Marine Mammal Sea Corps

The Marine Mammal Sea Corps is a very special branch of the Science Health and Research Corps. The primary goal of the organization is to help act as a type coast guard. Using sea animals that can talk.

## Description

The Marine Mammal Sea Corps or M.M.S.D is a marine organization obviously. The goal of the corps is to help rescue the lives of those unfortunate enough to end in disastrous situations at sea. This includes being on sinking or capsized ships or boats, ended up stranded at sea, getting stuck on deserted islands, and being rescued from more hazardous areas.

Their secondary purpose lies within the military spectrum. This means searching for enemy vessels, bombs, any items or objects of “interesting” or “peculiar” nature, or even for intelligence purposes such as espionage or sabotage.

These duties are performed by a group of cunning and ingenious marine mammals, hence the name. These sea creatures actually have the ability to communicate with humans and other sentient beings with language.

List of the main marine mammals within the Sea Corps:

* Beluga Whales
* Bottlenose Dolphins
* Orcas
* Sea Lions
* Seals
* Walruses

## Ranks

Noncommissioned Officers
 Abbreviation
 Equivalent

## Context

The idea of training certain animals is an old one. You know the saying, “A dog is a man’s best friend.” Well, so can a whale. The practice of training sea mammals for military and entertainment purposes has been practiced since the late 20th century. This was done because these creatures often had above average intelligence compared to that of other animals.

They have been noted to have more complex language compared to other animals. Well, maybe not a true language, at least not on the level of human language, but a form of communication that managed to beat even the babbling of human infants when it came to complexity.

This lead to the famous dolphinarium experiments in the 1960s, when a female scientist attempted to teach a bottlenose dolphin, peter, to speak English. Of course, part of why this experiment was started was because of the idea of humans speaking to animals. Humans wanting someone else other than themselves to speak to. Of course this experiment was a failure, but it helped open up interesting ideas, to say the least.

Then in the 90s and early 21st century, you have countries such as Russia and the United States training marine mammals (primarily beluga whales and sea lions) to aid in military task such as spotting enemy divers, bomb and mine detection and other things.

Well, fast forward a couple of centuries later, and we have Aquascape, a water/theme park area located on the planet of Saliri, originally a dessert planet. One of the main attractions were its marine mammal performances which unlike 20th/21st century attractions of the same type, were much more ethical thanks to the latest advancements in technology and methods of communications.

Well, there two orcas, Mango and Fruit Cake, who were known to have trouble communicating. Well, the alliance higher ups saw this as an opportunity to bring a really ambitious idea to life: talking animals. Sure they [humans] met other beings from other planets, but what if thei animals form their own planets talk?

Well, let’s just say that a lot of developments, starting from that pair of experimented orcas lead to the formation of the Sea Corps.