I read 2000 AD's Rogue Trooper from the start. The Quartz Zone Massacre really sticks in my memory.
Dropping troops in from orbit seems like a really stupid way of deploying them, scattering them like dandelion seeds.
Starship Troopers is really meant as a parody. Paul Verhoeven's movie version certainly is - and that movie dropped the whole idea of drop troops altogether in favour of those hideously unstreamlined boxes on rockets.
By the way, now I know why MWM insists on Teleportation having that limitation that you can't just have thousands of psionic troopers "beaming down" on masse all at once. I mean, they could try, but have you ever put a sausage in the microwave for just one minute too long?
Basically, that limitation is there to stop the players coming up with the idea of deploying thousands of teleporting troops in. Not to mention themselves.
Honestly, I can see the next revision dropping the need to have Flyer skill, or to have the onboard computers incorporate Flyer-0, or just handwave the whole process.