Vis Vitalis

The Vis Vitalis is a starship from the 2005 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Vis Vitalis is more than just a simple starship. After he was mortally wounded during the Great War, the legendary Autobot hero Thunderclash had his life-support system modified into a spaceship that was capable of sustaining his life wirelessly as long as he was within a certain range, enabling him to continue his brave deeds and derring-do.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

After "rescuing orphans from an exploding sun", the engines of the Vis Vitalis were damaged and so Thunderclash sought out the Lost Light in order to get a jump-start from its quantum engines. While on board the Lost Light, Thunderclash's first officer Paddox revealed himself to be a collection of Ammonites undercover and attempted to steal the Lost Light, leaving the Vis Vitalis (and Thunderclash) unable to function. Thankfully, they were disarmed by Swerve and Rung and after receiving the power boost to its engines, the Vis Vitalis continued on its way. Later, following a failed attempt at recruitment by the Lost Light's crew, several members of the Circle of Light left Luna 1 to seek out Thunderclash and the Vis Vitalis. Little Victories

Some time later on a mission to aid Metroplex its crew would travel to the lost colony Caminus where they took a compliment of Camiens on-board, including the Cityspeaker Windblade, her bodyguard Chromia, and the engineer Nautica, who would then serve under Thunderclash for a while. After encountering Alpha Trion and learning of the Titan's desperate condition, the trio left the Vis Vitalis in a smaller, faster craft to reach Metroplex in time. Burning Bright Later, another Camien group joined up and Velocity became the new chief medic.

After Thunderclash was repaired (and after a personality tick infestation was stopped by the visiting Lost Light crew), he left to join the Lost Light and Firestar took the Vitalis to go home to Caminus. The Frail Gaze

The ship was later part of the Cybertronian fleet assembled by Optimus Prime to defend Caminus from Unicron and his Maximals. Last Stand

Known crew

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• Acceleron
• Chromia
• Exocet
• Firestar (first officer after Paddox)
• Javelin
• Nautica
• Paddox (first officer, revealed to be an Ammonite spy)
• Photon
• Proxima
• Roadmaster
• Skimmer
• Skystriker
• Thunderclash (leader)
• Velocity
• Windblade

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Notes

• "Vis Vitalis" is a concept aligned to [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Vitalism|{{#if:||Vitalism}}]] and translates from Latin as "life force".