Directorate Officer
"Who? Never heard of them. Where are they from?" ~anonymous Antarian Ranger
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To make a fighting unit from Boz Pity
Image Credit: soldier here, walker here, emblem here, background here
Role:
Links: Gir Quee, Silver Jedi, Lucerne Personal Defense, Lucerne Labs, Boz Pity, Renanscence Medical Center, Gargantelle
Unit Name: Boz Pity Heavy Reconnaissance Regiment - "Outrider Rangers"
Affiliation: Gir Quee, Silver Jedi, Boz Pity
Classification: Light Armor / Recon
Equipment:
Varactyl-class Light Walker (almost 1 per soldier)
Kaadu-class MDU (command & logistics staff only)
Carabello-series Armored Clothes uniform with BMLBS (standard armor)
- Firespike Submachine Gun (1 per soldier; standard sidearm)
- Fireblast Grenade (2 per soldier)
- TD2.3 Electrobinoculars (1 per soldier)
- CN-15 Camouflage Netting (1 roll of netting per walker)
- Hoplite series Synthetic Soldiers (98% manpower of Regiment)
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Description: The Outrider Rangers are a light armor group based out of Renanscence Medical Center on Boz Pity. While ostensibly trained as a mechanized reconnaissance group, the unit's secret primary function is to patrol the grounds around Renanscence Medical Center and to protect Project Renanscence. To this end, most of the unit's soldiers are equipped with Varactyl-class Light Walkers which are either outfitted for close quarters combat against enemy infantry or for general anti-vehicle use. While primarily trained to fight from these walkers, members of the Outriders can also function as light infantry in close quarters combat because of their light armor and submachine guns. In order to conceal the true nature of their presence on Boz Pity, the group is trained in and does conduct mechanized recon missions from time to time, typically as small elements assigned to combined arms ISAF task forces. While apparently lackluster to most outsiders, the Outriders fulfill a vital role in keeping Project Renanscence safe and the revival of the Gargantelle race a reality.
COMBAT INFORMATION:
Unit Size: Large
Unit Availability: Common
Unit Experience: Trained
Combat Function: Despite its name, the Boz Pity Heavy Recon Regiment more often acts as a light armor force rather than a pure reconnaissance unit. Approximately half of its walker are equipped for close combat against infantry by sporting Reaper Mag Cannons and flamethrowers, while the other half of walkers are equipped with repeating laser cannons and warhead launchers, making them well-suited for use against enemy vehicles. On a strategic level, the Outrider Rangers focus primarily on patrolling the areas around Project Renanscence. Consequently, most Standard Operating Procedures and unit placement are focused on providing constant, overlapping patrols around the Renanscence Medical Center. As part of readiness training for potential interplanetary deployment, the regiment does train at lower unit levels on conducting recon and forward observation missions. Much of this training consists of cat-and-mouse games with other units of the Regiment, providing one group with experience in conducting patrols and the other group in trying to infiltrate past patrols for deep recon. The tactics developed by the Outriders for these missions make frequent use of feints and counterfeints, where a small group of infiltrators will make often make a purposeful distraction to attract attention at one point to allow infiltration by other Outriders at a different point in enemy lines. Once in an ideal observation position, the recon Outrider frequently powers down his walker, camouflages it in netting, and then simply observes and records the surroundings through electrobinoculars, frequently taking shift changes with another ranger who takes the down time to sleep or perform other daily living tasks. On patrol, the Outriders like to use overlapping patrol routes, along with a secondary line of Outriders that act as a quick response force for any incursions. This allows the front line Outriders to continue their patrols with less possibility of being drawn out in a feint. When in combat, the Outrider Rangers use adopted standard infantry battle drills to their walker platforms. This can manifest as a pair of walkers providing covering fire to a another pair of walkers bounding forward, or shifting fire in conjunction with another group launching a flanking attack. While each walker is typically superior to small groups of infantry, the Outriders frequently team up and try to attack larger and more superior opponents such as tanks and heavy walkers from multiple angles in wolfpack tactics to try and offset their individual weakness. While the Outriders almost always to try fight from their walkers, if they are forced from their walkers, they can briefly function as light infantry and frequently apply the same battle drills that they use from their walkers, though their arms and armor are frequently inferior to that of their opponents in such settings. While the Outrider Rangers typically fight on their own while in garrison on Boz Pity, they frequently work in close conjunction with infantry and heavier armor units when deployed as part of an expeditionary force as part of ISAF's combined arms doctrine.
Walker Swarm: Almost every soldier in the regiment, aside from leadership and logistics positions, are equipped with Varactyl-class Light Walkers, making them a highly mobile force that typically can bring more firepower to bear than most line or infantry regiments. Command and logistic elements travel in specially equipped Kaadu MDUs, which allows them to keep pace with their fighting walkers.
Recon Specialists: The soldiers of this regiment excel at observation work, using their walkers to rapidly reach lookout points, from which they can use camouflage netting to conceal their position while they passive watch their opponents using electrobinoculars.
Vehicle-based Warriors: Without their walkers, the soldiers of the 2nd lose much of their effectiveness, only being lightly armed and armored compared to regular infantry.
Droid-based: Being almost entirely composed of droids, the 2nd Recon Regiment isn't known for being particularly creative nor thinking about the context of their actions except for their immediate tactical effects. This can lead to long term strategic and/or political problems.
Following the Silver Sanctum Coalition's arrival on Boz Pity, the Silver Jedi became aware that the planet's native Gargantelle had not in fact become entirely extinct. This led to somewhat tense start of a relationship between the two cultures, as the small number of Gargantelle's sought to rebuild their civilization, surreptitiously aided by the Silver Jedi through Project Renascence. The Silver Jedi recognized that the Renascence Project along with the Gargantelle would likely need a more active means of protection besides the rehabilitated Confederacy base. But with such few numbers of Gargantelles and only small numbers of Coalition settlers, it seemed doubtful that the world would be able to provide a meaningful defense on its own. For several years, the settlers managed a volunteer militia to try and fill this role, but the success of Project Renascence meant that the Silver Jedi and ISAF found themselves looking for a more reliable and larger force. The advent of the Hoplite series Battle Droid finally mean that such a force could be made without drawing undue attention to the world by rotating organic military personnel. Providing security to the maze of Gargantelle monuments around Renascence Medical Center would require a large amount of mobility, which led to the regiment being based as a light armor force on patrol walkers. However, to cover up the true importance of Renanscence Medical Center, the Regiment was labelled and also trained as a mechanized reconnaissance unit. Since then, the irregular visitors to Renanscence Medical Center have frequently found small groups of walkers on "training exercises" around the facility. Since the Outrider Rangers also have the official classification of being an "understrength" regiment, many people within the ISAF the Boz Pity Heavy Recon Regiment to be a regiment in name only, and many suspect it to be a company-sized element at best. What is unknown to most is that most of the unit lies dormant in the subterranean caverns of Renanscence Medical Center, where the regiment's automated pilots lay waiting already strapped in their walkers, merely waiting to be activated by the administrators of the Renanscence Medical Center or the elders of the local Gargantelle population. While almost unknown outside of Boz Pity, the few settlers in active duty with the regiment along with some of their synthetic soldier compatriots do sometimes leave the world in up to company-sized elements in order to gain combat experience with the ISAF's expeditionary forces. These elements have managed to garner a suspiciously nondescript battlefield reputation, not seeming to stand out in any way, either good or bad, from their fellow ISAF forces. Outside of combat, the Outriders have a reputation for interest in alien philosophies, and find themselves frequently conversing or practicing tenet of these philosophies. While this seems strange to many casual outsiders, this is actually born of trying to understand the arcane warrior philosophy of their secret Gargantelle allies back on Boz Pity.