#desert rangers

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout: New Vegas: Unification Monument

“In the year 2271, the Desert Rangers of Nevada and rangers of the New California Republic met at this spot to sign the Ranger Unification Treaty.”

- Unification Monument plaque, Fallout: New Vegas

You can read more about the Desert Rangers, who trace their heritage back to the Texas Rangers, here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Desert_Rangers

[salamanderpie]

@sleights-of-hand's Mohave and a BOWL OF SOUP for Art Fight 2023

[newwillinium]

The Desert Rangers of Fallout New Vegas

Okay so I think the NCR Desert Rangers kind of suck, especially in comparison to their direct inspirations from Wasteland. Let me explain.

Okay so ultimately this boils down to the fact that the Desert Rangers. . . do not and never existed in the Mojave or the game world.

So backstory time. So the whole reason that the New California Republic is in the Mojave in the first place is because of their relationship with the Desert Rangers and the potential of using Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam to solve their resource issue back home.

It was their treaty with the Desert Rangers that gave them the mission and duty to secure the region from the hostility of Caesar's Legion after the Desert Rangers were pushed out of Arizona all the way into Nevada and the California wastes.

The survivors agreeing to merge themselves into the New California Republic's Ranger Corps a few years before game start.

And when we come to New Vegas and exploring it's gamestate what do we find?

Not a single bit of evidence that the Desert Rangers ever existed outside of the Monument at the Mojave Outpost. No letters, no computer logs, no Rangers who walked away rather then join a Imperialist power, no Ex-Rangers, No Centurians wearing bits of Ranger armor (The Centurians of Caesar's Legion form their uniforms out of the enemies they defeat up to and including a BOS Chapter and they have the hipplates of the NCR Ranger armor incorporated), their Chief is a NCR Ranger from Redding, every generic Ranger only has dialogue referring to the NCR Rangers as a whole and the NCR.

The Desert Rangers do not exist and did not exist in the game world as designed. There is no evidence of them anywhere in the game, and only exist to be poster-boys for the NCR and to be talked about how badass and cool they are.

And I would like to contrast with their direct inspirations.

The Desert Rangers from Wasteland 1, 2, and 3.

The Desert Rangers of Arizona are descended from the Army Corp of Engineers and they basically exist to be problem solvers. They are Diplomats, Monster-Hunters, Vigilantes, Engineers, Detectives, and feel whatever role they are required to do in order to help nurture communication, traded, and the growth of civilization in Arizona, New Mexico, California, and eventually Colorado.

And the Desert Rangers fuck up. A lot.

Perhaps the most infamous point of this is when they kill a rabid dog, and then kill the dog's furious owner when he charged them with a pellet gun. Unknown to them, the Kid survived, and as he grew so did his hate and he formed a rival group to the Desert Rangers known as the the Red Scorpion Militia.

The Desert Rangers do not rule >!this is a major issue in Wasteland 3!<, they do not conquer. They protect those independent townships that agree to be under their banner, and survive off of their own foraging, donated supplies, and the weapons and armor they themselves manufacture.

They're basically. . .think Fallout 4's Minutemen under a more centralized structure.

And the thing is that it's clear that the Wasteland Desert Rangers are implied to be the same as those in New Vegas. The Lore doesn't line up between the two now franchises, given the hundreds or so years between their nuclear apocalypses and modern day, but this is a inspiration for the series dating back to Fallout 1 with the companion Tycho whose grand-daddy was a Desert Ranger.

And with how important the Desert Rangers are to the impetus of the major main story conflict in Fallout New Vegas, how much they are the poster-boys for the game and NCR faction as a whole, and whom they are directly inspired by.

The Desert Rangers suck in New Vegas.

Because they do not and never did exist.

[abitunexpected]

Just as lonesome road's "you can go home courier six" can be viewed both as informing you that you aren't trapped there, once you find out about Ulysses and the divide, it can also be seen as a message of hatred and dismissal

Similarly, "for honourable service" on the ranger sequoia has a new meaning when it's being held by a leigon centurion to kill NCR troopers and rangers

[wild-saber1337]

NIGHT STALKER APPARITION DAY!!!

Who's a murderous freak of nature....you are XD

I love Fallout New Vegas and I love night stalkers they are so interesting as a creature

[princefleabitten]

Wow new DnD Character dropped 👀

She’s a Calimshan Halfling and (Ex-)Shepherd. Her pet Hawk’s name is Yul.

Her story is highly inspired by The Alchemist by Coelho and came to me in a sleepless night. I’m still in the concept phase but I already love her. I wanted to play a wind based character, a halfling and a ranger for a while now and she’s all three😂

Anyway does anyone know a DnD Campaign (official or unofficial) in Calimshan or Damara? I don’t want to make up everything by myself 🥲

[transthadymacdermot]

Awful awful awful Irish soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars

[rocketsimp]

Really wanted some palm trees after finding some gorgeous beach environments in Pokemon Rangers. I have lost an evening to palm trees.

[worldend]

joshua graham is apparently supposed to be in his late 50s to 60s and i dont know why that fact surprised me when he literally sounds like that. plus hes mormon so i think that says enough

[sbd-laytall]

[superspunkus]

"I really am the last."

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout: Tycho

“We Rangers hail from back east, what used to be called Nevada. Our heritage stretches back to the days of the Texas Rangers. We learn survival and combat skills in order to go out into the world and have a chance of surviving and making things better.”

- Tycho, Fallout

Tycho reappears in the New California expansion of Fallout: The Board Game, donning Desert Ranger Armor. You can read about Tycho here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Tycho

[salamanderpie]

@deadwapiti's Denver and Samuel for Artfight 2023

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[dunadaan]

i'm thinking about the time 4 years ago when i was rping with a girl and we shipped blackwall from da:i and créa and it was fun until her personal life exploded and ended our friendship. and right in the middle of that i had gotten a commission of our characters...and by the time the sketch came back from the artisti was like. welp. i dont even talk to that person anymore. but ill still pay you for this commission bc you worked hard on it and it really is beautiful

so now i have this really pretty commission for a ship i dont even ship anymore and have never posted anywhere LMFAO