[gurps] Starship Troopers

[Jeff Wilson]

> From: Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
> Clinton N. Fell wrote:
>> I like the armor, but it makes me wonder about the bugs.  DR 200 means 
>> that those bugs would have to have a 3e strength of at least 50 with a 
>> rather generous armor divisor of 5 on specialized swinging marine opener 
>> appendages.  Those are going to be some nasty bugs.
> 
> The Bugs were technologic so they could be giving mono-molecular
> vibra-blades to their warrior bugs.

That's possible - the bugs have some sort of rapid tunneling technology 
that makes a frying bacon sound in the MI geophones, that could be 
consistent with some sort of vibrating superdense rock-cleaving tools, 
possibly built-in ones.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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