Axalon (BW)
The Axalon was a Maximal exploration vessel. When Megatron's band of Predacon criminals stole the Golden Disk and their ship the Darkside, it was the only ship close enough with the Transwarp engines needed to pursue him.
Her crew at the start of the Beast Wars appears to have been newly assembled and the captain, Optimus Primal, was new to command. However, the Axalon itself had already been in service for at least a while. The Beast Machines-era Dinobot Airraptor once served aboard her before the Beast Wars as interplanetary surveyor and navigator.
After crashing on prehistoric Earth the Axalon became the Maximal's base of operations. Later, it was further destroyed by Megatron's forces, after which its remains were salvaged as best as possible to help fortify the Ark against Predacon attack.
It would appear the Maximals left the remains of the Axalon behind when they returned to Cybertron. In both Primeval Dawn and in Dreamwave's comic book series, we see abandoned segments of the Maximal encampment.
