Ark-32

The name or term "Ark" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Ark (disambiguation).

Ark-32 is an <A TITLE="Autobot" HREF="/wiki/Autobot">Autobot</a> starship in the <A TITLE="IDW continuity" HREF="/wiki/IDW_continuity">IDW portion</a> of the <A TITLE="Generation 1" CLASS="mw-redirect" HREF="/wiki/Generation_1">Generation 1</a> continuity family.

<DIV CLASS="thumb tright"><DIV STYLE="width:202px;" CLASS="thumbinner"><A TITLE="Devastation6 pinup Ark-32.jpg" CLASS="image" HREF="/wiki/Image:Devastation6_pinup_Ark-32.jpg"><IMG CLASS="thumbimage" BORDER="0" HEIGHT="160" WIDTH="200" SRC="/w2/images2/thumb/a/a7/Devastation6_pinup_Ark-32.jpg/200px-Devastation6_pinup_Ark-32.jpg" ALT=""></a> <DIV CLASS="thumbcaption"><DIV CLASS="magnify"><A TITLE="Enlarge" CLASS="internal" HREF="/wiki/Image:Devastation6_pinup_Ark-32.jpg"><IMG ALT="" HEIGHT="11" WIDTH="15" SRC="/w2/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png"></a></div></div></div></div> The Ark-32 is one of a fleet of numbered Autobot ships designated Ark. They are presumably named after the first legendary lost <A TITLE="Ark (G1)" HREF="/wiki/Ark_%28G1%29#IDW_comics_continuity">Ark</a>. It is identical in outward appearance to <A TITLE="Ark-27" HREF="/wiki/Ark-27">Ark-27</a>.

<A NAME="Fiction"></a><H2><SPAN CLASS="editsection">[<A TITLE="Edit section: Fiction" HREF="/w2/index.php?title=Ark-32&action=edit&section=1">edit</a>]</span> <SPAN CLASS="mw-headline">Fiction</span></h2> <A NAME="IDW_comics_continuity"></a><H3><SPAN CLASS="editsection">[<A TITLE="Edit section: IDW comics continuity" HREF="/w2/index.php?title=Ark-32&action=edit&section=2">edit</a>]</span> <SPAN CLASS="mw-headline">IDW comics continuity</span></h3> On <A TITLE="Optimus Prime (G1)" HREF="/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28G1%29">Optimus Prime</a>'s orders, <A TITLE="Nightbeat (G1)" HREF="/wiki/Nightbeat_%28G1%29">Nightbeat</a> rendezvoused with Ark-32 as it traveled to <A TITLE="Earth" HREF="/wiki/Earth">Earth</a>. <SPAN CLASS="tt1_nowrap" STYLE="font-size:10px;background-color:#ececec;border-width: 0 1px 0 1px;border-style:solid;padding: 0 5px 0 5px;border-color:#cccccc;"><A TITLE="Spotlight: Nightbeat" HREF="/wiki/Spotlight:_Nightbeat">Spotlight: Nightbeat</a></span> The ship delivered him, <A TITLE="Hot Rod" HREF="/wiki/Hot_Rod">Hot Rod</a> and <A TITLE="Hardhead (G1)" HREF="/wiki/Hardhead_%28G1%29">Hardhead</a> to Earth. <SPAN CLASS="tt1_nowrap" STYLE="font-size:10px;background-color:#ececec;border-width: 0 1px 0 1px;border-style:solid;padding: 0 5px 0 5px;border-color:#cccccc;"><A TITLE="Escalation issue 3" HREF="/wiki/Escalation_issue_3">Escalation issue 3</a></span>

Optimus Prime later took Ark-32 to visit <A TITLE="Omega Supreme (G1)" HREF="/wiki/Omega_Supreme_%28G1%29">Omega Supreme</a> in his deep-space asteroid home. <SPAN CLASS="tt1_nowrap" STYLE="font-size:10px;background-color:#ececec;border-width: 0 1px 0 1px;border-style:solid;padding: 0 5px 0 5px;border-color:#cccccc;"><A TITLE="Spotlight: Optimus Prime" HREF="/wiki/Spotlight:_Optimus_Prime">Spotlight: Optimus Prime</a></span>

The ship was returned to Earth after Prime and Omega's altercation with <A TITLE="Monstructor" HREF="/wiki/Monstructor">Monstructor</a>. When <A TITLE="Ark-19" HREF="/wiki/Ark-19">Ark-19</a> was shot down in transit by <A TITLE="Sixshot" HREF="/wiki/Sixshot">Sixshot</a>, Prime ordered all its data zipped and transmitted to Ark-32. <SPAN CLASS="tt1_nowrap" STYLE="font-size:10px;background-color:#ececec;border-width: 0 1px 0 1px;border-style:solid;padding: 0 5px 0 5px;border-color:#cccccc;"><A TITLE="Devastation issue 2" HREF="/wiki/Devastation_issue_2">Devastation issue 2</a></span>. When <A TITLE="Verity Carlo" HREF="/wiki/Verity_Carlo">Verity</a> and <A TITLE="Jimmy Pink" HREF="/wiki/Jimmy_Pink">Jimmy</a> alerted the Autobots to an impending air strike by the <A TITLE="United States Military" HREF="/wiki/United_States_Military">US Air Force</a> during their ground battle with Sixshot, the Autobots orbital bounced themselves and their <A TITLE="Human" HREF="/wiki/Human">human</a> friends to the Ark-32. Unfortunately, the bounce proved too traumatic for Verity and Jimmy. <SPAN CLASS="tt1_nowrap" STYLE="font-size:10px;background-color:#ececec;border-width: 0 1px 0 1px;border-style:solid;padding: 0 5px 0 5px;border-color:#cccccc;"><A TITLE="Devastation issue 4" HREF="/wiki/Devastation_issue_4">Devastation issue 4</a></span>. Ratchet managed to restart their hearts in the ship's infirmary, but everybody totally forgot about them after that. <SPAN CLASS="tt1_nowrap" STYLE="font-size:10px;background-color:#ececec;border-width: 0 1px 0 1px;border-style:solid;padding: 0 5px 0 5px;border-color:#cccccc;"><A TITLE="Devastation issue 5" HREF="/wiki/Devastation_issue_5">Devastation issue 5</a></span>. After the attack on <A TITLE="Garrus-9" HREF="/wiki/Garrus-9">Garrus-9</a>, the Ark-32 left Earth, leaving Hot Rod, <A TITLE="Sunstreaker" HREF="/wiki/Sunstreaker">Sunstreaker</a> and humanity to the fate of the Decepticons. <SPAN CLASS="tt1_nowrap" STYLE="font-size:10px;background-color:#ececec;border-width: 0 1px 0 1px;border-style:solid;padding: 0 5px 0 5px;border-color:#cccccc;"><A TITLE="Devastation issue 6" HREF="/wiki/Devastation_issue_6">Devastation issue 6</a></span>

In orbit around Garrus-9, Nightbeat poked around his scout ship in Ark-32's hanger and discovered the recordings he had made while he explored <A TITLE="Gorlam Prime" HREF="/wiki/Gorlam_Prime">Gorlam Prime</a> three years earlier, except he could not remember ever going there. He asked <A TITLE="Hardhead (G1)" HREF="/wiki/Hardhead_%28G1%29">Hardhead</a> to help him. <SPAN CLASS="tt1_nowrap" STYLE="font-size:10px;background-color:#ececec;border-width: 0 1px 0 1px;border-style:solid;padding: 0 5px 0 5px;border-color:#cccccc;"><A TITLE="Spotlight: Cyclonus" HREF="/wiki/Spotlight:_Cyclonus">Spotlight: Cyclonus</a></span>

<A NAME="Trivia"></a><H2><SPAN CLASS="editsection">[<A TITLE="Edit section: Trivia" HREF="/w2/index.php?title=Ark-32&action=edit&section=3">edit</a>]</span> <SPAN CLASS="mw-headline">Trivia</span></h2> <DIV CLASS="thumb tright"><DIV STYLE="width:182px;" CLASS="thumbinner"><A TITLE="IDW loved this view of the ship so much they reused it six more times across six different issues." CLASS="image" HREF="/wiki/Image:Escalation6_Ark-32.jpg"><IMG CLASS="thumbimage" BORDER="0" HEIGHT="124" WIDTH="180" SRC="/w2/images2/thumb/2/2a/Escalation6_Ark-32.jpg/180px-Escalation6_Ark-32.jpg" ALT="IDW loved this view of the ship so much they reused it six more times across six different issues."></a> <DIV CLASS="thumbcaption"><DIV CLASS="magnify"><A TITLE="Enlarge" CLASS="internal" HREF="/wiki/Image:Escalation6_Ark-32.jpg"><IMG ALT="" HEIGHT="11" WIDTH="15" SRC="/w2/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png"></a></div>IDW loved this view of the ship so much they reused it six more times across six different issues.</div></div></div>

• For some reason, the Ark-32 is very rarely depicted from the bow of the ship, with most of <A TITLE="IDW Publishing" HREF="/wiki/IDW_Publishing">IDW's</a> artists drawing the ship facing the reader sternward.