Even though we're paid to fight we are Marines.

Space Marines

We are ORCS!!

Warrrrghhhh! Where is my warrrrrr banner!? Stupid Hu'meeezz!

GREEN IZ BEST!

Why not Effigy?

From Wikipedia:
"An effigy is a representation of a specific person in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium. The use of the term is normally restricted to certain contexts in a somewhat arbitrary way: recumbent effigies on tombs are so called, but standing statues of individuals, or busts, are usually not. Likenesses of religious figures in sculpture are not normally called effigies. Effigies are common elements of funerary art, especially as a recumbent effigy (in a lying position) in stone or metal placed on a tomb, or a less permanent "funeral effigy", placed on the coffin in a grand funeral, wearing real clothing. Figures, often caricature in style, that are damaged, destroyed or paraded in order to harm the person represented by magical means, or merely to mock or insult them or their memory are also called effigies.

It is common to burn an effigy of a person ("burn in effigy") as an act of protest.

The word comes, perhaps via French, from the Latin, meaning "representation", and originally was used in English in the plural onlyGÇöeven a single image was "the effigies of ...". The word occurs in Shakespeare's As You Like It of 1600 (II, vii, 193), though it first appears in 1539. "In effigie" was probably understood as a Latin phrase until the 18th century.[1]"

Capsuleers are represented by their ships that they become one with. Dust mercenaries, or dare I say Effigies, are a literal physical representation of the human being they represent. May I also note, unless they are being burned or discarded, Effigies are meant to last the test of time, AKA immortal.

Something to think about.

Minmatar are the Orkz

Amarr Space Marines

Gallente Don't fit into 40k because democracy leads to weakness and so Gallente wouldn't last 10 mins in the 40k universe.

Caldari - Tau (Sans Greater Good)

minmatar=adeptus mechanicus

Cavaliers? - Means a variety of things including, a "knight, mounted soldier," "a person with the spirit of a knight," and as far as adjectives go, "disdainfully proud." Would be a definite distinction for infantry such as ourselves but I also believe it rolls off the tongue quite well, especially when speaking of Capsuleers as well.

Cadavers? Kinda morbid but fitting in the EVE Universe. We don't have much of a good reputation anyway so it could probably fit. I also think it's ironic since you'll NEVER find a dead mercenary due to the mechanism that turns us into dust upon death and the fact that dying is pretty much a part of the job.

Edit: We're also pretty dead on the "inside" so it kinda works well with that.

DOUBLE EDIT:

If not those, what about Minute Men? I'm not sure if it's licensed or not but I do know it would suit is pretty well. It takes Dust mercenaries less than a minute to get fitted and drop down on a battlefield.

Maybe it's just the MGS fan in me or the time I've spent on the forums...

Les Enfants Terribles

Honestly.

We should just call ourselves Contractors.

noun
1.a person or company that undertakes a contract to provide materials or labor to perform a service or do a job.

Sorry, just had to post this little addition to my original post.

Just imagine the trailer VO, "You are an Effigy, engineered to burn on the battlefield."

I think this whole idea fits into the 'ashes to ashes, dust to dust' thing CCP is going for.

V2.0 name Effigy Rising

How abouts:

Voxers: as in the voices we command on the field. Our bodies are no more than dust, the only trace we leave is vox chatter as empires crumble beneath the political behemoth of Demi-gods.

Well, there is Eve and there is Adam.

I like your thinking. But how do you make it plural?