Re: Awards and ANthems(and now some background) [OT] [HIST]

On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Thomas Barclay wrote:
> I think you'd find that it is actually Oh, Canada! or the theme from 

nac contains south america; 'the true north strong and free' may not sit
so well.

> Great White North.  And you'll certainly find the new NAC flag 
> features a maple leaf on it... 
> 
> (I was thinking it might be a union jack (with all the crosses, since 
> it looks like the Irish Republic has been absorbed), but with the top 
> left quadrant replaced by a dark blue field with 5x (depending on 
> whether US offworld holdings had state status at the time of being 
> absorbed) small white stars and one rather larger (since there i only 
> one) white-outlined red maple leaf centered in that panel. 

i was wondering about the nac flag too. i sort of assume that within the
commonwealth, the component nations (england, scotland, wales,
ulster/ireland, canada and america) have their own flags as now, the us
flag being modified by the replacement of the starry quadrant with a
union
jack, of course, and that there is also a commonwealth flag; i don't
know
that this would necessarily be the union jack. it might be based on the
royal coat of arms, which is roughly as follows:

the flag/shield/logo/startup screen is split into quarters, the top left
and bottom right being three yellow lions on red (england), the top
right
being a red lion standing up in a box on yellow (scotland), and the
bottom
being a yellow harp on blue (ireland).

a simpified form of this, suitable for a non-denominational, in-touch,
pluralist monarchy as that of 2160 is (un)likely to be, would be to
simplify lions to horizontal bars, the lion-in-a-box to a hollow square,
and the harp to a quarter-circle, concave side pointing northeast. this
is
the logo i've used for nac ships when i've needed one, and it looks
quite
smart.

it's ascii art time:

#############################################
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#   ###############   #   #		#   #
#		      #   #		#   #
#   ###############   #   ###############   #
#		      # 		    #
#############################################
#		      # 		    #
#   #		      #   ###############   #
#   #		      # 		    #
#    ## 	      #   ###############   #
#      #####	      # 		    #
#	    #######   #   ###############   #
#		      # 		    #
#############################################

circular and shield-shaped forms should be easily derivable.

that curve didn't come out to well, but when you've only got five rows
to
play with it's not easy.

Tom