Sangheili Ranger
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- "Glory and honor guide our ascension."
- — Sangheili Ranger's mantra[2]
The Sangheili Rangers are a specialized Sangheili unit in the Covenant, its post-war remnant factions,[3] and a few in the Banished.[4] Within the Covenant Empire, they were organized under Fleet Security, a division of the Covenant Special Warfare Group.[1] Experts in extra-vehicular space and aerial combat, the Rangers are a threat to ships, stations, as well as many other types of flightcraft.
Description[edit]
Recruitment[edit]
Before the Great Schism, Sangheili Rangers were an all-volunteer force. While some joined for personal glory or ancestral duty, they each know that a gruesome end could await them from even the most inconsequential of injuries.[5]
Role[edit]
Normally deployed as an expeditionary force during limited naval engagements, it is they who choose which craft are to be boarded and which destroyed. Experts in both zero-g combat and demolitions, they have been the bane of many a ship.[5] Rangers also perform HAZOP operations and traditional scouting roles.[6]
As part of the Covenant's Fleet Security, the Rangers were tasked with the security of a fleet. This placed the Rangers in a defensive role, such as removing foreign forces from entering and/or commandeering the ship.[7] The Rangers can also perform offensive roles such as space insertion and demolition tasks.[8][9] In this, they are normally deployed as an expeditionary force during limited naval engagements, it is they who choose which craft are to be boarded and which destroyed. Rangers also perform HAZOP operations and traditional scouting roles.[6]
Sangheili Rangers are combat experts in environments with little or no gravity. However, they are commonly deployed planetside during engagements. A Ranger's ease of mobility poses the greatest threat to his opponents on a world's surface.[10]
Operational history[edit]
Sangheili Rangers have served since the dawn of the Covenant.[6][11] Sangheili Rangers were deployed during the Covenant's attack on the human colony planet Reach. During the later stages of the Siege of New Alexandria, a team of Sangheili Rangers entered the New Alexandria Hospital shortly after SPARTAN-B312 destroyed a Covenant communications jammer. They attempted to kill the Spartan, but were ultimately killed by the supersoldier.[12] During their attempts to seize the Forerunner artifact located under SWORD Base, the Covenant deployed many Sangheili Rangers along with other troops to attack Dr. Catherine Halsey's laboratory, but all were slain by the defending SPARTAN-IIIs of NOBLE Team. Several were also present at the Asźod ship breaking yards.[13][14] Near the end of the battle, a large contingent of Sangheili Rangers was dispatched to the UNSC Circumference along with their Kig-Yar counterparts in order to retrieve the ship's NAV database. They were stopped by SPARTAN-II Blue Team, but not before causing the presumed death of one of its members.[15]
During the opening stages of the Battle of Earth, Sangheili Rangers were among the forces deployed to a cluster of orbital defense platforms above Earth to destroy them with antimatter charges and tip the battle in favor of the Covenant fleet. They were successful in destroying two of the platforms but were prevented from destroying the third due to the intervention of a