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Marines compose the bulk of most terran front-line forces, ranging from officially government-sanctioned units and local militias to renegades and mercenaries. Koprulu Sector marines are generally equipped with powered armor suits and rapid-fire C-14 rifles. The suit provides full life-support and NBC protection, allowing marines to deploy into environments that would otherwise be inimical to human life.^[1]

Despite such material investment into each marine, they tend to have extremely short combat lives.^[2] To improve their effectiveness and odds of survival, many marines make heavy use of stimpacks.

Known BranchesEdit

The following known organizations employ marines:

AllianceEdit

The Alliance Marine Corps appears to be a relatively small force, free of practices such as neural resocialization. The C-14 rifle is the standard issue weapon for Alliance marines, though the E-9 rifle and C-7 pistol are also in their arsenal.^[3]

Terran ConfederacyEdit

A significant proportion of the Confederate Marine Corps was manned by "culturally challenged" individuals who had been "resocialized"^[4] via brain surgery, implants such as aggression inhibitors, and resocialization tanks.^[5] Counseling and drug therapy were also used to help overcome criminal and/or anti-social tendencies.^[6] Despite this source of manpower, it was not always sufficient to replace battlefield losses, and instances of law-abiding persons being conscripted and subjected to "resoc" were not unknown.^[5] In any case, volunteers were few.^[7]

Some marines had barcodes tattooed or branded onto their foreheads.^[8]

By the time of the protoss attack on Chau Sara, each Confederate marine was officially issued a CMC-300/CMC-400 combat suit and a C-14 rifle. The slugthrower was a common sidearm.^[7] Confederate marines did not require a PEB (Preferred Experience Base) to enlist (or be conscripted as the case often was).^[9]

Terran DominionEdit

The fall of the Confederacy and its replacement by the Dominion (the Confederate Marine Corps being replaced by the Dominion Marine Corps respectively) has seen an increase in volunteer recruitment, but not enough to supplant "resoc" conscription. Marines continue to use variants of the C-14 rifle many years after the Brood War, along with the inclusion of M98 ballistic alloy combat shields in their arsenal.^[10] At some point, the slugthrower was replaced by the more powerful flak pistol.^[11]

United Earth DirectorateEdit

UED marines, also known as "smiths", are equipped much to the same standards as their colonial counterparts. Instead of the C-14 gauss rifle, they are equipped with the C-141 AC Gauss Rifle, the C-150 Ronin pistol serving as a sidearm.^[12] The UED included organic combat medics in tactical marine units. The improved survivability of UED marines inspired Koprulu terran forces to adopt medics in a similar fashion.^[2]

At least some UED marines were controlled through aggression inhibitors.^[13]

AppearancesEdit

StarCraftEdit

For StarCraft gameplay information see: Marine (StarCraft).

For StarCraft in-game quotations see: StarCraft I Marine Quotations.

Many changes were made to units and structures throughout the StarCraft alpha and beta and the marine was no exception. In the early beta, marines were known as marauders.^[14] By mid-beta, the title of the marauder had changed to Terran Space Marine mk 2, possibly as a reference to (or derived from) the Space Marines of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40K series.^[14]

The term marauder was resurrected for a StarCraft II unit.^[15]

By late beta, the marine bore great resemblance to its current version. However, they were stated to possess a pressurized power suit and chain-gun cannons instead of the CMC Powered Combat Suit and C-14 rifle, respectively. In addition, they were stated to possess gravity boots.^[14]

In-game, marines behave similarly to the marines from Aliens, even quoting lines from the film. One of these is "How do I get out of this chickenshit outfit?".

StarCraft: GhostEdit

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The marine in StarCraft: Ghost is a heavily armored, slowly moving unit, compared to the more lightly-equipped light infantry unit.^[11][16] Marines carry powerful gauss rifles that may be equipped with grenade launchers. The marines can also carry flak pistols that inflict area-of-effect damage.^[17]

In the Invasion Mode, light infantry could "upgrade" into a marine at a cost of two points.^[16]

StarCraft IIEdit

For StarCraft II gameplay information see: Marine (StarCraft II).

For StarCraft II in-game quotations see: StarCraft II Marine Quotations.

Warcraft IIIEdit

Main article: Marine (Warcraft III)

Known MarinesEdit

Main article: List of marines

ImagesEdit

See: the image gallery.

The marine profile in the late StarCraft beta (the alpha designation is a typo).

Rendition of the marine in the late StarCraft beta

StarCraft I manual marine artwork

StarCraft I marine profile

StarCraft II marine profile

StarCraft II marine profile (early render)

Early render of the marine in StarCraft II

StarCraft II marines

StarCraft: Frontline: Volume 1 marine artwork.

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