Sector Ranger/Legends

"What others abandon, we protect."

- Sector Rangers motto

The Sector Rangers, in the Imperial Period known as the Imperial Sector Rangers, were a sector and system level law enforcement organization that existed virtually unchanged since the Old Republic.

Description
The Corps of Sector Rangers was established during the days of the Old Republic by the Senate that mandated the creation of a sector-wide police agency, charged with apprehending criminals and keeping the peace and duplicated in each sector. While local law enforcement agencies were restricted by jurisdictional boundaries, the Sector Rangers were able to pursue criminals anywhere within a given sector, from one star system to another, and bring them to trial.

They traveled usually in pairs or groups of four on particularly dangerous cases or were organized of teams composed of the crew of a Ranger ship, typically a Law-class patrol craft. In time of the Galactic Civil War the Ranger branches in the Bormea and Darpa sectors used also PB-950 patrol boats and Regulator X-Q2 systems patrol cruisers. During Darth Krayt's reign, armed transports of the Gladius-class were the preferred long range scout vehicle of the Rangers. Because the Rangers had to move often quickly through space, they were expected to be capable pilots in starfighters or transports.

In addition to their own ships and droid complements Sector Rangers had the right to commandeer local policemen or make use of Republic or Imperial vessels in the course of their duties, although most avoided doing so unless the situation at hand required such draconian, fault-prone methods. Rangers were trained to be cautious and methodical in their gathering of evidence or employment of their powers, so as not to have criminals be released due to legal loopholes and mistrials. Furthermore authority figures being a stickler for red tape or reacting indignantly were not unheard of. In systems who were not affiliated with the current galactic government or hold it in poor regard these enforcement powers, including the suspension of local officials, were of no avail, so the Rangers had to rely on their skills in negotiation or intimidation to get the help they needed. Tatooine and Nar Shaddaa exemplified such challenges.

Considering the highly unusual circumstances that most Sector Rangers found themselves in, they could be in the company of almost any type of contemporaries - mercenaries, pilots, slicers and even gamblers - each possessing some unique skill that proved to be helpful to the Sector Ranger in bringing criminals to justice. A Ranger's authorizations included the power to deputize a select number of civilians to act as legal agents for the duration of an investigation.

The best of the Sector Rangers were typically promoted to posts as Special Enforcement Officers (SEOs) that had wider arrest and detention powers which allowed them to cross sector boundaries in pursuit of a wanted criminal. They might operate far from their nominal headquarters, while common Rangers had to coordinate with the foreign branch once they wanted to investigate outside of their sector. Many SEOs went about their duties undercover, making possible to infiltrate criminal organizations and approach a delinquent, like Narra Mesyne who personated a speeder bike racer called Miraj.

Sometimes these higher ranking Rangers rubbed the regular ones the wrong way when the SEO used his position took over a Ranger's investigations or pulled him off of his case to assist the SEO's own. Nethertheless most Special Enforcement Officers were hold in regard and represented the ultimate goal for a Sector Ranger to eventually attain through years of service. Many holodramas were centered on a SEO pursuing his quarry across the length and the breadth of the galaxy.

The Sector Rangers of the Old Republic maintained a database of known criminals and suspected agents of criminal groups.

History
Since their formation the Sector Rangers were concerned with law enforcement and peacekeeping matters and not military or political issues. In Old Republic days the Republic Office of Criminal Investigations was the Corps' governing body.

The Rangers tried to put an end to the trade of Zygerrian slavers, but they survived the best efforts, even those of the Jedi and later the Imperial Navy.

With the Jedi Order engaged in the fighting of the Clone Wars, policing and enforcing ration regulations had fallen to the Sector Rangers.

They remained largely unchanged during the Imperial era except in name, then referred to as the Imperial Sector Rangers, and were led by the Sector Ranger Central Command. During the Empire, the Central Command was administered by the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations (IOCI), which was itself answerable to the Justice branch of the Coalition for Progress, part of COMPNOR.

In 0 ABY a larceny attempt of Cecil Noone's robber band resulted in a messy shootout between their bulk freighter Borogove and a Sector Rangers patrol boat, stranding the thieves in the Kamar Badlands. The criminals made the repairs to their ship in time to escape.

One year later the IOCI assigned, at the behest of Moff Landric, Inspector Zanza Gata, a Special Enforcement Officer, to bring the art thief known only as the "Tombat" to justice.



A Ranger of the Yarith sector named Fenn Gilbrantes encountered the Mon Calamari pirate Salmakk on Hoth around prior to 2 ABY and survived the confrontation.

During the Galactic Civil War Moff Irnst Stavveld instructed the Sector Ranger Central Command to detail an additional patrol to the Induparan Crown Worlds area, after Governor Mirash Peet had requested support in view of increasing Alliance Rebel privateer activities in the region, by name Urias Xhaxin and the crew of the Nebulon-B escort frigate Free Lance.

On Stend VI Special Enforcement Officer Narra Mesyne was in hunt for the Herglic criminal Kaylo NaKuda. Within her assignment she took an alias, participated in swoop races and gained rapidly fame at The Pits.

At least two Imperial Sector Rangers, Dyyz Nataz and the Diollan Spurch Goa, became bounty hunters. They were relieved of duty, because they had blown a palace asteroid of Jabba the Hutt in little bits and caused a scandal.

With the rise of the New Republic as a new political force in the galaxy, it became clear to many policy makers that something akin to the traditional Sector Rangers was required. Some form of expanded agency was deemed necessary to enforce a common law throughout the New Republic. Following the Liberation of Coruscant in 6.5 ABY, General Airen Cracken created the New Republic Security Force to replace the Imperial Sector Rangers. It was hoped that the new organization, consisting of many ex-Rangers, could end the activities of the Palpatine Counter-Insurgency Front.

A unit of Sector Rangers apprehended the Human assassin Brahle Logris, after he had been convicted for the attempted murder of a Ranger on Gandalla in 8 ABY.

In 10 ABY one Sector Ranger captured Iquar from the Karazak Slaver's Cooperative and extracted him a confession revealing Seland' Ir as the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Janissa Locrin.

In Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire the One Sith made sure to put the Sector Rangers under direct Imperial control, like over hundred years ago under Palpatine's rule. Members of the Corps acted with a jurisdiction rivaled only by the Sith Lords.



Appearances

 * Republic HoloNet News Core Edition 14:4:14
 * Dark Empire
 * X-wing: The Krytos Trap
 * X-wing: The Krytos Trap