| 1976 ‘G. Lucas’ Star Wars 14
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Threepio stared, mesmerized, out the small viewport set in the front of the tiny escape pod as the hot yellow eye of Tatooine began to swallow them up.
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| 1991 A. McCaffrey & E. Moon Generation Warriors 101
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Thinking of Sassinak reminded him again of her experience in the escape pod.
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| 1998 E. Moon Rules of Engagement 58
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A buddy stuffed me in an escape pod, and when old Cutlass was blown, I was safely away.
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| 1998 D. Duane Starrise at Corrivale 131
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Both of them had been gutted for salvage but could easily be refitted to house either a sensor bay or even a small weapons compartment. The ship's escape pod had also been salvaged, but its housing bay seemed in good shape.
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| 2001 T. Zahn Angelmass 329
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EmDef can have a transport to them in twenty minutes‥. There's also a double ring of emergency escape pods set around the tube connecting the catapult and net sections of the station.
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| 2002 P. McAuley Making Hist. 87
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‘It fell into Saturn.’‘The scow did, yes. But before it took its dive, it travelled most of the way around the planet within the ring system, long enough to drop off its passengers and cargo in escape pods.’
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| 2002 T. Huff Better Part of Valor 317
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Torin leaned forward, staring through the window into a gray padded interior. It looked like no escape pod she'd ever seen either, but—in a weird way—it looked like all of them.
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