They use dropships that are essentially shuttles. Individual armored fighting vehicles might have their own reentry systems, but it doesn't seem cost-effective to me to have individual reentry craft for each soldier, and I don't really see the combat value to it. Individual pods would make it harder to take out a whole squad with a single shot, but I think the enormous cost of the individual pods (which I presume must be disposable) negates that advantage. And I think there would be the significant risk of scattering your squad across an entire continent.Snoofman wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:28 amDo loroi have the equivalent of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers? If so, what is their method of landing? With drop pods? Stealth craft? In more extreme cases do the loroi still utilize parachutes? Or do they have personal gear that is more efficient than personal parachutes? Assuming the orbital drop loroi does not have telekineses to assist in slowing her descent.
I don't think parachutes are functional high enough in the atmosphere to prevent the fatal part of heating during reentry. The guy who set the parachute jump record in a space suit wasn't decelerating from orbital velocity and he was only about 40 km up (low Earth orbit starts at about 300 km).