Escape pods are typically made from composite materials designed to withstand extremes of temperature and pressure, and can protect a single occupant in the event of ship destruction.
— In-game description
The Occupied Escape Pod can be found within Salvageable Wreckage signatures and in Points of Interest on the surfaces of planets and moons.
Considered legal.
Bulletin Boards in surface ports sometimes give missions to retrieve Occupied Escape Pods.
Detailed view of an Occupied Escape Pod floating in space.
SRV Scarab and an Escape Pod