Talk:Clancy Brown/@comment-3436777-20101227173106/@comment-1416077-20121121213706

1) the humans need to keep the planets livable; widespread use of nukes goes counter to that goal. 2) the arachnids ("bugs") are capable of surviving orbital strikes and nukes by going deep underground. Reaching them down there requires damage to the planetary surface which would render habitation by humans difficult. 3) the Mobile Infantry were armed and trained in tactics suitable against other human forces; the film portrays the transition era where the humans by necessity adapt new weapons and tactics 4) the first film is in actuality an in-universe propaganda film much like the WWII war movies filmed prior to the end of WWII. Would you like to know more?