Drop Pods (SMAC)

Drop Pods is a special unit ability in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

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Required technology: Mind/Machine Interface
Cost: 2
Description: Allow ground units to make air drops. A unit must begin its turn in a friendly base or airbase in order to make an airdrop. Airdrops may be made into any empty square within 8 squares (unless your faction has the technology necessary to make Orbital Insertions, in which case units may be dropped anywhere on the planet). Drop Pod units may move after an airdrop, but if they attack a 50% combat penalty applies.

Alpha Centauri Units
Chassis	Copter • Cruiser • Foil • Gravship • Hovertank • Infantry • Missile • Needlejet • Speeder
Reactor	Fission Plant • Fusion Reactor • Quantum Chamber • Singularity Engine
Weapon	Chaos Gun • Fusion Laser • Gatling Laser • Graviton Gun • Hand Weapons • Laser • Missile Launcher • Particle Impactor • Plasma Shard • Psi Attack • Quantum Laser • Resonance Bolt^X • Resonance Laser^X • Singularity Laser • String Disruptor^X • Tachyon Bolt
Missiles	Conventional Payload • Fungal Payload^X • Planet Buster • Tectonic Payload^X
Equipment	Alien Artifact • Colony Module • Probe Team • Supply Transport • Terraforming Unit • Troop Transport
Armor	Antimatter Plate • Neutronium Armor • No Armor • Photon Wall • Plasma Steel Armor • Probability Sheath • Psi Defense • Pulse 3 Armor^X • Pulse 8 Armor^X • Resonance 3 Armor^X • Resonance 8 Armor^X • Silksteel Armor • Stasis Generator • Synthmetal Armor
Special abilities	AAA Tracking • Air Superiority • Algorithmic Enhancement^X • Amphibious Pods • Antigrav Struts • Blink Displacer • Carrier Deck • Clean Reactor • Cloaking Device • Comm Jammer • Deep Pressure Hull • Deep Radar • Dissociative Wave^X • Drop Pods • Empath Song • Fuel Nanocells^X • Fungicide Tanks • Heavy Artillery • Heavy Transport • High Morale • Hypnotic Trance • Marine Detachment^X • Nerve Gas Pods • Non-Lethal Methods • Polymorphic Encryption • Repair Bay • Slow Unit • Soporific Gas Pods^X • Super Former
Predesigned units	Colony Pod • Former • Probe Team • Scout Patrol • Sea Escape Pod^X • Sea Former • Supply Crawler • Transport Foil
Relic units	Alien Artifact • Unity Foil • Unity Gunship^X • Unity Mining Laser^X • Unity Rover • Unity Scout Chopper
Native units	Fungal Tower^X • Isle of the Deep • Locusts of Chiron • Mind Worms • Sealurk^X • Spore Launcher^X
Progenitor units	Battle Ogre MK1^X • Battle Ogre MK2^X • Battle Ogre MK3^X
^X Added in Alien Crossfire

Drop Pods (SMAC)

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