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Drop Pod

Starfinder Adventure Path #24: The God-Host Ascends (Attack of the Swarm! 6 of 6) p.52

Level: 5
Price: 7800
Type: Huge air vehicle (12 ft. wide, 12 ft. long, 15 ft. high)
Speed: controlled plummet
EAC: 18; KAC: 20; Cover: total cover (enclosed)
HP: 70 (35); Hardness: 10
Attack (Collision) 6d8 B (DC 11)
System: autocontrol, enhanced sensors (darkvision 120 ft.), expansion bay, planetary comm unit, vacuum shields; Passenger: 5

Description

Capable of deploying fire teams and supply caches from dizzying heights, drop pods offer a heart-stopping ride from lower orbit to a planet's surface.

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Autocontrol

Some vehicles have autocontrol, which enables you to spend your actions on tasks other than piloting, but is far less capable than an autopilot. You can engage autocontrol as a swift action after taking a drive or race action, and it lasts until it is disengaged (also a swift action) or until the vehicle is no longer capable of moving. When you're using autocontrol, the vehicle becomes uncontrolled, but each round it moves in a straight line for the same distance and at the same heading and speed as the last pilot action (moving as if taking two drive actions if drive was the last action the pilot took, or as a race action if that was the last action the pilot took). The autocontrol uses the result of the pilot's most recent Piloting check as the result of its Piloting checks.

Enhanced Sensors

Normally, a creature in a vehicle can attempt Perception checks using its normal senses while inside the vehicle to notice things outside of the vehicle. A vehicle with enhanced sensors allows a creature in that vehicle to attempt Perception checks using the listed sense at the listed range.

Expansion Bay

Huge or Larger vehicles can contain one of the following starship expansion bay options (Core Rulebook 298), which is included in the vehicle's price: arcane laboratory, medical lab, passenger seating (though the expansion bay can hold only 8 Medium passengers), science lab, synthesis bay, or tech workshop. Alternatively, an expansion bay can be used to store cargo of up to 50 bulk in a 6-foot cube.

Controlled Plummet (Ex)

With no piloting controls or means of self-propulsion, this vehicle's heading and velocity are set at the time it is launched from another airborne vehicle or starship. Each round, its autocontrol maintains its heading toward a predetermined point on the ground, using the terminal velocity of the planet's atmosphere (200–300 mph for world with normal gravity) as its full speed. One round before impact, antigrav rotors, parachutes, retrorockets, or other mechanisms slow the descent to 60 feet per round, allowing for safe touchdown.

Enclosed (Ex)

In addition to having total cover, the pilot and passengers in an enclosed vehicle can't use their personal weapons to attack creatures and objects outside the vehicle, though they can use the vehicle's weapons (if any).

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