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Am I the only one who has noticed that everybody is thinking of the soldier and not what the soldier is going to wear and shoot. How about first we make a boltgun and power armor, and distribute it to the special forces units. That way you can have a more immediate payoff of technology improvements to combat readiness. It takes a lot less testing to see if power armor works then a super soldier.

Tests for power armor: shoot it with a pistol. Shoot it with a rifle. Shoot it with a high caliber weapon. Fire a flamethrower at it. Attach esplosives to it. See if someone can wear it and effectivly move in it without years of training. How long did that take maybe a month or two

Thats less then multiple generations for super soldiers and has almost an equal payback.

On a note of the super soldier watch the incredible hulk, factor out the sappy stuff and see what your left with is a monster capable of real damage who is also capable of questioning its loyalties and moralities.

Powered armor is going to be a reality in a few years, and we already have weapons that are better than boltguns. Next, genetic alteration and intensive indoctrination. There is no profit.

STEROIDS! CARTON UPON CARTON OF STEROIDS!!!!!!

Emperors Faithful wrote:STEROIDS! CARTON UPON CARTON OF STEROIDS!!!!!!

Yeah! They'll all have roid rage and shrunken junk. That should make them the fiercest warriors imaginable.

warpcrafter wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:STEROIDS! CARTON UPON CARTON OF STEROIDS!!!!!!

Yeah! They'll all have roid rage and shrunken junk..

Just like 40k Marines then!

They shall take the steroid cartons,
They shall worship the God-Emperor Arnold.
They shall win body builder paegeants in his name,
And they will know no natural exercise!

Another problem with genetic super troops is that intergrating them with a standard army would be difficalt to say the least. Even if you could have a small co-op's team of them, there is still going to be a time where they are revealed to the world.

From a grunt's view point, the super dudes have just taken their job, money, equipment, his bed AND his girlfriend.
From a Superman's point of view, he doesn't care.

It would lead to something like the industial revolution back in the 1700-1800's. Things could be done better and more effectively at the cost of people's jobs.

hmmm, I suppose they wouldn't care if the CRACK troops were stopping them getting killed and winning the war FOR them.

I don't class being a 'grunt' on the front line as a stable job. Most would probably be happy to hand over the 'get shot at' regins to the superdudes.

BaronIveagh wrote:The venom spitting gland is easily introduced from a spitting cobra...

Lol, maybe if you superglue one on their foreheads?

Also, sensory inputs/outputs would have to introduced immediately at birth (your suit controls). Its the reason why we can give artificial sight/hearing to those that have lost it, but cannot provide them to those that were never born with it, forging correct neural pathways to deal with them.

Humans do not work this way, sorry :(


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Superscope wrote:Another problem with genetic super troops is that intergrating them with a standard army would be difficalt to say the least. Even if you could have a small co-op's team of them, there is still going to be a time where they are revealed to the world.

From a grunt's view point, the super dudes have just taken their job, money, equipment, his bed AND his girlfriend.
From a Superman's point of view, he doesn't care.

It would lead to something like the industial revolution back in the 1700-1800's. Things could be done better and more effectively at the cost of people's jobs.

Didn't Kurt Russell prove this wrong in the 1998 movie Soldier?

Fearspect wrote:

BaronIveagh wrote:The venom spitting gland is easily introduced from a spitting cobra...

Lol, maybe if you superglue one on their foreheads?

Also, sensory inputs/outputs would have to introduced immediately at birth (your suit controls). Its the reason why we can give artificial sight/hearing to those that have lost it, but cannot provide them to those that were never born with it, forging correct neural pathways to deal with them.

Humans do not work this way, sorry :(

I was talking about the cobra's genetic material. Basically cribbing the answer from an existing genome rather then trying to create a new one whole cloth.