Known colloquially as the Scout Service, the Whistler Exploration Corps is one of the oldest of [[The Whistler Colonial Corporate Council|The Council]]‘s agencies. The Scout Service’s initial charter was to survey the systems of [[Whistler's Reach|The Reach]], a responsibility that has become somewhat moot in the age of the jump drive. While the Scout Service does dispatch and manage long-range jump probes that are reaching into the neighboring sectors of space, their primary responsibility has evolved into a more thorough exploration of the hostile planetary environments of the colonies.