ARCO Emergency Protocals · 8:39pm Oct 24th, 2014
When an ARCO Conversion Pod, also known as an Interdimensional Transport and Acclimatization Unit is launched from headquarters, it does so only after hundreds of probes have successfully landed and scouted the area. Usually mistaken as weather balloons, will-o-wisps, or even UFOs, the probes carry out various scans and data collection before returning to ARCO for assessment.
While ARCO has never lost a single dimension jumper, we have lost a large number of probes though only temporarily. Unable to accept anchors, a probe will naturally return to ARCO once the dimensional pull becomes too great for it to stay where it is, regardless of its current condition.
With all of this data, it is near statistically impossible for a probe to land in a really dangerous environment or strange alignment. Any world is carefully vetted to know that our jumpers will be relatively safe. The landing location of a pod is generated as the average of a number of carefully selected probes, but even this has fail safes.
If a pod would land in a solid object, the pod will relocate until it is free of one. If the universe appears to be slightly out of phase, the pod will attempt to correct.
The only time something silly like an orbital drop would occur is if someone was deliberately choosing bad probes.
And that wouldn't happen.
right?
