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ODST Orbital Drop-pod
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Feb 13, 2016 @ 8:07pm
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ODST Orbital Drop-pod

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Halo: UNSC Ground based/Ground Support Units
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The ODST Orbital Drop-pod is a single-occupant vehicle utilized by UNSC Special Forces. It is used for deployment of elite troops from orbit.

The Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle, also known as the "egg", is designed for a high altitude deployment of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (and rarely, Spartans). It is launched from a ship and is rocket-propelled at high speed down to the surface, where, shortly before impact, thrusters brake the speed for a relatively safe landing. The pod can be steered lightly for accurate landings, and often lands before the enemy even know what they've seen. A Phoenix Assault ship can be equipped with a number of these.

The Drop pod is fairly cheap to make, and allows for small squads of troops to be quickly deployed to secure an area down on a planet. Use it to surprise your enemy or to sneakily deploy troops. I recommend a speed mod of close to 500 m/s for best effect.

To use this ship: Enter from the back (opposite side of the glass plate), select remote control. Once you unlock the landing gear from the ship ("1"), press "2" to activate thrusters. Use the camera to steer towards the landing zone. Once you have entered 70-100% gravity zone, turn off the main thrusters ("2") and press "4" to activate the stopping thrusters. If you stop too high up, turn them off and on until you land. Better a little too early than too late...

PS: This craft is based off of [CS]Rity's ODST Style Drop Pod with changes to propulsion.
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starfury May 28, 2021 @ 4:53pm 
i do hope you get this perfected someday, in the meantime all i can say is, "HELLJUMPERS IN THE TUBE!!"
Feet first into hell boys!
MrEvan312  [author] May 28, 2021 @ 12:51pm 
It is possible but I am not aware of how.
C. Kitchen [NPA] May 28, 2021 @ 12:03pm 
anyway to set this up as a respawn ship from high orbit?
starfury Dec 11, 2016 @ 5:38pm 
anyway u can do an all in one? would take too much time to grab each one individually
Sigma Sep 4, 2016 @ 12:18am 
I found that the energy shield mod prevents the thing from disintergrating my own drop pod on impact entirely. It seems to be bugged to make the object invincible, and I'm not sure why. But either way, it makes it work like it does in the game and lore
ManiacNathan Feb 18, 2016 @ 11:23pm 
i do say it was going to be harded
MrEvan312  [author] Feb 18, 2016 @ 9:17pm 
Weelll... wasted a whole day trying to perfect an automatically stopped version with sensors. It's super erratic, sometimes the pod only needs 200m to stop, other times it will barely be slowed down with 900m meters start. I guess the room for human error is more effective than whatever I can do.
MrEvan312  [author] Feb 17, 2016 @ 4:07pm 
It just needs a couple sensors... and a LOT of testing.
ManiacNathan Feb 17, 2016 @ 3:55pm 
That is going to be harded to get it to land automatically and to keep it the same size even harder still
MrEvan312  [author] Feb 16, 2016 @ 8:36pm 
Glad you like it, I love it too. I'm gonna work on getting her to work with a sensor mod so she'll automatically stop and land just right. Works alright as it is, but there's a bit too much room for human error.