Quintesson Cruiser
- The Quintesson Cruiser is a starship class from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Quintesson Cruiser is the quintessential Quintesson spacecraft, and it is often simply referred to as "the" Quintesson Ship.
The Quintesson Cruiser spins on its axis as it moves through space. Though its unique design means it's best served by a planetary starbase with a cradle capable of receiving it, the Quintesson Cruiser is capable of burrowing tail first into the ground and balancing with the aid of a landing stabilizers.
The most physically massive of the Quintesson spacecraft, the Quintesson Cruiser dwarfs the Autobot Sky Lynx, and has a docking bay large enough to accommodate a Quintesson Warship.
The Quintesson Cruiser is equipped with energy cannon, a sophisticated broadcasting array and a camouflage unit that can engulf the ship in an innocent-looking cosmic dust cloud.
Careful though, or you'll put someone's eye out.
Fiction
The Transformers cartoon
The Transformers: The Movie The Big Broadcast of 2006 The Quintesson Journal The Face of the Nijika
IDW Generation 1 continuity
A familiar corkscrew-shaped starship was used by Wheelie to escape LV-117's destruction. Syndromica (2) After crashing the vessel on LV-118, he made it his home and had some of its parts stolen by the "Admiral". When asked how he ended up on the planet, Wheelie claimed to have stolen the ship. Out of the Silent Planet
A ship of this class was detected approaching Earth by Metrotitan. Optimus Prime's forces went to its protected landing site at the peak of the Matterhorn where the ship landed by burrowing into the Earth, tearing the land asunder. To Walk Among the Chosen This ship, however, was piloted by the nomadic Junkions, who were searching for materials to repair their destroyed home planet. A Lonely Pillar on the Plain When Cosmos, Rumble, and Frenzy covertly investigated the gigantic craft, they found it inhabited by Sharkticons. Behind My Bleeding Back
Notes
- The Quintesson Cruiser is named in Transformers: The Ark in 2007. It is not clear if the term dates from 1986, but circumstances suggest not.
- The Quintesson Cruiser was used as the design for the Autobot ship used by Wheelie's family (which crashed on Quintessa) in "The Story of Wheelie, the Wild Boy of Quintesson".
Foreign names
- Japanese: Quintessa ship (クインテッサ・シップ Kuintessa shippu)
