Andrew Boulton
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What colour are they?
Imperial Navy Uniforms
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Border Reiver
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Don't know about Imperials but the Solomani Navy is definitely BLACK
do you mean summer dress?..winter dress? summer/winter undress? working?
what about different colors for different divisions?...ala flight deck jerseys in usnavy?
for dress uniforms, I've always pictured them as similar to late 1800's/early 1900's style
I guess working uniforms are pretty much the same
what about different colors for different divisions?...ala flight deck jerseys in usnavy?
for dress uniforms, I've always pictured them as similar to late 1800's/early 1900's style
I guess working uniforms are pretty much the same
BetterThanLife
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The Solomani Marines already wear black. SolSec already wears Black. Does everyone in Solomani Service wear Black? (Does that actually make any kind of sense?)
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Pickles
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Well, I vote for blue. Prussian blue. Or maybe UN blue.
mbrinkhues
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The Solomani Marines already wear black. SolSec already wears Black. Does everyone in Solomani Service wear Black? (Does that actually make any kind of sense?) </font>[/QUOTE]The pround defenders of true humanity refuse to needlessly wast the hard-earned money of the citizens they have sworn to defend. Therefor they do not follow unneccesary and wasteful Imperial Customs like differently colored uniforms. The citizens in turn honor their valiant defenders in their choice of colors.
Well, in reality the only color Solomanie Clothing Industrie can produce is black. But that's a state secret.
far-trader
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Not sure where the strongly stated 'official' uniform colours are coming from, all I'm aware of is the official colours for the Imperial Sunbursts worn by the services. Yellow for the Navy, Red for the Scouts, Black for the Army, and Maroon for the Marines. I think I added Green for the Merchants imtu.
So my take on it is there is probably a single colour of uniform for all the services, and the services are noted by the colour of the Imperial Sunburst flash worn. I figure the default is a nice dress white, subject to active camo in combat.
So my take on it is there is probably a single colour of uniform for all the services, and the services are noted by the colour of the Imperial Sunburst flash worn. I figure the default is a nice dress white, subject to active camo in combat.
The uniforms - NOT the Sunburst colors - are IMTU grey. There was once an Official Imperial Navy Webpage which was linked to by the SJGames site with a whole lot of it; it's now (as far as I can tell) gone off but it had an anime-illo of a (rather cute) girl in IN uniform, which was grey.
IMTU the IN uniforms are red (or white and red). Back in 2003 I posted examples to StuffOnline that by funny coincidence also used anime (or manga) characters. I never saw the "Official" page ... send me the link if you find it.
Regards PLST
Icosahedron
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IN Uniforms?
Black with a red stripe, possibly?
Black with a red stripe, possibly?
No idea what canon says, but IMTU they're blue-grey, just like Star Wars. No summer/winter variation like RL "wet" navies, because the temperature in space doesn't change. Just the variation between coveralls for work & dress uniform for parades. Specific jobs could have colour variations (e.g. orange coveralls for engineering) as an easy visual check for the right crew in restricted areas.
The point of uniform generally is:
- to protect bits of exposed skin
- to identify one side from the other (not too critical aboard ship, except in a boarding action)
- for camouflage (ditto)
- to identify officers, unit structure & organisation
- as part of discipline, to make the crew feel they are on duty
None of those seem to point to a justification for any particular colour in the IN.
BTW as I remember it, Scouts wear grey. Is that canonical?
The point of uniform generally is:
- to protect bits of exposed skin
- to identify one side from the other (not too critical aboard ship, except in a boarding action)
- for camouflage (ditto)
- to identify officers, unit structure & organisation
- as part of discipline, to make the crew feel they are on duty
None of those seem to point to a justification for any particular colour in the IN.
BTW as I remember it, Scouts wear grey. Is that canonical?
Yeah, it's too bad they didn't also tell what colors the sunbursts are shown against. All we can say for sure is that the Navy's isn't yellow, the Scouts' isn't red, the Army's isn't black (actually, if you believe GT Ground Forces, there is no Imperial Army to have a uniform color), and the Marines' isn't maroon (which is probably a great relief to the marines).
I think it would make considerable sense if the Navy's uniforms were black. You know, Senior Service, original colors of the Imperium etc. For the rest, I don't know.
There's an Imperial merchant service in YTU?
Not a bad notion, though blue and green would work too.
I just wish someone with authority would establish, once and for all, how the Imperial uniforms look and make sure the illustrators know. I can see planetary miltaries runnning the gamut of different uniforms. I can see some duchy militaries going for a unique look (though I think most of them would mimic their Imperial counterpart). But Imperial uniforms should be the same form one end of the Imperium to the other.
(And, no, this is one place where I can't just suit myself in my own TU. I can't draw for toffee, so I'm dependent on on official illustrations to show my players how an NPC looks, and having to tell them "He looks like this except that his uniform looks like the one that guy I showed you last adventure wore" is damaging to the mood).
Hans
Andrew Boulton
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You know why the British Army wore red jackets? It was the cheapest cloth Cromwell could find.
Icosahedron
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Google for 'HeroMachine'. It might help.
far-trader
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There's also a HeroMachine yahoo group and version 3 is in development right now. Your chance to shape the destiny of the future of the character illustrator for the masses awaits
I loved ver 1, used it to no end, even while ver 2 was in beta. Loved ver 2 even more and bought a copy of the full version right quick. Don't get me wrong, the free versions are nearly as fully functional and varied. I just wanted to support the creator/artist for the work and show how much I used it. I await ver 3 in anticipation
I loved ver 1, used it to no end, even while ver 2 was in beta. Loved ver 2 even more and bought a copy of the full version right quick. Don't get me wrong, the free versions are nearly as fully functional and varied. I just wanted to support the creator/artist for the work and show how much I used it. I await ver 3 in anticipation
If I still had it I'd have linked to it. This was back in '99 to '00, and last I saw it it was in Hungarian and had nothing to do with Our Favorite Game.(In fact, I was hoping that someone would point it out to me!)
EDIT: And one of my gaming group also seems to hold that IN uniforms are grey.
Icosahedron
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I didn't know there was a yahoo group, and I didn't know there was a version 3 on the way (though I hoped there might be.)Originally posted by far-trader:
There's also a HeroMachine yahoo group and version 3 is in development right now. Your chance to shape the destiny of the future of the character illustrator for the masses awaits[
That is almost exactly my experience!
I loved ver 1, used it to no end, even while ver 2 was in beta. Loved ver 2 even more and bought a copy of the full version right quick. Don't get me wrong, the free versions are nearly as fully functional and varied. I just wanted to support the creator/artist for the work and show how much I used it. I await ver 3 in anticipation
Free versions (plural?)
I'll have to check out that group and see what is being planned. I hope for a bit of pose variation, (I still have to use v1 for that.
)more accessories, (esp modern/civilian for npcs) a pen and eraser and some improved import/export options, but if v3 is as much of an improvement as v2, it really doesn't matter, it'll be great!
