Jack of Harts

The comparatively small Shooting Stars of squadrons like VMR-234, the Rangers, carried most of the ground pounders who secured the landing zones for the big army transports that waddled in afterwards. And once the army was in charge they secured and built our Marine bases. We rarely went anywhere in the Hyades Cluster without some Shooting Stars around. They were hypercapable, and a single squadron of Shooting Stars could carry a full company of Marines from system to system. That allowed us to raid the Chinese anywhere in the Hyades without having to draw on our limited supply of warships. The Chinese never did learn how to deal with that. Beyond defending every system of course. But we had an answer for that too.