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Most UNSC Ships carry several of these, and at most airlocks there is at least one of them stationed. Like [[Pelican]] ships, each one has a call sign, usually consisting of three letters from the phonetic alphabet followed by a two digit number. | Most UNSC Ships carry several of these, and at most airlocks there is at least one of them stationed. Like [[Pelican]] ships, each one has a call sign, usually consisting of three letters from the phonetic alphabet followed by a two digit number. | ||
==Features== | |||
Bunblebee lifepods are designed to ferry nine people at a time, they have one pilot seat as well as eight backward facing crash seats. The seats have harnesses to keep people from injury when crash-landing. The effectiveness of the safety features on the Bumblebee vary greatly, as can their reliability. Some of the Bumblebees featured in Halo landed without any injuries, while a few had catastrophic failures resulting in the deaths of all aboard. Most of the lifeboats seen had several marines who apparently did not survive the descent. | |||
Bumblebees have little in the way of maneuverability, they feature thrusters and airbrakes to slow down during descent, but they can not build enough escape velocity to leave a planet's atmosphere on their own. | |||
The ''[[UNSC Pillar of Autumn]]'' carried a compliment of these, likely several dozen. All of them were used to evacuate the vessel when it was shot down during [[The Battle of Installation 04]]<ref>''Halo: Combat Evolved (seen on the levels [[Pillar of Autumn]] and [[Halo]])''</ref>. | |||
==Known Bumblebees== | ==Known Bumblebees== | ||