I've still got a ton of details to add, but I'm doing it at a4 scale so it will print quite nicely on inkjet transfer paper. (I hasten to add, that when we get some form of avatar system back up and running, that red cobra is mine.
) As for the back, I go with your idea, just adding that there should be tick boxes for each system. We can show how great an traveller we are when we show our Eliteness by ticking of each system we've visited. 
Selezen I like where you are going with the idea. I could really see it as an embroidered uniform badge. The only thing I would do differently is to change the interweave size/ratio of the stripes. I think a bar/gap thickness ratio of 2/1 or 3/1 would look more bold and dynamic, especially on a dark background; but that's just the way I see it. Following on from Daddy Hoggy thoughts; colour wise you could start with: green for harmless - mostly harmless, yellow for poor to above average, red for competent to deadly, and gold for elite.
Don't listen to me on the colour thing, it's your design so take it where you want to go. I'll just be interested in seeing the results.
I just went with a balanced look for both colour and shape. There's a whole sub-context I wasn't even aware off. As for making it a patch, I wonder what it would look like as a airbrushed picture on the back of a leather bomber jacket, a-al WWII US Airforce Crew. It certainly up my geek cred' 
(at least, I'm guessing it's an Oolite vid..)
That is until someone suggests something else that is 
