Also, many cities and large spaceships are destroyed where millions of people are killed. We see some violence in an indoor football game where people are violently hit. A drill instructor strikes one cadet in the gut and another on the leg with a baton. He then spars with a cadet and grabs his wrist and graphically breaks it. A drill instructor, showing why knife throwing proficiency is important, throws a knife that impales Ace's hand to a wall.
Cadets shoot each other with some sort of laser guns that stun their opponents.
During one of these exercises using real ammo, a cadet is shot in the head and killed. Johnny is whipped for allowing one of his men to be killed in a training exercise. Johnny and Zander get into a fight where they throw punches and blows to each others' face and body. Many spaceships are destroyed by bug plasma shot at them from the planet's surface. A soldier punches Ace, and Rasczak later punches a general.