Deployment Pod

The Deployment Pod is an object that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series published by IDW Publishing. It is a type of floating capsule used for containing Wisps.

Description
The Deployment Pods are floating capsules for holding Wisps. These containers have a red-colored chassis at the bottom with a transparent top cover. On top of the covers are a red disk with a transparent spike.

Past
During the war between the Eggman Empire and the Resistance, the Deployment Pods were used by the latter to sent Wisps into enemy areas where they would wait for Resistance soldiers to arrive and free them from the pods. Despite the accommodations, the Wisps did not mind the pods.

Shortly before the war ended, the mercenaries Rough and Tumble used Deployment Pods to imprison the Wisps they had hoarded from the town they had taken over.

Fallout
After Sonic and Knuckles came to Rough and Tumble's town and defeated the two villains, the townspeople helped free the captured Wisps from their Deployment Pods.