Drop pod

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

Game Unit
It is a deployment vehicle which can be loaded with up to 12 infantry units, even SCVs. The units are loaded at the Shadow Ops.

To use one, 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 the infantry.

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.

A few seconds after deployment the now useless pod quickly degrades.