Colonial Ranger Bureau

"The colonies are the new wild west, just a helluva’ lot bigger, and meaner. If you want to tame the west, you’re gonna need Rangers."

- Future Chief Ranger Buzz Woodard proposing the creation of the Colonial Ranger Bureau to the UEG Council on Colonial Security

The Colonial Ranger Bureau, often referred to as Space Space Rangers or Colonial Rangers, were an large law enforcement organization dedicated to the enforcement of UEG laws on developing and frontier colonies. Born of the Colonial Marshal Bureau of the days Sol’s colonization, the Bureau was born of the need for an efficientefficient law enforcement group that was capable of more extreme actions than simple police forces, but for the most part less drastic than those of a or the UNSC, military forces. The group takes heavy inspiration from the Texas Rangers of the American Frontier and later the UNSC. The Rangers would operate against a large range of criminal activities, with a large focus on organized crime, the illegal drug trade, and a number of more dangerous criminal elements. While on occasion there were exceptions to this, but for the most part the Rangers only handled terrestrial and non-political issues, leaving the duty of combating pirates and insurgents mostly to conventional forces. After a period of inaction during the Human-Covenant War, the Rangers would become extremely prevalent on the frontier in the years following its close, helping keep the UEG’s grip on the colonies firm until the Created Crisis. Following the AI uprising, the active Chief Ranger, Xi Nguyen, dissolved the organization and joined them. However, very few Rangers would recognize this and would go on to join a number of resistance groups.

Trivia

 * The nickname of the Ranger Bureau, as well as the founders name are all basically one giant reference to Toy Story’s Buzz Lighyear