We expect to make planetfall soon. Drop X-ray squad in 30 on my mark. In another pod, your sergeant snaps back. OK boys and girls, you see the clock on your heads-up. Your drop pod is shot from the side of the carrier and hurtles downward.
Incendiary atmosphere howls past the pod's rapidly heating shell.
The pod wall suddenly buckles to your right, but stays intact. Another pod must have clipped yours on its way in. ECM didn't indicate enemy fire. Thrusters and stabilizing gyros are fading. Based on the pings, the other pods are pulling away.