Space marine
Type of soldier in military science fiction / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Space marine (disambiguation).
The space marine is an archetype of military science fiction describing a kind of soldier who operates in outer space or on alien worlds.[1] Historical marines fulfill multiple roles: ship defence, boarding actions, landing parties, and general-purpose high-mobility land deployments that operate within a fixed distance of shore or ship. By analogy, hypothetical space marines would defend allied spaceships, board enemy ships, land on planets and moons, and satisfy rapid-deployment needs throughout space.