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Originally Posted by Voltron64
To the people of the Third Imperium, an Imperial Marine clad in Battledress with cutlass in one hand and plasma gun or a gauss rifle in the other is as quintessential and iconic an image to them as a Knight in Shining Armor.
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Originally Posted by Hans Rancke-Madsen
In which case it would be one world out of the Imperium's 11,000. An atypical world. Scarcely enough to make the Imperial marine the Imperium-wide poster boy for Imperial service.
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There are other quintessential and iconic images than poster boys for the Imperial Service. For a start, poster boys for the Imperial Marines Corps. US marines do a pretty strong line in iconic images despites being drastically outnumbered by federal civil servants.