On 29Jan2018 1557, Caleuche wrote:
> -------- Original Message -------- On January 28, 2018 6:33 PM,
> Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> That sounds like an personal re-entry kit, rather than a life pod.
>> Used for meteoric re-entry by extreme sportspersons and cut-rate
>> marines.
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> As we all remember from Starship Troopers (the book, not the movies),
> insertion was done from orbit in individual ablative pods, and some
> of the advantage of that is that the defender on the ground has many
> more objects to track rather than a single landing ship, and the
> mobile infantry described there were the opposite of being cut-rate.

The MI, like Imperial Marines, had actual drop pods, not just a cheap
can of foam, some little retro-rockets, and an app on their suits
microcomp to calculate when to fire the rockets.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief