Ark (WFC)
| 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 Transformers: Prime continuity family.
The Ark, aka Project Generation One, was the city-sized ship that the Autobots left Cybertron on.
Fiction
Exodus novel
When Optimus Prime removed the Plasma Energy Chamber poisoning Cybertron's core with Dark Energon, it informed him that while healing, the planet could not sustain a fraction of the life it currently did, and the Autobots needed to leave. Optimus announced Project Generation One to his comrades, many of whom doomed the notion suicidal as the Cybertronians had not left the planet since the Golden Age. Regardless, Jazz said he would rather die on a starship than on a planet, and declared "Let's build this Ark."
Alpha Trion oversaw the Ark's construction in the Well of All Sparks, installing Teletraan-1 inside, while Optimus drew out and crashed Trypticon aboard the Eight Track. When they returned the Ark was completed and they boarded the ship. Alpha Trion refused a place, aware Vector Sigma would keep him alive, while Omega Supreme, Jetfire, Ultra Magnus, Springer and the Wreckers sacrificed a chance to leave, giving time for the Ark to launch by keeping Trypticon at bay.
However, Trypticon transformed into the Nemesis and pursued the Ark into the last space bridge, but when it emerged, the Decepticons were nowhere to be found. The Ark was outside an unknown spiral galaxy where the AllSpark was detected. Bumblebee asked Optimus if they knew the way home: he replied the Matrix of Leadership would guide them back one day. Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron
Games
Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)
After defeating Trypticon, Optimus gathered Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide, Jetfire, Air Raid and Silverbolt around him, telling them he had commissioned a new ship, the Ark, to take them off Cybertron when it was time for them to leave. Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)
Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)
Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)
