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Old 09-14-2013, 05:19 PM   #80
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Originally Posted by dcarson View Post
Given that the system was setup by a tidy organizer the sector ribbons should all use the same basic color scheme. If you read the pattern of stripes it is the sector number in binary.
Yeah. Though the sectors don't get organised until 547 PDT, which is forty years after the Marines were organised. A regular system of ribbons colour-coded to sector numbers after the fashion of electrical components won't make sense until then. I guess we get a confusing unsystematic mess of ad hoc designs only for actions that attracted the attention of the Imperial Council up until then.

A choice of two out of eight colours is capable of distinguishing 64 sectors, or 56 if we avoid matches. That leaves plenty of room for future growth and reorganisation of the military district system. Main colour gives one octit and the edge stripe the other, with, perhaps, a central pin-stripe to distinguish special sorts of action. Bar clasps for interventions. MiD stars on the service ribbons, or elsewhere?
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