The 501st Pathfinder Regiment is a highly trained security detachment specializing in advance scouting, infiltration and mission support. The 501st is operated under the auspices of Vanqor Defense Services, a private military corporation providing defense, diplomacy, and development across the verse
To expand its value proposition and provide cross-system solutions, in 2788 Vanqor Defense Services, as a part of it’s Special Operations Detachment, founded the 501st Pathfinder Regiment.
The 501st Pathfinders provide prompt, sustained, reconnaissance across the full range of military operations and the spectrum of conflict, in support of Vanqor Defense Services Commanders.
The Pathfinder reconnaissance teams are employed in various close operational support of other company assets. Missions include but are not limited to operations of deep space observance, infiltration, reporting on competitor and criminal organizations, Vanduul raiders and other information of strategic or economic significance.
I am the Verses finest Light Infantry Soldier. A member of the 501st Pathfinder Regiment.
As a Pathfinder, I employ and uphold the principles of freedom for which my company stands.
I am prepared to give my life for my comrades. Pride, motivation, self-discipline, and fortitude are my trademarks.
I will endure any hardship and meet any challenge. I can always be trusted to do my best. My skills are finely honed. I am a Pathfinder, a member of the most proficient, physically capable fighting force in the Verse.
My comrades and I have the will, skill, and courage to win. We are proud of those who have gone before us and uphold the traditions of the 501st Pathfinder Regiment.
Our actions reflect pride in our unit, our company and ourourselves.
Brave soldiers of the past would be proud of us.
I am a Pathfinder. “First In – Last Out”
The 501st Pathfinder Regiment is a special operations force of Vanqor Defense Services, a private military corporation that is designed to deploy and execute seven doctrinal missions.
UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE
The cornerstone of Pathfinder operations, unconventional warfare is activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a corporation, government or occupying power by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary, and guerrilla force in a denied area.
INTERNAL DEFENSE
Internal Defense is the act of training and equipping allied companies and forces to defend against insurgency, subversion, pirate, vanduul raiders and other security threats.
DIRECT ACTION
Direct Action missions are short-duration strikes used to seize, capture, recover or destroy competitor, criminal or vanduul raider material, or recover personnel.
COUNTERINSURGENCY
Pathfinders are trained to perform several key missions — each meant to be performed effectively and efficiently in a small-team operational structure.
SPECIAL RECONNAISSANCE
Surveillance conducted in competitor, hostile, denied, or diplomatically or politically sensitive environments is known as Special Reconnaissance. During this mission, Pathfinders collect or verify information of strategic or economic significance, and employ capabilities not normally used by conventional forces.
SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE
During Security Force Assistance missions, Pathfinders are called upon to train and aid the defense capabilities of friendly companies, partnerships, and developing organizations, or political groups.
DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION
The development of Verse independence to extend human presence beyond current known space. Vanqor Defense Services provides agency leadership for the development and analysis of human spaceflight architectures, mission plans, and surface system definitions. VDS is a leader in technology developments for Habitats, Space Suits, In-Situ Resource Utilization, and Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems and provides unique mission integration and test environments. Vanqor Defense Services is the leader in the science of planetary destinations.