Scene of the Week: Starship Troopers – Assault on Planet P
There was an intense feeling of ‘something is wrong here-ness’ from the very first moments that the mobile infantry landed on Planet P. Assaulting Klendathu was a massive strategic mistake and thousands of lives were lost. On the other hand, lessons were learned that meant the military would take a new tactic that now saw Johny Rico and company cautiously walking through the desert of this alien planet.
Outpost 29 is where the Roughnecks would attempt to make contact with a previous unit on the planet and it didn’t take long to realize that every there was annihilated. Well, almost everyone. One cowardly officer was there hidden from the sight of the bugs and protected from the excruciating death of having his brains sucked out.
The Roughnecks quickly learned that they, too, would need to be rescued as thousands upon thousands of bugs came down upon them like a swarm of locusts. What an absolutely epic scene!
