I do not like pods

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Traitorous pods are cool.

Vigilante pods are terrible, specially at escape. I've seen changelings and traitors get wrecked by a jackass in a pod, shooting from space where they can't be reached, while they have to contend with a shuttle full of people.

Maybe at least phasers should do extremely little damage to mobs and be more of a starter antipod weapon, since that's what most vigilante scum use.