Reconstructed: Instead of costly life-support systems, the modern Escape Pod design is just a a cryo-chamber, a distress-signal, a long-lived battery and a black box.The ∾scape pods of the Troperion have no survivors: just cadets who died slower than those left on the ship. Deconstructed: The pods have no FTL, cramped conditions, a limited supply of food and air, and are almost always too far from a planet to perform re-entry to say nothing of how hard they are to discover in the limitless blackness of space.Conversed: I wonder how much delta V that tiny speck of a craft has .Discussed: ∽ont we have some sort of tiny spacecraft we can run to in a situation like this?.Defied: ∾scape pods? Why would you bother? As soon as this ship is hit itll go up like a firecracker.Pirates hide in seemingly marooned escape pods, in order to ambush those kind souls who pick them up.Exploited: The escape pods are used as guest-rooms when not in use.Invoked: The Captain has an escape pod built into his quarters, just in case.Lampshaded: Jesus Christ its a Reptilian get in the pod!.Enforced: Theyre Recycling The Castaway IN SPACE!, so of course they need a lifeboat.If they need to leave the Troperion in a hurry, they just use the onboard combat-shuttles. Averted: No escape pods are mentioned.Evulz escapes in his escape pods escape pod, however, and uses it to board his minions craft and hijack it. As he flies away laughing however, it suddenly detonates his treacherous underling had installed explosives in it to prevent his escape. However, Emperor Evulz snuck one aboard so that he can make his secret escape. Zig Zagged: The Malicious had its escape pods removed, to force those onboard to fight to the death.
The Troperion is shaped like a Humongous Mecha, and the escape pods fire out of its ass.Parodied: The escape pods seat 30 people, despite being the size of a phone booth, and theyre NOT bigger on the inside.The emergency pods are modular attachments, and can be easily jettisoned by way of a button near the airlock.The disposable section has its own escape pods.Double Subverted: The Troperions hull is punctured by a stray shot, forcing them into the escape pods after all.They're called "escape pods" because you escape to them, not in them. One big ship's easier to find and has more resources to secure aid than a bunch of little ones. The pods are just emergency shelters they don't jettison.Its not a true escape-pod but a Disposable Vehicle Section that can be attached or detached at will.Subverted: The Ensign Newbie runs to the escape pods but is stopped halfway when The Captain points out they can just eject the warp core and be done with it.When your Cool Starships Faster Than Light Drive is about to suffer a. Inverted: Boarding Pod: This pod gets you onto a new ship instead. Sometimes called a Life Pod, it is a nearly universal trope in Space Opera.
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