How to Organize a Police action

This is just me trying to get the details right. Over in the Royal Marines of Clarion thread I've been plugging away at the Mercy Mission to Madderly's Star adventure-BTW thanks Shadowshack for the name. I need to throw out some numbers of troops for a small expedition that is not meant to conquer Ki-kit just halt the killing and rescue the vrusk. Adventure focuses on a squad of Royal Marines which are part of a company of RM that are sent as a sort of Naval infantry (they catch the really interesting jobs). Bulk of the troops will be Royal Guard. What I unsure of is what would be a realistic number of troops to send? Yeah a lot probably depends on population and terrain and mission. What I really want is that it sound like a reasonable number for a limited mission police action/ mercy mission (and yes I aware the "police action" is politician speak for not declaring war when it resolution is war)

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