History Characters / SpaceRangers

* BountyHunter: A few assassination quests task you with hunting down pirates and/or criminals using civilian ships, although some of these actually have the questgiver lie to you about the target's identity. The "Borzuhan" also has a side objective of capturing the titular Borzuhan in exchange for a small cash reward.

* LawOfAlienNames: The Maloqs have a lot of R and voiced stops (b, d, g) in their names (and their planet names etc.), Pelengs have a lot of "ts", "ch", "sh" sounds, Faeyans have a lot of l, m, n, f, p and y sounds and Gaalians have a lot of doubled vowels (such as "Gaaldok", "Raalito", etc.).

* AmbiguousCriminalHistory: The Mercenary start will give you some pirate rating, along with a few damaged relationships, but the details of what you did aren't explained.

* ExperiencedProtagonist: Although you're new to being a ranger and a spaceship pilot, various excerpts from the text quests make it obvious that you had quite a life before the game's start, and have a lot of knowledge and experience in all kinds of skills. In particular, the "Commando" quest in the first game has you state that you served in a military, and received training with vehicles and artillery, while the "Energy" one reveals that you studied quasiphysics in a vocational school.

* BecomingTheMask: Although the Ranger program encourages you to join the Pirate Clan in order to destroy it from within, it's extremely easy for you to become more of a menace than the rest of the Clan. [[spoiler:The end of the storyline even allows you to become the Clan's baron, ultimately making it stronger than ever.]]

* ExperiencedProtagonist: Although you're new to being a ranger and a spaceship pilot, various excerpts from the text quests make it obvious that you had quite a life before the game's start, and have a lot of knowledge and experience in all kinds of skills. In particular, the "Commando" quest in the first has you state that you served in a military, and received training with vehicles and artillery.

* ContractualBossImmunity: Dominator leaders, as well as all Bertor-class ships, are immune to anti-Dominator programs. The scientists would eventually research the programs tailor-made to deal with specific leaders, though.

* CanonName: Gref, which is the default name used if you start a text quest from the menu.

* HelloInsertNameHere

* ItsUpToYou: Played with. The Coalition forces can easily deal with Klissans and Dominators without you, especially at low difficulties. The player is not only one who can kill Makhpella and the Dominator bosses, however the player is needed to be present in the same star system, or otherwise they can't be killed, and killing them with just weapons is very difficult, so a Mental Communicator and Anti-Dominator programs are needed, which can only used by player.

* OneManArmy: You usually end up as this in space gameplay, as allied [=NPCs=] often suffer from ArtificialStupidity or [[DirtyCoward cowardice]], and your ship tends to have better stats than most others. The text quests, however, tend to [[DownplayedTrope downplay]] this in regards to your personal combat skills - you can consistently take on 2-3 {{Mooks}} at a time if there isn't a significant disparity in equipment, but anything more will vary on quest-by-quest basis.
* PurelyAestheticGender: In Space Rangers 2, you can choose a female face for your ranger, but it doesn't affect anything in the game -- you're still treated as a male.

* HumansAreWhite: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] - while the government/station officials and most portraits for humans are clearly of European descent, there's one that appears East Asian, and a few AmbiguouslyBrown ones.

* RobotWar: In backstory, humans have fought against murderous robots called simply "the bots", which is when the Rangers were originally created (long before the structure with same name was re-established against the Klissans.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: On the one hand, they're the race of {{Martial Pacifist}}s who always tries peaceful approach first, seeks the best in everyone (even Pelengs), and prefers to quietly meditate and study. But humans suspects that their philanthropy is actually a disguise for spreading the web of their influence. And then there's their practice of kicking out any dissidents or putting them into "[[WrongfullyCommitted sanatoriums]]", from where they never returns.

* CondescendingCompassion: They're not very liked by Pelengs: Gaalians looks at younger races as some sort of "younger brothers" whom they need to guide, while Pelengs thinks of themselves as superior.

* MookCommander: Bertors serve in this role, with their field giving a buff to any nearby Dominator ship (damage for Blazeroids, repair for Terronoids, and shields for Keller).

The Dominators of green color, the "Converters", seek to recycle all the matter of the Universe into themselves.

* ExtremeOmnivore: "The final goal is to absorb all the matter in the universe into my species." One of the ways of defeating the Terron boss is to tell him to go eat a star, out of all things.

* HurlItIntoTheSun: One of the ways of dealing with Terron is to give him a program of transforming the star. Scientists say that he will probably melt within a year. However, it's stated that this can irreversibly damage the star itself in time.

* PlanetaryParasite: The scientists thought he was based on a some planet. In a talk to him, it's revealed that he is not based on the planet, he ''is'' the planet, which was consumed by him.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: It's possible to defeat Terron without fighting by [[HurlItIntoTheSun tricking it into transfomring the sun]]; [[BittersweetEnding this would eventually destroy the star itself, though]].

The Dominators of blue color, "Scientists", destroying all life for the sake of studying its atomic structure. The boss -- Keller can be defeated either by following him into a black hole and persuading him to fade (You just need to choose the second option in the dialogue), or buy a special program on a scientific base that blocks Keller's recovery and destroy him in a black hole.

* BackFromTheDead: When defeated in the blackhole, Keller would reassemble back. Through usage of anti-Dominator program, it's possible to prevent it, [[KilledOffForReal ensuring that it stays dead]].

* HitAndRunTactics: Keller attacks from blackhole, summons a fleet and, once the battle starts, retreats back into blackhole, so it can launch assault somewhere else. Because of that, it's nearly impossible to kill it in the real space; you have to follow it and defeat in arcade battle.

* WeakButSkilled: Kelleroids lack sheer numbers of Terronoids, or raw firepower of Blazeroids, but compensate for it with unique technologies, like experimental stealth fields, or ability to strike at any place in the galaxy from the hyperspace, using blackholes to launch the assault.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Lore-wise, it's humans who introduced the other species to alcohol (only Maloqs are known to have analogue, but it's more of a ritual drink), and still actively consume it by the time when game starts.

*** Maloqs despise luxury (excluding their stools), and always ban it, with only (traditionally rich) monarchic planets legalising it.
*** Dictator and Monarchic planets always ban alcohol. Lore-wise, it's because conservative Maloqs find it foreign to their culture.

* SocialDarwinist: They considers weak being unworthy to live; for the long time, there was tradition to kill anyone old or disabled, and they never bothered to develop medicine.

** Faeyans easily becomes addicted to alcohol, and often readily buy it. In attempt to fight with it, any republican and democratic planets would ban it.

* UniversalDriversLicense: Your ability to pilot a spaceship apparently translates to all other vehicles in the text quests, from foncers (future motorcycles, effectively) and automobiles (both antique and contemporary), to submarines and [[JetPack jet packs]]. The "Pilot" quest also implies that your driver's license is literally universal, as your goal is to get a license for piloting passenger liners (which you don't have), but you're allowed to pilot liners in the actual game with no issue. The first game [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] this, however, as you received vehicular training [[ExperiencedProtagonist back when you served in a military]].

* UniversalDriversLicense: Your ability to pilot a spaceship apparently translates to all other vehicles in the text quests, from foncers (future motorcycles, effectively) and automobiles (both antique and contemporary), to submarines and [[JetPack jet packs]]. The first game [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] this, however, as you received vehicular training [[ExperiencedProtagonist back when you served in a military]].

* HumansAreDiplomats: Sort of. The Coalition uses human currency and time system for a reason.
* HumansAreWarriors: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; Humans are one of the three races (other two are Maloq and Peleng) who can develop Holy Zealotry disease (renders individual obsessed with fighting Dominators, and prone to rage outbursts), and never impose ban on weapons (excluding democratic planets).

** Maloqs' culture and history affects what kinds of goods they buys or have on sell:
*** Maloqs despises luxury (excluding their stools); as results, luxury is both cheap (only outsiders buys it) and illegal; the only places where it's not outlawed are traditionally rich monarchic planets.
*** Due to their SocialDarwinist values, they never bothered to develop their own medicine; now, they must import medicaments produced by the other races, which makes selling those profitable.
*** As may be expected from the race with the cult of strength and war, they readily buys any weapons imported to them.
*** As their technologies are underdeveloped, they readily buys tech, and sells cheap minerals (not much use for those, so may as well sell to those who need them).
** Maloqs specialises in brute strength and compensates the lack of tech (speed, subtlety, etc) with sheer size and resilience. This applies to their ships, too: Maloq ships are typically bigger, which directly contributes to more hitpoints and carrying capacity, but reduces their speed. It's also common for them to have extra weapon slot unlocked, including all starting options.

** Pelengs are not liked by other members of the Coalition, with everyone having at least one reason to dislike them (Maloqs for their cowardice, Humans for their piracy, Faeyans for their espionage, Gaalians for drug trading); Faeyans actually tried to push for kicking them out and even start a war against them, but it went nowhere, as the others found excuses not to go to war: Maloqs are buying stolen tech from them, Humans don't like an idea to start a war, and Gaalians claimed that they're "controlling" Pelengs and wouldn't let them go beyond petty piracy.

** Their society is highly unstable, with regimes changing semi-regularly. As result, there's no stable law, so don't expect anything being illegal, and people are always ready to buy weapons.
** Pelengs are obsessed with fun and self-indulging -- so they always buys luxuries.

*** Whenever they give protection quests (don't let any ship die in a system X for Y days), it includes the pirate ships; any other race allows you to kill pirates at will.

** Faeyans easily becomes addicted to alcohol. As result, it's vey profitable to sell it to them, but it's also often illegal (any republican and democratic planets would outlaw it).
** The food suitable for them is hard to produce, which makes selling it to them highly profitable.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** Selling them drugs is even more profitable than to other races (due to their mystics historically using them), but quickly deteriorates relationship with the planet where the deal gets done (drugs are ''never'' legal on their planets, unless they're in a state of anarchy).
** Their technologies allows them to easily mass-produce cheap medicine for export. Also, notably, medical stations are always stuffed by Gaalians.