Dropship



The Dropship (ドロップシップ Doroppushippu) is a small ship from the Mega Man Legends series created by Banner Caskett for landing in rough atmospheres. Banner created it so that he and Matilda Caskett could land on Forbidden Island. A second Dropship is later built by Banner after he loses his memory and goes by the name Joe, and completed by his daughter Roll Caskett. Mega Man Volnutt and Roll Caskett use this second Dropship to land on Forbidden Island to rescue Roll's grandfather, Barrell Caskett.

Description
The top of the ship has propellers that rotate at a high velocity to reduce the falling speed. The top also has a balloon to lift the ship, so the user can leave the area they have landed in.

The first Dropship was designed to safely land on Forbidden Island by Banner Caskett. However, Banner and his wife Matilda Caskett went missing after landing on Forbidden Island and never returned. Ten years later, during the events of Mega Man Legends 2, Banner, now having lost all of his memories and going by the name Joe, has started working on another Dropship so he can return to Forbidden Island to find answers as to what happened to him.

Later on, Banner and Matilda's daughter Roll Caskett uses Banner's plans to begin working to build a second Dropship in an attempt to enter Forbidden Island and rescue her grandfather Barrell Caskett, as the ship he had been aboard, the Sulphur-Bottom, became trapped in the storm surrounding Forbidden Island.

Roll and Mega Man Volnutt land on the Continent of Calinca to buy parts for the construction of the Dropship in a Junk Shop, and there they discover that a man named Joe was also building a Dropship to reach Forbidden Island. Believing that Joe knows her father, Roll goes after him. After Mega Man and Roll find a shed belonging to Joe and seeing that Joe's Dropship was nearly complete, Maria's daughter tells them he went to the Abandoned Mine to find a Refractor to power the Dropship.

Mega Man and Roll head to the Abandoned Mine and find that Joe has been injured in a fight with the Reaverbot, Jaiwan, but Mega Man and Roll are able to rescue him after Mega Man defeats the Reaverbot and retrieves the refractor. Joe says he can't help Roll with finding her father as all he knows is that he was holding the blueprints for the Dropship when he was found with amnesia near the city ten years ago.

Joe allows them to use his Dropship, which is then taken to the Flutter's hanger and completed by Roll. Mega Man safely lands on Forbidden Island with the Dropship, but the wind blows it off course and he has to walk through the storm. On the way to locate the Sulphur Bottom, he finds an old Dropship with a woman (Yuna) apparently sleeping inside. This red Dropship turns out to be the same Dropship that was used by Banner and Matilda ten years ago.

Trivia

 * As Banner and Matilda were unable to return from Forbidden Island, and Joe's blueprints have been written over several times, it is assumed that the first Dropship had flaws in its design.
 * Maria's daughter wrote "I luv daddy" in one part of Joe's Dropship.
 * Concept art shows that the Dropship has a large airbag-like feature in the bottom to reduce the impact of a landing, and the ship releases part of the bottom when it is used. In-game the airbag is not seen, as when it is shown in Forbidden Island, it is partially in the ground. The lower part is seemingly always present, even when returning to the Flutter. This may have more to do with graphical limitations in the game itself as opposed to a change in the design of the Dropship, however.