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Intent: To create a multi-purpose and multi-use drop pod for use by the Confederacy of Independent Systems and Techno Union
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Manufacturer: Arakyd Industries/Incom Industries (Repulsorlifs)
Model: MPMU Drop Pod
Affiliation: Confederacy of Independent Systems and Techno Union
Modularity: Yes (4 soldiers and their gear/8 battle droids/military supplies/planetary mapping and survey package)
Production: Mass
Material: Durasteel
Description: The Arakyd Industries Multi-Purpose/Multi-Use Drop Pod is a pod created to rapidly deploy small amounts of cargo to a planetary surface. Developed as a way to deploy the Dread Guard into hot zones without risk to more expensive drop ships, these are fired from orbit down to the planet. Before impact, a high powered, single use Incom Industries Repulsorlift is fired to slow the descent to prevent the pod from impacting the surface and destroying itself.
These pods are built inside for modularity. They can fit two standard bucket seats side by side for troopers to sit in a relative comfort. A ladder on one side allows for two more seats to be installed above the bottom two seats. Each bucket seat has a slot to lock in the trooper’s weapon. On the bottom floor is another weapons locker containing grenades, detonators and spare power packs.
If set up for droids, the Pod can carry up to 8 un-deployed battle droids. Additionally, in this set up that merely contains latches and for products to be secured to the shell of the Pod, a variety of weapons, tools, or in non-military situations droid-controlled planetary survey gear can be deployed from orbit.
As this is a multi-use pod, should it not experience too much damage on the descent and landing, it can be collected, and quickly repaired and refitted for another use. Pods will have at most 3 uses before being scrapped. These pods are able to be quickly retrofitted with a ray and particle shield generator so as they can be fired from orbit through a planetary and base shields directly into a hot zone.
Role: Multi-Purpose Drop Pod
Height: 10 Meters
Length: 5 meters
Width: 5 meters
Weight: 2.5 metric ton
Minimum Crew: 0
Optimal Crew: 0, Astromech controlled for landing.
Propulsion: 2 Scramjet Boosters/2 single use momentum breaking repulsorlifts
Top Speed: up to 20,000 KM/H
Armaments: None
Passenger Capacity: Up to 4
Cargo Capacity: up to 1 ton of gear/supplies/systems when in cargo modulation
Misc Equipment: Droid brain for minor navigations
