Royal Victorian Militia Rangers (Fallout Alternate History)

The Royal Victorian Militia Rangers (RVMR), known alternatively as the Victorian Rangers, is a militia and police force in New Victoria established by Queen Victoria II after the Saanich Accords, where the Vancouver Island Confederacy joined the kingdom in exchange for protection from the Broken Coast Raiders. Although the Royal Army and Royal Navy were expanded to the northern coastlines and satisfied the deal, the absorption of the various smaller militias and their deployments to the various new forts left a vacuum in domestic policing. In response, Vanessa Laurier, Mayor of Port McNeill, asked for an audience with Queen Victoria and suggested the creation of a new wartime militia to handle domestic policing while the Royal Army was working overtime against the raiders.

The Victorian Rangers were created by decree on March 14, 2159. It was a volunteer-only force, and the pay was nothing special, but Victoria II's charisma and promise of free land led to thousands of volunteers in the coming months. Rangers were deployed in dozens of townships north of the

The mounted police assisted in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, including relocating indigenous communities living along the route. The force established a wide network of posts and patrols, enabling them to protect and assist the ranchers who created huge cattle businesses across the prairies. The living conditions of the police on the prairies were spartan and often uncomfortable, and only slowly improved over the course of the century. Meanwhile, the railway enabled more settlers to migrate west, creating new towns and industries, while the force restricted the First Nations to the reserves. The mounted police faced challenges in adapting to the changing situation, especially when applying the unpopular prohibition laws to the white community. The force also became drawn into the growing number of industrial disputes between organised labour and company owners.