Ark (Transformers)

The Ark
The Ark left cybertron with Optimus Prime and a contingent of Autobots 4 Million years ago in search of the fuel Energon. Shortly after launch, it was attacked by the Decepticons on the Nemesis. The Nemesis attached to the ark using tractor beams. The Decepticons, including their leader Megatron, boarded the ark and attacked. During the battle, the ark was damaged and crash landed on the third planet in the Sol system, into the side of a mountain in what one day would be called Oregon. All transformers on board were placed into stasis lock.

In the earth year 1984, the volcano erupted, causing a transformer to shift and the onboard computer Teletran One to be activated. Teletran one eventually revived all the stasis locked transformers.

The ark was severely damaged in the impact and battle. While it could fly again (Ref Episode 3, MTME), the autobots left it in the side of the mountain where it served as their base for the next two years, before being destroyed by Trypticon.

The Ark II
Name of the autobot ship in the Dreamwave comics storyline that would have carried the Transformers back to Cybertron.