Eject pod

ALLEGOPEDIA
About	History
FACTIONS
Belters	Bios
Dreghklar	Ga'Taraan
GigaCorp	Iron Coalition
Omicron Hive	Rixian Unity
Technoflux	Draconium
Phoenix	Valkyrie
SHIPS
Buying Ships
Small Class
Eject Pod	Interceptor
Fighter	Scout
Stealth Fighter	Other Small Ships
Medium Class
Bomber	Fighter Bomber
Gunship	Stealth Bomber
Troop Transport	Other Medium Ships
Capital Class
Assault Ship	Attack Carrier
Battlecruiser	Battleship
Corvette	Cruiser
Destroyer	Devastator
Freighter	Frigate
	Other Capital Ships
Ship Equipment
Dispenser Items	Missiles
Weapons	Other Equipment
AI Drone Ships
Carrier	Caltrop
Constructor	Miner
Tower	Other Drones
BASES
Buying Bases
Minor Bases
Outpost	Refinery
Teleport Receiver	Other Minor Bases
Special Bases
Garrison	Shipyard
Technology Bases
Expansion Complex	Supremacy Center
Tactical Laboratory	Other Tech Bases

Abbreviation: Pod

You are placed in an eject pod whenever your ship is destroyed or you rejoin a game that you exited, unless eject pods have been turned off in the game options. If your eject pod is destroyed then you will respawn at the nearest station but your kill bonus will be reset to zero, and your number of lives reduced by one (if playing with limited lives, which is uncommon).

You have 5 minutes of oxygen to get back to base. Docking at any friendly station or being picked up by a friendly pilot (or carrier drone) will save you from asphyxiation. Note that some factions have built pod retrieval systems into stations which can not normally dock ships. By default pressing z p will engage autopilot to the nearest point of rescue.

A pilot in an eject pod is completely useless to his own team. If your kill bonus is low, or the trip home is especially long, it is sometimes more tactically sensible to kill your own pod than float. Ramming an enemy ship or driving through their mines is the only way to achieve this (asteroids and enemy stations do not damage pods).

As a pilot you want to rescue as many friendly pods as possible to keep your team's manpower at maximum and to stop enemy pods from being rescued, if possible.

• Select friendly pods using the mouse then use the voice chat ~ cs to send "I've gotcha, hold still".
• Use ~ cn to send "Don't kill pods!"

Ship statistics

Information taken from CC_03. Values are representative only (many factions have had their ships individually tweaked for balance).

Eject pod

Ship		Handling		Equipment
Armor class	Light	Mass	10	N/A
Hitpoints	25	Max thrust	150
ECM	1	Power-weight ratio	15
Scan	200	Max speed	50
Signature	100%	Turn rate	0.7
		Turn torque	17

• Pods can be picked up by any friendly ship except for miners, constructors, and tower/caltrop builders.
• Pods can normally only dock at stations that have a green door.

Factions

Bios pod	Bios Can rip to any teleport receiver, meaning Bios pilots can fly more offensively and not worry about being out of the action for too long. Ripcord device takes up space normally devoted to engines, thus the Bios pod is the slowest of any faction.
Belters pod	Belters Nothing special
Dreghklar Empire pod	Dreghklar Empire Nothing special
Ga'Taraan Federation pod	Ga'Taraan Federation Nothing special
GigaCorp pod	GigaCorp Can dock at any GigaCorp base.
Rixian Unity pod	Rixian Unity Nothing special
Iron Coalition pod	Iron Coalition Can dock at any IC base.
Technoflux pod	Technoflux Can dock at any TF base. Can be picked up by TF constructors.

See also

• Why do people tell me not to kill pods?
• Kill bonus