: Hey there! I’m relatively new to the Marathon community, so forgive me for
: not knowing the proper ways to cite terminals on this forum.
Welcome! :) Don't worry too much about "proper" terminal citation formats; quoting the terminal and noting which level it came from is generally good enough.
Thinking about it, my guess would be that those "bodyguards" are MIDA plants, but not necessarily battleroids--this is going a bit into fanon territory, but my inferences are that MIDA converted the ten battleroids who were on the Marathon, and that said ten are the only survivors of all their conversion victims, so they're too valuable to leave behind.