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| [[File:Whatiplayed starship troopers.jpg|thumb|450px|The movies are <s>shit,</s>a satire of the books ultra hard right viewpoint. But seriously, read the book]]
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| ''"A suit isn't a space suit - although it can serve as one. It is not primarily armor - although the Knights of the Round Table were not armored as well as we are... A suit is not a ship but it can fly, a little - on the other hand neither spaceships nor atmosphere craft can fight against a man in a suit except by saturation bombing of the area he is in."''
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| '''Starship Troopers''' is a science fiction book by Robert Heinlein, later adapted into a series of movies, a cartoon, and several board and wargames. It influenced the look and feel of science fiction militaries that came after -- and it influences real-world militaries as well, as it is on the required reading lists of the United States Marine Corps and Navy.
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| The basic storyline is that [[humanity]] is fighting a war against an implacable species of insectoid aliens called "Bugs" or "Arachnids". The actual front-line combatants are the Mobile Infantry, an elite, all-volunteer force equipped with devastating weapons and [[powered armor]]. Life for the average human is not bad, but the only way to get ahead (like the right to vote) is to do a term of service in the military.
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| Does any of this sound familiar? ''Would you like to know more?''
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| Frankly, the only reason that Starship Troopers avoids falling into a pit of cliches is because it did them all first -- the ''Alien'' films, [[Warhammer 40,000]], [[Starcraft]], and basically all military science-fiction since the 1950's owe a lot to Mr. Heinlein.
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| Worth noting, Heinlein's Bugs (not the movie Arachnids) are like the only hivemind-insectoid race in the fiction capable of using actual tech (like metal-made spaceships, electromagnetic guns and good-old nukes) instead of biotech.
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| == External Links ==
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| * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGHCoVzqtk Klendathu Drop], from the first movie's soundtrack, and one of the features of the movie that everyone agrees is awesome. Very useful in [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch]] and [[Only War]] games.
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