How is a person supposed to fit into a CMC suit?

[MajinX]

Yeah, the pic is definitely skewed. The leg that they show exposed is ridiculously thin, and he still would have to have wide "birthing" hips - most men's inner thighs touch. his head is also way to small for his body. I think it's interesting his body looks like a 50's style superman.

Some friends of mine were arguing evolution in the human body, and a fantasy setting. But keep in mind, this isn't Azeroth. This is the milky way(per the lore) in 500 years, which isn't that far away. So it's not magical, and it's also way too short of a time to "evolve" into a suit. Besides, rather than evolve a person to fit a suit, may as well make the suit fit the person.

who said anything about natural evolution, 500 years later, they can easily say they geneticly alter humans to fit certain roles in society, i mean we do it when cow, chickens and plants now, bred and take the good genes, mix and match to have parts we like bigger or smaller etc. And during times of war, like this, this stuff would be done without much thought of law or order.

[Pandonetho]

Well, from the examples we have seen it's true that proportions are a bit skewed. But I don't think it's too far fetched to say that Tychus can *generally* fit in the suit shown (which is his) while other suits are tailored to the size of their user.

[//MavericK\\]

Rule of Cool.

I think that anything that is partially or completely aesthetic and makes no to little sense can usually be explained by that rule. It's all about the appearance. At least where the Rule of Cool is being used.

I gotta agree with Sarov. I have never once questioned the realism of the CMC suits. They just, from day one, were too darn cool and interesting for me to really ponder the possibility of them not being quite proportioned.

Rule of Cool...um...heh...rules!

[hyde]

Guys if you're going to seriously start questioning the Marine suit, you should question how and where do the Marines store the ammo for the Gauss Rifle.
850 to 1000 rounds per minute for the M16 A2 during the vietnam era.
That's 14 bullets a second, it would take less than 2.5 seconds to empty a 30 round clip.

As an aide, a long length is also implied in some of the novels, where marines can nail Zerg to the walls with the spikes[2].

And these bullets are big enough to ...nail zerglings to the walls.
So what? Marines magically have a box of ammo that holds rounds as big or bigger than Modern day .50 Cal ammo? And I would imagine the C-14 Gauss Rifle fires much more than 1000 RPM...
I'd also imagine each "clip" has at least a few hundred rounds. Do you know how many god damn ammo boxes that is? Even if the suit makes you 6"2 and able to run around, I don't see some magical box on any of the pictures...

Let alone explain how reapers store and reload their ammo...........

You guys nit pick too much at something thats not even Sci-Fi. StarCraft is probably more removed from Sci Fi than Star Wars is. It litterally does work on "Orcs In Space" rules.

- Marines don't even have laser rifles
- Lasers do not travel like Star Wars or the Wraith
- I doubt we need SCV's in the future to watch over construction, maybe to lay down the pre-fab kit and then let it go by itself
- Where do marines come from? We don't even have medics in SC2...
- How do Marines get healed? You're telling me you lose suit pressure in deep space and "nothing" happens? Yet a stream of magical green light from a Medivac will heal you?
- We need ghosts to paint areas for Nukes to hit?

Obviously these exist for aesthetic purposes or for game play issues.
What's cooler, a Marine pumping out ammo with muzzle flash? Or some lame laser rifle going pew pew with a beam you can't see?

[Equiliari]

Like so:

Mind you, its normal shaped humans in the SC universe :P

[Kacaier]

- How do Marines get healed? You're telling me you lose suit pressure in deep space and "nothing" happens?

WHY! Why does this keep appearing? It is like a horrible plague that ceases to remove itself. Never have we ever, not once, not ever, seen a Marine, Banshee, or Vulture in "deep space."

Space Platforms have an artificial atmosphere. Yes, this may not make sense, but this plays into question shields and basic tropes in science fiction. Besides, I am not questioning the validity of the science behind StarCraft, but at least keep up with what is depicted in the game/universe.

[Norfindel]

If you look at Tychus back, and how apart are his shoulders, you would realize that the guy isn't precisely normal. As the suit is built around him, it doesn't needs to fit anyone else.

Remember that the Terrans are descendants of genetically-modified humans. Some of them are completely bizarre.

[Pandonetho]

And these bullets are big enough to ...nail zerglings to the walls.

Um, 8 mm rounds =/= .50 cal rounds.

[GnaReffotsirk]

So, are there suits for Asians?

Ectomorph: pilot, ghost, civilian.
Mesomorph: Marine, Firebat, Marauder
Endomorph: Engineer, cerebrate, old infestor

[l33telboi]

Guys if you're going to seriously start questioning the Marine suit, you should question how and where do the Marines store the ammo for the Gauss Rifle.

Their rifles are bigger then pretty much anything we have that's carried by man today. And the clip to that rifle is similarly large. Given that the ammo is merely 8 mm in diameter I'd be very surprised if those clips didn't hold hundreds of rounds of ammunition.