Who Is Ship? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Ship is a Marvel comic book character, with over 416 comic issue appearances. "Ship" was a sentient monolith left behind by the Celestials to monitor the progress of the life on Earth. It was later taken over by Apocalypse and liberated by X-Factor who used it as their headquarters.

Who is Ship?

Origin The Celestials created Ship with the idea of collecting information and specimens who they could later tamper with. In one of it's missions it ended up in Earth and didn’t leave. The immortal mutant Saul found it but was unable to operate or enter it. As time passed another mutant found his way to Ship, this one being Apocalypse who tried to kill Saul but was unable to, because he was a fellow external, a member of a class of pseudo-immortal mutants. As Apocalypse enters Ship he made it his personal vessel, as it had perfect cloaking devices, and using his great knowledge of Celestial mechanics, he reprograms Ship to serve him. Creation Ship was created by Walter and Louise Simonson and first appeared in X-Factor 15 (1987). Character Evolution Ship was first introduced as a sentient spaceship co-opted by Apocalypse. He was then turned by X-Factor and acted as their base/vessel.

Key facts

Ship is of robot origin and first appeared in "Whose Death Is This Anyway?". The character is published by Marvel. With 416 recorded issue appearances, Ship ranks among the most featured characters in comics.