Located in a large binary system of twelve planets, Klendathu sits on the edge of one of the most dense asteroid fields ever discovered. Returning from a combat mission in a retrieval ship, the Zephyr, the Roughnecks are re-routed to an asteroid to join scientists from another ship, the Sequoia, in a quest for a bio-weapon against the bugs. Starship Troopers. An asteroid strike on Johnny's home city of Bueno Aires, which destroys the city and kills over eight and a half million people. A co-production between TriStar Pictures and Touchstone Pictures (that's right, Disney helped produce this movie), it's a satire of militarism, the Cold War, dehumanization of the enemy, war movies, propaganda and military sci-fi in general. The Bugs are an extraterrestrial race in the novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, its film adaptation (and its first and second sequels and spin-off television series), sometimes also referred to as the Arachnids, although this is a misnomer, as the aliens are not related to Earth arachnids. 'Starship Troopers': A Slew of Beauties Bash Big Bugs ... when he learns that the craven insects have leveled Buenos Aires by nudging an asteroid into Earth's path. They fire eggs and larvae off into space and allow them to drift onto new worlds. If that wasn't bad enough, the bugs also launched an assault on the planet you're currently on. Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein.Written in a few weeks in reaction to the U.S. suspending nuclear tests, the story was first published as a two-part serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as Starship Soldier, and published as a book by G. P. Putnam's Sons in December 1959. If the military wants a campaign, it can get it. In the Starship Troopers movie, Apart from a big Brain Bug and the plasma launching Bugs the bugs didn't have enough technological equipment that could launch an Asteroid towards Earth precisely. ... they were unable to defend themselves from bug attack. what if the majority of citizens voted to allow normal people to vote? I also remember that they used a wormhole or some kind of portal to send the asteroid from klendathu to earth across the galaxy. This is the sequel to the first Starship Troopers mission. Of course, there's no need to fake an attack in the Starship Troopers setting, because the entire point of the setting is that no one except veterans can vote. In the previous instalment, you got the horrible news that an asteroid hit Buenos Aires. Edit. Early in the film, we're told that the Bugs do not travel using FTL drives. Starship Troopers, the 1997 Paul Verhoeven film, is generally considered to be the biggest middle finger the novel will ever receive, and that is no accident. in starship troopers apparantly citizens can vote, so if citizens all voted to end the war with the bugs would the federation actually do it? It's already essentially a military dictatorship, so such extreme measures to swerve public opinion are completely unnecessary. Klendathu, source of the bug meteor attacks... orbits a twin star system whose brutal gravitational forces... produce an unlimited supply of bug meteorites... in the form of this asteroid belt. Starship Troopers: Invasion (スターシップ・トゥルーパーズ インベイジョン) is a 2012 Japanese-American adult computer-animated military science fiction film directed by Shinji Aramaki.It is the fourth installment of the Starship Troopers film series.The film was released in Japan on July 21, 2012 and in North America on August 28, 2012 as a direct-to-video title. History Talk (0) ... Planetary defences are better than ever. Klendathu is the home planet of the Arachnid species. And here's why: 1. These asteroids are often launched out of orbit by Plasma Bugs and sent flying towards Earth. To expand on Quora User's answer, they can't.