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I didn't think it was possible -- not in the time we had.”

- Acting U.S. President, Carl Anheuser

The Arks, code-named the Cho Ming Operation, and Project Naaczaal (or NCZL) were a series of nine ships (however by the time of the 2012 Apocalypse only four were completely built and one of them was damaged due to massive earthquakes) created to help preserve as much of Earth's history, fine arts (secretly collected through a front organization called the "Heritage Organization" which First Daughter and art expert Laura Wilson was involved) humans (is estimated that each Ark could hold over 100,000), and animals from the catastrophic events that were about to occur.

When the apocalypse ended, the three remaining Arks arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, allowing the surviving passengers and crew can remake their lives.

Overview[]

They were built in the Cho Ming Valley, Tibet, near the newly-built mega-city in secret where thousands of locals were recruited (mostly by force) to build the Arks. Provincial accomplishes of cards of the 2012 Apocalypse from connecting. To gather additional funding, China and the G8 nations allowed the selling of seats on the Arks (given the number of people located in the waiting room of Ark 03, hundreds to one thousand seats were available for selling on each Ark). A lottery selected various individuals (including scientists, engineers, doctors, officials and healthy families) to board. Funding for the project is secured by selling auxiliary VIP tickets - which was €1,000,000,000 euros per person. Geneticists hired by china and the G8 nations chose people from all over the world to provide for the genetic diversity the human race would need to repopulate. Workers did not get passes for the Arks (as probably were seen as expendable or there wasn't enough space on the Arks), but later in the film, China and the G8 heads of state (and probably other 36 nations) voted to open the gates to allow the people they were planning to leave behind to enter the Arks after a motivational (if rather naive) speech by Adrian Helmsley. Multiple animals that were stowed on the Ark include elephants, giraffes, rhinos, tigers, lions, gorillas, bears, and other species of animals.

When the assembly facility (disguised as a dam) that holds the Arks appears in the climax of the film, it can be seen that there are nine docking stations for the Arks, implying that nine arks were planned to be built (possibly to house the leaders from the 46 nations financing the Cho Ming Operation). Unfortunately, the predictions by Adrian turned out to be wrong and the 2012 Apocalypse happened six months before expected (circa July/August) and by that time only three Arks were fully completed (Arks 04, 06, and 07) and it was estimated only 400,000 of the 900,000 selected humans could be saved (however is unknown if they manage to squeeze even more people through hot bunking). However, an earthquake caused by the Earth Crust Displacement on Cho Ming made the roof above Ark 03 collapse and damage the vessel (is possible the damage could have been repaired but the approaching of another wave shortened the remaining time from 2 hours to 29 minutes), forcing the transferring of the crew, passengers (except the VIPs) and cultural heritage aboard Ark 03 to the other three remaining Arks (when Captain Michaels, Adrian, Laura, and Anheuser were boarding the American Ark, despite being the American ship).

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Known Arks[]

  • Ark 01: Unknown. Construction was delayed for 2 straight years due to lack of manpower and was only seen as incomplete when Adrian, Carl Anheuser, and the others passed by on the way to Ark 04. It was seen to still being in the process of construction when they first took the bus into the facility. Including Ark 2.
  • Ark 02: Unknown. Was seen on Ark 3's left side and was almost completed before the tidal wave hit.
  • Ark 03: Unknown. Possibly India. Damaged by a roof collapse during a strong earthquake. Boarding at that time was delayed but was permanently shut down when an angry mob led by Yuri Karpov broke through the glass doors and headed straight for Ark 4, making the repairs crew abandon their posts.
  • Ark 04: United States: Completed and operational at the time of the 2012 Apocalypse. The vessel carried the acting Commander-In-Chief (formerly Secretary of State) Carl Anheuser, Adrian Helmsley, and the daughter of deceased President Thomas Wilson Laura, alongside Jackson and his family, the Karpov twins, the monk family and hundreds of thousands more. Significantly damaged due to a flood breach when Jackson and Tenzin's families had attempted to stow away, but instead jammed the back door of the ark, causing the tidal wave to flood the rear half of the ark with water. It is assumed that the parts of the Ark that were flooded were either abandoned or repaired in the coming days after.
  • Ark 05: Unknown. Never built or partially completed in the first place, with an empty bay with the #5 on it since the first thing to be built was the dam.
  • Ark 06: China, Japan, and Russia. Completed and operational at the time of the 2012 Apocalypse. Among its hundreds of thousands of occupants were: the President of Russia Sergey Makarenko and his translator, the Prime Minister of Japan, the Emperor of Japan, the President of China, and the Premier of China.
  • Ark 07: Canada, France, Germany, Spain, and United Kingdom. Completed and operational at the time of the 2012 Catastrophe. Among its hundreds of thousands of occupants were the British Royal Family and the Prime Minister of the UK, the President of France, the Prime Minister of Canada, the Prime Minister of Spain, and the Chancellor and the President of Germany.
  • Ark 08: Unknown. Never built or partially completed.
  • Ark 09: Unknown. Never built or partially completed.

Images[]

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2012 (2009) - The Ark Launch Scene

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10) - Movieclips

Notes[]

Other reasons include that the other Arks:

  • The construction began in 2010, in which it took less than three years for the four out of five vessels to be launched.
  • Lost contact with Ark No. 4
  • Set a different course
  • Might have been destroyed in the chaos of colliding with Mt. Everest
  • Never left the dam
  • Were never actually built in the first place, given there was so little time to build them
  • If you skip the film, At 1 hour, 48 minutes, and 7 seconds, you can count the number of ark positions as nine ships. And at 2 hours, 1 minute, and 33 seconds the Ark 4 communications officer connects Dr. Helmsley to the other ships through a console that shows nine ship references.

Trivia[]

  • In real life, it would take an extremely long time, not to mention exorbitant amounts of funding, scientists, engineers, manual labors, resources and materials to build all the nine Arks. It is nigh impossible to find the most hidden location in the world to avoid unwanted attentions. The world governments will be hard-pressed to keep both the project and the imminent apocalypse confidential, given that "somebody would blow the whistle."
    • There are only four completed and fully operational Arks seen (before the destruction of Ark 03), meaning that the remaining five failed to be completed on time due to such challenges.
  • Estimates of the dimensions of one Ark state a length of 850 meters, a width of 228 meters, and a height of 186 meters. Materials include strengthened titanium and steel for the hull.
  • Only three Arks managed to survive the apocalypse (Ark 04, 06, and 07) while the other ones were either destroyed due to the Earth's crust or still under construction (Ark 01, 02, 03, 05, 08, and 09).
  • It can be assumed that the people and some animals even treasures inside the Arks are the only survivors of the 2012 Apocalypse.
  • Estimated weight is over 5 megatons.
  • the 46 nations financing the Cho Ming Operation (Including China and G8 Countries)
  • In the video, a crush of the Ark can be seen.
  • Charlie Frost mentions two real life individuals, Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch who possess a vast wealth to afford their own tickets. For this reason, both are presumably chosen by the U.S. government to board one of the Arks and thus are among the survivors.
  • It is unexplained why the tickets are sold in euros instead of the internationally most widely used US dollars. The Saudi Prince once believes they are sold in the US currency.
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