A Krill escape pod.
An escape pod was a type of pod, a small vessel, used by larger spacecraft for evacuation. Typically, escape pods were used as a last resort in the face of the host ship's imminent destruction. Escape pods were used by a variety of space-flight capable civilizations, such as the Planetary Union and the Krill.
Planetary Union[]
Union ships carried a host of escape pods, including the USS Orville.
Krill[]
Barely visible at such scales, an escape pod exits a much larger destroyer.
Krill escape pods were found on Krill destroyers located along the exterior hull of the ship. They were not found in the Shuttle Bay.[1]
Escape pods were designed with the unique needs of Krill physiology in mind; they aimed towards the closest habitable world and by default sought the planet's night side to protect the Krill passenger from a star's deadly ultraviolet radiation.[1]
Escape pods were accessible by special doorway that could be opened manually in the event the destroyer lost even its backup emergency power.[1]
Each escape pod came equipped with a portable distress beacon.[1]
History[]
When the Chak'tal attack a Krill destroyer in late 2420, Teleya and Captain Ed Mercer fled by escape pod to the nearest habitable planet.[1]
After the Orville incurred heavy damage in the Battle of Earth in early 2421, Ed ordered all hands to escape pods, as he intended to overload the quantum drive.[2] In an alternate timeline, the crew of the Orville fled the Battle of Earth by escape pod.[3]
Production[]
Krill escape pods were designed by assistant art director Kit Stølen. In the first concept designs, the pod was boxy, like a tapered decagonal prism. The concept art was forwarded to set designer Daniel Saks, "who refined and remodeled it in a vector based CAD, in order to prep the design for large 3D Printing."[4] Final architectural blueprints for set construction were drafted by Eugene Adamov.[5]
The final product was more-or-less the same as Stølen's designs, although Saks apparently widened the pod to make it more more ovoid and egg-shaped.
Appearances[]
- Episode 2x04: Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes
- Episode 2x09: Identity, Pt. 2 (mentioned only)
- Episode 2x14: The Road Not Taken (mentioned only)
- Episode 3x01: Electric Sheep
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Episode 2x04: Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes
- ↑ Episode 2x09: Identity, Pt. 2
- ↑ Episode 2x14: The Road Not Taken
- ↑ @KITST7LEN. "Early concept I did for the Krill Escape pod Exterior. It would then go onto Set Designer @DAS_Machina who refined and remodeled it in a vector based CAD, in order to prep the design for large 3D Printing.". Twitter. March 30, 2020.
- ↑ THE ORVILLE_SEASON2. eugeneadamov.com. Last accessed March 9, 2022.