<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=69280.msg3057530#msg3057530">Quote from: Paladin on 21-05-2010, 04:17:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Umm from what I have seen in my Aliens technical manual, there is not Drop pods.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=69280.msg3057852#msg3057852">Quote from: Destiny Ascension on 21-05-2010, 05:55:33</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Um, just to point out, Marines are not orbital drop troops... they are combat shock troops, dropships fill this role best.<br/><br/>Also, Paladin is right, there is no 'drop pod' or any kind of free fall reentry vessel in the Aliens universe. At all... I've never once seen mention of one such thing, only the UD-4L.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I know the issue has already been settled so this a moot point now, but I have been poring over my Colonial Marines Technical Manual since this RP started looking for various tid-bits of useful information to help me better play my character and this morning I stumbled upon this bit of information:<br/><br/><em>“There are many techniques for covertly inserting Recon Marines into an operating zone. Because there are few places in accessible from space, the most popular method is an orbital drop, either by aerospace shuttle or by a dead-drop re-entry vehicle. The dead-drop method is the stealthiest approach, but also the most risky; it involves placing a single Marine inside a small capsule which makes a ballistic re-entry. At low altitude, a drogue shoot slows the capsule, allowing the Marine to eject from it and unfold a parafoil, beneath which they can glide to the landing zone. Where the Colonial Marines already own landing sites on a planet, more conventional methods of insertion are used – by aerospace craft, boat or submarine.”</em><br/><br/>Here is a picture of the capsule as illustrated in the manual:<br/><br/>(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q61/mrgerty/DDRIV.gif)<br/><br/>But I'm glad we went with the UD-4L Cheyenne Drop Ship instead. Can't carry as much gear in those little DDRIVs and they don't look NEARLY as badass either!  ;D<br/>