Lets create a Sci-Fi action movie

[Major Maxillary]

My movie starts of with an action sequence where a Soldier is fighting on her space cruiser against pirate boarders, desperately buying time for her commander and a few sailors to scuttle the ship. she meets an old friend who went rouge and they fight. she finally kills him but not before being mortally wounded and blinded. she stumbles to the rendezvous point only to realize the sailors and her commander -the ships captain and rear admiral- are cut off; so she rescues them with the last of her strength and as they shoot away from the brilliant explosion she dies in the Rear admiral's arms.

This is only the beginning of a long and bloody campaign launched by a consolodated armada of rebels, called "Automolos" which cuts a swath through confederate space, and pierces right to the capitol system, where the rebels are met by an armada from Sol seeking to destroy their long-time nemesis. the opening salvo of the theater is around the system's command HQ; Fort Harrington. in the first three hours the Most decorated battleship in the Confederate fleet -the fast battleship CS Kraken- is forced to withdraw and leads a large portion of the invading forces on a wild fox hunt around the system.

Also during the battle of Ft. Harrington, the first Aerospace Squadron; The Crippled Eagles repeatedly clash with the Union's 103rd Fighter Wing, "the Flying Yankees." During one of the fights one of the Eagles breaks away to engage an enemy destroyer thats threatening a supply ship tending to several frigates. he fires on the destroyer and does considerable damage, but exhausts his weapons without cripalling the ship. his last words to his commander before ramming into the ship's bridge are "My only regret is running out of ammo."

The movie with end with the CS Kraken leading her pursuers into the waiting guns of two wolf packs (comprised of roughly 20 hunter killer ships) who engage the automolo ships and buy the Kraken time to bring her remaining guns to bear. after which they all rejoin the fight at Ft. Harrington, and the climax of the fight scene is a pseudo-duel between the Kraken and the Union's Heavy Missile Cruiser USS Iowa.

The Iowa fires her last volley before being split in half by the Kraken, but the Missiles reach the Kraken and finally render her inert, killing the Admial commanding her; the truth about whether the Admiral intended to draw the enemy reinforcements away or simply lost his nerve will never be known, and the Kraken is forever remembered as the ship on which heroes go to die.

The end scene shows the two leaders of the Confederacy; The Strategos and the Lawgiver walking through the Mausoleum of Heroes, reflecting on the the events of the movie and talking about honor and duty and whatnot as the urns containing the Rear admiral of the Kraken, and the brave pilot placed in their covey holes.

Fade to black as the Two leaders walk down the enormous hall. roll credits and play Confederacy national anthem.

[Major Maxillary]

My movie starts of with an action sequence where a Soldier is fighting on her space cruiser against pirate boarders, desperately buying time for her commander and a few sailors to scuttle the ship. she meets an old friend who went rogue and they fight. she finally kills him but not before being mortally wounded and blinded. she stumbles to the rendezvous point only to realize the sailors and her commander -the ships captain and rear admiral- are cut off; so she rescues them with the last of her strength and as they shoot away from the brilliant explosion she dies in the Rear admiral's arms.

This is only the beginning of a long and bloody campaign launched by a consolodated armada of rebels, called "Automolos" which cuts a swath through confederate space, and pierces right to the capitol system, where the rebels are met by an armada from Sol seeking to destroy their long-time nemesis. the opening salvo of the theater is around the system's command HQ; Fort Harrington. in the first three hours the Most decorated battleship in the Confederate fleet -the fast battleship CS Kraken- is forced to withdraw and leads a large portion of the invading forces on a wild fox hunt around the system.

Also during the battle of Ft. Harrington, the first Aerospace Squadron; The Crippled Eagles repeatedly clash with the Union's 103rd Fighter Wing, "the Flying Yankees." During one of the fights one of the Eagles breaks away to engage an enemy destroyer thats threatening a supply ship tending to several frigates. he fires on the destroyer and does considerable damage, but exhausts his weapons without cripalling the ship. his last words to his commander before ramming into the ship's bridge are "My only regret is running out of ammo."

The movie with end with the CS Kraken leading her pursuers into the waiting guns of two wolf packs (comprised of roughly 20 hunter killer ships) who engage the automolo ships and buy the Kraken time to bring her remaining guns to bear. after which they all rejoin the fight at Ft. Harrington, and the climax of the fight scene is a pseudo-duel between the Kraken and the Union's Heavy Missile Cruiser USS Iowa.

The Iowa fires her last volley before being split in half by the Kraken, but the Missiles reach the Kraken and finally render her inert, killing the Admial commanding her; the truth about whether the Admiral intended to draw the enemy reinforcements away or simply lost his nerve will never be known, and the Kraken is forever remembered as the ship on which heroes go to die.

The end scene shows the two leaders of the Confederacy; The Strategos and the Lawgiver walking through the Mausoleum of Heroes, reflecting on the the events of the movie and talking about honor and duty and whatnot as the urns containing the Rear admiral of the Kraken, and the brave pilot placed in their covey holes.

Fade to black as the Two leaders walk down the enormous hall. roll credits and play Confederacy national anthem.

[Major Maxillary]

damn, please delete this and previous post, I forgot I can't edit.

[Big Orange]

We could have D-Day style landing where you could see thousands of launched drops pods (each containing a company) swarming across the skies of an alien planet and crashing into the open plains, slipping through defences that could wipe out larger crafts - the drop pods then disgorge tons of shocktroopers fully kitted up in massive mech suits and they start to pound the dug in enemy in their massive chain of command bunkers and air defence platforms (but they're soon backed up with thousands of more conventional landing craft that start deploying lighter infantry, mobile artillery and armour after the ground defences have mostly been destroyed by the shocktroopers).

[Lord Relvenous]

That would be a cool scene, though drop pods holding a company of mech units would be large ships. Modify it to one trooper per pod and it is more realistic.

[Molyneux]

That would be a cool scene, though drop pods holding a company of mech units would be large ships. Modify it to one trooper per pod and it is more realistic.

Didn't they have that in Halo 2?

[Adrian Laguna]

We could have D-Day style landing where you could see thousands of launched drops pods (each containing a company) swarming across the skies of an alien planet and crashing into the open plains, slipping through defences that could wipe out larger crafts - the drop pods then disgorge tons of shocktroopers fully kitted up in massive mech suits and they start to pound the dug in enemy in their massive chain of command bunkers and air defence platforms (but they're soon backed up with thousands of more conventional landing craft that start deploying lighter infantry, mobile artillery and armour after the ground defences have mostly been destroyed by the shocktroopers).

And we go back to my point about how nuclear weapons have this tendency to deny large areas of airspace all at once. Not to mention that when you have the technology to make big space-battleships you probably have the technology to outfit a planet with ridiculous amounts of point-defence weaponry. Imagine being able to make a given area look like it's literally raining, except the rain is made of lead and going upward.

A drop-ship will have to be capable of taking a bit of punishment on the way down. Even then, the fleet had better destroyed any systems for orbital and atmospheric defence it can find. If it were up to me, I'd probably pick a desolate area (real life example: Siberia) and then proceed to carpet-bombard a large part of it. My troops would be landing in a radioactive wasteland, but they have powerarmour so it doesn't matter.

That would be a cool scene, though drop pods holding a company of mech units would be large ships. Modify it to one trooper per pod and it is more realistic.

They would also probably travel ballistic paths unless each pod is incredibly expensive. In which case they'd be so hilariously easy to intercept you can do it with late-1960s technology.

[Adrian Laguna]

Imagine being able to make a given area look like it's literally raining, except the rain is made of lead and going upward.

Now imagine the clean-up after the battle .

Just remembered that what goes up has to come down. Though that might have hilarious anti-infantry effects after the drop-ships have landed. Also, my description was a bit exaggerated, the point is to saturate specific cones of fire so that even if the dropship is jinking wildly it still gets hit. Every dropship gets its own cone of fire, it's not like the entire airspace is saturated with lead.

You can always use energy weapons. With lasers you don't even need to saturate, since they're a point-and-shoot weapon. Just line-up the target and if it can't take the heat it's dead.

My point is that trying to make it around defences is foolish, you should have to blast them and brute-force yourself through whatever remains.