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A Rebel Alliance scout on Hoth
Scouts, also known as explorers or rangers, were individuals who charted new hyperspace routes and explored unknown planets or unknown planetary areas as well as planets or planetary areas occupied by enemy forces, either working for a government, a corporation, or as an independent.
Most major governments, including the Galactic Republic, Galactic Empire and the New Republic had their own scout services. In 4000 BBY, government scouts were organized as the Republic Astrogation Survey Team, a part of the Science and Culture Administration. The Imperial Survey Corps was much more tightly controlled than its Galactic Republic predecessor. The Humanocentric biases of the Empire, the ISC's new emphasis on finding worlds for the Empire to ruthlessly exploit and conquer, and attempts to recruit scouts into the Imperial Starfleet led many scouts to join the Alliance to Restore the Republic. The company Lardanis Survival Systems made equipment specifically for explorers.
The New Republic formed its own scout service soon after its formation, with the goal of rejuvenating exploration of Wild Space and the Unknown Regions and undoing some of the damage the ISC had done.
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The scout is a starting class in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. The scout is also a heroic class in the Star Wars Roleplaying Game. Prior to the New Game Enhancements of 2005, scouts were a trainable profession in the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies. However, following their removal as a playable profession, scouts still existed in the form of various Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
AppearancesEdit
Rebel scouts monitoring Imperial troops movements
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Eternal Throne
- "To Fight Another Day"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 6 (Mentioned only)
- Battle for the Golden Sun
- The Isis Coordinates
- Graveyard of Alderaan
- "Graveyard of Alderaan"—Classic Adventures: Volume Two (Reprint)
- Star Wars 17: Crucible (Appears in flashback(s))
- "The Evacuation of Jatee"—Supernova
- "The Spira Regatta"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 1
- "The Spira Regatta"—The Best of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, Issues 1-4 (Reprint)
- "The Quality of Mercy"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 1
- "Swoop Gangs"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 6 (Mentioned only)
- "Silent Fury"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 7
- "Escape from Balis-Baurgh"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 1
- Under a Black Sun
- Shadows in the Force
- Tempest Feud (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
- The Long Arm of the Hutt
- "A World to Conquer"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 2 (Mentioned only)
- "Lazerian IV"—Twin Stars of Kira
- "Ropagi II"—Twin Stars of Kira
- "Swoop Gangs"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 6 (Mentioned only) (As "explorer")
- Splinter of the Mind's Eye
- "The Prize: A Scout Adventure"—Galaxy Guide 8: Scouts
- Artifact of Aaris—The DarkStryder Campaign (Mentioned only)
- Death Is Remotely Possible—The DarkStryder Campaign (Mentioned only)
- "Rendezvous with Destiny"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 6
