Confederate Marauders

"One of the biggest problems of the old COG was that they didn't like diversifying their military. They had an army, an air corps, and a navy, and that was good enough for them. They had the Onyx Guard, which were more of shock troopers than special forces, and some units had commando teams. They never saw fit to expand beyond that, so when the Locust came, they didn't have anyone capable of going behind enemy lines, small units who could disrupt the enemy without exhausting resources in large counterattacks. I wonder how many lives we could've saved that way, well it's not a problem this time around. No clue why they're painted gold though."

- General Colin Davis on the inception of the Marauders.

The COG was long known for its reliance on its well trained infantry force and unshakable Onyx Guard, though for most of its history, it lacked any proper special forces units until very late in the Pendulum Wars and the advent of the Special Tactics Group. While this worked well enough during the highly conventional Pendulum Wars, when the Locust attacked on Emergence Day, COG commanders found that their tested strategies and tactics were near-completely ineffectual against their new enemies. As such, the COG took devastating losses as their army heavily relied on an ever-increasingly fragile supply chain.

In the years following the Locust War and the reformation of the COG, Colin Davis, a prominent officer in the reformed COG, began considering the idea of a proper special forces unit for the army. Unfortunately, before he could implement the idea, he and several others led a rebellion against the COG, forming their own Confederation of Ordered Governments. As the new Confederate Armed Forces grew, so to did the need for a unit capable of carrying out special operations. While the Confederate Guard was technically able to, it served in much the same way as its predecessor as shock troops. In response to this, now-General Davis ordered the creation of the Confederate Marauders, a group of elite infantry that focused on small unit tactics and an ability to operate away from a supply chain for weeks or months if need be.