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Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation is the 2004 direct-to-video sequel to the movie Starship Troopers
. It had a $7 million dollar budget as opposed to the $100 million of the original. Unlike the first Starship Troopers movie it has no relationship to the novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein. None of the characters from the original movie were in this sequel (except for in recycled footage), although Brenda Strong appears in both movies (albeit as different characters). It also features mind control bugs, and has scenes of explicit gore. The movie was directed by Phil Tippett, who is also the founder of Tippett Studio, the visual effects company that created the creature and miniature effects for the original film. In the documentary of the making of Starship Troopers 2, it was mentioned that Starship Troopers 3 was seriously being considered.

Plot Summary

Set on a planet inhabited by the Arachnids, a squad of soldiers find themselves pinned down and surrounded on all sides by Arachnid forces. Eventually they break the assault utilising their new laser gun technology and battlefield psy-soldiers, though losing many of their numbers. The remaining refugees find themselves sheltering within Outpost Nine, an old and abandoned structure containing a disgraced soldier sealed in a furnace who becomes the male protagonist. As a deadly dust storm kicks up, they find themselves without communications or back-up for a lengthy period of time and protect themselves through the use of electric pulse fences with limited batteries.

As time passes however, a certain refugee begins to act very strangely and whomever he interacts with follows suit. Eventually the female protagonist and the male ex-hero of the federation find themselves facing a new breed of Arachnid, a bug that infests the human body by forcing open the mouth and propagating inside the brain.

Eventually a dropship arrives but all of the troopers are infected including a high ranking General, who, if returned to Earth, may infect the Leaders of the planet. The female and male protagonist make it to the roof of the structure to confront the General just as the pulse fences give way. To hold off the infested humans and Arachnid warriors, the brave male protagonist fights with rifles akimbo. His life ends in a blaze of glory, allowing news of the new bug and its capabilities to return to Earth with the female protogonist.

Although labeled as a HERO OF THE FEDERATION, the male protagonist's death is shrouded in propaganda and corruption as the federation forces utilise his end as a means of recruitment, symbolised by the final line of the recruiting officer: "More meat for the grinder".

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