а с ним не определились.
The acolytes of the Doom Eagles are not chosen primarily because of their strength, their courage, their soul or their physical appearance, but on the basis that every single one of them shares a feeling of total loss, grief and desperation. They regard themselves as already dying, just like their homeworld Gathis II. The tests which the future marines must pass, have the main purpose to show them, that they have nothing to lose, that it doesn't matter where they die, that they could just go on. Only very few of the youths survive these tests, and only those who have recognized this fact are allowed to survive.
"Обреченные" я бы даже сказал
тошнит мну пока что от этой Вики :)
дай передохнуть да рассказ перевести, а там уж продолжу.