Eu me pergunto se isso é da série de William Dietz Legião dos Condenados .
When there's no hope for the terminally ill or a condemned criminal they have one last chance to survive. And that's to join the Legion and become a cyborg. Both more and less than human, these warriors are the most elite fighting force in the Empire, they are the Legion of the Damned.
Em particular, o romance Andromeda's Fall publicado em 2012 tem várias semelhanças com a sua descrição :
Os ciborgues humanóides eram grandes, parece que me lembro de eles terem cápsulas de foguete presas aos ombros e os soldados que os montavam em situações de batalha.
Behind them were row upon row of Trooper Is, each standing eight feet tall and packing enough firepower to grease an infantry platoon.
Shoulder-launched missiles wouldn’t be very useful in an urban environment, so all of the ’borgs carried bio bods instead
So as Chu (Chu is a T-1 cyborg) waded out into the water with his fifty at the ready and Corporal Anders riding high on his back, the resulting waves caused dozens of dead bodies to roll from side to side and undulate.
Havia cyborgs "walker" maiores, que eram (eu acho) tanques de aranha de 4 pernas (strongmente armados).
And all the way to the rear, towering above the rest, were the new forms commonly referred to as Quads because each had four fully articulated legs. The big walkers could function as armored personnel carriers, tanks, or antiaircraft batteries.
Parecem lembrar-se de que foi colocado numa selva.
Uma seção do livro está no planeta Drang.
That included two sessions of PT per day, an hour of marching, and a couple of classes. Some had to do with the Legion, but most were focused on a swampy planet named Drang. It was inhabited by a race of primitive amphibians that lived in beehive-shaped mud huts and steadfastly refused to do any of the things that a succession of interplanetary governments demanded of them. Like paying taxes and obeying Imperial laws.
Não me lembro para quê / quem eles estavam lutando.
Eles estão lutando contra a Hudatha:
For there were other spacefaring races in the galaxy, some of which would have been happy to glass Earth. The Hudathans being an excellent example. But the ridge heads aren’t going to get the chance, Ophelia thought to herself as her heels clicked on the pavers under her boots.