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All Space Marine Chapters loosely utilise the same types of ranks. Many non-[[Codex Astartes]] chapters, however, will often use different names for these positions.{{Fn|14b}}
*[[Chapter Master]] — The highest attainable rank of Space Marine, commanding their entire Chapter.{{Fn|14b}} Some Chapters, like the [[Iron Hands]], do not maintain a Chapter Master.{{Fn|15}}
*[[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] — The second highest rank of a Chapter, they command a [[Space Marine Company|Company]] or its equivalent. Many Captains are given an honorific honourific [[Space Marine Master|Master]] title.{{Fn|14b}}
*[[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenant]] — These serve as the right hand to their Company Captain, typically commanding one of the Company's two demi-companies.{{Fn|18b}}
*[[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] — Command Squads within each Company. Sergeants within the Chapter's 1st Company are known as [[Veteran Sergeant]]s.{{Fn|14b}}
*[[Battle-Brother]] — Standard Space Marine rank for a fully inducted warrior. May include honorific honourific duties such as [[Space Marine Honour Guard|Honour Guard]], [[Company Champion]], or [[Company Standard Bearer|Standard Bearer]]. The most experienced Battle-Brothers serve in the Chapter's 1st Company as [[Veteran Space Marine]]s, who may wear ancient [[Terminator]] armorarmour.{{Fn|14b}}
*[[Vanguard Space Marine]] - Covert-operation experts typically drawn from the 10th [[Scout]] Company. A Chapter will normally maintain 100 of these specialists.
*[[Neophyte]] — Space Marines in training who have not become fully accepted Battle-Brothers. They are utilised in a Chapter's [[Scout]] Squads as a part of their training.{{Fn|3a}}
Space Marines represent the pinnacle of Imperial bio-engineering. They are larger, stronger, faster{{Fn|51b}}, and more durable than average humans. Most also display higher cognitive abilities, such as very accurate powers of recollection and a capacity to process information within mere nanoseconds.{{Fn|53}}{{Fn|62b}} Space Marines have frightening strength, which when augmented by power armour allows them to act as living battering rams capable of smashing through fast-moving light vehicles or crush human heads into pulp.{{Fn|55}} Space Marines also display superior vision, hearing, smell, sun/radiation resistance, and taste than standard humans. They have far greater resistances to heat and cold and can even survive for a time in the vacuum of space.{{Fn|2}}
Space Marines are extremely durable, capable of eventually regenerating from wounds that would quickly kill a normal human, require little sleep, and are further enhanced with an additional [[Black Carapace]] armored armoured skeleton as the final stage of their implantation process.{{Fn|2}} The strength and endurance of [[Primaris Space Marine]]s is even greater than those of [[Firstborn]].{{Fn|56}}
Fully armoured, a Space Marine typically stands 2.1 meters (6'8") to 3.0 meters{{Fn|50}} (9’10") tall and weighs 500-1,000 kilograms (1,100-2,200lbs). Due to the nature of the zygotes that make up Astartes [[Gene-Seed]], all Space Marines are male.{{Fn|52}} Space Marines live far longer than average humans. [[Dante]], one of if not the oldest active currently known non-[[Dreadnought]] Space Marines, is currently over 1,100 years old.{{Fn|54}} A member of the [[Salamanders]] from the days of the [[Great Crusade]], [[Gravius]], later became stranded in space and was not rediscovered for some 10,000 years. The Marine was still alive in an inactive state, though withered and frail to the point of warranting being given a merciful death upon rediscovery.{{Fn|57}} Some Space Marines may initially believe their memory to be eidetic, but even their most glorious memories as an Astartes might be forgotten over the centuries.{{Fn|69}} This all lends to the theory that Space Marines while subject to gradual aging are "functionally immortal", though since they all inevitably die in battle one day there is not enough sufficient data to come to any firm conclusions.{{Fn|58}}
*{{Endn|21}}: [[Spear of the Emperor (Novel)]], Chapter 5
*{{Endn|22}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/15/a-new-breed-of-hero-may15gw-homepage-post-1/ Warhammer Community: A New Breed of Hero (Posted 15/5/2017)] (Last Accessed 29 August 2019)
*{{Endn|23}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/12/preview-iron-father-feirrosgw-homepage-post-2/ Preview: Iron Father Feirros (Posted 12/9/2019)] (Last Accessed September 14 , 2019)
*{{Endn|24}}: [[Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work (Novel)]], Chapter 19
*{{Endn|25}}: [[Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition)]], pg. 32
**{{Endn|41a}} pg 79
**{{Endn|41b}}: pg. 7
*{{Endn|42}}: [[ Codex: Vanguard Space Marines (8th Edition)]], pg.7
*{{Endn|43}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (9th Edition)]], pg. 153
*44: [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]]:
**{{Endn|52g}}: pg. 211
*{{Endn|53}}: [[Spear of Macragge (Novella)]], Chapter 2
*{{Endn|54}}: [[ Dante (Novel)]], Chapter 1
*{{Endn|55}}: [[Secret Level]], Season 1 episode 5 - '' Warhammer 40,000: And They Shall Know No Fear''
*{{Endn|56}}: [[Dark Imperium (Novel)]], Chapter 6
*{{Endn|57}}: [[ Salamander (Novel)]], Chapter 12
*{{Endn|58}}: [[Horus Rising (Novel)]], Chapter 4
*{{Endn|59}}: [https://archive.ph/oqCtm Warhammer Community: The Big Summer Preview – Champions of the First Founding] ''(Saved archive page, dated 18 July 2025, last accessed 18 July 2025, original link: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/meznaevz/the-big-summer-preview-champions-of-the-first-founding/)''
*{{Endn|60}}: [[ The Silent King (Novel)]], Chapter 47
*{{Endn|61}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20250826193832/https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/j7xzluuv/master-of-rites-ferren-areios-revealed/ Warhammer Community: Master of Rites Ferren Areios revealed] saved page, original link: ttps://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/j7xzluuv/master-of-rites-ferren-areios-revealed/ (last accessed 26/8/2025)
*62: [[Harrowmaster (Novel)]]:
