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The Time-Ship is is one of a number of vehicles which Kang the Conqueror uses to travel through time The vessel is a 20-foot long, non-aerodynamic, space-worthy vehicle that is mostly a housing for the large energy-generating devices that power the time machine. The time machine itself is a device whose major timestream-bridging components are the size of a two-drawer file cabinet. It utilizes an as yet unanalyzed energy to generate a chronal-displacement inertial field within a certain volume,enabling a being or object to break through the "reality walls" of the timestream into the trans-temporal realm of Limbo, from which all time eras and alternate worlds are accessible.[1]
Kang's machine has the capacity to send him through time unencumbered by time-travel equipment save for a temporal beacon. It can also remotely snatch people or objects from other times and places. The entire time machine can also move itself, and Kang's space-worthy time-ship, through time with its pre-programmed control units aboard. The advantages of taking the apparatus with him are that he has immediate access to the machine, and he can safeguard against its unauthorized use.[1]
It has view screens permitting Kang to peer into other times and places by the dispatching of flying, micro-video cameras able to broadcast through time. He also has a wrist-sized viewscreen monitor that can be tuned to the master video screen.[1]Capabilities
- Remote Control
- Shapeshifting
- Size Alteration Limit - No smaller than house-sized
- Space Flight
- Time Travel
Notes
- Over the years, Kang has been seen to use a number of time travel vehicles, but none of them have ever been named. Instead, Kang usually refers to them as only his time machine or his t8ime-sphere or his time-ship.
- This article's main image is of the time ship that Kang used when he first attacked the twentieth century and fought the Avengers in Avengers #8. However, that story explicitly stated that it was a new time ship, specially built for that attempted conquest, and not the time machine from Fantastic Four #19 which had transported him to the forty-first century.
- The entry on Kang's Time-Ship that was presented in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #6 revealed all the information about how the vehicle operates that appear in this article. However, the image in that entry was of the roughly-spherical time-sphere that Kang's often used after his initial attempt to conquer twentieth century Earth failed. Presumably all of Kang's time travel vehicles have similar capabilities.
See Also
- 42 appearance(s) of Time-Ship
- 2 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Time-Ship
- 5 minor appearance(s) of Time-Ship
- 2 mention(s) of Time-Ship
- 5 image(s) of Time-Ship
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #6 ;Kang's Time-Ship profile