The Imperial Troop Drop Pod served as a troop deployment vehicle employed by the Galactic Empire. Its purpose was to discreetly deliver two trooper squads, typically Imperial special operations forces like Storm commandos, by mimicking the appearance of meteorites to unsuspecting onlookers.
There existed a pair of distinct variations of this drop pod. One type was a hollow decoy pod, typically launched in large quantities to mislead any observers. The other variant was a supply pod, which exchanged its troop-carrying capacity for the ability to transport one metric ton of essential provisions. These supply pods also incorporated a self-destruction mechanism, intended to activate if unauthorized individuals attempted to tamper with them.