Cargo Pods
Assault Pod
Construction Pod
Gold Pod
Junk Pod (Wreckage)
Life Pod
Native Pod
Ore Pod
Outfit Pod
Resupply Pod
Pods are easy targets for enemy ships to pick off. Ion storms can send them
off course. Pods are much safer when stored in the cargo holds of ships. You
can choose to have the pod simply go into orbit around the planet it was
launched from and wait to be picked up by a friendly ship, or you can choose
to send the pod flying off into deep space to another base on another planet on
its own. Pods have a limited power supply. When the power supply runs out the
pod and its cargo are lost.
All pods have a dock target and a drop target. When the dock target passes
by the pod the pod will attempt to dock with the object. If the dock target has
a cargo bay and is owned by the pod ' s race the pod will be loaded into the cargo bay. The cargo pod will stay in
the ship ' s cargo bay until the ship passes by the cargo pod ' s drop target, the cargo pod will automatically be dropped off at that point
in space.
You could set the pod ' s dock target to a ship that you know has a free cargo bay and will pass by
the pod. You could then set the dock target to be the planet or base that you
would like the pod dropped off at.
If a pod in on a ship that is in hyper space, the pod will not drop at its
target during the jump.