I've been reading a military sci-fi book series about soldiers who can be resurrected, essentially infinitely. Being military sci-fi, many of the books are about battles that start with either traveling or fighting in space but are resolved on the ground. It's not explicitly said, but the resources seem to be essentially endless.

As such, when transitioning from ship-based to ground-based combat, the troops follow an unreliable process that involves jumping into a shell that is then fired at the ground like a bullet. Since they can be resurrected, not much care is put into making the launch process terribly consistently survivable.

People who don't survive their launch, especially recruits, are called "splats."

edit: Spelling.

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