Intercontinental Ballistic Cargo Pods
Vanilla transport pods have been outclassed by the shuttles added in Odyssey so I didn't think the balance of their miniscule cost outweighed the tedium of having to daisy chain drop pod trips over long distance so I have added an upgraded version.
Vanilla transport pods have been outclassed by the shuttles added in Odyssey so I didn't think the balance of their miniscule cost outweighed the tedium of having to daisy chain drop pod trips over long distance so I have added an upgraded version. Intercontinental Ballistic Transport Pod research allows the construction of ICBPs which are which are stronger without the need for a launcher.
ICBPs can be launched on their own without the need of a pod launcher like the ancient transport pods on the Odyssey asteroids, but unlike those mining pods they can utilize launch groups (and their laws of physics bending powers) and without the need of contiguous launchers. They cost 75 steel (vs vanilla 60) but have a carry capacity of 250 (vs 150). The added weight means their fuel per tile is increased to 2.5 (vs 2.25) but max fuel capacity is 400 (vs 150) giving it a range of almost 100 tiles more than vanilla.
For the art I just cleaned the rust of the ancient transport pods.