Known colloquially as the Scout Service, the Whistler Exploration Corps is one of the oldest of The Council‘s agencies. The Scout Service’s initial charter was to survey the systems of 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.