Space Marines

They're doing their part - are you?

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[Foreboding orchestral music]
[Gustav Holst: Mars, the Bringer of War]
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[Music]
[Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance (Land of Hope and Glory)]
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This is New Albion on Mars
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The Armed Forces of New Albion are a defence
force primarily tasked with 'coastguard' duties.
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Everything outside of New Albion's pressurised
envelope is essentially 'space'.
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We face very few threats that arrive across the
Martian surface, much less so by waterborne vehicles.
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The designation 'marines' recognises the
necessity of any real combat requiring
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disembarkation from unavoidably fragile
space vessels - there are no 'space tanks'.
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Defence against incoming threats such as
'space rocks' requires advanced early
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detection leading to trajectory computation,
and deflection or destruction solutions.
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Thus a vital role is 'combat astrophysicist'.
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Expeditions - which may last years - take
place on repurposed Mars Barges.
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Keeping a crew healthy in space
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this long requires not only 'combat medics'
but also 'combat ecologists'.
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Front-line space marines are the most
visible of all, inside New Albion.
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They maintain capacity for extra-vehicular combat
in the Solar System's most war-torn regions.
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It's hard to train for Earth gravity in the
one third gravity of Mars.
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Marine cadets start wearing whole-body weight
suits while barely out of adolescence.
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A large marine's un-stripped mass at
New Albion may exceed a quarter of a tonne,
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earning them the nickname 'Heavies'.
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They're doing their part - are you?
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[Dissonant clashing orchestral music]
[Gustav Holst: Mars, the Bringer of War]
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[orchestral music continues]