Faceship

The Faceship is a vehicle that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by IDW Publishing. It is a massive space station-based aircraft created by Dr. Eggman for the purpose of distributing the doctor's Metal Virus across the planet.

Appearance
The Faceship bears a strong resemblance to the Space Colony ARK, but is much smaller. It is mainly gray in coloration, with a hemispherical construction. The front of the Faceship, as its name implies, resembles the face of Dr. Eggman; it possesses a long and pointy rocket booster in the middle that resembles Eggman's nose, a massively round and red window on each side of the rocket booster that look like Eggman's glasses, red hatches below the rocket booster that are shaped like a mouth, and a three triangular satellite panels on each side that together resemble Eggman's mustache. On the back of the Faceship are also several antennas.

Abilities and traits
The Faceship is designed to run on the power of the seven Chaos Emeralds, and is capable of flight. It also comes equipped with an onboard factory that produces batches pf the Metal Virus en masse. The Faceship's design also allows it to distribute the Metal Virus by dumping several batches of the Metal Virus through the ship's "mouth hatches" while the Faceship's front is facing downward.

The Faceship also comes equipped with outward speakers that allow Eggman to make public announcements.

Infection
The Faceship was designed by Dr. Eggman to distribute his Metal Virus in select target zones. With the aid of his genius and his tireless Badnik work force, Eggman was able to built the faceship in no time at all. After it was finished, Dr. Eggman and Dr. Starline got onboard, and Eggman had Orbot and Cubot, who sat at the helms, take the Faceship to the skies from the Final Egg's hangar. As the Faceship moved towards Windmill Village, Eggman gave Starline a tour of the Faceship while explaining his strategy for spreading the Metal Virus across the world. After arriving above Windmill Village, Eggman had the Faceship dump its first batches of Metal Virus on the village, thereby turning the village's entire population into Zombots in no time at all.

Features

 * Control room: The main control room for the Faceship. It holds the helm controls for the entire Faceship. It also houses a throne for Dr. Eggman that doubles as the power generator for the entire Faceship (which gets its energy from the seven Chaos Emeralds). A short walk away from the throne is also a viewing area through which one can look down on the things below the Faceship through one of its eyes on the front.
 * Metal Virus factory: The Faceship's production facility for the Metal Virus. This room features several automated mixers that blend Eggman's secret formular from metallic matter poured into them to create the Metal Virus en masse. Exactly how these mixers handle the technical details, such as encoding the command line and assembling the infecting particles however, is a "trade secret" of Dr. Eggman's.
 * Hangar: The hangar of the Faceship. It is situated right behind the "mouth" of the Faceship, and includes a cat walk above that gives an overview of the hangar. It is here the mixers containing the finished Metal Virus batches are transported to by machinery so their contents can be poured out of the hangar's hatches and down on the target zones below.