Drop pod

The Drop Pod is a Terran craft to be featured in StarCraft II.

It is a deployment vehicle, and holds six Marines. A Ghost-trooper must sight a location for a drop pod to insert from the atmosphere, and then a pod will fall down, instantly deploying half a dozen Marines onto the battlefield.

It is shaped somewhat like a rounded cylinder, with two rounded ends: one boasting an orange-yellow engine, and the other equipped to slam into a planetary surface. On the engine end, there are four flaps that extend outwards from the engine, supposedly to increase air resistance and slow the craft's impact, and two vanes, one to either side of the engine, and of unknown purpose.