Sangheili Ranger: Difference between revisions

{{Status|Canon}}

{{Outdated|[[Halo: Shadow of Intent]] and [[Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)]]}}

|variant=Cov

|name=Ranger

|image=[[File:Sangheili-Ranger H2A.png|250px]]

|authority-title=Authority

|authority=[[Special Warfare Group]]<ref name="visual">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 58''</ref>

|branch=[[Fleet Security]]{{Ref/Reuse|visual}}

|equipment=[[Ranger harness]]

<br>[[Sangheili personal energy shield]]

<br>[[Antigravity pack]]/[[Covenant thruster pack|Thruster pack]]

|notable=[[Vil 'Kthamee]] <br> [[Loquen 'Nvong]] <br> [[Ziln 'Klel]] <br> [[Kola 'Baoth]] <br> [[Gri 'Waqilsee]]

|affiliation=*[[Covenant]] <br>

**[[Vata 'Gajat's mercenary group]]

The '''Sangheili Rangers''' are a specialized [[Sangheili]] unit in the [[Covenant]], its post-war [[Covenant remnants|remnant factions]],<ref name="h4">'''[[Halo 4]]''', ''Interactive Guide''</ref> and a few in the [[Banished]].{{Ref/Reuse|HW2}} Within the Covenant Empire, they were organized under [[Fleet Security]], a division of the [[Special Warfare Group|Covenant Special Warfare Group]].{{Ref/Reuse|visual}} Experts in [[Extra-vehicular activity|extra-vehicular]] space and aerial combat, the Rangers are a threat to ships, stations, as well as many other types of flightcraft.

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.<ref name="Joyride">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070411233153/http://www.joyridestudios.com/halo2_4_ranger_elite.asp '''Joyride Ranger Elite description''']</ref>

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.{{Ref/Reuse|Joyride}} Rangers also perform HAZOP operations and traditional scouting roles.<ref name="H4Rangertoy">'''Halo 4 Series 2 Elite Ranger Action Figure''' box description</ref>

As part of the [[Covenant]]'s [[Fleet Security]], the Rangers were tasked with the security of a [[Covenant fleet|fleet]]. This placed the Rangers in a defensive role, such as removing foreign forces from entering and/or commandeering the ship.<ref name="lnos">'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level ''[[Long Night of Solace (level)]]''</ref> The Rangers can also perform offensive roles such as space insertion and demolition tasks.<ref name="tfor">'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page ??''</ref><ref name="cairo">'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[Cairo Station]]''</ref> 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.{{Ref/Reuse|H4Rangertoy}}

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.<ref name="enc133">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', ''page 133'' (2011 edition)</ref>

===Operational history===

Sangheili Rangers have served since the dawn of the Covenant.{{Ref/Reuse|H4Rangertoy}}<ref name="BC">'''[[Halo: Broken Circle]]'''</ref> Sangheili Rangers were deployed during the [[Covenant]]'s [[Fall of Reach|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.<ref>'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', campaign level ''[[New Alexandria]]''</ref> During their attempts to seize the [[Forerunner]] [[Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|artifact]] located under [[SWORD Base]], the Covenant deployed many Sangheili Rangers along with other troops to attack [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]]'s laboratory, but all were slain by the defending [[SPARTAN-III]]s of [[NOBLE Team]]. Several were also present at the [[Asźod ship breaking yards]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', campaign level ''[[The Package]]''</ref><ref>'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', campaign level ''[[The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Reach level)|The Pillar of Autumn]]''</ref> Near the end of the battle, a large contingent of Sangheili Rangers was dispatched to the [[UNSC Circumference]] along with their [[Kig-Yar]] [[Kig-Yar Ranger|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 [[James-005|one of its members]].<ref name="ReferenceA">'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page ??''</ref>

During the opening stages of the [[Battle of Earth]], Sangheili Rangers were among the forces deployed to a cluster of [[orbital defense platform]]s above [[Earth]] to destroy them with [[antimatter charge]]s and tip the battle in favor of the [[Fleet of Sacred Consecration|Covenant fleet]]. They were successful in destroying [[Athens Station|two]] [[Malta Station|of]] the platforms but were prevented from destroying the [[Cairo Station (station)|third]] due to the intervention of a [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] [[John-117|soldier]].{{Ref/Reuse|cairo}} Upon his arrival at [[Installation 05]], the [[Prophet of Regret]] deployed his forces onto the surface of the ringworld. Among these forces were Sangheili Rangers. They were unable to prevent the Hierarch's assassination at the hands of the Master Chief.<ref>'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[Regret (Halo 2 level)|Regret]]''</ref>

Later in the [[Battle of Installation 05]], when the Sangheili were cast out of the Covenant and [[Great Schism|civil war]] broke out on [[High Charity]], many Sangheili Rangers aided their species in their fight against the now [[Jiralhanae]]-led Covenant forces.<ref>'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[Gravemind (level)|Gravemind]]''</ref>

With the Sangheili no longer in the Covenant, their role as aerial infantry units was taken by the [[Jiralhanae Jumper]]. Jumpers were equipped with [[jump pack]]s that, rather than allowing complete aerial maneuverability, gave them the ability to make large jumps across the battlefield. The [[Yanme'e]] also continued to serve in the Covenant as aerial units.<ref>'''[[Halo 3]]'''</ref>

When [[Shipmaster]] [[Let 'Volir]] joined the mercenary group known as [[Banished]], several Sangheili Rangers were part of 'Volir's [[Enduring Conviction|crew]] and served the Banished by extension.<ref name="HW2">'''[[Halo Wars 2]]'''</ref> These forces were part of the massive Banished deployment onto [[Installation 00]] in [[2559]]. The Sangheili Rangers of the Banished served as marksmen and skirmishers, rather than extravehicular combat specialists.<ref name="HW2">'''[[Halo Wars 2]]'''</ref>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

===Changes from ''Halo 4'' to ''Halo 5: Guardians''===

*The helmet face mask is orange-colored and no longer transparent

 

 

*In ''Halo: Reach'', there are special gold/yellow-armored Rangers known as [[BOB]]s. In the post-game carnage report, they are listed as Covenant vehicles.

 

File:H5G-SangheiliRanger.png|A Sangheili Ranger on [[Escape from ARC]].

File:Ranger 859.png|A Sangheili Ranger on [[Sanghelios]].

 

*''[[Halo: Outcasts]]''

 

 

 

 

[[Category:Sangheili ranks and titles|Ranger]]