Editing Drop Pod (section)

=== Kharybdis Assault Claw ===

[[File:Kharybdis.jpg|200px|right|thumb|The biggest falling Space Marines-in-a-Can of this isle. If it was any bigger, it would have been classified as an Ork Attack Rok.]]

A Super Heavy Drop Pod used during the [[Great Crusade]], capable of carrying twenty Marines or a pair of Dreadnoughts. Also used for burning shit with its engines as it flies over it, and ''melting'' shit it lands on (not to mention having the ability to fly back to its ship for another batch of soldiers to make planetfall). Sadly, the Kharybdis suffered similar problems as its smaller brother, the Dreadclaw. While the latter had a malevolent AI that caused lethal "accidents" (which became much more frequent when the Horus Heresy started and which forced Imperial Commanders to simply jettison them into the blackness of space), the Kharybdis (while also having an AI) had it differently.

The AI of the Drop Pod tended to bond with a person and became violently unpredictable whenever its preferred handler wasn't around. If the handler somehow died or became unable to tend to it, then the bonded Kharybdis had to be jettisoned or destroyed since it would refuse to allow anyone else inside its hold- and tended to demonstrate this by opening its doors in mid-drop to incinerate anyone riding in it. Thus [[Red Scorpions#Gallery|few Space Marine Chapters have one these days]], though Chaos Marine Legions still have some in their armouries.

Because of its ability to essentially punch through meters thick armor like butter, they were popular as makeshift boarding vehicles in the [[Imperial Navy]]. The arrival of a flight of these ominous Assault craft, boarding hooks extended as they approached their target, signaled that asses are going to be creamed whoever that dared opposed the Legiones Astartes.

Some [[Heresy|''unorthodox'']] commanders who have watched one too many Mad Max movies or grew up on a Ork infested world; thereby prompting these individuals to employ the Kharybdis as a tank hunter, [[Awesome|ramming enemy armor in low-altitude attack runs.]] It is basically the marines' equivalent of the [[Tyrannocyte]]. This also demonstrates how maneuverable drop pods and their various types are and how insanely tough Astartes are.