Eight Track (G1)
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- The Eight Track is a starship from theWings Universeportion of theGeneration 1 continuity family.
TheEight Trackis anAutobot Guardtransport ship under commanding officerThunderclashduring the early stages of theDecepticoninsurgency. It is presently assigned to recon duty, much to the dismay of excitable young crew-memberKup.
Its crew includes:
- Thunderclash(commander)
- Flak
- Landshark(pilot)
- Kup(communications)
Fiction
Wings Universe
The crew of theEight Trackhad just finished up a lengthy deep-space scan for Decepticon activity, whenAutobot High Commandordered them to investigate the recent crash-landing of theVan De GraaffonBeta-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 byMetalhawk.Landshark blamed it on Kup'sshrikebatchewing on some cables.The Coming Storm: Part 2
