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The drop pod's operator enters the Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle and straps in facing the hatch.{{Ref/Reuse|bungie.net}} The SOEIVs are located in a long, narrow compartment on a ship, colloquially referred to as "Hell's Waiting Room". The room is typically lined with two rows of drop pods. Each SOEIV is poised over a tube that extends downward through the spacecraft's belly. The preparation chambers are often stacked on multiple decks to allow several pods to be deployed via the same tube in rapid succession.{{Ref/Reuse|enc}} To initiate deployment, a pod's operator must run an obligatory systems check, remove a series of safeties, and arm their ejection tube. Generally, the ship's fire control computer is responsible for ejecting the SOEIV at a trajectory that allowed it to drop into the correct entry path.{{Ref/Reuse|HtF}} The communications gear built into the SOEIV's hatch feeds the pod's occupant information relevant to the current operation and provides a link between all members of the unit during deployment,{{Ref/Reuse|bungie.net}} in addition to delivering a live video feed of other members of the unit to the pod's operator.{{Ref/Reuse|odstptd}} A soldier's helmet-integrated communications units are redundant while within a SOEIV, and are normally only used if the pod's own communications gear malfunctions.{{Ref/Reuse|bungie.net}} Their integral helmet-comm gear will not function until the pod has cleared the interference of a world's upper atmosphere.{{Ref/Reuse|enc}} | The drop pod's operator enters the Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle and straps in facing the hatch.{{Ref/Reuse|bungie.net}} The SOEIVs are located in a long, narrow compartment on a ship, colloquially referred to as "Hell's Waiting Room". The room is typically lined with two rows of drop pods. Each SOEIV is poised over a tube that extends downward through the spacecraft's belly. The preparation chambers are often stacked on multiple decks to allow several pods to be deployed via the same tube in rapid succession.{{Ref/Reuse|enc}} To initiate deployment, a pod's operator must run an obligatory systems check, remove a series of safeties, and arm their ejection tube. Generally, the ship's fire control computer is responsible for ejecting the SOEIV at a trajectory that allowed it to drop into the correct entry path.{{Ref/Reuse|HtF}} The communications gear built into the SOEIV's hatch feeds the pod's occupant information relevant to the current operation and provides a link between all members of the unit during deployment,{{Ref/Reuse|bungie.net}} in addition to delivering a live video feed of other members of the unit to the pod's operator.{{Ref/Reuse|odstptd}} A soldier's helmet-integrated communications units are redundant while within a SOEIV, and are normally only used if the pod's own communications gear malfunctions.{{Ref/Reuse|bungie.net}} Their integral helmet-comm gear will not function until the pod has cleared the interference of a world's upper atmosphere.{{Ref/Reuse|enc}} | ||
A 30-second deployment countdown begins on the mark of the [[commanding officer]] of the unit. Afterwards, the SOEIVs fire quickly through the tube that runs down ship's belly.{{Ref/Reuse|bungie.net}} The drop pods are typically deployed from either a high altitude or from an exoatmospheric location. They are either fired out of the spacecraft or soft-ejected towards a world's surface until the pod breaches the atmosphere.{{Ref/Reuse|universe}} The SOEIV is balanced to maintain flight stability in a feet-down position. The pod has limited maneuvering capability is primarily used to coordinate landings, but may be used to avoid defensive anti-aircraft fire. However, if defensive anti-aircraft weaponry is present near the deployment point, it is nearly a mathematical certainty that some pods will be lost.{{Ref/Reuse|bungie.net}} It is not uncommon for SOEIVs to be deployed in meteor and other debris showers on a world, as it provides a significant degree of stealth to a unit's deployment.{{Ref/Reuse|oldwaypoint}}<ref>'''[[Halo Legends]]''', ''[[The Babysitter]]''</ref> | A 30-second deployment countdown begins on the mark of the [[commanding officer]] of the unit. Afterwards, the SOEIVs fire quickly through the tube that runs down ship's belly.{{Ref/Reuse|bungie.net}} The drop pods are typically deployed from either a high altitude or from an exoatmospheric location. They are either fired out of the spacecraft or soft-ejected towards a world's surface until the pod breaches the atmosphere.{{Ref/Reuse|universe}} The SOEIV is balanced to maintain flight stability in a feet-down position. The pod has limited maneuvering capability which is primarily used to coordinate landings, but may be used to avoid defensive anti-aircraft fire. However, if defensive anti-aircraft weaponry is present near the deployment point, it is nearly a mathematical certainty that some pods will be lost.{{Ref/Reuse|bungie.net}} It is not uncommon for SOEIVs to be deployed in meteor and other debris showers on a world, as it provides a significant degree of stealth to a unit's deployment.{{Ref/Reuse|oldwaypoint}}<ref>'''[[Halo Legends]]''', ''[[The Babysitter]]''</ref> | ||
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