Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles - Season 1 (1999)

Rico must train a reporter so that he can defend himself in combat. Meanwhile, the Roughnecks must defend themselves from a new kind of flying bug.

Dizzy suffers from an attack of claustrophobia when the Roughnecks go under Pluto's surface to locate the bug army's hatchery.

The Roughnecks are ordered to the planet Hydora after a transport bug is seen leaving Pluto. The Roughnecks mission is to establish if Hydora is the bug home world or not. While there they receive an extremely disturbing message.

Rico is reunited with Carmen when a retrieval mission goes wrong. What starts as a minor operation on Hydora develops into a full blown battle as Bug numbers turn out to be far higher than expected.

The Roughnecks search for the nest and end up scrambling some eggs.

The Roughnecks are sent down to Hydora to find two squads that have vanished into thin air.

The Roughnecks discover Lt. Ross, commander of Delta Squad, wandering on Hydora, his long-term memory wiped out, and his entire squad missing.

The Roughnecks are sent on a seemingly routine recon mission of the planet Tophet to determine if it can be used as a waystation for S.I.C.O.N. to the rest of the galaxy.

Razak and Higgins needs to rescued by the Alpha team.

When a Cyborg named Chas "Cybernetic Humanoid Assault System" is assigned to the Roughnecks, he is befriended by Higgins, who views the robot as a kindred outsider.

While returning from a mission, the Roughnecks are attacked and captured by a contingent of Skinnies.

After clearing a mountain pass of a row of Blaster Bugs, the Roughnecks are able to capture Colonel T'Phai, the leader of the Skinnies.

Colonel T'Phai the Skinnie who was partially responsible for Carl's fried brain joins the unit just as they're assigned the task of taking Zegema Beach as part of the Tesca Nemerosa campaign.

As the squad goes on Recon in the Tesca Nemerosan jungle beyond Zegema Beach, Rico still refuses to accept T'Phai into the unit.

After Gossard receives a minor injury, Rico is assigned a marauder suit for the Roughneck's next mission: they're heading upriver to capture a Brain Bug.

Rico hovering in a coma between life and death flashes back to High School with Dizzy, Carl, Carmen and Razak, and Basic Training with Drill Sergeant Zim.

While Rico recovers from injuries at the Hospital at Zegema Beach, the Roughnecks map strange tunnels out in the jungles of Tesca Nemerosa.

Returning from a combat mission in a retrieval ship, the Zephyr, the Roughnecks are re-routed to an asteroid to join scientists from another ship, the Sequoia, in a quest for a bio-weapon against the bugs.

The Zephyr remains crash-landed on a frozen asteroid.

The Roughnecks are crashed on a barren asteroid.

Their ship, the Zephyr, crashed again on the ice asteroid, the Roughnecks are running out of ammo to fight off the attacking Firefries.

The Roughnecks' ship, the Zephyr, remains trapped inside what they now know is a giant bug.

Aboard the Valley Forge on a long trip to their next campaign, the Roughnecks have drawn watch as most of the ship's crew rests in suspended animation.

As the squad prepares for the D-Day invasion of the bug home planet of Klendathu, Dizzy receives an official notice from S.I.C.O.N. about her brother.

While at a temporary camp on Klendathu, the Roughnecks are attacked by a new and dangerous form of arachnid, an Imposter Bug that approximates the size and shape of a human.

The Roughnecks are facing a "Battle of the Bulge" situation on the Bug home planet of Klendathu.

After a long day of battling Bugs, the Roughnecks are called to a mission briefing only to find themselves in the presence of Sky Marshall Sanchez himself.

The Bug Queen has survived a battle on Klendathu, and is headed for Earth. When the Troopers discover that the bugs have cloned human DNA to be able to take human form, they realize that extermination is going to be even more difficult.

S.I.C.O.N. forces move into peacetime duty after the Bug Queen and her transport are presumably terminated.

When the Bug Forces launch a devastating surprise attack on Buenos Aires, nearly destroying the city, the Roughnecks are sent in as part of a massive ground troop assault.

SICON officials discover a massive bug mound outside of Buenos Aires.

The bugs have tunnels underneath San Francisco. Military Intelligence wants to blow up the city to get the bugs, but that would also kill all the civilians in the area. The Roughnecks and Walker's Team come up with an alternate plan to deal with the bugs. The city will be saved, but one will pay the ultimate price.

With no LT the Roughnecks are to be disbanded. Before they break up, they fulfill the last request of their C.O. SGT Brutto and General Redwing pay their respects as well. They come across some bugs, Redwing and Higgins are captured. Outnumbered and unable to call for support, the Roughnecks must mount a rescue and destroy the bugs.

The Roughnecks are assigned to protect Oahu. They get 2 new members to their squad. Max Brutto, SGT Brutto's son, and SGT Zimm. Rico's not sure about his abilities as a leader. Soon he'll learn how his former C.O. had a bigger hand in his life than he realized.

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Bob Higgins hosts the Fed Net news special, looking at the first weeks of the war on Pluto and Tophet.

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