Team Rodimus's Ship

Team Rodimus's Ship is a vehicle/main location in Transformers Loud. It is a moderately-sized ship that was originally used by the Destron Empire as a short-term . When the Autobot Resistance fled Cybertron, one of these ships was seized by Team Rodimus - who eventually gave it a paint job based off of their team leader - as a means to get themselves off-planet and find themselves a new place to hide. After they (accidentally) crash-landed on the planet Earth just outside the city of Royal Woods, leaving it damaged beyond repair, the ship became their perminent headquarters/home on the planet.

## Locations

### Entrance

To allow easier entrance into the Ark aside from a hole that the Destrons could just waltz in through, the Autobots created a entrance way with a thick door to take a good number of explosive fire and automatically opens when an Autobot vehicle nears it. Later on, the hallway entrance is lined up motion sensors to detect unidentified personnel and several surveillance cameras lined all along the ceiling.

### Main Bridge

The place where all the action happens. This is the main location of Teletraan X and several other smaller computers such as scanners, radar and what-not.

### Quarters

The ship holds dozens of rooms that Team Rodimus uses to rest and recharge after a long day, complete with Energon recharge ports to refuel them while taking their Stasis naps.

### Training Room

The ship has a large gym-like room that Team Rodimus uses to train in, either in practice hand-to-hand combat, boards for targeting practice, and even Cybertronian-sized exercise equipment such as treadmills and exercise bicycles (to keep the joints & gears loose and , of course).

### Rec Room

Originally just an empty extra room (most likely a cargo hold of some sort), Team Rodimus and the Loud siblings decided to fill the room with all sorts of "fun Human junk", like several arcade cabinet games, a bookshelf full of comic books, magazines, old books, etc., and even a pool table.

### Ground Bridge

Inside the lower decks of the ship is a Ground Bridge, a scaled-down version of space bridge technology that allows transport from the ship to coordinates on a single planet, or even (with great difficulty) into the planet's orbit. Considerably easier to maintain and less costly in energon to operate, it's Team Rodimus's primary means of getting around the planet quick to deal with Destron threats.

## Equipment

### Engines

The Ark features 4 Hyperfuel Intake Accelerators for engines. Unfortunately, two of the engines were blown out upon its descent to Earth, and the others' systems were heavily damaged in the crash.

### Auto-Guns

The ship has six Auto-Defense guns - two on each side of the center of the ship and two more near the front of the ship - set up to defend itself.

### Teletraan X

Teletraan-X is the semi-sentient computer that runs the ship. It has extensive communications abilities and can monitor Earth's television and radio broadcasts to search for news that may be of interest to the Autobots or to watch their favorite shows.

When Team Rodimus "set up shop" on Earth, they set up several pieces of scaffolding were set up around Teletraan to allow the Loud siblings to interact with its systems.

#### Sky Spy

The Sky Spy is a standard piece of component used in many Cybertronian expedition ships. It is a satellite-based technology designed to observe locations from a planet's orbit or for collection of information, such as the vehicle scans used to reformat Cybertronians whenever they arrival on a foreign planet. Wheeljack would go on to build several duplicates of this to help the team see a lot more of Earth.

### Hover Platforms

Developed by Wheeljack & Lisa, the ship houses hover platforms are used by the Loud Siblings to get around much of the base and reach high areas. Able to levitate using a set of three adjustable thrusters on the bottom, there are ten platforms in total for all ten siblings, and a hand pump is set up on its right side that controls the power and directions of the thrusters.

### CR Chambers

The Cryogenic Regeneration Chambers - or just, the CR Chambers - are devices primarily used for medical treatment. To use, a Transformer is placed in a form of suspension that frees their body's systems from performing maintenance functions and focus on repairs; then, advanced nanobots direct and supercharge the Cybertronian's natural healing process, allowing their living metal to regenerate a hundred times faster than it would naturally. They also often possess manipulator limbs, presumably for manually putting badly damaged bots back together. Their ability to repair a Cybertronian from almost any injury short of extinguishing their spark makes them a valuable resource during conflicts. However, they are unable to make long-term repairs on more advanced Cybertronian components, such as their T-Cog.

CR chambers are also used beyond simple repairs. In many instances when a Cybertronian is without a personal onboard scanner, the chamber is used to reformat them into their new alternate mode.

## Notes

This series uses the ship that Rodimus's team in Energon used in their first few appearances in that series to give this version of his unit a "base" similar to the Maximals' Axalon ship in Beast Wars. In general it takes a lot of influence from other Autobot ships and HQs all across the franchise, mainly as a way to allow the Loud kids to get around the base easier & help out the Bots a little more since it essentially becomes a new hangout spot for them, such as the inclusion of multiple pieces of scafulding like the Autobot Base in Prime, putting in various human-sized computers as were seen when the Maximals would interact with the Ark (that can be explained way as made for Mini-Cons to use) and moving about using hover platforms like the Predacons used to get around the Darksyde so they can get to higher places and just generally move around the place easier. There's also a lot taken from the Autobots' Base in Animated with the team fitting in a Transformer-sized couch and personalized barracks so as to make their ship seem more like a home than most 'Bot bases, to go along with how Team Rodimus are more of a gang of "turbo-revvin' young punks" than they are soldiers like most other Autobot teams.

* Though there is the inclusion of "tech" like the Ground Bridge from Team Prime's base is to better explain how the team are able to get around the globe with ease, instead of just... driving there like they did in the original G1 cartoon.

The ship's main computed being called Teletraan-X - named after the back-up Teletraan computer system from Cyberverse - rather than the more famous Teletraan 1 was simply another way to make this main cast a little more different than the usual Transformers cast.