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Escape pod

An escape pod was a capsule or craft used to escape a vessel in an emergency.

Ishtar used an escape pod to survive the destruction of her ship. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys)

A group of Pyroviles travelled to Earth in an escape pod. (TV: The Fires of Pompeii)

Several escaping Terileptil criminals used an escape pod to survive the destruction of their stolen spaceship. However, the crash killed all but four of the Terileptils. (TV: The Visitation)

Davros survived the destruction of his mothership in an escape pod. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks, PROSE: War of the Daleks, AUDIO: Terror Firma, Daleks Among Us) Davros also escaped Prison Station using an escape pod. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks) During the Last Great Time War, an alternate Davros escaped Falkus's destruction in an escape pod. (AUDIO: A Genius for War)

The Black Gold had a one-man escape pod. (TV: The Infinite Quest)

Martha Jones and Riley Vashtee tried to get away from a Torajii-possessed Dev Ashton by locking themselves in an escape pod. The Tenth Doctor was able to bring them back by boosting the SS Pentallian's magnetic lock. (TV: 42)

The Half-Face Man's spaceship had an escape capsule: a hot air balloon made of human skin. (TV: Deep Breath)

The First Doctor and the Chief Voord escaped the destruction of a Voord spaceship in an escape capsule, which they landed in a South American jungle, with the Daleks following after them. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Daleks)

The "lucky ones" managed to escape the destruction of Rulers of the Universe' party ship in escape shuttles. (AUDIO: The Rulers of the Universe)

Androvax escaped from Captain Tybo using an escape pod. (TV: Prisoner of the Judoon)

The Fifth Doctor boasted that his TARDIS beat an escape pod any day of the week, "except perhaps Pancake Tuesdays." (AUDIO: Empire of the Racnoss)

While suggesting methods to get past the 'possessed' UNIT forces, Bill Potts proposed using an escape pod only for the Tenth Doctor to inform her that the TARDIS had none. The Twelfth Doctor improvised and subsequently jettisoned the TARDIS' art gallery with both his selves and Jenny inside. (COMIC: The Lost Dimension)

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