> In those days, as I see it, UF's Mandalorians were kind of like a
>jacked-up-to-11 version of the society from Starship Troopers -
>an urban, established civilization with a runaway military-industrial
>complex that eventually destroyed it.

Hmmm, would a comparison to SM Stirling's Draka be fair you think? (That it, if you or any of the other crew are familiar with the series?) Something that gets extraordinarily out of control, and genetic manipulation aside, impossible to sustain demographically?

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