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[Starcraft] In the Brood Wars intro, does the UED drop a detachment of marines just to watch them get eaten by zerglings?

Were they UED soldiers?

Was there mission just so that the officers could be like "wow damn they're getting brutally killed down there, time to leave"?
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It was a Dominion colony and therefore Dominion soldiers. As Gerard explains they were there to so Stukov could see how the Zerg operate in action so that he would have real, first-hand experience with the Zerg since they were planning on using them as a weapon against the rogue human colonies.