Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-18016240-20140115163511/@comment-18016240-20140115212636

ZiXIS wrote: Guy, Guys! Almost all of the Space Marine Chapters are like that way! The Space Marines see themselves as superior to the mortal-humans, they exist to kill and protect the Realm of the Emperor, and by protect I mean never giving a single planet to the enemy, not protecting the innocent civilians...

They are like immortal... so they care less about the humans, and more about their foes. You should have knew this already... That's true to an extent, usually when space marines deal with civilian and guard casualties it's seen as a regrettable loss they think of something like "Regrettable, but necessary.", but they don't actively think "Oh they died? Great!".

That's what seperates other space marines from the MM, sure, they can be callous dudes but they don't normally go out of their way to make people suffer for sh!ts and giggles. Also, the Salamanders as Slug said actually hang out with the humans on their homeworld and care about the people they're supposed to protect.