Editing Reasonable Marines (section)

==Synopsis==
<div style="font-family:monospace; font-style:italic">++Thought for the day: Reason begets doubt, doubt begets heresy.<br/>Heresy begets retribution.++</div>

[[Image:Reasonable_marine.JPG‎‎|thumb|300px|Stealth Tactics]]
[http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs35/f/2008/299/b/6/Rather_Content_Marine_by_Keluuu.jpg ‎A Rather Content Marine you might say]
Fuck this shit. Really. Codex Astartes tell us that marine may adapt their armor color to any situation they're in if needed. Well, with leaving 1 shoulder pad their original heraldic colours. For example, a smurfmarine will paint his armor green if it will be needed to fight in some well grown forest...  But do they do it consistently?

Reasonable Marines operate with efficiency. They fulfill their orders and fight valorously and without hesitation, unless they see a more sensible solution that can fulfill the same goals. They always prefer to force a surrender rather than routing the enemy, and take prisoners to interrogate them humanely and use as bargaining chips. It's not so much that they don't like to fight as it is that they're not bloodthirsty - they understand that fighting puts their own in harm's way and is detrimental to their cause due to its great expense.

Seeking vision without prejudice, yet understanding that this ideal may be unattainable, the most important thing to them is to successfully serve the true interests of the Imperium. If this involves negotiating with or even protecting xenos, then that is what they will do. ''For this they have earned, among many nicknames, the'' [[Star Trek]]'' marines''.

Heroism and a thirst for glory are frowned upon in their ranks, as they are wasteful of personnel and other resources, and perpetuate the conflict. They wish to create a stable end to the war with mankind in a comfortable and free position. Victory is their goal only insofar as a civilization vanquished in this conflict is sure to be subjugated or annihilated.

In battle, they employ sophisticated and highly coordinated group tactics not commonly associated with normal space marines. Their armor is painted to blend into their environment in order to limit visibility (maybe camouflaged in multiple spectra so that, for example, their heat signature is harder to detect). No matter how cool it looks, a Reasonable Marine still needs to request permission from their commanding officer to carry nonstandard equipment into battle, and must justify this in a way that demonstrates its effectiveness in combat.

One of their mottoes is Sun-Tzu's saying, "For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill", which is actually pretty fucking long for a motto. Honestly the second half of the statement alone would probably make for a better motto; it gets the point across just as well. 

As such, they're super happy sunshine puppy best friends with the Tau since they are the only other faction who have the word "Reasonable" in their dictionaries. It doesn't mean they haven't come to blows, mind you, since there are a few occasions where there are things too vital to give to another. However it can be guaranteed that the Reasonable Marines would attempt to pacify them with as little killing as possible to minimize future aggressions.