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Old 08-01-2017, 09:38 AM   #25
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Default Re: [Game] Generate a military sci-fi setting

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Originally Posted by ericthered View Post
Q22
What does an elite shock trooper wear: battle suits? mecha? exoskeletons? Flight packs? unpowered armor? Luck and awesomely bared abs? or something else? or are their multiple kinds?
A22: Elite shock troopers vary depending on the expected mission. The most common, however, are "space marines" who deal with boarding other ships. These generally use battlesuits when they can afford them, combat hardsuits and other environment suits when they can't. All the suits have thruster units to enable them to get to the enemy ship. Space marines also tend to have stealthy assault shuttles that are designed to get them close, while a few of the more notorious units use boarding pods that drill into an enemy hull until it comes across an area it can open up and deposit its forces into.

Mecha are used more often by ground-based defensive forces, particularly on Mars and Luna. The mecha are more often closer to BattleTech battlemechs or Macross destroids than they are Gundams or Evas, but a few forces have transforming mecha - ala the Macross Valkyries and Mospaeda Cyclones - for increased mobility.

Some groups are experimenting with robotic boarding operation soldiers of varying styles, with varying degrees of success.


Q23:
With all this going on, are the fighter pilots, mecha pilots, or space marine boarders held in higher regard by the general populace, and why?
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