What kind of gear should a trooper in a high technology space opera setting be using? Other than the obvious, like laser guns and jetpacks.
>>46100940
Gravitational adjustment boots/field
Personal self contained breathing apparatus
Personal anti decompression generator
wrist computer for decompression calculations
just shit scuba divers have
>>46101120
Also things that protect from all sorts of super cancer inducing cosmic death rays
So, basically a way to deal with
1.) breathing
2.) crazy pressure fluctuations
4.) crazy gravity differences
5.) cosmic cancer death rays
diaper (or some other device that allows for the removal of bodily waste from their suit)
>>46101120
>>46101162
Power armor
>>46100940
Computer
Control Stick
Keyboard
Battle Robot
>>46100940
Attack drone swarm command module
Localised EMP field generator
Opticamo tarpaulin
Obligatory bitching laser sword
>>46100940
That's some pretty neat armor.
Any source?
>>46101192
Power armor definitely covers all bases, it's a great catch all if you don't want to seat the details. I do think it's kind of fun to imagine each components individually though, especially in the context of an overly bureaucratized army who's main objective is keeping a budget. maybe troops are required to apply their spf 4x10^8 sunscreen every day before leaving the station even though the stuff makes you smell like a foundry and may cause hair loss. Maybe troops really hate the chaffing of their wrist computers and all have really pale/gross left forearms because they aren't allowed to take them off. maybe they have like 4 different visors which are a hassle to remember which does what but are allegedly supposed to stop eyeball cancer but nobody uses them unless a CO is around. Most soldiers are young and stupid, and most military gear gets ignored or used incorrectly at one point or another (for example I know a ton of jarheads who only ever used their M9s as a hammer for pitching tents, and who used C4 to cook their MREs). I think there's a lot of cool interactions and immersion into the life of a soldier you'd be missing out on if you just handwave it all by saying "powersuits."
>>46101623
Looks like a eucadian BDU from Warhawk.
>>46100940
>power armor with lots of shit for survival and protection, see starcraft marine armor.
>personal (energy) shield
>somatic gel
>knesis module
>stasis module
>ECHO device
>necromancer pocket book
Y'all casuals for not listing this.
> knife
> rations
> map
> water ( water is muy importento!)
> strong sense of duty
> willingness to go above and beyond for his country and fellow soldiers
> willing to give his life at any moment for the glory of the motherland
Stamped steel applique armor -
>>46103317
Functional and fashionable armored, lined synthetic leather jerkin -
>>46103348
Gas mask/oxygen mask linked to a small bladder of pressurized air in case of chemical or germ bombs -
How have you all forgotten a radio?
>>46103379
A modular weapons system based around a full-power rifle round -
>>46103431
An officer without his saber is certainly not dressed for the occasion -
Are we talking about super special snowflake forces or regular infantry?
If the latter, a weapon (that's cheap to make, durable and easy to use, RL AK pattern rifles, 40K lasguns, Starship Troopers' Morita rifles are all good examples), a sidearm (optional), a multitool (it absolutely must include a shovel), a container (backpack) containing supplies (foodstuffs and camping gear), a belt/vest with spare ammo and a couple of explosives. And stuff to deal with atmosphere (or lack of it), toxins and diseases, and other variable conditions.
>>46103465
And in addition to the water, medical supplies, designated medic, and varying weaponry for different roles, two unlucky and hardy men per unit must lug a large transceiver radio because it makes us look good in the war footage.
>>46100940
Condoms.
>>46100940
Personal shield generator, zap gun, grav belt, replicator backpack.
>>46101205
This.
Humans are obsolete for high technology warfare. Robots and machines will do all of the fighting one day and the only human involvement will be the ones giving them commands.
>>46100940
Face-concealing helmet is essential.
>>46104965
Depends on the role, If those troops are doing any kind of peace keeping or occupation, you definitely want faces visible, as concealing the face takes away a vital psychological obstacle for committing violence. People are more willing to shoot a faceless goon than a person with a face.
Spec ops of course should be faceless and spoopy and tacticool as possible to emphasize how fucked you are if they show up
>>46100940
Crash Foam
Adapted from safety equipment designed to protect pilots during catastrophic reentry, it's basically a canister of highly compressed, fire resistant and immobilizing polymers, which can be used to splint limbs, shore up collapsing bulkheads, immobilize belligerents, and yes, provide shock protection during collisions or other violent impacts.
The downside is you need to spray it with the counteragent to dissolve the set foam.
>>46104945
Space Opera. Stop being an idiot. Space Opera implies anachronism because of it's genre conventions and such.
It's about people doing heroic things, IN SPACE!. And there are robots and ray guns and space ships and stuff. And aliens.
>>46105089
Why not have a space opera where the AI robots are doing the heroic things and having dramatic tension between each other on open battlefield IRC comms?
![3_461[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MST1mid.jpg "3_461[1].jpg")
>>46100940
Uniform should consist of:
A next gen skintight space suit and insulator
Modular armor/coveralls to go over this space suit
A modular vaccume sealed helmet and rebreather
jetpack
laser gun
magnetic boots for space walks on ship exteriors/boarding actions
a plasma torch for cutting through hulls
High protein energy ration in a tube, consistency of cookie dough, maybe even doesn't taste like ass
Magnetic grenades
>>46105029
Nah, man. You need to hide your face from all the spess radiation. Otherwise you get your face cooked.
>>46105157
Well sure if you're IN SPACE, yeah. But if your troops are patrolling mars because the Jovian Seperatists are at it? Civies need to see your face
![dava-newman-04[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vsV2oK6.jpg "dava-newman-04[1].jpg")
>>46105139
Incidentally, this is a concept design for NASA's next step in space suits
![whycantwedes[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/Fef862H.png "whycantwedes[1].png")
>>46105238
http://www.wired.com/2014/01/how-a-textbook-from-1882-will-help-nasa-go-to-mars/
>>46105238
Why'd they make it so ugly?
>>46105553
if I'm remembering right, the wires are providing pressure to avoid having to inflate the suit.
>>46104965
Vanquish? Or Metal Gear?
>>46100940
Man, realistic looking sci-fi uniforms are the best
>>46105553
Science isn't about pretty, it's about laughing at the aesthetes while their suits fail and they choke to death in the void.
>>46106360
Neither of both I think that is the guy from the cancelled command and conquer commando shooter that was set to be in the time after tiberium wars or so.
>>46105553
Because spacesuits are hard. Flexible spacesuits are just about impossible. It's not like sci-fi where you slip it on like a pair of pants. It's like a miniature ship. It needs insulation, cooling, heating, water, waste removal, lights, controls, and pressurized supplies of everything. The fact that they're making them form-fitting at all is insanely impressive.
>>46100940
Standard issue M9 Entrenching Tool! Effective against:
>arachnids
>forces of chaos
Ineffective against:
>all terrain armored transports
>>46106360
neither a cancelled C&C fps it also had a transforming modular rifle.
>>46106360
>>46106531
Yeah, it's from Tiberium. And now I'm depressed because I'm thinking about wasted potential.
You know when it comes to a Space Opera is it ok for the military tech be a bit more spectacular and fantastic in my opinion.
I mean something like the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons The FORCE:Ground Marines had suits capaple of stopping laser beams and had chameleon camo ( just like stealth camo from Metal gear) which they could use for a damn long time and they were able to keep you safe from the hazards of a depressurized enviroment plus it can enhance the wearers strength to such a degree that you can karate chop a power armored persons head off with supersonic speed.
And the FORCE multipurpose assault rifle man high explosive pulse bolts, simple kinetic rounds,a canister grenade launcher with flechette grenades, a high energy laser that can turn a 3 meter stretch of sand into molten rock and glass and that 2 meter deep instantly and that on wide beam, a beam of high energy electrons ( short BHEE) that can punch a 14 centimeter wide hole trough half a km of rock after plowing through a building, that and many more with a guaranteed 100% accuracy at 10 km plus it auto targets the head.
Or how about the Ultranauts from Allistair Reynolds from Revelation Space who had suits that were capable of creating several energy weapons and even use weaponized anti matter to defend the wearer from harm and could transform into a man sized jet while protecting the wearer inside from the G-force of going over mach 3 or so I think and they could re enter and escape the atmosphere of a planet without the help of a shuttle and those suits only can use any type of matter as fuel for these functions.
But I think another rule in Space Operas is that the soldiers have to die in droves to make sure that the Big Bad is to be taken as a serious threat.
>>46105138
I remember a short story about almost exactly that. I don't remember the title or the author but it went like so.
The end of days has come, Satan fielded his army of demons to bring ruin to all humanity, the final battle is coming.
The humanity fielded an army of robots.
Satan is losing the battle, the generals start discussing how they will stand before God and came to the conclusion that they will stand in full parade uniform, but without any medals.
Satan is driven back to Hell, and God intervenes, He starts reviving the fallen, healing the wounded, and everyone who fought is brought to Heaven directly.
The thing is, it were the robots who fought. So it is they who are brought to Heaven, and not the generals. The generals are left to die on the scorched devastated Earth.
>>46105182
Why the fuck Jovian Separatists are on Mars? And who the fuck the Jovians are separating from? The distance is too large.
>>46107692
I do believe that detail is irrelevant to Anon's point...
>>46100940
An axe and some bitchin' armor, that's all you need
>>46100940
Flight is overrated. Unless you're a professional, you're going to put yourself in a very bad situation: unless you move constantly and semi-irregularly, you're an easy target (especially for automated weapon systems), and you've got a recipe for losing a lot of men, not to mention the fact that you need to train soldiers to operate from an unfamiliar perspective and overcome natural fears, like falling to their death.
The most important piece of gear is a comprehensive suite of augmentations that allow soldiers increased damage resistance, environmental adaptability, and reaction times. Everything else can be role dependent.
>>46100940
>What kind of gear
Wow, welcome to Overthink: The Thread.
Future soldiers will have exactly the same kind of gear soldiers have always had - The best weapons and armour that can be had on the cheap.
... and hilarious examples of working stiffs adapting "one size fits all" theories to work in the real world, of grunts carefully modifying supplies bought by bureaucrats from the lowest bidder - so they don't actively kill the user on first use, and a thriving Yank & Jerries black market trade in cigs, Gummy Bears, gaff tape and 2-part epoxy.
>>46108653
confirmed for best space opera troops
I think the Solar Auxilia is a realistic depiction of a Sci-Fi fighting force,
>>46105029
How else do you want to scare these aliens into submission?
>>46111068
desu, I'd just kidnap tumblrinos and tumblrinas and dump them on passenger ships going for the alien worlds.
>>46107608
Yeah, I remmber that fight against Shriek.
One of the best fights I have read in Sci-fi.
>>46100940
Space Vietnam equipment
