
The pod is equipped with capital ship-grade armor and uses a low-range gravity dampening pulse to allow the infantry within to safely drop to the ground. The Gloto'kas-pattern Assault Carapace (MDC): developed by Lodam Armory, the T-54 MDC is a much larger, reusable variant which drops numerous troops from low altitude before flying back to the host vessel.The Gloto'kef-pattern Assault Carapace (SBC): slightly different shaped but similar in function and general size to the T-51, the T-53 SBC is likewise used by the new Covenant order to deploy small numbers of troops.It can carry up to five occupants and is similar in size to the variant used by the original Covenant but sleeker and more elongated in design. The Gloto-pattern Breaching Carapace: developed by Lodam Armory, the T-51 IBC is the modern Covenant's most prominent model of drop pod.Jul 'Mdama's new Covenant, active following the end of the Human-Covenant War, makes use of at least three different varieties of multiple-troop insertion pod: There are several glowing emitters on the floor of the pod it is possible that these produce a stasis field to protect its occupants. The pod is equipped with three engines in the corners of the bottom of the pod, which slow down its descent until it reaches the ground. The most common type of mass-deployment pod in use during the Fall of Reach is shaped like a smoothly rounded tetrahedron, with a large hatch on each of the three sides.These pods likewise had the capability to return to orbit and were equipped with force fields to hold their occupants in place during acceleration. Iterations of this type of pod were in use among Reformist San'Shyuum as early as the San'Shyuum-Sangheili War. Some models of multiple occupant pod remain on the ground like the single-occupant version after the combatants within have been deployed, while others rocket back to orbit, allowing them to be reused.

The hatches on the sides of the pod open some distance above the ground, allowing the infantry inside to exit the craft.

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When the pod is nearing the ground, it fires a series of downward-facing engines to slow it down.

The pod is released from a ship, and freefalls through the atmosphere the same way the single-occupant version. Significantly larger than the single-occupant model, the multiple occupant drop pod has the capacity to deploy at least four Covenant warriors into battle. Multiple-occupant pod Ī type of multiple-troop drop pod used during the Fall of Reach. It is made of burnished cyan-purple metal, but has an opulent, white interior with a contour that conforms to the physique of a Sangheili. There are several variants of the insertion pod one is cylindrical, with two tapered, slightly angular ends, while the other is bulkier and ovoid-shaped. Upon impact with the ground, the pod's hatch blasts open, revealing the interior and allowing the occupant to exit. The frontal hatch is equipped with a control panel, which may be used by the occupant to steer the pod. These vaguely coffin-shaped, five to six-meter tall pods are small and cramped, with barely enough room for one Sangheili and his weapon.

On the most basic level, they can be divided into two main categories: small, single-occupant pods used mainly by Sangheili, and a number of types which allow the simultaneous deployment of multiple Covenant troops. The drop pods may be the most varied of the transportation methods used by the Covenant, with the types encountered by humanity representing only a fraction of the gamut of models in Covenant service. Frontal and rear views of a single occupant pod.
