Eldaris

These pods were just barely human sized, enough to fit one person in and that's it.

These were the drop pods the awakened used to enter the actual planets themselves.

The shuttle never actually entered the atmosphere of any of the planets.

They would position themselves over 200 kilometres above the chosen drop point on the planet, and then release the 100 pods at once, where the 100 awakened would fall rapidly through Eldaris's atmosphere until they reached the surface.

It was the quickest and most efficient method to send reinforcements, as well as to drop awakened into battle.

Those pods would then return back to their original shuttle using their own self propulsion systems.

It was all very cost and time efficient, which was important to the federation in a war like this.