- "But this is the war we can never stop fighting. The Bugs will never quit, and if we do we're dead."
- —Carl Jenkins[1]
The Second Bug War, or Bug War 2, refers to the current war between the United Citizen Federation and the Arachnids. This war is the continuation of the First Bug War.
Events[]
Battle of Roku San[]
- Main article: Battle of Roku San
When a secretly brainwashed and defected Sky Marshal Omar Anoke who was visiting a Mobile Infantry defensive encampment deactivated the base's generators leaving its defenses down and allowing Arachnid forces to overrun it. The Sky Marshal and his Marines escaped to the Geronimo. [2]
Battle of OM-1[]
- Main article: Battle of OM-1
When the Geronimo is destroyed by plasma a few crew escaped to the planetside including Sky Marshal Omar Anoke. There they encountered Behemecoatyl the Arachnid's God Bug. Immediately after this a Fleet force arrive and Mobile Infantry deployed on Marauder Mechs clearing the LZ. The survivors were rescued and the first firing of the Q Bomb occurred destroying OM-1. [2]
Battle of Valaka[]
- Main article: Battle of Valaka
A Battle in which Deep Space Vanguard was deployed to activate and defend an ARC Device to locate Bug tunnels under the surface.
Battle of Kwalasha[]
- Main article: Battle of Kwalasha
A major battle for the UCF colony on Kwalasha. Despite the capital being at a time overrun by Arachnid forces, the UCF was eventually victorious, capturing a Brain Bug.
Battle of Gehenna[]
- Main article: Battle of Gehenna
A minor battle on the volcanic planet of Gehenna. Mobile Infantry were brought in to assist Hephaestar Corporation and its mercenaries.
Battle of Fort Casey[]
- Main article: Battle of Fort Casey
The John A. Warden Incident[]
- Main article: The John A. Warden Incident
When the John A. Warden was commandeered by Military Intelligence and used to test Human mind control over Warrior Bugs a Queen was able to seize control of the ship killing its human crew. Later boarded by former commanding officer Captain Ibanez and two squads of Mobile Infantry when an engagement broke out with the John A. Warden flying to and attacking UCF Earth defense forces then crashlanding on Earth. The ship was destroyed, but at least one Warrior Bug escaped.[3]
Battle of Mars[]
- Main article: Battle of Mars
An Arachnid asteroid had impacted on Mars and lay dormant for years before expanding a colony and launching a full scale invasion of the planet. The high command of the UCF knew of this, but Sky Marshal Amy Snapp hid it from even her own commanders and had a Q Bomb hidden in an atmosphere generator. She allowed the colony to grow unstopped and intended to make the public believe the colony was completely lost, and that her only option was to destroy the planet, and in the process improve her own approval ratings.
Despite extremely heavy losses, some Mobile Infantry forces held out, making Snapp's betrayal obvious although it never outright confirmed her as a traitor. [4]
Second Battle of Mars[]
- Main article: Second Battle of Mars
With Amy Snapp ousted from power Deputy Sky Marshal Carl Jenkins had the Armed Forces launch a counter invasion to retake Mars.[4]
History[]
After the First Bug War ended a period of around five years[citation needed] of peace ensued. However, eventually Arachnid forces began invading planets within United Citizen Federation Space, beginning their new offensive and thus starting the Second Bug War. To counter this, Federal military forces were deployed to defend the Roku San Line on the once peaceful farming planet called Roku San. The planet did not hold off the Arachnids when the Federal Base's defenses mysteriously went offline allowing swarms of Warrior Bugs, Bombardiers, and Scorpions to completely overrun the base.
Shortly after the fall of Roku San, the Corvette Transport Geronimo was knocked out of lightspeed by Plasma, heavily damaging the ship over an unexplored planet. An evacuation was forced when the secondary generator exploded, and numerous personnel, including Sky Marshal Anoke, and Captain Lola Beck, abandoned ship in an Escape pod onto the surface of the planet soon to be named OM-1.
Meanwhile, with the loss of Roku San, Colonel John Rico was blamed for the defeat and sentenced to be executed via the gallows in the Alamo Bay Detention Center. His life was spared after his rope is deliberately cut. General Hauser save Rico's life so as to use him to go and save the stranded crew on OM-1. Rico along with several survivors of Roku San were deployed to the Marauder Project, which at this time was classified. It was later discovered that Sky Marshal Anoke had lost his mind, and became a slave to the Arachnids, going to OM-1 to give all his knowledge to Behemecoatyl, the Arachnid God Bug. He was eaten alive, but the other remaining two survivors were saved when Federal Forces invade OM-1, using the new Marauder. Only one squad of seven Marauders was deployed, but they were proven powerful enough to annihilate all Arachnid forces in the immediate vicinity. The two survivors are rescued and the York deploys the Q Bomb, destroying OM-1.
The Battle proves the Marauders' battle effectiveness, thus allowing them to become proper front-line units.
The war continues with Marauders as a new front-line unit. Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
A while after the Battle of OM-1, several incidents occurred, one of them being the John A. Warden Incident, which ended with the Arachnids crashing the ship onto Earth, and that at least one Warrior Bugs survived the ensuring battle.
Sometime after, due to Sky Marshal Amy Snapp's attempts at curbing Martian separatism, the Arachnids overran Mars, with the UCF then initiating a campaign to retake the planet.
Appearances[]
- Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
- Starship Troopers: Extermination
- Starship Troopers: Invasion
- Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars
- Starship Troopers: Terran Command
- Starship Troopers: Extermination
- Starship Troopers: Continuum