Knight Ship

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Every interstellar bounty hunter worth their salt needs a cool spaceship to store their various captives and trophies, and Lockdown is no exception. He travels the galaxy in the "Knight Ship", a massive cruiser filled to the brim with all kinds of exotic weapons, alien captives, and nightmarish creatures employed by Lockdown to keep order aboard his vessel. As a result, even other Cybertronians are wary about trying to break in, and getting back out of his ship alive is an even harder feat to pull off.

Beware of his bone-grinders, brain-blinders, flesh-stealers, chromosomal inverters, catatonic slugs, black hole trapdoors, and, of course, radiation. Crosshairs, Age of Extinction

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The Knight Ship originally belonged to a group of mythical knights who travelled the galaxy in it. At some point, Lockdown gained possession of the ship, and modified it to serve as a flying prison for his various hunts. Among the ship's prisoners were a group of legendary Cybertronian warriors.

When Lockdown first arrived on Earth to return Optimus Prime to the Creators, he landed the Knight Ship in the Arctic and used it as his base of operations while he and Cemetery Wind took out the remaining Transformers on Earth. Harold Attinger temporarily came aboard the ship to discuss Optimus's recent escape from the bounty hunter, although Lockdown repeatedly stressed that he didn't care about Attinger's vendetta and only wanted the Autobot leader returned to him alive.

When Attinger and his unit found Optimus again, Lockdown piloted the Knight Ship over the highway where Optimus was battling the human-controlled Galvatron drone. Lockdown interrupted the fight and managed to tangle Prime—and Tessa Yeager, who had been accidentally caught in the crossfire—in a net of his own devising, then hauled him up into the ship's cargo belly. Optimus was locked upside down in a cage surrounded by various other aliens, while the car Tess had been trapped in was sent to the ship's waste disposal chamber.

His mission on Earth complete, Lockdown flew the Knight Ship over Chicago, causing panic in the streets, and rendezvoused with Cemetery Wind, who handed over the Seed as payment for his services. The bounty hunter activated the ship's dark matter drives and prepared to break Earth's atmosphere. What Lockdown didn't know was that the Autobots Hound, Drift, Bumblebee, and Crosshairs, along with their human allies Cade Yeager and Shane Dyson, had infiltrated the ship, intending to rescue their allies. Crosshairs sabotaged the ship's workings and forced it to fire mooring cables into nearby skyscrapers, causing a distraction and buying time. Alerted to the stowaways,Lockdown ordered his troops to find and kill them before the ship departed.

Tessa encountered a pack of Steeljaws, who chased her through the ship's corridors, while Cade and Shane stumbled across an armory that had once belonged to the knights. Cade salvaged a gun from the armory and used it to fight off a group of mercenaries attempting to apprehend him. The three humans, reunited, shimmied down the mooring cables and were eventually rescued by Bumblebee.

Hound, Drift, and Crosshairs eventually worked their way to the main prison complex, and after Hound had an unpleasant encounter with an alien, rescued Optimus Prime from his cell. Optimus told the Autobots that the section of the ship they were in could detach from the rest of the vessel; Hound took the helm, successfully detached the shuttle and sent it toward an abandoned train yard, where the Autobots and humans regrouped. Lockdown took off into space, unaware of what had transpired until the ship was clear of Earth. Furious, he ordered his crew to turn the ship around and head back to Earth, still intent on finishing his job.

Now in control of a space-worthy vessel, Prime informed the humans that although they would recover the Seed from a now-sapient Galvatron, they were done with protecting Earth and would leave the planet as soon as possible. The Autobots flew their ship to Hong Kong. They were intercepted along the way by Galvatron's new army, who shot them out of the sky and sent the shuttle careening toward the Wulong Valley. With no other course of action, Optimus released the legendary warriors from their prison cells and eventually convinced them to join their cause.

Lockdown and the rest of the Knight Ship returned midway into the fracas, utilizing a powerful magnetic weapon to suck up all metal in the area, including the Autobots. Optimus managed to destroy the electromagnet as the vessel passed over a factory. In the aftermath of Lockdown's defeat, it is not known what became of the Knight Ship though the Hong Kong Air Force were attacking it. Age of Extinction