Ark-1 Memorial Grounds

The Ark-1 Memorial Grounds is a site on Cybertron dedicated to the lost crew of the Ark-1. It is dominated by a monument to the ship with a memorial plaque naming its crew members.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

After his speech at the Grand Imperium, security officer Orion Pax was arrested by Sentinel Prime in the years prior to the Great War. However, he was freed by a member of the Cybertronian Senate who asked to meet with him at the Memorial Grounds. Once there, the Senator confessed that the assassination of Nominus Prime was the work of a faction within the Senate who sought to tap into the power of the Creation Matrix. He warned Pax that a war was coming and that battle lines were being drawn whereupon he urged him to return to his life as a cop. Chaos Theory Part 2 Orion Pax later took Ratchet with him for another secret rendezvous with the Senator at the Memorial Grounds. Post Hoc

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Foreign names

• Japanese: Ark Kinen Kōen (アーク記念公園 Āku Kinen Kōen, "Ark Commemoration Park")