 March 21, 2018 - 5:44am | Just saw a Star Trek Voyager episode and could have sworn Janeway called them life pods. Got me thinking that life pods sounds like your putting a nice spin on it. No doubt on star liners they like to sound hopeful and use the term life pod. No doubt there must a culture that would disdain to call it a life pod and have domething colorful: the coward pod, chicken sh*t pod etc. In your game what do you prefer to call them? Germane to topic: Lifeboats? Escape craft? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
March 21, 2018 - 5:48am | Individual Destruction Survival caft refered to ad IDS craft or vehicle. IDS being a designation for all modes of escaping a destroyed ship. Among the crew IDS stands for "In the Deep Sh*t" I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 March 21, 2018 - 12:09pm | life pods sounds like your putting a nice spin on it.
That's called "politically correct".  That said, I like the ISD spin. |
 March 21, 2018 - 1:09pm | Life pod suggests to me that it's used for a single passenger. Escape pod instead suggests something that can carry more than one. But either works for both I guess. Maybe a life pod is something that is also a cryogenic or stasis system, so that it preserves life in a sense. An escape pod keeps you alive, but you're still conscious etc. |
March 21, 2018 - 3:38pm | BTB an escape pod accommodates only one. |
 March 23, 2018 - 7:56pm | Speaking of escape pods, while I was searching for images on sci fi launches/pods, I came across this website with some interesting images: Joe Cabadas |
 March 23, 2018 - 12:45pm | It's commonly used in science fiction as a spacey version of "lifeboat," not as a politically correct version of "escape pod." |
