UNSC Marlow (Earth-5875)

"No warning, just 'BANG!' No more Marlow..."

- - Private Lance Gibson The UNSC Marlow was a Bougainville-class destroyer of the UNSC Navy. The ship was dispatched to Terra Nova in order to investigate a distress signal from the settlement Freyja, crewed by UNSC Marines, including the 1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment, under the command of Major Thomas van Zandt.

History
The UNSC Marlow arrived at Terra Nova following the reception of a distress signal from the settlement Freyja by the head synthetic Katya following a major xenomorph outbreak caused in a Office of Naval Intelligence research facility. After barely having landed their operations on the planet, a cloaked CCS-class battlecruiser emerged from its hiding spot and opened fire at the Marlow, blowing the ship in half, with it breaking in orbit and burning pieces of its hull down to the planet's surface. The ship's loss stranded the surviving UNSC Marines on the planet, who went searching for their lost comrades and found themselves involved in a fight for their lives.