Johnny Rico ( Van Dien ) faces off against the murderous bugs once more as he leads his team on a secret mission to rescue a crew of troopers stranded on the remote planet of OM–1. Battling bugs both new and old, the team‘s new ‘Marauder‘ weapons technology may be their only hope against a treasonous element operating within the Federation itself. As Captain Lola Beck (Blalock) and the rest of the crew fight to survive in harsh conditions, it begins to dawn on them that something on OM–1 is very, very wrong – and this time the bugs have a secret weapon that could destroy humanity…