Soldier, on Studio Universal (DStv Channel 112), follows the story of a soldier named Todd 3465 (Kurt Russell) who was trained from birth to become a ruthless fighting machine, but is dumped on a waste disposal planet after he is knocked unconscious in a fight with the new genetically-modified soldiers. After landing on the planet, Arcadia 234, he lives among a community of crash survivors and like all good hero’s, takes it upon himself to defend the planet and its inhabitants. The film also stars Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielson, Sean Pertwee and Gary Busey.
Here’s our guide to surviving on a waste disposal planet if you find yourself in a similar situation to Todd 3465:
1. Channel your inner Kurt Russell: There is no time to wallow or get stuck in the despair of the fact that you were dumped on another planet in the first place. You have to immediately jump into action and begin to source out ways to survive.
2. Find a habitable community: Every planet has a habitable community, right? Well where there is garbage, there are humans. Find them, give them a sad look, and watch as they take you in, give you shelter, food, and probably teach you a valuable lesson about the importance of human emotion and interactions.
3. What happens on Arcadia 234 stays on Arcadia 234: One of the advantages of being stranded on a waste disposal planet is that it is like a free pass, you do what you must in order to survive, no one will know once you returned to earth. Even if your shameful secret is that you cried silently alone in a pipe that you used as a temporary shelter, it is okay.
4. Use your skills to better the community: Everyone has a particular set of skills, and so do you! Instead of keeping your skills to yourself, hoping to unleash it at the most dramatic moment, see how you can use to help the people now. If your skill is self defense, or combat, you can teach the community so that they might learn to defend themselves in case of an emergency.
8. Learn how the control room of a space ship works: The only way that you got dumped on the planet was via a space ship, and therefore it’s your best bet for getting off it as well. Therefore it is a good idea to learn the mechanics of how a space ship works so that if you find yourself in possession of one you will know how to steer it away from the waste disposal planet.