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Planetary Drop Pod (Inspired by Warhammer 40k Space Marine Drop Pod)

INTRO:

This will probably be the ONLY craft i design to crash on purpose.
This is a drop pod designed to be launched from a large orbital craft directly to the planet's surface.

This design was basically thrown together so dont expect perfection but it is great fun to use and play with.

And yes it is inspired by Games Workshops Warhammer 40k Space Marines all credit where due, but dont ask me to try and fit a dreadnaught in there.

If you want to repaint it in Space Marine Chapter colours then be my guest :)

SPEC:

-This craft is designed to be as lightweight resources-wise as possible.
-It also needed to be as small as possible to be stored and launched from another ship.
-It can survive impacts onto a planet or asteroid while travelling at 104.4m/s (Max vanilla speed).
-It can carry 4 engineers.
-It is the quickest possible method of landing on a planet (and surviving) with enough resources to establish a basic base of operations. However you will need to add the extra materials needed to do so in the container.

OPERATION:

- FLY DIRECTLY AT PLANET -> ENSURE BASE AND LANDING GEAR ARE POINTING AT GROUND -> BRACE.
- After collision and rolling around for a bit, hit the reverse ramps button and the pod should right itself and everyone can disembark

TESTING:

-Tested 7 times on a planet.
- 6 Tests successful with lots of damage but none to important comonents, hatch ramps take most of the damage.
- 1 test, hit a mountain and rolled all the way down, lost 2 hatch ramps and 1 passenger, still had all important components still managed to stand upright and majority of crew survived.

Moral of the story is DONT AIM FOR A MOUNTAIN!

Hope you enjoy, any comments and questions please enter below.