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Starfleet is not primarily a military organisation. Despite its military ranks and procedures, its frequent space battles and its ships that carry enough firepower to bake the crust of a planet, Starfleet is devoted primarily to the peaceful exploration of space and the policing of Federation spacelanes. However, there are times when military intervention on a planet becomes necessary, and when those times come, the Federation maintains an elite force of soldiers - the Starfleet Marine Corps or SFMC. Starfleet Naval personnel serve a wide variety of purposes, diplomatic as well as scientific. Starfleet Marines serve one prime purpose - combat - and they are deployed only if diplomacy fails.
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