Editing Drop Pod (section)

=== Adeptus Astartes Drop Pod ===

[[File:99120101069_DropPodNEW01.jpg|200px|right|thumb|[[Boreale|STEEL REHN! DROP PODS FALLING FROM THE SKY AGAIN!]]]]

The classic and original [[Steel Rain|STEEL REHN!]] The drop pod is capable of carrying up to 12 Space Marines into combat. They are launched from a vessel in low orbit towards the drop zone, usually in the midst of or near a battlefield. Once launched, the Drop Pod plummets through the atmosphere until its retro rockets fire to slow its descent. [[Angry Marines|Although certain ''overly zealous'' marine chapters]] are known to use their drop pods as giant orbital bombs; dropping the drop pod at full speed until it eventually crushes any unfortunate heretical bitches underneath and indirectly/directly killing their occupants from sheer impact. A Machine Spirit (on-board computer) guides the Drop Pod to its destination and can receive further commands from the Pod's mothership.

Like most drop pods, they become immobile and pointless once they land, with the only use they have post-crash is to act as some sort of limited cover for the marines and fire support from its internally built weapon turrets (Usually in the form of a single Storm Bolter or Deathwind Missile Launcher). However, it can later be recovered by the Chapter's [[Techmarine|Techmarines]] and reused if it is not destroyed.

When a Drop Pod is modified to carry Space Marines in Terminator Armour, two standard-sized restraints must be replaced with a single large restraint due to the sheer bulk of Terminator Armour.

Certain versions of Drop Pods such as the Dominica Pattern Drop Pod used by the [[Sisters of Battle]] and inquisitorial strike forces, last seen in 2002, only holds five people, the rest of the space probably being used with shock dampeners to make up for the occupants' lack of superhuman physiology, or a votive shrine.

A support variant exists, equipped with [[Melta|multi-meltas]] or [[Bolter|twin-linked heavy bolters]] instead of assault cannons and missile launchers like their Space Marines counterparts.

Additionally, the assassins of the [[Eversor Assassin|Eversor Temple]] are deployed in special Drop Pods that prepare them for their missions. These Pods are equipped with neuro-links that feed the details of the mission to the assassin while remote links activate and begin to prepare his body for the task at hand.