Eight Track (G1)
- The Eight Track is a Cybertronian starship from the Wings of Honor portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Eight Track is an Autobot Guard transport ship under commanding officer Thunderclash during the early stages of the Decepticon insurgency. It is presently assigned to recon duty, much to the dismay of excitable young crew-member Kup.
Fiction
Wings of Honor continuity
Crew
- Thunderclash - Commander
- Flak
- Landshark - Pilot
- Kup - Communications
Wings of Honor
The crew of the Eight Track had just finished up a lengthy deep-space scan for Decepticon activity, when Autobot High Command ordered them to investigate the recent crash-landing of the Van De Graaff on Beta-Nine. Right as they reached the planet and were preparing to descend, the ship was shot out of space by a Decepticon battleship. Landshark managed to crash-land without the crew suffering any casualties, but the ship itself ended up as a scrapmetal wreck in the middle of an alien lake. Wings of Honor
The ship apparently was retrieved and fixed at some point, as Landshark managed to wreck it yet again later on, leaving them needing to be ferried around by Metalhawk. Landshark blamed it on Kup's shreik bat chewing on some cables. The Coming Storm: Part 2
Prime continuity
Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron
Optimus Prime ordered the gathering of any flight-worthy ships during the construction of the Ark and the ensuing preparations for evacuation. The purpose of this rag-tag fleet was to provide a diversion to draw the Decepticons away from the Ark's launch. To this end, the Eight Track was the only manned ship in the flotilla, piloted by Jetfire and crewed by Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Prowl and Jazz.
When Trypticon Station proved more than a match for the entire fleet, Optimus Prime sent the unmanned ships back planetside, while the Eight Track searched for a hole in the station's defenses. Finding one, the team was able to knock the monstrous and now sentient space station from orbit, but nearly plummeted to its doom with Trypticon due to the inability to retract the ship's ingress tube. Jetfire was ultimately able to pull away from the rapidly descending hulk, but his timing was a bit too close for his crewmates' tastes. Exodus
