Dropship

Dropships were ships which transported several foes to positions in front of Ratchet in an attempt to kill him. They could be destroyed, but they took a lot of damage. In Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando and Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, they didn't give any experience or bolts when destroyed, but they did in Ratchet: Deadlocked.

The Dropships all deployed troops down onto the battlefield and were almost always used as offensive gunships, as most of them possessed lasers. The Blarg in the original game possessed several of these ships to deploy their elite troopers, and Thugs-4-Less possessed them. It is also implied that the Extermibots used these when sent in to combat the Protopet menace invading Allgon City, Damosel. The Thyrranoids used these in every one of their major battles, often overwhelming whole squads of Galactic Rangers and overwhelming entire cities. Gleeman Vox used hundreds of these small craft to pit Ratchet against his massive hordes of gladiators. Dr. Nefarious has used these twice, first to deploy the more elite Troopers he possessed back in the Solana Galaxy, then later when he resurfaced in the Polaris Galaxy to beam down members of his army of Nefarious Troopers.

Not all Dropships were armed or used by the enemy. In the third game, the Starship Phoenix possessed a single Dropship which could hold Ratchet, Clank, and one squad of Galactic Rangers. It was brown in color and rather bulbous, but it had a fearsome design. Gleeman Vox used a remote-controlled Dropship to deliver Ratchet to his battles in the Shadow Sector, but any tampering with the controls would result in automatic self-destruct.

Appearances

 * Ratchet and Clank
 * Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando
 * Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal
 * Ratchet: Deadlocked
 * Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
 * Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction
 * Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time