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the ak-47 of space armour (slrpnk.net)
submitted 2 days ago by showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website to c/firefly@slrpnk.net
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[–] guy@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reduce, reuse, repair, recycle

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago

The costume department never throws anything away.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So that means they are all same universe. So somewhere in the starship troopers history there were giant robots that could have been used to fight the bugs. Meanwhile space sex in the Firefly.

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or ya know convergent amour evolution? There only so many ways to make goofy amour after all 😂

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nah. I like Pantster's reasoning better lol

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Crazy how fascism is a running theme in US based media.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Heinlein wrote the book starship troopers as commentary on military fascism

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Not a big deal. The armour was left over after Troopers and were cheap for extras in the other projects.

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Shiney

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 20 hours ago

Knights in

Shiney

armor