[CT] ST Power Armor

[Dan Moran]

>From the horse's mouth, Karl Martin, who worked on both the movie & the
animated series:

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Luc Mayrand and John Bell created some very cool concept art and designs
for the power-armor suits, and the handling equipment that moves the
troops around once they're in it, and the sets it all would have gone
on. There was test footage (or more properly, a sales trailer) of a
soldier getting chased around Vasquez rocks and mauled by a couple of
bugs, but I never saw any power-armor test footage; it got cut real
early on for budget reasons (at which point the story had drifted so far
from anything Heinlein that I don't personally think it makes any
difference).

The joke floating around at the time (at least, it USED to be a joke)
was that we'd have power-armor in the sequel.

I'd like to point out that we had amazingly cool power-armor in the
'Starship Troopers: Roughnecks' show we did at Foundation Imaging,
although that armor was specialist-issue and generally only a couple of
characters used it in any one episode.

karl

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