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Johnny Rico is called back into action to defeat the bugs.

The war against the Bugs continues! A Federation Starship crash-lands on the distant Alien planet OM-1, stranding beloved leader Sky Marshal Anoke and several others, including comely but tough pilot Lola Beck. It's up to Colonel/General Johnny Rico, reluctant hero of the original Bug Invasion on Planet P, to lead a team of Troopers on a daring rescue mission.—Anonymous

Eleven years after the Invasion of Planet P in स्टारशिप ट्रूपर्स (1997) and the following events in स्टारशिप ट्रूपर्स 2: हीरो ऑफ़ द फेडरेशन (2004), the war against the intelligent bugs still rages on. As UCF and the Arachnids wage the Second Bug War, battle-scarred Colonel Johnny Rico finds himself stationed on the bug-infested planet Roku San. When a team of brothers-in-arms crash-lands on the hostile desert planet OM-1, deep inside the Arachnid Quarantine Zone, it is up to Rico and his ambitious project to turn the tables on the insects and their supreme leader. Are Rico's Marauders destined to finish the war?—Nick Riganas

In the past eleven years of "The Second Bug War", the Mobile Infantry has improved their weapons and tactics. However, as they adapt, so do the Bugs, and many new Arachnid variants have developed. The United Citizen Federation now finds itself engaged in trench warfare on the frontier planets. The Federation puts a positive spin on this in the media while using its judicial and military authority to suppress peace protesters and religious fanatics as Seditionists.

Colonel Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) is stationed on the agrarian planet Roku San when the popular Sky Marshal (and singer) Omar Anoke (Stephen Hogan) pays a visit. Off-duty, Rico's old friend General Dix Hauser (Boris Kodjoe) gets into a bar fight with farmers protesting against the war. During the fight, Rico stops Dix from shooting one of the farmers. Dix tries to have Rico arrested, but the base defenses suddenly fail due to an alien attack. Rico knocks Dix to the floor and leaves to help fight the Arachnids. Dix rescues Anoke and Fleet pilot Lola Beck (Dix's girlfriend and Rico's ex-flame) flies him out of Roku San. During warp, Lola's ship is attacked by bug batteries and is severely damaged and forced to land on the nearest planet. When Roku San falls, Rico is blamed by the Federal Media and set for execution for insubordination and striking a superior officer. However, Dix has Rico's execution faked, so that Rico can lead a rescue mission.

On their way back to Sanctuary, the Fleet's secret HQ, Captain Lola Beck (Jolene Blalock) is marooned on a classified planet, OM-1, with Sky Marshal Anoke. On Earth, the distress signal from a rescue pod is intercepted, but Admiral Enolo Phid (Amanda Donohoe) suppresses this information. Dix finds out thanks to an officer who thinks this is wrong and recruits Rico to rescue the Sky Marshal and Lola, the latter being one of the few in possession of the coordinates to Sanctuary, which would cripple the military if the Arachnids learned of its location.

Sanctuary is the base location of the federation fleet and also where fleet has developed a planet busting Q bomb, which they intend to use to destroy bug planets. Bugs would love to destroy the sanctuary asap. On OM-1, Anoke and Lola come down in a rescue pod with 4 more people, while a battalion of troops comes down in another craft and lands 100 Kms away. Lola finds that their party is being tracked by bugs, but not attacked. She decides to find & hook up with the troops from the other ship. Lola speaks to Dr Wiggs about strange behavior in Anoke & asks if he would support her if she tried to overtake command. Dr Wiggs agrees, but Anoke overhears them. An apparent earthquake causes Dr. Wiggs (Danny Keogh) to fall into a crevasse, while the Sky Marshal views a giant eye staring back at him from below. Cynical cook Jingo Ryan (Jon Falkow) is next to die after he takes shelter within a cluster of supposed rock outcroppings, which are actually Arachnid limbs which pull him below. Engineer Bull Brittles (Stelio Savante) asks the very religious flight attendant, Holly Little (Marnette Patterson), to marry him, but dies shortly after.

On Earth, General Hauser confronts Admiral Phid about why she is abandoning the Sky Marshal, only to be arrested. Phid then orchestrates a bombing of Federation HQ, where she declares Anoke & Dix dead by terrorist attack on the Federation. Later, Phid reveals to him that Sky Marshal Anoke is responsible for the downfall of Roku San, having been in communication with the "Brain of Brains", also known as "Behemecoatyl", through the original brain bug captured in Starship Troopers, as he has psychic powers. The Sky Marshal adopted their religion, hoping he could save humanity from the bugs if he could make peace with them. It is revealed that he turned off the electric barrier surrounding the base on Roku San to show his willingness to make peace between the two species.

The Federation now believes the Brain Bug allowed itself to be captured in the first place on Planet P in order to pass on intelligence from inside The Federation. The Federation makes the decision to kill and dissect the captured brain, but it overhears them and unleashes a telepathic scream, killing a few soldiers by exploding their skulls before Dix kills it. It is revealed that Admiral Phid ignored the distress calls of those abandoned on OM-1 so she could become the new Sky Marshal; however, she failed to take into account that Lola, who is one of the few pilots of the Federation that know the location of Sanctuary, was with Anoke.

Back on OM-1, the stranded make contact with The Brain of Brains, who communicates with them through the corpses of their fallen comrades and soon kills Anoke for his knowledge; Lola and Holly, the last two left alive, begin to pray that they will be saved.

Rico leads the Marauders, an elite team of troopers composed of his command staff from Roku San, on a rescue mission, using the Federation's new battle-suits. They defeat the Arachnid warriors on OM-1, suffer no casualties, and rescue the two survivors. OM-1 is revealed to be the home of the Bug Hive, the Arachnids' ruling body, and Fleet destroys it from orbit with a planet-destroying "Q Bomb".

Rico is apparently cleared of charges and subsequently awarded a promotion to the rank of General and given permanent command of the Marauder program. Anoke is reported to have died in a terrorist attack (staged by the government earlier to explain his disappearance) and given a hero's funeral. Dix and Lola are married, Admiral Phid is appointed the new Sky Marshal with Dix as her second-in command, and Holly becomes a Federal chaplain. Dozens of peace protesters are hanged in connection to the purported terrorist attack. The new Sky Marshal Phid, impressed with the way that Sky Marshal Anoke was rendered servile by the Arachnids' religion, decides the Federation should adopt a religion, and a Christian-like religion is embraced by the Federation.