Each Heechee carries a microwave emitter in a storage pod between his or her legs.

And the storage pods are self-contained- you could take one and leave the rest alone.

I could probably get seven bars of gold-pressed latinum for an empty storage pod.

"If even one blast gets through to those storage pods, we'll all be space junk!"

But now we have both the storage pods and the tanker, and we paid for them with our blood!

By all accounts, it is the most pure, and they have the best storage pods.

Three-fourths of the space was taken up by the storage pods and their support mechanism.

Odo recalled from his research that each storage pod was a self-contained unit with its own computer and monitoring systems.

"Dax, is there any way to eject a storage pod and set it to explode at a given distance?"

The only place for cargo was a nonpressurized external storage pod where temperatures could drop to 60 or 70 below.