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The Imperial Sector Ranger

The Sector Rangers were established by the Galactic Republic to form a galactic law enforcement organisation. The Senate authorised the formation of the Sector Rangers in an effort to bring law enforcement to newly colonised worlds quickly and efficiently.

As the Jedi Knights could not be everywhere, the Sector Rangers held sway in their own systems. As a result, when the Empire overthrew the Galactic Republic, many of the larger forces were absorbed, and fell under the jurisdiction of Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations. Under the title of Imperial Sector Rangers, they were used extensively, by the Empire on various worlds where it could not extend a full military force. As a result, the Imperial Sector Rangers, were used heavily in the Outer Rim to establish order and eliminate rebellious activity.

Part I : Organisation

Sector Ranger Brigades: Each brigade is assigned to a particular sector and is run by Director of Operations. The Director is in direct command of the Rangers for that sector, and has no authority over agents in other sectors. The Director is also usually accompanied by several staff members, (typically non-sector ranger personnel) that assist primarily in organisational and communications duties. The Director receives all his orders from Sector Ranger Command on Coruscant. It is commonplace for the Director to have cordial relations, however awkward, with high-ranking IOCI, Imperial Customs, and Imperial Navy officers who serve as liaisons. Each Director’s office is responsible for planning and coordinating overall strategy, as well as submitting budget, acquisition, and personnel requests to Sector Ranger Command. Finally, it is not unusual for Directors to command any capital ships in a Ranger brigade of high-profile missions.

Each brigade is then divided into four sections:

• Sector Patrol


• Stopping and Pursuing Pirates


• Disrupting Criminal Organisations


• Preventing Acts of Terrorism and Brining Terrorists to Justice

Each section is commanded by a Lieutenant, who receives orders from the Director. Many lieutenants stay at the Sector Ranger base of operations, where they can coordinate their efforts with the other lieutenants as well as pay attention to developments in the sector. Section Lieutenants also lack any staff assistants, so they must perform all these functions by themselves, contributing to their somewhat immobile nature. Due to this problem, qualified underlings are often temporarily promoted to Section Lieutenant in order to put the current Lieutenants back in the field.

Each Section is then divided into several Task Forces. Task Forces are the building blocks of a Sector Ranger Brigade, and usually contain between two and six Field Agents. Each Task Force is run by a Sergeant, who is usually more of a peer than a superior to the Field Agents assigned to him. Sergeants will almost always accompany Field Agents on their missions unless otherwise needed. Field Agents are commonly promoted to the Sergeant Level after several successful missions in order to give them a taste of responsibility and initiative.

The “typical” brigade will contain roughly seventy personnel, with two squadrons of starfighters assigned to Sector Patrol and one heavy squadron assigned to counter-piracy duty. In addition, each Sector Brigade will retain specially modified freighters for prisoner transfer duty, as well as an assemblage of gunboats and assault shuttles that are flexibly assigned by the Director to wherever they are needed most. Finally, most Sector Ranger Brigades will keep a small capital ship as its flagship. These are used in high-profile missions where heavy combat is expected.

Sector Ranger Command: Located on Coruscant, Sector Ranger Command is an otherwise unimposing building located near the offices of the IOCI and ISB. The Supreme Director, the highest position in the Sector Rangers, oversees the office and is assisted by several hundred staff personnel. Since each Sector Force is in charge of its operations, the main job of the Supreme Director is to defend the interests of the Sector Rangers from the military and the IOCI, as well as to conduct research into the weapons, equipment, and tactics that best serve the Sector Rangers in performing their duties. The Supreme Director’s office approves and/or amends the budgets and appropriations requests from the individual sector brigades, as well as aggregates all these budgets and acquisitions for the presentation to the Imperial authorities. Technically, the Sector Rangers are overseen by the IOCI, but they have mercifully decided to give the Rangers relatively free reign.

Special Enforcement Officers: SEOs are the elite of the Sector Rangers. They are individually autonomous, receiving their orders only from Sector Ranger Command. They do not work within the section-task force structure, and have multiple sector jurisdiction. They may pursue criminals across the galaxy, and function much like “official” bounty hunters for the Empire. However, unlike bounty hunters, they are forbidden by the IOCI to pursue cases with known Rebel connections, or private contracts unless ordered to do so.

SEO are often given their own ship, usually a heavily modified light freighter, to use during their career, and may “deputize” non-Sector Ranger personnel to crew the ship. SEOs are responsible for ship maintenance through the use of their own operations budget.

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SodakOwii wrote:
Excellent info bro, im gunna b putting an Imperial Sector Ranger in my bio.

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