Oolite Bulletins

maaarcooose wrote:

Is there an 'official' GalCop logo?

Selezen wrote:

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

Andy Redman wrote:

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!

Pleb wrote:

So a bit like this:

Pleb wrote:

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...

Shipbuilder wrote:

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.

Diziet Sma wrote:

Shipbuilder wrote:

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.

Selezen wrote:

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.