Mecannibals' ship

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The Mecannibals' ship is a starship from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Intergalactic trade proceeds much easier if the merchants remain mobile. For that reason, the Mecannibals have a ship, which might double as their home. The Mecannibals' ship is both fast and sturdy, and equipped with magnets and other such devices to hunt for robots, which the Mecannibals eat and regurgitate as loose parts. Most of those parts are sold, but a portion is used to repair and improve the ship. Inside is a large weblike structure, also made of disassembled robots, that makes up most of the ship's floor.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Upon hearing that the Mecannibals had captured a fellow Autobot named Sky Lynx, Landmine insisted that he and Cloudburst enter the lion's den to rescue him. Cloudburst was against the plan, as the Mecannibals were supposed to provide them with the microchips needed to repair many more Autobots, but went along. Aboard the Mecannibals' ship, they witnessed a Chromite being eaten alive and found Sky Lynx to be up next. Landmine had his inner robot free Sky Lynx and distract the Mecannibals by shooting a canister of concentrated energon cubes, so that the inner robot could hide back in the Pretender shell unseen. The ruse worked; Feigning to be innocent bystanders, the two Autobot Pretenders paid for their 500 million microchips and left.

At most an hour later, the Mecannibals learnt their customers had been robots all along and were likely responsible for the escape of their main course. They had them captured and brought back to their ship, Guess Who the Mecannibals Are Having for Dinner? where they explained they were going to eat the Pretenders instead. Cloudburst responded with a deal of his own: If the Mecannibals would let them go (and keep fellow prisoner Berko as hostage), they'd get them lead sulfide crystals from planet Femax so that they'd have the ingredients to turn forgettable snacks in a worthy meal. The Mecannibals accepted.

The Autobot Pretenders returned with the crystals, but changed the terms of the deal. If the Mecannibals would rebuild all the robots they had recycled and let them go, they could keep the energon cubes and the crystals ánd their robot-spotters would remain unharmed. The Mecannibals accepted the new deal, sacrificing parts of their ship in the process. Recipe for Disaster! Those parts were inessential, however, as the ship still was capable of a journey all the way to Cybertron. All the Familiar Faces!