Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-20578-20160129102931/@comment-20578-20160129112416

I am in a CGI forum called Renderosity. Someone added a posable Poser model of Rogue Trooper, with Gunnar and Helm and Bagman. So I made a posable Nort trooper model :: and queries arose.

Suit colour: at first I used the same color as in the comic (somewhat bluish green),but I guessed that choice was coerced by practicalities of comic drawing and colouring in the pre-CGI age, and I used instead an army camouflage pattern.

Was there a standard Nort army rifle drawn?

Nort hoods as drawn, with the breathing tube connections away from the mouth, look as if the wearer, when breathing in, would thereby suck the hood against his mouth and stop him from breathing. So as part of the hood I added a small mouth-and-nose hard mask which includes the breathing tube connections.

For his breathing set I followed the comics; but to me as a former scuba diver it looks wrong. It looks largely like an open-circuit aqualung drawn with the far too common drawing error described here in Wikipedia. ( is the correct layout of an aqualung.) For several hours of use in the field, a better design of breathing set would be a closed-circuit rebreather. which would better be in a plain large backpack box, and several times longer running on a filling per set weight. The third, smaller, cylinder looks as if it was inspired by the propellant tank of USA army flamethrowers. Perhaps best to asume that the Nort breathing set is an odd-shaped rebreather, and therefore will not make bubbles when underwater.

I have seen statements that Nort frogmen were called Vroogmen, but they have no page on this wiki. Are they drawn anywhere? In my CGI art I assumed that the usual Nort trooper breathing set also works at depth underwater.

In the story, what happened to Nu-Earth? In the Tor Cyan matter, Nu-Earth is described as an uninhabited mega-graveyard. What happened to its armies and other inhabitants?

When the original Rogue Trooper series was running, I had ideas of it ending thus (but it never got onto paper or computer): In the two governments, matters force a patched-up armistice and the war ends. In the South, Roge and the other CGI's are celebrated, but it goes wrong because of drunkenness among ordinary Souther troops celebrating; they work a trick and demand all his accumulated back pay off him in drinks and other entertainments. Rogue sees no good in this; he needs his money to start in civilian life after the war, and his genetic engineering stops him from getting drunk. He objects. The crowd, driven by frustrated drunkenness, rush him to get the money. That drives him into saying something very uncharacterictic for him, but it is the only way for him to really express how he felt then: namely "STAK!!", and throws several gas bombs. They are only anti-riot gas, and everybody recovers unhurt; and in the confusion Rogue gathers all the other GI's including the females and escapes with them into the chem wilderness, where they found a suitable place and find how to hunt and then grow food and breed and spread as the chem gradually clears out of the atmosphere.

Thus one drunkenness incident changed much, and when the chem was gone, Nu-Earth had not 2 nations but 3: Nordland, South, and Geneticalia.