Xantium (DOTM)

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The Xantium is an Autobot starship from the Dark of the Moon portion of the live-action continuity family.

Also, for some reason it has a space shuttle stuck to the side of it.

The spaceship Xantium is old and battered, but still space-worthy enough to transport the Autobots around. It was pieced together by the Wreckers, so likely its passengers take their lives in their hands every time they travel in it. It has a known weakness to being shot with missiles.

Fiction

IDW Transformers comics

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Dark of the Moon film

Its next mission: determine who rode the wrecking ball into its guitars.

The Autobot spacecraft Xantium transported the second wave of Autobot refugees to Earth, and thereafter was based at the Kennedy Space Center so that the United States government could study and maintain military control over it. A trio of Autobots, dubbed the Wreckers, were responsible for maintaining the craft while it was grounded.

When the Autobots learned the true nature of the Apollo moon landing missions, the Xantium was used to transport Optimus Prime and Ratchet to the crash site of the long-lost Ark on Earth's moon, and successfully retrieved Sentinel Prime and his space bridge pillars.

Later, Sentinel Prime revealed he had made a deal with Megatron long ago, and coerced the human governments to exile the Autobots from Earth. The Xantium successfully lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center, but true to the treacherous nature of the Decepticons, Starscream destroyed the craft, and seemingly, its occupants, during the ascent. Fortunately for humanity, the Autobots had hid themselves inside the booster rockets, which were jettisoned and landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean. Dark of the Moon

Dark of the Moon novel adaptation

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Dark of the Moon

Ask Vector Prime

In Tyran 609.23-PX Kappa, Optimus Prime, pushed into a desperate corner by a Decepticon offensive, traveled aboard the Xantium to the Moon in hopes of reviving Sentinel Prime. Unfortunately, it was trap deliberately set by the Decepticons, and Megatron, with Sentinel's aid, captured Optimus. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/22

Notes

• The designation, Xantium, comes from the Generation 1 spaceship Xantium, which was also associated with the Wreckers.
• The Xantium's depiction in the Dark of the Moon film is built around the distinctive orange Fuel Tank and white SRB boosters of the Space Shuttle launch stack, and later seen mated to the Discovery itself on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. However, its description in the novelization is that of a "Two-stage Saturn V rocket", an odd description as the Saturn V was a three-stage rocket, while the preceding Saturn IB was two-stage.
• Whenever it is mentioned in the film, it is referred to as the "Xanthium", with an audible "th" sound. Associated media refers to it with its original spelling and pronunciation.