GalCop Logo?

[maaarcooose]

Is there an 'official' GalCop logo or has any one ever created one?

Just wanted to use one in some artwork.

!m!

[Wildeblood]

Simon B has a winged logo that he uses in Neolite and all his other ship sets on stations, police and navy vessels.

[Commander McLane]

Is there an 'official' GalCop logo?

Yes. See here: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=49528#p49528

The Robotic Avian (or the Elite logo) is the CANONICAL logo of the Galactic Co-operative of Worlds. See:

The doors opened and he gazed out across jade floor tiles to the cleon foyer doors. Aligned vertically at their centre, and spreading up and across the access in a sweep of majesty, was the Golden GalCop symbol; RA the Robotic Avian, fixing him with a benign and impregnable stare from holocast eyes. Above its feathered helm, across the lintel, was the complex title; 'GalCop Space Licensing Authority'.

- IMPRINT, distributed with Elite Plus.

In my little universe, when a pilot qualified from the GalCop Space Flight Academy he/she was persented with a silver GalCop badge - his "wings". If he achieved Elite status, he was presented with a gold version of the badge with a holograph of the word ELITE that could be displayed across the front at the touch of a small recessed button. So in a sense, the silver RA was the pilot's "wings" and the gold RA was the "wings" of an Elite pilot. This also kept the logo correct as shown, being golden with the word ELITE across the front.

When I read Imprint (not that long ago) and discovered that it was referenced as the "Golden GalCop logo" I changed it do be a gold logo all the time, and the only thing that was different between the standard "wings" and the Elite pilot's "wings" was the ability to show the word ELITE. Since then I've read a lot of other fiction, and there are some other great ideas. Norman Mosser's Elite badge, for example, stores his flight record. Also, going into the future, when GalCop eventally falls, the Robotic Avian may solely become the logo of the Elite Federation.

I can't rightly remember if the Elite Federation was mentioned in The Dark Wheel - I don't have a readily accessible copy on me - but it's not mentioned in anything else up until Frontier. Maybe the Elite Federation is the last thing left of GalCop by then!

[maaarcooose]

Cool thanks.

That makes things a little easier for me then.

!m!

[Pleb]

So a bit like this:



Without the word ELITE in the middle then? Although I found on Google Images an alternative one:



Haha, maybe its a logo for the mirror universe Galactic Co-Operative, where everyone is evil and has a beard...

[Selezen]

So a bit like this:

A bit, although that's the "redesigned" modern version of the original logo, first revealed for the 25th anniversary, isn't it?

The original one was curvier.

[CommonSenseOTB]

Although I found on Google Images an alternative one:



Haha, maybe its a logo for the mirror universe Galactic Co-Operative, where everyone is evil and has a beard...

That's priceless! After you go one step too far towards the pirate lifestyle there is no going back when this logo appears. A sign that you are now a bonafide pirate. An oxp could give you a minimum fugitive rating when a series of things has occured and a flag is set. At this point permanent ooniverse altering changes would occur...

[Shipbuilder]

For anyone who is interested I've tweaked the logo posted earlier to match Pleb's comments i.e. removed he word Elite and uploaded it on to box.

Download here GalCop Logo

[Gimi]

I would recommend not to use the Gold Elite avian as a logo, in any shape or form, for anything except as an emblem for those that have achieved Elite status.
My personal opinion.

[Diziet Sma]

For anyone who is interested I've tweaked the logo posted earlier to match Pleb's comments i.e. removed he word Elite and uploaded it on to box.

Using that logo might run afoul of Frontier's copyright lawyers.. it would probably be better to use the Oolite Avian as a basis instead.

[Shipbuilder]

For anyone who is interested I've tweaked the logo posted earlier to match Pleb's comments i.e. removed he word Elite and uploaded it on to box.

Using that logo might run afoul of Frontier's copyright lawyers.. it would probably be better to use the Oolite Avian as a basis instead.

What do we all think then ?

Do I need to pull the download from the Box site ?

[maaarcooose]

After I couldn't find a nice clean one, I created my own.

Will be in my soon to be released fiction.

!m!

[Selezen]

As long as you are not promoting it as your own creation or profiting from its use and provide credit to the creators whenever you use it for something you are OK to use the Elite logo.

[Diziet Sma]

Ahh.. cool.. thanks for the clarification!

[Shipbuilder]

As long as you are not promoting it as your own creation or profiting from its use and provide credit to the creators whenever you use it for something you are OK to use the Elite logo.

That's good news otherwise I'd have to retexture the police version of my latest OXP.

Thanks Selezen