# Out-of-Sequence Trope-a-Day: Space Marine **URL:** https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/out-of-sequence-trope-a-day-space-marine/2367 **Category:** General **Created:** [November 8, 2024, 7:17am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/out-of-sequence-trope-a-day-space-marine/2367 "2024-11-08T07:17:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
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(Reason for out-of-sequencing: to express, [in the light of this story](http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/1208235.html?ref=eldraeverse.com), the sentiment that GW can kiss my authorial ass, too.  Along with everyone else who has ever used the term, whose earliest usage that I am aware of dates to _the 1920s_.  Come sue me, melonfarmers.) **_[Space Marine](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceMarine?ref=eldraeverse.com):_** Yep.  Except, as we said back in [will in the future say in] _Space is an Ocean_, they’re just regular legionaries who happen to be assigned to ships, habs, drifts, etc. in space, so in practice, the entire ground-based military of the Empire are Space Marines, or at least one assignment order away from it.  (When so much of your territory is, well, space, why would you even bother training troops that _can’t_ operate in it?) And, yes, they all wear _some_ kind of [_Powered Armor_](http://eldraeverse.com/2012/04/08/trope-a-day-powered-armor/), but the heavy legionaries play this to the max with their walking-tank-style combat exoskeletons. * * * This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://eldraeverse.com/2013/02/06/out-of-sequence-trope-a-day-space-marine](https://eldraeverse.com/2013/02/06/out-of-sequence-trope-a-day-space-marine)