The Galaxy Rangers is a voluntarily formed group that travels around the cosmos to uphold justice for the locals out of the belief that benevolence and justice must be upheld by personal action.
Description[]
"The ultimate fighter dreams only of the stars."
Not all devotees of The Hunt hate Abundance. Such a group of talented rangers exists out there. This group admires Lan's policy of using violence against violence and the Aeon's swift decisiveness regarding punishment, believing the benevolence and justice of the universe need to be upheld via personal action.
The Galaxy Rangers formed into a group of heroes, walking the Path of The Hunt, and roam the universe thanks to the blessings of the Aeon. They went from planet to planet upholding justice for the locals, hunting down evil, then embarking on new journeys.
The successful assassination of a Lord Ravager, Zulo, first brought the Galaxy Rangers their fame. And many years later, a Ranger thwarted the atavistic experiment of the 64th member of the Genius Society, Dr. Primitive. But after that, these Galaxy Rangers gradually faded out of sight in the cosmos. Rumor has it that they fell victim to Dr. Primitive's vengeance.
- (This paragraph is added upon completing Trailblaze Mission Stranger in a Strange Land in the Chapter Farewell, Penacony)
Profile[]
While members of the Galaxy Rangers hail from different worlds, and have all kinds of personalities and traits, each of them are highly skilled, despises evil, and follows Lan and the Path of The Hunt.
They carry a balance scale with them at all times and believe justice in the universe needs to be achieved through individual deeds. They are always accompanied by the song and the sound of horns. They pursue justice for those they encounter along the way and shower them with wines and songs.[1]
According to Aventurine, the Rangers "come and go like shadows," and there's little communication between them.[2] Boothill doesn't think the Galaxy Rangers can even be considered an "organization" to begin with as they all follow their own path along The Hunt, with their own resolute sense of righteousness, and don't share so-called universal values.
The Galaxy Rangers don't need a form of shared faith. What brings them together is a shared bottom line: Never bully the weak, never kill the innocent. These oaths aren't beliefs, but rather the fundamental bottom line that one must never cross as a person. As Galaxy Rangers, they abide by a common principle and strictly adhere to the bottom line.[3]
The Galaxy Rangers have relics in the form of a bullet that appear meaningless to anyone other than a Galaxy Ranger, that can only fulfill its purpose when returned to its rightful owner. This is because it's a burial artifact, worthy only of a hero who has served the Galaxy Rangers with honor. The relic is shot out like a flare and when it is used, it means the fall of a hero, and in the direction it's light falls, Galaxy Rangers will come from all corners of the Cosmos, driven by a shared purpose, without questioning the cause or counting the cost.[4]
History[]
Assassination of Lord Ravager Zulo[]
The Galaxy Rangers first rose to fame with the successful assassination of Lord Ravager Zulo,[5] called "Operation Zulo."[6] Rather than confront him directly, the Rangers manipulated surviving members of The Swarm, making use of their lack of intelligence to their advantage and herding them toward his fleet.[5][7] Before the mission, they saved the life of Breukelen Tiernan, a Nameless who battled for Penacony's independence from the Interastral Peace Corporation. He along with Loretta[6] are so far the only two named Galaxy Rangers to battle Lord Ravager Zulo, and Tiernan disappeared soon after.[4]
Riding the success of "Operation Zulo", the Galaxy Rangers would next defeat the Thirteenth Legion of Gaius the Usurper, the successor of Genius Society Member #27, Emperor Rubert's will. However, their means of accomplishing this are unknown.[5]
Dr. Primitive[]
Many years later, the Galaxy Rangers would thwart the 64th member of the Genius Society, Dr. Primitive, and protect the Thousand-Tree Greenwood on Vonwacq. For this, some claim that many Galaxy Rangers would suffer from Degeneration Flow and lose their combat capabilities resulting in the Galaxy Rangers having to cut back on their efforts.[5] Dr. Primitive however took an unknown form of revenge on the Galaxy Rangers, further pushing the Galaxy Rangers into obscurity.[8][9]
Presently, the Galaxy Rangers and Dr. Primitive are closely intertwined, and even after his rumored death, there are still Rangers who hunt for him.[10] Once, an individual believed to be a Galaxy Ranger sold Dr. Primitive's robes on Device IX's dark web but refused to answer any questions.[11]
At some point in the past, the Galaxy Rangers were alerted to a facility run by Laboratory 17 of the AtaviSearch Forest, after one of its researcher became disillusioned after seeing how the others intended to get rid of a promising subject, AK-A-3. After he killed his colleague (who had tried to get rid of her numerous times), the Galaxy Rangers discovered AK-A-3 and her unnatural powers, given to her through experimentation. AK-A-3 gave herself the name Rappa and joined the Galaxy Rangers in order to hunt down the Evil Ninja Osaru.[12]
The Present[]
While the Galaxy Rangers have fallen into a state of scarcity,[2] they are still an active group in the universe and have appeared numerous times in recent events.
Colleen recounts a story about a pirate she used to work with called Wyland, who replaced most of his body with prosthetics. After a masked visitor informed him that void song whale's brain extract could relieve Wyland of his headaches due to old age, Wyland begun to massacre void song whales. He hooked his nervous system up to his ship for maximum efficiency, and at this point the IPC reached out to the Galaxy Rangers to put a stop to him. However, when all their forces arrived Wyland was already dead.[13]
Another time, an anonymous Ranger claimed that The Cremators were behind the Holstein Aphasia in 2157 AE, in which the residents of Holstein had all their memories relating to "language" stolen. Recently, the Cremators were confirmed to be behind it, and the Galaxy Rangers have announced that the rangers are working on retrieving the stolen memories.[14]
At some point, a Galaxy Ranger chased a group of interstellar thieves into Talia. These thieves would later go on to create Nailscrap Town.[15] At some point in time, the Xianzhou Yuque started looking for the leader of of the Galaxy Rangers, La Mancha, hoping to rebuild a connection with the hero.[5]
The Self-Annihilator Acheron arrived on Penacony posing as a Galaxy Ranger, which caused Boothill, a real Galaxy Ranger, to seek her out and try to kill her.[16] Upon meeting Acheron himself, she explains to him that given the group's elusive nature and limited contact with each other, she had to devise a plan to "reach out" to him. She had done so in order to fulfill a long-standing promise to return Tiernan's relics to their rightful owner.[17] Boothill would use Tiernan's relics to summon Galaxy Rangers from all over the cosmos to the Asdana system to weaken Sunday's dream, which alerted the cosmos at large that the Galaxy Rangers had resurfaced from obscurity. Boothill would later confront Aventurine in order to learn the whereabouts of Oswaldo Schneider to continue his original mission of getting vengeance on the man who destroyed his planet and people.[18][4]
Rappa would later have Boothill accompany her to Penacony after tracking Dr. Primitive to the planet, discovering a plot to turn the planet's populace into monkeys. With the assistance of the Memokeeper Mr. Reca, Robin and the Astral Express, they were able to foil his plan, though Dr. Primitive escaped. After the incident was over, Dr. Reca approached Rappa and gave her remuneration for helping his "film" by giving her information on where Dr. Primitive had gone.[19]
Known Members[]
Playable Characters[]
2 Characters match the category selection:
| Character | Rarity | Path | Combat Type |
|---|---|---|---|
 Boothill |  |  The Hunt |  Physical |
 Rappa | |  Erudition |  Imaginary |
Other Characters[]
- La Mancha — Leader[5]
- Loretta[6]
- Drunk Galaxy Ranger who claims Dr. Primitive's secrets are found in Device IX[20]
- Unnamed Galaxy Ranger who rescued Rappa from Laboratory 17[12]
Past Galaxy Rangers[]
- Barrle's Father (retired)[21]
- Stoneblade †[22]
- Tiernan †[4]
Faction Mentions[]
Character Stories
| Character | Stories |
|---|---|
Readables
- Cosmos Public Service Award
- Incident Report Regarding the "Slumbernana Monkey" Memetic Virus
- Xin-41 Homeward Cloud Messaging
Relics
Curios
Equations
HoYoLAB Articles
- A Letter of Invitation From Penacony
- Astral Express Magazine - Penacony Info Bulletin "The Galaxy Rangers"
- Great Analyst Pom-Pom
- Past Achievements of the "Former Nameless"
- Pom-Pom's Intel｜Unveiling the Dangerous Members of the Genius Society
Miscellaneous[]
- Assignment: Destruction of the Destroyer
- Parlor Car: IPC Broadcast #2
- Parlor Car: IPC Broadcast #4
Trivia[]
- Jing Yuan's dream as a young boy was to become a Galaxy Ranger.[23]
- When listing possible factions Silver Wolf could have left Punklorde with, she mentions the Galaxy Rangers.[24] This is a reference to Stoneblade, a legendary hacker from Punklorde who left with the Galaxy Rangers.[25]
- They bear great similarities to the Galaxy Rangers from the 1986 American animated space Western television series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.
Etymology[]
- 游侠 Yóuxiá was a type of ancient Chinese warrior folk hero celebrated in classical Chinese poetry and fictional literature. It's similar to the knight-errant in medieval chivalric romance literature.
- A Ranger is typically someone that works in a law enforcement or military/paramilitary role specializing in patrolling a given territory, called "ranging" or "scouting".
Other Languages[]
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Galaxy Rangers |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 巡海游侠 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 巡海遊俠 |
| Japanese | 巡海レンジャー |
| Korean | 갤럭시 레인저 |
| Spanish | Vigilantes de la Galaxia |
| French | Rangers de la galaxie |
| Russian | Галактические рейнджеры |
| Thai | Galaxy Ranger |
| Vietnamese | Cảnh Binh Thiên Hà |
| German | Galaxieranger |
| Indonesian | Galaxy Ranger |
| Portuguese | Vigias da Galáxia |
References[]
- ↑ Companion Mission, Stellaron Hunters: Punklorde Mentality
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trailblaze Mission, The Sound and the Fury: Whodunit
- ↑ Trailblaze Mission, In Our Time: The Great Train Robbery
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Trailblaze Mission, In Our Time: And on the Eighth Day
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Seat of Divine Foresight, Interactable: File Repository: Ally — Rangers
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Assignments: Destruction of the Destroyer
- ↑ Aurum Alley, Interactable: Mini Xiyan
- ↑ Trailblaze Continuance, Crown of the Mundane and Divine: When the Stars of Ingenuity Shine
- ↑ Data Bank, Factions: Galaxy Rangers — The Hunt
- ↑ Relic, Genius of Brilliant Stars: Genius's Gravity Walker
- ↑ Simulated Universe, Curio: The Doctor's Robe
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Trailblaze Continuance, Banana Outrage: Battles Without Ninja and Humanity: The Men Who Tread on the Monkey's Tail
- ↑ NPC dialogue: Colleen
- ↑ Parlor Car, Interactable: IPC Broadcast 2
- ↑ Relic, Talia: Kingdom of Banditry: Talia's Nailscrap Town
- ↑ Trailblaze Mission, Cat Among Pigeons: When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
- ↑ Trailblaze Mission, In Our Time: Bullet & Brain
- ↑ Data Bank, Characters, Boothill: Character Story: Part IV
- ↑ Trailblaze Continuance, Banana Outrage: Battles Without Ninja and Humanity: Battles Without Ninja and Humanity
- ↑ Data Bank, Factions: Device IX — Nihility
- ↑ NPC dialogue: Barrle
- ↑ Data Bank, Characters, Silver Wolf: Character Story: Part IV
- ↑ Messages: Jing Yuan
- ↑ Visitor Dialogue: Silver Wolf
- ↑ Data Bank, Characters, Silver Wolf: Character Story: Part IV