Imperial Navy Marine Brigade

The Imperial Navy Marine Brigade, also known as the Marines or the INMB, was a special naval unit of the Imperial Navy that specialized in defending Imperial vessels, boarding enemy ships, and landing on hostile planets to establish beach heads for the Empire without relying on the Imperial Army or the Stormtrooper Corps. The Marines were highly trained, and were created after the failure of Imperial Navy commandos to take the vital planet of Kyushu in the Expansion Region, after which the Navy officers decided that they needed a new elite unit, and the Marines fell under command of the Imperial Navy Special Operations.