Ark (Cyberverse)
| The name or term "Ark" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Ark (disambiguation). |
- The Ark is an Autobot starship from the Cyberverse continuity family.
The Ark is a massive Autobot starship built under Optimus Prime's orders so that the Autobots could travel far from Cybertron and search for the lost AllSpark before the Decepticons got to it. It has at least one shuttle that can be used to deploy small teams without landing the larger vessel.
Its crew includes:
Fiction
Cyberverse cartoon
When it was discovered the Megatron sought to use Vector Sigma to reprogram the AllSpark, Megatron Is My Hero the Autobots launched the sacred relic through a space bridge to parts unknown. Allspark
With the AllSpark gone however, Cybertron's condition began to decline prompting Optimus Prime to commission a Vanguard-class deep space interceptor to locate and retrieve the missing artifact. Matrix of Leadership The Ark's crew included some of Optimus's most trusted comrades such as Bumblebee and Grimlock, Fractured the former exchanging a heartfelt goodbye with his friend Windblade when the time for launch came. Memory
As the Ark sailed through space, its energon reserves ran increasingly low. Though the crew soon found ample energon on an icy moon, the moon turned out to be home to an insectoid race that had become dependent on the energon for life. Unwilling to endanger the future of an innocent race, Optimus ordered that the creatures be left alone and that, to save fuel, the Ark would be placed on auto-pilot while the crew went into stasis lock... a second before the ship's systems detected the AllSpark and changed course. The Journey
When the Ark arrived over Earth, during the reign of the dinosaurs, it suffered a hull breach. Teletraan-1 reactivated Grimlock to deal with the crisis only for the warrior to be blown out by the hull breach when he attempted to spare Bumblebee's stasis pod from such a fate. To preserve the Ark's data and assist any of the crew who would survive the crash, Teletraan-1 ejected Teletraan-X from the ship before impact. King of the Dinosaurs Out of control, the Ark crashed in what would one day become Mount St. Hilary. Awaken Sleeping Giants The crash caused irreparable damage to Teletraan-1, the AI eventually collapsing over the eons. Eruption
Unable to find any of the crew, Teletraan-X instead began looking for the ship itself. Matrix of Leadership Grimlock also made attempts to find the Ark, even recruiting the native dinosaurs to aid him, but was met with naught for his efforts before falling into stasis lock when the dinosaurs went extinct. King of the Dinosaurs Awaken Sleeping Giants
The Autobots remaining on Cybertron soon began to wonder what transpired of the lost ship. When the Decepticons theorized that the AllSpark was on Earth, Perceptor repaired a space bridge enough to send Windblade to the organic planet so she could investigate. When the cityspeaker arrived, she found Bumblebee, now suffering from amnesia and thus unable to tell her what had happened to the Ark. Memory
When the two friends realized that Maccadam had somehow been able to tell the future, they wondered whether his advice to find "the king of the dinosaurs" was a clue to the Ark's current whereabouts. Maccadam's
After Slipstream's leadership had proven ineffective, Shockwave remotely tied into the cortical psychic patch that the cityspeaker was using to untangle Bumblebee's memories and trapped in the scout in a fake memory that painted him and Optimus Prime as Decepticon spies who had sabotaged the Ark. Sabotage
After reuniting with Grimlock, Bumblebee and Windblade learned what had happened to the Ark but remained ignorant of where it was now. King of the Dinosaurs
By combining his data with Grimlock's own search attempts, Teletraan-X was able to extrapolate the Ark's location. Despite facing off against Slipstream and Shockwave's forces once again, the Autobot quartet managed to find the lost ship buried in Mount St. Hilary. Awaken Sleeping Giants
In the following battle, Shockwave attempted to use a magnetic disruptor to trigger Mount St. Hilary's eruption and destroy the Ark. Having downloaded himself into the ship's mainframe, Teletraan-X managed to raise the shields just in time while using the warship's arsenal to scare away the Decepticons. Almost immediately after the crew had been reactivated however, the Decepticon fleet arrived, with the Ark as their first target. Eruption
Toys
Cyberverse
- Optimus Prime (2019)
- Spark Armor: "Ark Power"
- Cyberverse Ark Power Optimus Prime comes with a large accessory that is modeled after the Ark, which also transforms into his battle armor with a molded blade for his left gauntlet.
Notes
- The Cyberverse version of the Ark visually hybridizes elements from the Generation 1 version and the Aligned version.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Ark (アーク Āku)
- French: Arche ("Ark")
- Portuguese: Arca ("Ark")
- Spanish: Arca ("Ark")
