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 Rangers were established during the days of the Old Republic by the Senate in a move that mandated the creation of a sector-wide police agency, the Sector Rangers, 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.

They were organized of teams composed of the crew of a Ranger ship, typically a Law-class Patrol Craft, which had a complement of thirteen, or usually travel in pairs or groups of four in particularly dangerous cases. 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 between the planets, they were expected to be capable pilots in starfighters or space 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 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 could operate far from their nominal headquarters. 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 take over a Ranger's investigations or pull him off of his case to assist the SEO's own. Nethertheless most Special Enforcement Officers were held in regard and represented the ultimate goal for a Sector Ranger to eventually attain through years of service.

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

History
Since 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. 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 lead by the Sector Ranger Central Command. During the Empire, the Central Command was administered by the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations, which was itself answerable to the Justice branch of the Coalition for Progress, part of COMPNOR.

At least two Imperial Sector Rangers, Dyyz Nataz and Spurch Goa, became bounty hunters.

Following the Liberation of Coruscant in 6.5 ABY, General Airen Cracken created the New Republic Security Force to replace the role of the Imperial Sector Rangers. It was hoped that the new organization could end the activities of the Palpatine Counter-Insurgency Front. Its agents soon 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 afore restored Sector Rangers under direct Imperial control, like over hundred years ago in Palpatine's reign. 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