History Headscratchers / StarshipTroopers

** I always thought that the answer was pretty simple: UNTIL he has fully regenerated, for all intent puprposes (and RuleOfDrama), he is KIA. The doctors don't know if he'll survive regeneration or not, so they list him as KIA, [[BotheringByTheBook just in case]].

** I always thought that the answer was pretty simple: UNTIL he has fully regenerated, for all puprooses (and RuleOfDrama), he is KIA. The doctors don't know if he'll survive regeneration or not, so they list him as KIA, [[BotheringByTheBook just in case]].

** I always thought that the answer was pretty simple: UNTIL he has fully regenerated, for all puprooses (and RuleOfDrama), he is KIA. The doctors don't know if he'll survive regeneeation or not, so they list him as KIA, [[BotheringByTheBook just in case]].

** She might also have quit in shame and guilt, but the movie isn't clear on that.

*** Carman had no way of knowing the asteroid would be there. And considering that they didn't notice it till it was right on top of them and no one else saw it till it struck Earth they probably wouldn't have noticed it if they'd continued on their first course.

** The trooper who shot the guy seems to have been immediately kicked out. Rico probably was lined up for the same. He ''was'' in charge, and confessed to ordering the removal of the helmet. He only got whipped because Zim said he might be redeemable.

** A. Rico was the one in charge. He is responsible for his squad's safety. He is the one who told a trooper to remove his protective helmet during an exercise where live ammunition is being used, which is stupid and negligent. It's like a coach ordering his quarterback to take his helmet off in the middle of a play. B. The person who fired the shot fell over and fired by accident. She clearly didn't do it on purpose, while Rico's actions were deliberate. As for it being unsafe, the ''entire exercise'' was ludicrously and completely unsafe to anyone with even a basic knowledge of the four safety rules for guns. If anything, the trooper getting shot is the inevitable consequence of the complete incompetence of everyone who designed that exercise.

* Why the hell was Rico the one being whipped? All he did was have someone under his command take off his faulty helmet. The soldier who shot and killed the guy should've been the one being whipped! She was firing her gun off wildly while falling and ended up killing someone which is a display of the most reckless disregard for gun safety ever done by a soldier. It was just an unfortunate but extremely avoidable accident. As I said before, the soldier who accidentally killed the guy should've been the one being whipped and given an involuntary manslaughter charge and Rico should've gotten off scot-free. So why was it the other way around?
** A. Rico was the one in charge. He is responsible for his squad's safety. He is the one who told a trooper to remove his protective helmet during an exercise where live ammunition is being used, which is stupid and negligent. It's like a coach ordering his quarterback to take his helmet off in the middle of a play. B. The person who fired the shot fell over and fired by accident. She clearly didn't do it on purpose, while Rico's actions were deliberate. As for it being unsafe, the ''entire exercise'' was ludicrously and completely unsafe to anyone with even a basic knowledge of the four safety rules for guns. If anything, the trooper getting shot is the inevitable consequence of the complete incompetence of everyone who designed that exercise. C. New entries go on the bottom of the page.

** The film is implied to take the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' approach. . . human lives are plentiful and cheap, habitable planets are rare and valuable. In the book, the MI with their PowerArmor are actually equipped to take and hold territory from the bugs. It's the oldest truism of warfare: only boots on the ground can take and hold land from the enemy.

** In the book, this question is asked and the answer is a combination of a couple things. One is that what they're really fighting over is real estate -- the Federation doesn't really ''want'' to kill the bugs, per se, it's just that both sides want the same real estate and they are unable to peacefully coexist since their societies are so completely different. The other is that the MI's purpose is described as, essentially, kicking down the enemy's door, punching them in the face, and sitting there declaring, "This is mine now and there's nothing you can do about it." It's about sending the message that the MI is strong enough and tough enough that you shouldn't bother attacking them.

** Because winning the war as quickly and bloodlessly as possible isn't actually the goal. The society runs on perpetual warfare.

* Why even send infantry against the Arachnids? Why not just fire nuclear missiles at their planet from orbit?

* How did Carmen survive the collision? When the ship hit the asteroid, she fell right into the controls as they blew. Later, we see her, not only still alive, but with just a cut across her forehead.

** Well to some extend all countries do have some limits on who can vote and who can be elected, the most common are to be older than 18 and not been a foreigner (although some countries like Argentina allow legal foreign residents and minors over 16 to vote but are the exception and not the rule), this Verse only added one more requirement to be a citizen besides age and naturalization. Similarly in the USA convicted felons can’t vote, some people will say that’s unfair (convicted felons do vote in most countries and even some places have voting polls in prisons) as felons or not they’re still citizens, and of course in some places you have to be citizen by birth to be elected to certain offices. So, in a similar way in how currently most countries establish a series of demands for a person to be considered a full citizen and been able to vote, same in this case just they add an extra requirement that is not common in any modern country that I’m aware off.