Re: Battlestar Galactica

Nick Lidster wrote:

> Perfectly true, anyone can be a grunt, however when your in
> the middle of no where, have no backup, and need to get the
> job done what do you do? "Though you fly in the clouds, a
> marine is a grunt first." The 58th was heralded as the best
> of the best. To me they were flying grunts, more then once
> the played in the dirt.

And aside from the other objections, why would that war even
*need* ground troops? The enemy on the show constantly wore
spacesuits in Earth-like environments, suggesting that they
couldn't live on the planets they were trying to conquer.
Early in the show, an alien prisoner even turned into a
puddle of green goo after drinking ordinary water! Why would
the aliens want to conquer planets where humans live, if they
can't live there?

Maybe they want to terraform the Earth-like planets so they can
live there. Maybe the planets they've been living on are in the
same solar systems as the human colonies, and they're too
territorial to allow human colonies in solar systems they
already claim. In either case, why wouldn't they just bomb the
colonists from orbit, instead of wasting their ground troops?
Ship-to-ship fighting and dogfights would make sense in that
scenario, as humans fight to keep alien bombers or terraforming
machines from their colonies, but I can't think of a good reason
for ground fighting.
______________________________________________________________________
Steve Sloan ......... Huntsville, Alabama =========> 
steve-nDDVn4tETVZBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Brin-L list pages .............................. http://www.brin-l.org
Science Fiction-themed online store ..... http://www.sloan3d.com/store
Chmeee's 3D Objects .................... http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee
3D and Drawing Galleries .................. http://www.sloansteady.com
Software ................ Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links
Science fiction scans ......................... http://www.sloan3d.com