IISS Rangers

The IISS Rangers were a covert intelligence unit of the Scout Service established as a separate branch-level service by the Emperor Paulo I in the year 741.

• Rumors that the Rangers still exist are categorically denied by Scout Service administrators.
• Any relationship between the Rhylanor Taoiseach and the IISS Rangers is both uncertain and speculative.

Description (Specifications)

IISS Ranks (Security Branch)
Officer Rank
IS-16 (O7) » Scout Leader
IS-15 (O6) » Colonel (Scout Commander)
IS-14 (O5) » Lieutenant Colonel
IS-13 (O4) » Major
IS-12 (O3) » Captain
IS-11 (O2) » First Lieutenant
IS-10 (O1) » Second Lieutenant
Ordinary Rank (Enlisted)
IS-9 (E9) » Chief Warrant Officer (Chief MSgt)
IS-8 (E8) » Warrant Officer (Master Sgt.)
IS-7 (E7) » Technical / Leading Sergeant
IS-6 (E6) » Staff Sergeant
IS-5 (E5) » Sergeant
IS-4 (E4) » Lance Sergeant
IS-3 (E3) » Corporal
IS-2 (E2) » Lance Corporal
IS-1 (E1) » Scout Guardsman (Private)
IS-1 (E1) » Scout Recruit
Rank List Non-Canonical

Table of Rank Grades

The Rank Grade table IISS Security Branch from which the organization drew its membership is reproduced at the right.

Mission (Goals)

No information yet available.

Doctrine & Strategy (Operations)

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

Originally tasked with observing and recording activity within the Imperium that might pose a threat to Imperial security, as time went on the Rangers evolved into more of an intervention force answerable solely to the Emperor.

• The Rangers continued to function after the death of Paulo I in 767 as an independent reaction force, dealing with both real and imagined threats at their own discretion.
• Due to excesses on the part of some Ranger operatives, including the possible involvement of some in the death of the Emperor Tomutov I in 768, the Empress Paula II revoked the Ranger's charter in 772, resulting in their subsequent disbanding.

TO&E (Organization)

No information yet available.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This military is primarily located in the following areas:

• No information yet available.

World Listing: 1105

This military is known to regularly operate on the following systems and worlds:

No world articles for IISS Rangers

See also

Third Imperium

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Third Imperium

• Government
• Imperial Government
  • Warrant of Restoration
  • Feudal Confederation
  • Imperial Bureaucracy
    • Civil Ministries
      • Ministry of Commerce
      • Ministry of Colonization
      • Ministry of Conservation
      • Ministry of Justice
      • Ministry of Information and Communication
      • Ministry of State
      • Ministry of Science
      • Ministry of Technology
    • Defence Ministry of the Imperium
      • Imperial High Command
      • Imperial Army (IA)
      • Imperial Navy (IN)
      • Imperial Marines (IM)
    • Office of the Emperor
    • Imperial Interstellar Scout Service (IISS)
• Imperial Leadership
  • Emperors of the Third Imperium
  • Imperial Moot
  • Imperial Nobility
    • (Planetary (Local) Nobility)
    • Imperial Gentry
    • Baronage
    • Peerage
    • Imperial Clan
    • Landed Nobility
    • Imperial House (Noble House)
    • High Nobility
• Imperial Law
  • High Laws
  • Imperial Navigation Act
  • Imperial Warrant
  • Imperial Autonomous Region
  • Imperial Calendar
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  • "Right" of Assassination
• Imperial Symbols
  • Imperial Sunburst
  • Iridium Throne
• Demographics

Imperial Forces

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Imperial Forces:
Unified Forces of the Imperium

• Defence Ministry of the Imperium
• Imperial High Command

• Admiralty Board

• First Lord of the Admiralty
• Marshal-Commandant of the Corps

• Lord Marshal of the Unified Armies

• Imperial Guard

• Space Forces:

• Imperial Navy (IN)

• Imperial Sector Fleets

• Imperial Subsector Fleets
• Imperial Reserve Fleets

• Imperial Star Marines (ISM)

• Special Forces: Imperial Marine Commandos

• Naval Depot
• Imperial Naval Intelligence (INI)

• Colonial Navies (Auxiliary Forces)

• Colonial Marines
• Subsector Navies
• Planetary Navies

• Ground Forces:

• Imperial Army (IA)

• Close Orbit and Airspace Control Command (COACC)
• Ground Force Command (GFC)

• The Imperial Artillery

• Nautical Force Command, a Wet Navy (NFC)
• Special Forces: Sylean Rangers
• Imperial Army Intelligence (IAI)

• Colonial Forces (Planetary Defense Forces)

• Imperial Interstellar Scout Service (IISS)

• Detached Duty Office

• Intelligence Branch

• Operations Office

• Scout Fleet
• Security Branch

• Special Forces: IISS Rangers (defunct) (?)
• Special Forces: Rhylanor Taoiseach (defunct) (?)
• Special Forces: Special Security Service (SSS / "S-3")

• Express Boat Network
• Imperial Way Station

• Paramilitary & Auxiliary Forces

• Mashkim (System or Planetary Police)

• Ducal Security Forces
• Mainworld Security Forces (Constabulary)

• Mercenary Forces

• Mercenaries:

• Irregular "For Hire" Mercenaries
• Regular Contractual Mercenaries

• Imperial Rules of War
• Repatriation Bond
• Mercenary Slang

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Lawrence Whitaker. Scout (Mongoose Publishing, 2009), 96. (LBB3: Pocket Edition)
• GURPS JTAS Online (Pyramid, SJGames): Published July 16, 1999
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science