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Starship Troopers should have been a serious full lenth episodic scifi anime like Legend of Galactic Heroes or Space Battleship Yamato if one wanted to cover the full length of Rico career from start to finish instead of being a butchered movie adaptation by a bunch of Hollywood politically corrected asshats who don't even bother reading the book and think its fascist propaganda just because of its political and militarism theme or because they watched that 1997 parody of a film by Verhoeven.


While i hate Japanese nationalist wank in their military mecha stuff at times, at least a Japanese anime studio with actual commitment would have make SST a more faithful adaptation. The book itself is simply just too long to cover the whole journey of Rico in one film from a boy to a man, and the episodic nature of an average weekly anime is more than enough to cover the whole interpersonal journey of a soldier perspective of an interstellar conflict.

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People who think wings dont belong on a spacecraft just for the excuse of “muh realism” are idiots, Spaceplane is a thing and the concept had persisted a lot longer than you would have expected, it was one of the very first form of spacecraft to be drawn up even before pure-space based spacecrafts with only rocket thrusters did. Hell, go look up the Sanger Silbervogel sub-orbital bomber, that thing is one of the very first spacecraft design ever conceived, even though later on they knew it had flaws, its still fundamentally important to the developments of spacecrafts.


And no you cannot use the fucking Babylon 5 Starfury as an example for a realistic space fighter, that thing is a good space fighter but a complete turd in atmospheric condition, It really pissed me off that many think B5 Starfury is a legitimately best space fighter design ever just because it was designed with NASA help.


Granted, wings are useless in space, but if your designs are meant for multi-environment conditions, then wings and surface controls are definitely required. For a hybrid craft that had ground attack capability for supporting planetary invasions then having wings and surface controls is a must. Designing a space-only fighter pretty much means the whole thing is gonna be a lawn dart in atmosphere and completely unflyable for any tasks that isn't related to spaceflight, for examples like low-level bombing or counter-insurgency task.


Its for these same reasons why I generally prefer spaceplane designs in Scifi, things like the Longsword from Halo games or the F-302 from Stargate, even to less realistic designs like the Cosmo Tiger II from Space Battleship Yamato series, those are really good hybrid space fighters for multi-environmental combat, i mean if you look at current spaceplane concepts, they aren't that far off.

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This story takes place on a desert planet, about a young boy with psychic powers, fighting an evil emperor and throughout the course of the story uncover greater role he will play in a galactic destiny and is one of the best sci-fi works of all time...No, it's not Star Wars you illiterate normies! Its the sci-fi novel Dune by Frank Herbert, stop watching Star Wars and pick up the Dune book series now before the 2020 reboot release!

In fact, since the new Star Wars trilogy already ended and The High Republic is pretty much just a ripoff of the Old Republic stuff with more wokeness and SJW craps, expect the franchise to go downhill even further, not even Mandalorian or Clone Wars final season can save this sinking ship of a franchise mismanaged by Disney. On the otherhand, I am actually quite happy and exicted to see Dune actually gets a reboot, the Syfy versions are good but the show aged really badly in FX, while the Lynch version is visually stunning but trying too hard to make things more complicated than it is. Denis Villeneuve is a good director and i think this will be just as good as Blade Runner 2049, probably even better.

If the movie become a hit at the box office and opens up a whole new franchise, I think perhaps by then we can tell people to realize what a fucking hack George Lucas was the moment people started to read the book its based on. Suffice to say, expect a lot of those so called Disney Star Wars shills to come over and slam it for being a "Star Wars clone" despite they were the one who ripped off Dune in the first place. 


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Something that I just realized back when I read Heinlein's Novel and based on what i seen from the SST movies, Roughnecks cartoon as well as the old anime adaptation by Sunrise. The Terran Federation itself is actually better than the Star Trek United Federation of Planets. There are actually quite a lot of points which had been proven in both the novel and the film themselves.

1. In the UFP, you get sentenced to a Gulag in space in the form of a Penal Colony just for trying to get your children a gene therapy (see ST DS9: Doctor Bashir I presume). In addition, they also had a machine which destroyed human mind and leave the brain pretty much nothing but a lifeless husk as a punishment for mentally unstable criminals (TOS: Dagger of the Mind). Meanwhile in the Terran Federation, the laws are harsh but fair, for example in Rico's case of an accidental murder in live-fire training, it was quite obvious that the whole thing was due to a fault in his teammate's equipments and what Rico was doing is to simply trying to assist him,he was punished by public flogging/caning, which is actually a far cry from being sentenced to a prison, or at worst, a penal colony.

2. In the Terran Federation, Private Ownership still exists, it is mentioned that Johnny Rico's father was a wealthy industrialist who had a long-term contract to supply food on orders for the Federation Military. There are also a few Private Arms Industries mentioned in the SST Movies and other media with the notable one being Morita Arms Company responsible for productions of firearms and infantry armor for the Terran Military themselves. Another funny thing is that in the Movie-verse, AT&T is actually still around despite its already a few centuries into the future.

Meanwhile the setting of Star Trek Federation is a place where property rights is non-existent, while the Ferengi still had their own wealth, species who were part of the Federation pretty much had zero private ownership of property, no proper monetary system while the government pretty much controls everything, from your housing to transportation to your jobs. It is also implied that the concept of wealth and private ownership is virtually non-existent in the Federation society as if everyone are equal and no one ever thought about the idea of accumulating wealth.

3.In the SST movieverse, when a group of Mormon extremists wants more autonomy from the Federation and found their own colony on Port Joe Smith, the Federation simply let them be but required them to obey by Federal laws and regulations and atleast should be educated under Federal programs. In addition the Federation also consistently warned the colonists about the danger of founding a colony within Bug's territort. The result is pretty clear that the whole colony did not exactly heed the Federation's warning and paid the price for their ignorance and their antagonism towards the Federation
(see Starship Troopers: Brute Creation comic).

In Star Trek DS9, the Marquis got pretty much stomped on by both the Federation and the Cardassians despite all they want is to be left alone. Not only the UFP gives zero fuck about their well-beings but also abandoned them to Cardassian occupations in the Demilitarized Zone. How did the UFP respond to the Marquis movement? By gassing their colony and making their world uninhabitable for years to come.

4.You may think of the Terran's hatred for the Bugs can be borderline genocidal, but here is the gist, they were fighting in a losing war for their own survival, for the Federation mentality "Its either them or us", and the destruction of the Bug Hives through the use of NOVA bombs can be equivalent to the atomic bomings on Japan. Controversial? Yes! But it could saved more than thousands, if not, millions of Federation soldiers.

On the other hands, the Star Trek Federation is pretty much committing a literal genocide by willing to let a whole pre-space flight species died out because of "Muh Prime Directive" and because in their view, the species simply isn't worth saving because "their gene pool had died out" despite the fact that a cure could have been administered. Archer pretty much committed a genocide over 50 million people just because he think a sentient species is not worth saving even though they are non-hostile and were pretty much begging the Enterprise for help with their own lives (see Star Trek ENT: Dear Doctor).

In conclusion, you may not like it, but the fact is that the Terran Federation from Starship Troopers is more benevolent than the Federation from Star Trek. From both a moral viewpoint and a more philosophical one.

TL,DR: The 
Virgin Liberal Exploratory Federation vs Chad Meritocratic Military Federation and how the latter is actually a more realistic society and a better place to live in.
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Its just sad to see how underrated this man is, in the end, his theories did prove its merits and even changed the status quo of the global powers at the time. The U-boat Campaigns in the Atlantic and the US Submariners efforts in choking Japan's supplies in WW2 further supported this.

By that extension, you can also applied to Space Warfare and the Space Supremacy Strategy as well, Raiding the enemy's convoys and weaker links and cut their supplies off from their colonies, slowly starving them to death. Any Fleet can succumb to a Naval Blockade and when they are weakened enough, a few decisive battles are more than enough to knock them out of existences.

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