Breacher Pod

The **Breacher Pod**, also known as simply the **Breacher** or the **Drop Pod**, is a family of breaching vessels found in *Marauders*. As well as the default Breacher Pod, two other variants of the Breacher Pod exists, known as the **Attack Pod** and **Heavy Breacher Pod**.

The Breacher Pod is the default vehicle the player pilots when leaving a ship or structure via an Escape Pod. The Breacher Pod is used to escape from a ship or location, and either breach another ship or escape through an Escape Gate. The Breacher Pod cannot be scrapped or sold. Destruction will instantly kill the occupant. The Breacher Pod is targeted by Rocket Turrets and AI ships, such as the Red Baron and the patrolling Interceptor Frigate. Each ship in the game has two regular Breacher Pods, one Heavy Breacher Pod, and one Attack Pod - except for the Rustbucket, which has four regular Breacher Pods.

Breacher Pods can perform a **Breach Boost**, which activates the thruster on the rear and increases the speed of the pod for 4 seconds. At the end of the Breach boost, the pod will be slowed down to 1/4th of the speed, for 5 seconds. It will then slowly gain back its speed, and the boost will slowly regenerate for 12 seconds.

Escaping a raid in a Breacher Pod will not award the ship escape experience bonus.

* Attack Pod
* Breacher Pod
* Heavy Breacher Pod

## General

### Used by

 Central Empire
 United Allies
 Kingdom Alliance
 Pirates

### Damage

12 (Impact)
12 (Explosion)

### Consolecodename(s)

DropPod\_Marauder

File:Attack Pod Icon.png

## Overview

The Attack Pod, also known as the Fighter Pod and Marauder Pod, is an armed variant of the Breacher Pod, and is used to engage in dogfighting with other ships. The Marauder Pod is part of the Corvus Class of vessels, and is used on the Escape Pods of the Damaged Capital Ship. One Attack Pod is available for every ship except the Rustbucket, from an Escape Pod listed as the Attack Pod. The guns on the Attack Pod deal 12 damage per shot with 14 shots prior to a reload. Using the Attack Pod will incur a 120 second cooldown for the Escape Pod it spawns from.

## General

### Speed

1,050

File:Breacher Pod Icon.png

## Overview

The Breacher Pod is the basic version of the vessel family, and is the default Breacher Pod available in all ships and via Escape Pods in every map except the Damaged Capital Ship. The Rustbucket has four regular Breacher Pods, but every other ship has two regular Breacher Pods.

The Breacher Pod was initially designed for use with the Interceptor Frigate, as dictated by its service manual. The Breacher Pod contains a directed explosive charge using rivets on its nose, used to puncture ship armour. On the top of the ship is an access hatch, used to enter or exit the pod. The fins on the side of the pod are auxiliary rotational axis stabilisers, used to assist in orienting the pod. Two red thruster pipes on the roof of the pod, known as the dual maneuvering and breaking thrusters, assist in turning or slowing down the pod in movement. Towards the rear of the pod is the main engine, with a communication and guidance antenna attached. The very rear of the pod has the maindrive thrusters, used to propel the pod forward in space.

## Gallery

A Breacher Pod heading for the old Escape Gate.The service manual of the Breacker Pod.Concept art for the Breacher Pod.Concept art for the Breacher Pod.

## General

### Used by

 Pirates
Raiders

### Consolecodename(s)

DropPod\_Raider

File:Heavy Breacher Pod Icon.png

## Overview

The Heavy Breacher Pod is an armoured variant of the Breacher Pod, and is used to protect the user when breaching ships. The Heavy Breacher Pod will mitigate 80% of damage taken while breaching. One Heavy Breacher Pod is present on all ships except the Rustbucket. Using the Heavy Breacher Pod will incur a 120 second cooldown for the Escape Pod it spawns from.
## Trivia

* There are five Breacher Pods tangled in chains and crashed on the floor in a hangar of the Merchant Ship that have the names *L. Lord*, *Z. Chum*, *E. Devon*, *Omid. L* and *S. Dekie*, all referencing different streamers.
	+ *L. Lord* stands for "Loot Lord", and is a reference to AquaFPS.
	+ *Z. Chum* is a reference to ZChum.
	+ *E. Devon* is a reference to ExfilCamper.
	+ *Omid. L* is a reference to OmidLive.
	+ *S. Dekie* is a reference to Sterdekie.

## References

1. ↑ DEV BLOG - #005 - New Frontier - July 15th, 2023 - Steam
2. ↑ Marauders Update - Excavation 1.1 - August 21st, 2023 - Steam
3. ↑ Twitter - @Playmarauders - Dec 1st, 2022
4. ↑ ExfilCamper - whose pods are these??? - Twitch Clip