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| - An escape pod was a small capsule carried by all capital ships and starships (unless purposely removed). Starfighters used ejection seats, which were not enclosed. Escape pods automatically located the nearest habitable planet and navigated towards it upon ejection, and were capable of one atmospheric reentry.
- -The Gibberish Dictionary on escape pods. An escape pod is a space ship (or "pod") that lets you escape from a larger starship usually due to dangerous conditions, a jailbreak (the prisoners use the pod in this case), horrid elevator music, as a plot device, a lack of Swiss Cheese, or a ship's imminent destruction. They have never been used much due to Space Fighting Etiquette's rule of "go down with the (star)ship." Escape pods that have been used by protagonists to escape usually accumulate massive amounts of Plotdevicium. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.
- Escape Pods are popular items in the Platformer Creator only, and are used mainly by members in order to find glitches in the game creator. By going inside of the escape pod, you must scroll your character towards it. Once the player is in, then the escape pod starts blasting up to the sky, winning the game in the process.
- Sark's escape pod was a small capsule on the side of his carrier ship that could be detached for quicker travel. Once the pod was launched, the carrier would automatically derez, and so would anything else still aboard the carrier. In TRON, Sark captured Yori and Flynn and trapped them on his carrier. He warned them that when he launched the escape pod, everything aboard would derez. He then left on the escape pod, with an unknown stowaway, Tron.
- A escape Pod is a special device which is used if your ship is destoryed.
- While the duo explored the planet, they saw Skid McMarx and his agent. Qwark used an escape pod on the Leviathan to escape death by exploding ship. Ratchet used an escape pod as one of his ships to go to Fastoon in Tools of Destrcution. Lawrence had a special escape pod on his ship he would've taken Nefarious to The Great Clock. Croid had one in his base for an escape from Nevo. The Pods have Masag-o-tronic seats, and many other luxury products, however if they are all activated at once, the pod will implode.
- Escape pods are small rescue craft.
- Escape pods are onboard Fleet ships for emergencies when the crew must abandon the ship. There are several types of escape pods; some of which are more like small shuttles, whilst others being completely different in shape.
- An Escape Pod is a type of small one manned craft developed by the Visitors. They are stationed aboard a Mothership and can be summoned by a special command sequence whereupon they float to the ground before a pilot. The cockpit moves to the aside allowing a passenger to board and a virtual holographic interface is used to give the commands to the escape pod which is able to depart a Mothership and move to planetside.
- An escape pod is an unguided, self-contained system for safely exiting a spaceship in distress. Once escape has been accomplished, the pod functions as a lifeboat by providing life support until its occupant is rescued.
- Escape pods are small manuverable and fast craft installed inside warships and civilan ships alike, that serve for crew and passageers to evacuate the ship in case of danger. Most escape pods seat eight (8) beings and are cushioned for the passagers safety, most had communication capabilities and also had consumables for at least a day.
- Escape pods are equipped with food, water, and a compact shelter. They have weak jets to power the craft, a small computer that looks for a safe landing place, and a distress beacon to attract passing ships. Some escape pods have features to keep droids from entering, like the one R2-D2 and C-3P0 used. Escape pods were most notably featured in Episode III when an Escape pod flew Yoda to safety after Order 66 was carried out, and in Episode IV, when R2-D2 and C-3P0 used an Escape pod to escape from the captured Tantive IV.
- The "Escape Pod" is a Gem-activated pod launched from the index finger of the Gem Warship in emergencies. It made its first appearance in "Jail Break".
- Federal law requires all ships in the Pangalactic Federation to carry more than enough pods to carry the maximum number of crew and passengers. Each pod is just large enough to hold one adult, and includes a small Gravitic warp engine in addition to the life support equipment. An average adult male humanoid could survive inside a pod for approximately one week. Pods are also capable of entering a planet's atmosphere, and when a swift rescue seems hopeless, the pod will automatically search for and land on the nearest planet that can sustain life.
- Escape pods, also known as emergency lifepods, repair pods, or lifeboats, were small escape craft for use in emergencies. They were standard aboard all deep-space starships. While there were probably as many different types of escape pods as there were starships, they all shared a few characteristics. The interior of an escape pod was spartan—passengers were expected to use the pod only for a few hours. Some pods seated as few as two people, while larger pods could carry over a dozen beings. Padded g-couches protected occupants from injury.
- Escape pods were almost never equipped with weapons and thus were vulnerable to any nearby warships.
- Escape pods are devices aboard the ship able to hold crew and allow crew to jettison in case the need to leave the ship arises. Escape pods can deploy once crewed and will launch the occupant away from the ship and into space, where they may be able to be retrieved later on. Some ships integrate escape pods with sleeping quarters, e.g., the Constellation and the Freelancer. No further details known yet.
- An escape pod is a small maneuverable capsule allowing quick escape from a starship or starbase for various reasons. Most vessels and bases have more than one escape pod. Escape pods are usually utilized when a ship or base is heavily damaged and may be destroyed. All Starfleet vessels and bases contain sufficient number of escape pods to ensure the entire crew and all non-Starfleet personnel can be safely evacuated. A minority of Klingon starships lack escape pods. (ENT: "Sleeping Dogs", "Bounty", DS9: "Penumbra")
- During the Second Robotech War, John Carpenter was sent with a squadron of fighters on Recon One to attempt to push the enemy Master's flagships out of Earth's orbit. Due to the REF Civil War, it was the only shuttle that the only shuttle which the Pioneer mission could spare. The Masters were easily able to destroy the fighters and strongly damage Recon One. As a last ditch effort, Carpenter evacuated all of the crew off the ship in their Escape Pods. Carpenter and his head Lieutenant were the last people left on the ship. The sent it on a direct course to the enemy fortress and escaped in their pod at the literal last second, blasting away from the ship just as it and one of the Master's flagships blew up.
- An escape pod was a capsule or craft used to escape a vessel in an emergency. Ishtar used an escape pod to survive the destruction of her ship. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys) A group of Pyroviles travelled to Earth in an escape pod. (TV: The Fires of Pompeii) Several escaping Terileptil criminals used an escape pod to survive the destruction of their stolen spaceship. However, the crash killed all but four of the Terileptil's. (TV: The Visitation) The Black Gold had a one-man escape pod. (TV: The Infinite Quest)
- When Rimmer suggested that he use it to escape from the imminent destruction of Starbug, Lister infomed him that the escape pod hadescaped the previous Thursday when he used its launch lever to open a bottle of beer. (RD: Gunmen of the Apocalypse) The escape pod was either eventually recaptured or recreated due to the time paradox as Able later escaped in it and saved the Starbug crew from the Simulant on the SS Centauri using Kryten's negadrive. The pod than crash landed on an asteroid killing Able. (RD: Beyond a Joke)
- Goa'uld Tel'taks are also known to possess escape pods, which resemble sarcophagi. They are equipped with heat dampening shields and anti-gravity wave generators that allow them to slow their descent and enter the atmosphere safely. (SG1: "Jolinar's Memories", "Deadman Switch") Anubis' mothership possessed a larger escape pod that was able to travel through hyperspace. (SG1: "Homecoming")
- Escape pods were not limited to space-borne craft. Malcolm Reed once related a story about his great-uncle aboard the 21st century submarine HMS Clement, where it was disabled by a mine, and the crew abandoned ship via escape pods. (ENT: "Minefield") When the USS Enterprise-E traveled back in time to the year 2063, the crew used the ship's escape pods to leave the Borg-occupied ship. (Star Trek: First Contact) In 2155, the crew of the ISS Enterprise was forced to use the ship's escape pods, after it was trapped in a Tholian web in the mirror universe. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly")
- Escape pods were generally used only in the event that a ship was damaged and facing imminent destruction. Starfleet vessels were equipped with enough escape pods to allow the entire crew complement to escape the vessel. Some escape pods were specialised for particular lifeforms, such as the cetacean lifeboats carried aboard Galaxy-class starships. (TNG reference: Star Trek: The Next Generation USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints)
- Sometimes called a Life Pod, it is a nearly universal trope in Space Opera, and a tried and true part of the Standard Sci-Fi Fleet. When your Cool Starship's Faster Than Light Drive is about to suffer a critical Phlebotinum Overload, or Space Pirates are targeting your exhaust port with Frickin' Laser Beams, it's time to head for the Escape Pods, and take your chances drifting on the endless ocean of space in a tiny, fragile shell with no weapons, rudimentary engines, and in cramped quarters with people you may not like. Examples of Escape Pod include:
- Embark on your outing in the same place that C-3PO and R2-D2 started their own long journey, at the crashed escape pod buried in the dunes of the Tatooine desert. Your tour begins as you arrive in Bestine. Hop on your mount or vehicle and cross the vast desert sands to the southwest. As the sands smooth, you will see a lone escape pod nestled in the dune. The winds have long erased the tracks of the two legendary droids, but you can still follow in their footsteps. /way tatooine -3933 -4423 An Escape Pod
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