Introduction

Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles is a 1999-2000 CGI animated television series, based on the 1959 novel by Robert A. Heinlein and the 1997 film adaptation.

It follows the exploits of the Mobile Infantry squad, “Razak’s Roughnecks,” during the SICON–Bugs War between a newly united humanity and an extraterrestrial race, known as the “Bugs,” also sometimes referred to as Arachnids.

The show focuses mainly on the Roughnecks’ missions, rather than addressing the larger war.

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Outline

Tophet: Day 19.

Lt. Razak, suspicious of a lull in the Bug offensive, investigates the area with Higgins in a surface skimmer.

The pair spot a huge Bug migration and call in an air strike. Unfortunately, their Skimmer crashes.

Left without communications and with the Bug horde advancing, they attempt to find a nearby unmanned relay station to call for pick up before the air strike. Along the way, Higgins and Razak start to form a bond.

Meanwhile, the Roughnecks strike out on a Search and Rescue mission for their lost comrades. Eventually, the squad finds Razak and Higgins in the nick of time.

United, they fend off the Bug horde until Carmen can pick them up just seconds before a Zander-lead air strike vaporises the area.

Starship Troopers Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Release Date: 02 September 1999.
• Running Time: 30 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.