord's energy signature and then summoned the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] to get rid of him. In exchange, the Division agreed to leave everyone else alone to maintain Brainstorm's cover. The DJD caught up with the ship near the lectureworld of [[Ofsted XVII]] and entered to find Drift was there... at which point they decided they had to kill him too and, well, once they had ''started'' they just couldn't ''stop''. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}}

[[File:Slaughterhouse mtmte -32 djd attack.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|''We're too weak after the exertion of destroying the asteroids. Our firepower -- no match'']]
Rewind was forced to film the entire slaughter, with [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]] promising they'd spare Chromedome if he did. The captive Overlord was indeed killed, as the Division gleefully sawed his head off. Storming the ship's bridge, they annihilated the command crew. Tarn dispatched Ultra Magnus with a single blast; one of the DJD subsequently pulled his inner Minimus Ambus form out of the Magnus Armor. Perceptor, Mainframe, Swerve, and Whirl were killed off in nearly the same moment. Some of the deceased had their brain modules yanked out by Helex and placed in their mouths; others were forced to transform to [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] before being executed and their transformation cogs harvested to feed Tarn's transformation addiction. The mounting casualties included Pipes and Red Alert (killed by Helex), Cyclonus (blasted by Vos, wielded by Tarn), Cosmos (killed by Tesarus), and Dipstick and Chromedome (killed by Kaon). {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

In a final act of cruelty, Chromedome was forced to erase his memories of Rewind or die—Chromedome chose death. Rewind was abandoned and went into shutdown. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

17 months later, a massive battle occurred around the derelict ship and on the surface of Ofsted XVII between the [[Black Block Consortia]] and the [[Galactic Council]] over the quantum engines. When the Decepticon Justice Division arrived to find them, both organic factions teamed up and kerbstomped the DJD; two of their number were left damaged and helpless on the planet's surface while the others fled. The ''Lost Light'' itself was ripped to pieces, its quantum foam left drifting through space among its shattered chunks, while Rodimus's coffin broke free and drifted away. {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} {{storylink|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}

One month later, the ''Lost Light'' and its deceased crew were erased from existence when crew members from its quantum duplicate arrived and shut down its quantum engines. The sole remnants of its tragic journey were Brainstorm's briefcase... and Rewind. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}
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====Off-course ''Lost Light''====
[[File:MTMTE2 Lost Light.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|'''''Silence.''''' ''For over <s>four</s> six milllion years, nothing disturbed the crypt-like atmosphere within that dormant structure.'']]
The jump placed the ''Lost Light'' over an unknown planet somewhere in space and caused one of the rear thrusters to explode, resulting in a fire and a hull tear in one of the hangars on the upper decks. Before the tear could be sealed, 40 Autobots were ejected through the breach. Rodimus ordered the ''Lost Light'' to be set down on the planet's surface so the lost Autobots could be recovered. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} Perceptor and [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] found that the reason for the explosion was that [[Ore]] had been standing close to one of the quantum generators when they were activated, and was mashed into it. By the time the rescue mission was done and the ''Lost Light'' left the planet, [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] joined the crew while [[Hyperion (G1)|Hyperion]] and [[Polaris]] had been found dead. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}}

[[File:Mtmte-03-lost-light-quantumjump.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|''The Autobots labored to purchase a craft to propel them into the void... a craft dubbed -- the '''Lost Light.''' '']]
The Sparkeater that none of the Autobots knew of broke out during their journey, killing [[Shock (G1)|Shock]] and [[Animus]] before going on a hunt for the "brightest [[spark]]" on the ship: [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]. Rodimus had the rest of the crew locked in their quarters and, using Rung as bait, lured the Sparkeater to the engine room, where he mashed it into a generator when the ''Lost Light'' did its next quantum jump. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}}

The crew then had a celebration at [[Swerve's|Swerve's recently opened bar]]. Rodimus ordered Rewind to give Tailgate a history lesson about the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}}

[[File:Spotlight-trailcutter-p13-lost-light-lockdown-ship.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|''Peace. An alien concept to the Autobots aboard the Lost Light, whose backs have long borne the burden of a quest begun eons ago by the feckless Rodimus.'']]
The ship was damaged when it unexpectedly struck a piece of space debris. After some quick repair work by Chromedome, Brainstorm and Highbrow (oh, and Trailbreaker was there too), the debris - actually a thumb belonging to the legendary [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] - was brought aboard. This new cargo attracted the interest of [[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]]'s [[Titan Hunter]]s, who arrived and boarded the ship while the entire crew was accidentally frozen in place by one of Brainstorm's inventions. Only quick thinking by Trailbreaker (still active due to his forcefield's protection) kept the Decepticons with making off with the Metroplex fragment. {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}}

Ultra Magnus would later teach Tailgate the [[Autobot Code]]. Meanwhile, Red Alert told Rung he was hearing noises below his room in the Sparkeater chamber; Rung recognized the sound as a slowed-down voice saying "kill... me..." over and over again. Meanwhile, Ratchet, Drift, and Pipes investigated a significant decline in survival rates at the Delphi medical center; Ratchet and his comrades returned with new crew members including the freshly reactivated [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}}

Despite attempts to give him therapy, Maximus - traumatized by his defeat and torture at the hands of Overlord - shot a bunch of crew members, before taking Rung and Whirl hostage so he could demand the ship be taken back to Cybertron. Swerve and Rewind, who had been replacing rivets on the ship's hull, attempted to shoot him through the window, but accidentally injured Rung instead. Elsewhere, Red Alert used the deceased Ore's drill arm to find the source of the noise he had heard earlier. Drilling through the floor of the Sparkeater chamber, the lowest level of the ship according its schematics, he found a hidden chamber in which a captive [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] was suspended, begging to be killed. {{storylink|Interiors}}

[[File:MtMtEAnn2012-The Benign Intervention.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Yes, even by our Autobot standards, the '''''Benign Intervention''''' is '''very''' large..."]]
The ''Lost Light'' finally reached its first major destination, the planet of [[Theophany]], where the crew expected to find the [[Circle of Light]]. Instead, however, all that remained was the razed and deserted ruins of the Circle's Crystal City. The [[Galactic Council]]'s enforcement ship, ''[[The Benign Intervention]]'', also appeared on the scene, giving the Autobots one hour to explore the planet's surface. Rodimus's exploration team discovered a slumbering [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] beneath Crystal City... but Chromedome's attempts to hack into the behemoth's mind caused it to reactivate and fire a blast of energy into space, damaging the ''Benign Intervention'' and incurring the full wrath of its troops. The ''Lost Light'' was contained in an [[incineration shell]] and was seconds away from total annihilation when Rodimus's team freed the Metrotitan, who in turn teleported the ''Lost Light'' and her crew away from Theophany. Theorizing that the Decepticons were behind the destruction of Crystal City, Rodimus decided to take the ''Lost Light'' near the [[Argon Nebulae]], where Decepticon activity had been reported. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

The Decepticon group that the crew engaged turned out not to be linked to the disappearance of the Circle of Light. Several members of the crew were injured fighting the group - including Rewind, causing Chromedome to agree to work with [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] on the Overlord project. {{storylink|Before & After}}

The ship later stopped at [[Hedonia]], where the crew got some much needed R&R while testing out Brainstorm and Rung's new holomatter avatars. {{storylink|Cybertronian Homesick Blues}} While there, Skids, Whirl and Rewind met two other races of transforming beings - the [[Ammonite]]s and their enemies, the [[Terradore]]s. The meeting ended with Whirl killing the leader of Terradores.

Some time later, the ship encountered the legendary [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]] and his ship, the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]''. Much to the dismay of Rodimus, Thunderclash also turned out to be in pursuit of the Knights of Cybertron and required the ''Lost Light'''s quantum engines to repower his ship. Thunderclash's second in command Paddox turned out to be a group of combined Ammonites; he was neutralized by Swerve and Rung, and the two ships departed with Thunderclash promising to inform the Knights of Cybertron of Rodimus' sacrifice if he encountered them first. {{storylink|Little Victories}}

During one of Chromedome's cerebral incursions into Overlord's mind, the [[Phase Sixer]] escaped from his slow cell on the bottom of the ship's hull {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} and went on a killing spree through the ship that left Ultra Magnus critically injured. The combined efforts of Chromedome, Fortress Maximus and Rewind forced him back into his cell, which was jettisoned from the hull and destroyed - though at the cost of Rewind's life. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} After Overlord's rampage, a mass funeral was held for the half dozen casualties of the attack. Meeting with Rodimus, Drift agreed to take the fall, allowing himself to be banished for allowing Overlord on board. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}

[[File:Mtmte17-p11-lost-light-luna-one.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
Shortly after the funeral, Ultra Magnus suddenly sat bolt upright from his medibay bed, ''levitated'' to the shuttle bay, and departed the ''Lost Light'' aboard a stolen shuttle. Rodimus set the ship on a pursuit course, arriving at a huge dimensional portal. Passing through it, the crew made a discovery beyond their reckoning: the long-lost Cybertronian moon, Luna 1.

The ship remained in orbit while a small crew went to the surface to investigate. Soon, however, the ''Lost Light'' was invaded by an army of the giant golden robots known as [[Legislator]]s, {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} who teleported aboard and soon overran the crew despite their best efforts, taking them captive, while Rodimus's surface team was likewise captured by the forces of the unhinged [[Chief Justice]] [[Tyrest (G1)|Tyrest]], who had set up shop on Luna 1. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}} The ship was liberated when Tailgate shut down all the Legislators by repealing the code of law that controlled them, though the ship was left in thoroughly trashed condition; stopping Tyrest's schemes also resulted in the destruction of Rodimus's half of the Matrix - along with its crucial map.

Eager to put the depressing detour behind them, the crew of the ''Lost Light'' soon departed from Luna 1, leaving behind Red Alert and Fortress Maximus to keep watch over the rogue moon. Having lost their guide, the next plan was to find and join forces with Thunder Clash. {{storylink|Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|This Calamitous Life}} {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} An effort to get the Circle of Light survivors to join the quest did little except persuade them to go find Thunder Clash themselves. {{storylink|Little Victories}}

Some time later, Rodimus's guilt over the Overlord incident got the better of him, and he came clean to the crew about his role in the fiasco. Invoking the [[Crisis Act]], he had the ship's crew vote on his leadership. Though the majority favored him remaining in command, a large minority voted against him, a fact he tried to keep in mind by carving the vote results on his palm. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}}

The ''Lost Light'' next answered a distress call from none other than Orion Pax himself, materializing above Pax's ship in time to rescue it from the gravity well of [[Gorlam Prime]] as it collapsed into a [[Dead Universe]] portal. The ''[[Skyroller]]'' was brought into one of the ''Lost Light'''s shuttle bays and its small crew was happily welcomed aboard, but the mood changed when [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] contacted the ship, wanting to speak with Cyclonus about Cybertron's growing [[Dead Universe]] problems. {{storylink|Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1|Dark Dawn}} The ''Lost Light'' remained in orbit over the planet-consuming portal while Pax and a small team prepared to enter the Dead Universe and confront the source of its latest upheavals, with Pax, Magnus and Rodimus killing time in Swerve's while Brainstorm readied protective fields for them. After Pax's crew departed, the ''Lost Light'' made ready to pursue war criminal [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] - only to be pulled off course, literally, when the fragment of Metroplex began levitating and pushing against the ship's bulkheads. Deducing that Metroplex was calling his missing piece home, Ultra Magnus made the decision to change plans and take the ship to answer the call.

[[File:Rid23-p23-lost-light-underwater.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|You can hem and haw about "off-model designs" and "inconsistent art", or you can bask in the glory of "artistic interpretation". Your choice.]]
One quantum jump later, the ''Lost Light'' materialized at the bottom of a reddish sea, surrounded by unknown robotic entities {{storylink|Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|Winners & Losers}} who soon engaged the crew in a massive battle, with the opening salvo blowing out the ship's bridge windows and flooding the bridge. During the fight, a small crew aboard the Rod Pod found their way to Metroplex himself, journeying into the Titan's head. {{storylink|Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss}} Finding him ill, they sought his brain (missing), then headed for his spark. {{storylink|No Exit: Dark Cybertron Chapter 6|No Exit}} Outside, the crew of the ''Lost Light'' was led in battle against the attacking Ammonites by Hound. Their foes suddenly turned and headed for Metroplex; the exploratory team was soon on the verge of being overwhelmed. {{storylink|The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|The Dead Are Not Enough}} Finally locating Metroplex's brain, Ultra Magnus contacted the ship's bridge and had a portion of its power used to recharge Metroplex, revitalizing his depleted systems. Empowered once more, Metroplex teleported himself and the ''Lost Light'' back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}}

The ''Lost Light'' arrived over Cybertron with such force that it was unable to avoid a crash landing on Cybertron's surface. Metroplex went to work on the Necrotitan that was threatening the planet's inhabitants, at one point preventing the undead giant from damaging the ship. When Megatron managed to space bridge the thumb fragment out of the ''Lost Light'''s hold and reunite it with its owner, Metroplex was cured of the ailment that had disabled him, and quickly destroyed the Necrotitan. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}}

As the combatants basked in this victory, the ''Lost Light'' served as both a medical center - Ratchet patched up the wounded Megatron there, and Arcee was rebuilt into a new form - and as a place of relaxation, as Transformers from both factions found their way to Swerve's for drink and recuperation. Swerve himself nearly had a cerebral hemorrhage when Blurr showed up in the bar. This downtime was short-lived, however, as Shockwave's final endgame revealed itself with the arrival of 70 billion Ammonites and the incipient collapse of space-time. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}}

[[File:Rid27-p6-lost-light-amonites.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|"That... '''thing''' you wouldn't have me put down sealed itself inside the main engine room... and started tearing stuff apart!"]]
Amid swarming masses of foes, the ''Lost Light'' frantically lifted off, but soon set down again to discharge Megatron, Bumblebee, and a small team, with the intent of taking the fight to Shockwave. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} After dropping off the strike team, the ship took to the air once again, its weapons picking off some 10,000 Ammonites as the battle raged. The Ammonite army spontaneously exploded shortly thereafter, and the ship's crew used the ''Lost Light'' as a battering ram to smash Monstructor - the last combatant still standing - into his component Transformers. They then dropped down in time to rescue the strike team from the collapsing singularity that resulted from the derailment of Shockwave's plans, and set down before Metroplex. The last to disembark were Optimus Prime and Megatron, the latter braced to unveil his new decision to join the Autobots... {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

In the wake of the great battle, [[Atomizer]] oversaw having the ship's name painted on the sides, while Perceptor and the crew restored the ship to full function. The ship's departure was stalled, however, by the trial of Megatron. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} The ''Lost Light'' was used to transport many Transformers to Luna 2 for the trial. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}}

[[File:Mtmte30-p23-lost-light-disintegrates.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"'''Fact:''' the ''Lost Light'' is by far the best trans-stellar transporter on Cybertron, making it the optimum choice, regardless of its condition."]]
Six months after the defeat of Shockwave's plans, the ''Lost Light'' finally departed Cybertron once more. A number of new faces had joined the crew... including its new co-captain, [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]! {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} Among other changes, Swerve assigned the reprogrammed Legislator "[[Ten]]" as his new bouncer, Whirl was appointed as "Entertainments Officer", bringing on a large cache of Earth movies, and Bluestreak became the latest bartender at Swerve's.

As the ship headed towards its next destination, it encountered a coffin floating in space. Megatron had it brought aboard; right about then, things began to disappear - a batch of nucleon rods, one of Swerve's Engex vats, bits of signs, doors, bulkheads, even whole crew members. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} Rodimus was shocked when Megatron showed him the contents of the coffin: it was his own deceased body! His shock was soon compounded as the ''Lost Light'' itself began to disintegrate, more and more pieces vanishing into thin air. The crew evacuated aboard the ship's shuttles, as the ''Lost Light'' disappeared completely. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} Soon, all of her original crew would vanish as well, leaving only those who had joined after the return trip to Cybertron. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}}

Those few remaining soon discovered the grisly remains of the quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'', with Rewind as the only survivor among the murdered crew. Eventually, Nautica worked out what had happened, explaining how the two versions of the ship split during the original quantum jump. Once she directed Megatron and Rewind to deactivate the duplicate ship's quantum drums, the intact ''Lost Light'' and its vanished crew were restored to existence, while the shattered duplicate and its slaughtered inhabitants - with the exception of Rewind and Brainstorm's briefcase - ceased to be.

Celebration aplenty could be found on the restored ship... until Brainstorm arrived in Swerve's, opened his mysterious briefcase, and knocked everybody out. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}

[[Rung (G1)|Rung]] had brought a model of the ''Lost Light'' with him during the Autobots' trip through time, {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}} and was casually putting it together during another stop in their journey at roughly four million years ago. He was observed by the local timeframe's [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and [[Quark]] {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}} - as well as [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]], who - realizing he'd been followed back in time - promptly fled the scene. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}}

{{stub|{{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}} {{storylink|The Sensuous Frame}} {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}} {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}}}}

==Crew==
===Initial Crew===
Its crew at launch included:
{{collist|3|
*[[Ammo]]
*[[Animus]]
*[[Aquabat]]
*[[Aquafend]]
*[[Aquastar]]
*[[Atomizer]]
*[[Blades (G1)|Blades]]
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
*[[Bob (IDW)|Bob]]
*[[Borer]]
*[[Boss (G1)|Boss]]
*[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]
*[[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]
*[[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]
*[[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]]
*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]]
*[[Deftwing]]
*[[Dipstick]]
*[[Doubletap]]
*[[Drift (G1)|Drift]]
*[[Fizzle]]
*[[Flex]]
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]]
*[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]]
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]]
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]]
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]
*[[Hyperion (G1)|Hyperion]]
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]
*[[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]]
*[[Lancet]]
*[[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]]
*[[Lockstock]]
*[[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]]
*[[Ore]]
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
*[[Pincher (G1)|Pincher]]
*[[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]]
*[[Pointblank (G1)|Pointblank]]
*[[Polaris]]
*[[Powerflash]]
*[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]]
*[[Rad (G1)|Rad]]
*[[Railspike (G1)|Railspike]]<ref>Letters page of [[Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|''More than Meets the Eye'' #19]].</ref>
*[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]]
*[[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] (''director of security'')
*[[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]]
*[[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] (Co-Captain, former Captain)
*[[Rollout (G1)|Rollout]]
*[[Rung (G1)|Rung]]
*[[Shock (G1)|Shock]]
*[[Siren (G1)|Siren]]
*[[Skater]]
*[[Slapdash (G1)|Slapdash]]
*[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
*[[Spoke]]
*[[Sprocket (G1)|Sprocket]]
*[[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]]
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]]
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]]
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]
*[[Toaster]]<ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=309015#309015 The James Roberts Q&A, IDW forums]</ref>
*[[Toxin]]
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker/Trailcutter]] (''director of security'')
*[[Tripodeca]]
*[[Turbine]]
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] ''(second-in-command)''
*[[Waverider]]
*[[Xaaron]]
}}

===Additions after launch===
Joining the crew after their journey was underway:
{{collist|3|
*[[Ambulon (G1)|Ambulon]]
*[[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]]
*[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]] ''(presumably)''
*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
*[[Getaway]]
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]
}}
===Additions after return to Cybertron===
Joining the crew after [[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|their return to Cybertron]] or after their subsequent second departure:
{{collist|3|
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]]
*[[Doublecross]]
*[[Groove (G1)|Groove]]
*[[Grotusque]]
*[[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]]
*[[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]<ref>[https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/461576635947708417 All of the Protectobots were confirmed to be on the Lost Light by James Roberts via his Twitter account]</ref>
*[[Joyride (G1)|Joyride]]
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (Co-Captain)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]
*[[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]]
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]
*[[Repugnus (G1)|Repugnus]]
*[[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]]
*[[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]]
*[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]]
*[[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]]
*[[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]]
}}

==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
The ''Lost Light'' was exploring a distant planet when it came under attack by mysterious forces. [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] went to investigate and faced off against the [[Ammonite]]s along with a group of Decepticons from another starship. {{storylink|Into the Abyss}}

==Notes==
*According to Roberts in an online interview, [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] intended to join the crew of the ''Lost Light'' but was talked out of it at the last minute by "someone with a vested interest".<ref>http://www.craveonline.com/comics/interviews/182693-james-roberts-and-the-transformers-renaissance</ref>
*At least one member of the ''Lost Light'' crew was the result of artist error. In [[The Gloaming|issue #16]], a misdrawn Chromedome was transformed into the unofficial [[Unofficial conventions|TFCon]] fan-character "[[Toxin]]" by colorist [[Josh Burcham]] via an edit to the character's lineart and colors. Additionally, a scripted appearance for Generation 1 Landmine in ''[[The Reluctant Specialist|Spotlight: Trailcutter]]'' was drawn instead as [[Landmine (Energon)|''Energon'' Landmine]], although this wiki currently treats this as an appearance for the G1 character.
* A panel in [[Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|issue #2]] of ''More Than Meets the Eye'' makes clear that the bridge is located at the front tip of the ship, in the huge band of windows. An observation deck is located there as well.
* Speaking of huge, the 10x15 mile dimensions of the ship given in "Into the Abyss" don't jibe with almost any of the artwork. While the ship is clearly ''big'', the given size would make characters invisible alongside it, but they are commonly visible next to it throughout the ''Dark Cybertron'' event. When set down on a planetary surface, the ship's upper reaches, presumably 5 or more miles up, should fade off into the stratosphere. Its huge size certainly would not lend itself to the shuttle-like tasks that it undertakes in ''Dark Cybertron'', either.

==References==
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[[Category:Autobot starships]]
[[Category:IDW Generation 1 starships]]