I’ve made the Imperial flag and seal Carmine red, and fixed the layout somewhat. (And boy do I wish I had a professional designer on hand for this.) This is what I came up with:
Left is TF, right side is Empire.
I think this works… But I’m still interested in opinions.
Is there any significance you’ve given to the number of stars? it’s stuff like that that adds a bit more flavour.
Sorry I didn’t comment until now. It turns out my work computer has a virus (no that does not mean days off) and I’m just now getting sit down time at home. Anyway, I like what you decided on. I’m a bigger fan of blue, but the Empire colors make perfect sense with your story. I also liked what you mentioned in your email about uniform colors. You could make the fatigues a gray, red, black camouflage (assuming camo serves a purpose in space) or something like gray armor with red underneath and black joints. Officers could wear a white coat with gold tubing, red sash, gray pants, black boots. It all just depends on your taste and what feel you’re going for. I’m eager to see more.
Realmwright: Well, I also liked blue. But I can’t have both nations use blue as their primary color, so one had to change. I guess I could have looked for other combination but I guess red is an obvious choice. I do think the darker shade of red makes it look a lot less “communist”.
Shorty: The stars on the Terran federation seal/Flag were originally Earth and the other seven planets of the solar system. The background has changed though and it doesn’t match any longer – I’ve not quite decided how to fix the stars yet, but I’ll work that out over time.
The Imperial flag doesn’t yet have a meaning for the stars. I think it’ll either be 18 ‘provinces’ or perhaps the original systems that founded the Empire.
I do agree with you that these things must not simply be random, and I will definitely change the flags/seals etc to match the background down the line.
Cool. They do look good by the way, I just let my curiosity get the better of my taste…
Hehe – thanks – and no worries, while I love it when people like my work (obviously) I appreciate constructive feedback even more. Questions like yours keep my worldbuilding honest in that they prevent me from cutting too many corners 🙂