It should be noted that the name "space marine" is actually a misnomer - there's no water in deep space. This page shouldn't be confused with the video game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, though that game pretty much is about them. This tradition starts with the much-imitated Doom series - see A Space Marine Is You and One-Man Army. A notable exception to this are the many First Person Shooters that use the Space Marine background as a useful excuse to get a highly trained soldier alone on a hostile planet. In many settings they fight as a squad, sometimes with Awesome Personnel Carrier support, swooping down in a Drop Ship, or launched right into the thick of it via Drop Pod. Warhammer 40,000 from Games Workshop is notable for taking these aspects to a peak, achieving the ideal "SPACE MARINE" Super Soldier, augmented with Genetic Engineering or cybernetics (or both!). In 1959, Starship Troopers codified the trope, popularizing the emblematic Power Armor, The Spartan Way of training, and the array of exotic weaponry they wield. Space Marines first turn up in the short story "Captain Brink of the Space Marines" by Bob Olsen in Amazing Stories Volume 7, Number 8, of November 1932, and a later followup, 1936's "The Space Marines and the Slavers." The trope, however, fully rose to prominence with the use of the term in the wildly popular Lensman Series beginning in 1934. These rough-hewn, tough warriors with strong esprit de corps and fighting spirit are the frontline troops of choice for humans battling marauding aliens in the Standard Sci Fi Setting. Since Space Is an Ocean, Space Marines are the elite expeditionary troops carried by spaceships, their roles paralleling those of conventional marines: mobile deployment from the ship, boarding hostile ships, securing ports - including Space Stations - from Space Pirates and enemy forces, and landing on hostile shores to secure a beachhead, although in this case, they land on enemy planets. The Immortal God-Emperor of Mankind, Warhammer 40,000
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