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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1357062" data-attributes="member: 6929">I like. I'm not concerned about the sociopolitical commentary; that might be why I loved the TV show. I'll be keeping an eye out for this...As for the bugs and their armament? The speciation system is quite fine as it stands in the TV show. In addition to tankers and plasma bugs (some small enough to target aircraft), you've got spiderbugs and ripplers (for those unfamiliar with ripplers, they're flying bugs that can 'fire' acidic spines in lethal showers), and a whole host of lethal close-combat types (Klendathu acid swamp bugs, rippler queens, royal guard, water tigers, the fearsome infiltration bugs, and the titanic transport and ice bugs, just to mention a few). Bugs are melee specialists, but their biotech is quite alien and advanced. I like it that way.Skinnies have to be in there, of course. The Colonel from Roughnecks had cool, unique armour.I must confess, of course, that the book's powered armour will always have a place in my heart. Any book where the first paragraph or so reads 'I jumped ten miles and nuked an industrial complex' (it's been a while, can't remember it all that clearly) is going to appeal to me.In conclusion, I think the decision of 'the best bits' is good. All I really need is stats for ripplers. Sociopolitics I can do myself, and probably won't even bother. That's not what the franchise means to me.</blockquote>