Coalition Rangers
The Rangers are the inter-stellar policing force of the United Coalition of Free Systems. They have a wide range of authority, but at the end of the day they still answer to the coalition congress and its vizier. It is said that the rangers are the most loyal the coalition has to offer. Stories of rangers falling to corruption are rare, and the congress is happy to make an example out of every one.
If a ranger is found engaging in illegal activity, they can spend their whole lives in jail. Their punishments are greatly skewed against those who volunteer to take the badge. Training in the rangers requires years of education, and most hold a wide variety of skills. They usually work in small independent teams, with a mix of specialties.
The Rangers are recruited from all over Free Space, and this is intentional. Often teams they find teams hand out the most even handed judgement when made up of rangers from different parts of the Coalition
Structure
The Rangers are a oddly flat struggle. There are team rookies, team members, team leaders, and the marshals. Marshals simply help organize the teams and promote and demote members. They answer directly to the Coalition Congress. There being so few, and spread over such massive territory often leads to ranger teams hardly even being able to interact with each other.
They usually get some basic weapons and a standard ship, but have to procure and maintain much of the gear they use in the field. Rangers are allowed to collect donations, though they are carefully kept track of in records. All of these rules and regulations are meant to keep the rangers the most morally upright policing force in the galaxy, but the oversight on that force is lackluster.
Rangers at the fringes of free space are just as likely to become corrupt, serving justice at the request of the corpos and syndicates alike. They work for the highest bidder, using the ranger badge as a shield for the consequences of their actions. It is not uncommon for more corrupt rangers to be snuffed out by a group of rangers coming from Straatos at the direct request of the senate.
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