#Starship Trooper

[lacythings]

Fishtopher hand-written notes for "Starship Trooper"

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8:31 AM EDT June 22, 2024:

Yes - "Starship Trooper" From the Compilation album   The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection (July 28, 2003)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[aftermyownart]

I got this prompt for a pre-raphaelite star-ship trooper, and it was interesting in practise, even if I didn't have the energy to continue the style to it's completion (yo, I am not a pre-raphaelite master painter).

Might revisit later, but for now.... It'll do, as an interesting addition to the sketchbook/skill building scrapbook.

[Also, it's amazing the polar opposite of my satisfaction levels in comparison to the previous post, turns out being a human includes being fallible and imperfect]

[just-a-pole-sir]

[mistress-light]

Starship Troopers (1997) • Dir. Paul Verhoeven 

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Denise Richards

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[startheskelaton]

Hot girl summer

Bonus: boy summer /cicada (arachnid) summer

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Dina Meyer (29) in Starship Troopers (1997)

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2:23 PM EDT June 9, 2024:

Yes - "Starship Trooper" From the Compilation album Classic Yes (November 30, 1981)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

The reason you’d buy this album if you were a big Yes fan was to get your paws on the included Bonus single, "Roundabout (Live in Oakland)" b/w "I’ve Seen All Good People (Live at Wembley)"

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[silentwalrus1]

Thinking about Kamino cloning primarily as a major planetary economic driver and thus extremely A Business and how that would interact with the clones’ existence as a product and more specifically with the whole thing about Quality Control. The enforcement of interchangeability has significant value in the same way the invention of the assembly line and mass produced components have value to industry, i.e. if one part of a large & complex system stops working, you don’t have to rebuild the entire damn thing, you just replace the part.

In a biologically engineered army, that interchangeability can most advantageously manifest in:

Size (smaller range of equipment, armor, housing etc necessary)

medical compatibility (you only have to stock one blood type, organ and tissue donation availability skyrockets etc)

capability (the more you can crosstrain Jeff A to do Jeff Z’s job, the easier it is to replace Jeff Z if he bites it)

So clones that look different but are otherwise to spec in the prioritized categories would probably be fine, because getting rid of them is a loss of product and thus loss of profit.

Of course, as businesspeople, the Kaminoans want their product to seem more high-end than it actually is. So you don’t want to scrap perfectly good stock, but you DO want to make sure those fucking primates don’t act up and pop the hood on their own shitty dye job while the warranty’s still active.

Cue the Kaminoans issuing hair dye, makeup, shitty 2-dollar cosplay contact lenses etc and a bunch of random mercenaries disinterestedly instructing auditoriums of 400 cadets at a time in how to haphazardly cover up your Manufacturing Defects. Half the Mandos are like “if you want an armor painting seminar i have a fucking PhD but i haven’t taken off my helmet in front of another living person in 20 years, for this we’re pulling up the first fucking makeup tutorial that falls out of Space YouTube”.

It turns out it is much, much easier and more efficient to give clones access to Space Youtube than it is to teach them things yourself.

Cue 5 years later the Jedi roll up for pickup and not only is every single clone perfectly identical, they have achieved this via having every face BEAT, hair COIFFED, skin (tone corrected & colormatched ofc) GLOWING, contoured to the GODS,

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Starship Troopers (1997) • Dir. Paul Verhoeven