Mobile Infantry

"Service Guarantees Citizenship!"

- Commercial slogan advertising Federal Service, accompanied by film showing charging, screaming Mobile Infantry troops: Starship Troopers Film

In the fictional world of the film "Starship Troopers", a United mankind has developed interstellar space travel, and has become a unified Facist state. Humanity however is not alone in the stars: another race, the Alien Arachnids, or bugs, challenges man for control of the whole Galaxy, and eventually earth is attacked by a meteor the bugs sent to earth, destroying the city of Beunos Aires in Argentina. However, humanity fights back, for among the different banches of the military is the Mobile Infantry, the bulk of Earth's defenders! These footsoldiers are well armored and armed, and their service gives them the right to become Citizens instead of normal civilians (Citizens can vote and have other priveledges civilians don't).

Each Mobile Infantryman, woman, or boy and girl (possibly pre-teens ca enlist) are geared with helmets and other pieces of armor to protect them from bullets and other dangers, and each carries a solid metal knife that is sharp enough to cut through Arachnid carapaces. They are good melee weapons and can be thrown, and despite their solid metal desgin they are easily griped. Each infantryman is also skilled in the French Martial art of Savate (this is mentioned in the novel, and in the film fresh recruits witness their drill sargeant use martial arts in self defense. Therefore Savate will be the martial art used here).

The main weapon of the Mobile Infantry at the beginning of the war is the Moritta Mk I rifle, which has two barrels (the upper barrel fires fully automatic, the lower is a shotgun. Both cannot be used at once). This rifle is very dangerous, but against Arachnids they are weak in fully automatic mode (it helps to have numerous ones firing on arachnids at once. In shotgun mode, just one rifle can mess an arachid up, but to be safe, better use two of them on a incoming warrior Arachnid). There are other variations on the Moritta Mk I design: the Carbine version (only has the machine gun barrel, but possibly more effective than the normal Moritta Mk I at full auto. Mostly used by Space Naval officers, but at times used by mobile Infantry), the Sniper rifle (has a scope that can zoom and track a target). The Moritta Mk II Advanced systems rifle, a one barreled rifle, is capable of destroying the top of a hill with one shot, and is semi automatic, the perfect anti-Arachnid Rifle. However, this rifle is brand new, and was no doubt a rare weapon at the beginning of the Human-Bug war.

Other weapons used by the Mobile infantry include the MK55 Tactical Nuke launcher, or Mini Nuke Launcher, a bazooka-like weapon that is loaded from the front instead of the back, with a small pointed nuclear projectile. The device comes with a portable suitcase that has six of these bombs, and when fired produces a powerful blast, yet not a blast as big as that of the original atomic Bomb (However, the blast made is more powerful by far than a cruise missile blast). Another weapon is the MX-90 Grenade, which blows 3-5 seconds after you hit the red button on it, producing a powerful blast.

Mobile Infantry manning outposts will at times have available twin heavy machine gun platforms, which are strange hybrids of the Browning M2HB and DShk heavy machine gun designs, with futuristic enhancements and additions. These weapons pepper Arachnids into pulps, sending them to Bug Heaven!