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c. 1990s/2000s UIS military patch from the world of Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire; national flag in the middle with initials of the country at the top and "Armed Forces" emblazoned in Cyrillic near the bottom.
These were worn on the left sleeve of battledress uniform blouses and cold-weather jackets out in the field, as well as on dress and service uniforms. English speakers would often colloquially refer to UIS soldiers as "Chits" (or the more vulgar "Shits") due to the letters "UIS" in Cyrillic resembling the Latinate "CHT". This particular patch is no longer used by the UIS military, having since been replaced with a circular patch that features the military's coat of arms instead.
c. 1990s/2000s UIS military patch from the world of Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire; national flag in the middle with initials of the country at the top and "Armed Forces" emblazoned in Cyrillic near the bottom.
These were worn on the left sleeve of battledress uniform blouses and cold-weather jackets out in the field, as well as on dress and service uniforms. English speakers would often colloquially refer to UIS soldiers as "Chits" (or the more vulgar "Shits") due to the letters "UIS" in Cyrillic resembling the Latinate "CHT". This particular patch is no longer used by the UIS military, having since been replaced with a circular patch that features the military's coat of arms instead.
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hehe boopy(not canon) c. 1990s/2000s UIS military patch from the world of Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire; national flag in the middle with initials of the country at the top and "Armed Forces" emblazoned in Cyrillic near the bottom.
These were worn on the left sleeve of battledress uniform blouses and cold-weather jackets out in the field, as well as on dress and service uniforms. English speakers would often colloquially refer to UIS soldiers as "Chits" (or the more vulgar "Shits") due to the letters "UIS" in Cyrillic resembling the Latinate "CHT". This particular patch is no longer used by the UIS military, having since been replaced with a circular patch that features the military's coat of arms instead.
Shouldn't that be SNG? That patch isn't showing the letters UIS which would be: УИС(not canon)
c. 1990s/2000s UIS military patch from the world of Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire; national flag in the middle with initials of the country at the top and "Armed Forces" emblazoned in Cyrillic near the bottom.
These were worn on the left sleeve of battledress uniform blouses and cold-weather jackets out in the field, as well as on dress and service uniforms. English speakers would often colloquially refer to UIS soldiers as "Chits" (or the more vulgar "Shits") due to the letters "UIS" in Cyrillic resembling the Latinate "CHT". This particular patch is no longer used by the UIS military, having since been replaced with a circular patch that features the military's coat of arms instead.
UIS is an English abbreviation. It stands for Union of Independent States, as I remember, which is "Союз Независимых Государств" in Russian, or СНГ for short. Everything is correct here.
In which case only the line 'due to the letters "UIS" in Cyrillic resembling the Latinate "CHT"' needs correcting.
Sorry to nitpick, but the first "E" in "Vooruzhonniye" should be a "Ё".(not canon)
c. 1990s/2000s UIS military patch from the world of Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire; national flag in the middle with initials of the country at the top and "Armed Forces" emblazoned in Cyrillic near the bottom.
These were worn on the left sleeve of battledress uniform blouses and cold-weather jackets out in the field, as well as on dress and service uniforms. English speakers would often colloquially refer to UIS soldiers as "Chits" (or the more vulgar "Shits") due to the letters "UIS" in Cyrillic resembling the Latinate "CHT". This particular patch is no longer used by the UIS military, having since been replaced with a circular patch that features the military's coat of arms instead.
Looks like you're right; will fix. I based it off the old Russian military patches from the 1990s, which oddly has it spelled it that way (probably just a byproduct of the embroidering process).
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It's because around the 1990's, many typists and writers assumed that a reader could infer the difference between the "ye" and the "yo" based on the context, so many simply dropped the umlaut for simplicity's sake. You can see this trend in most publications that hit shelves prior to or right after the fall of the USSR.
Crazy Boris
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Some Arctic air force insignias
The Sapmi, Nunavut, and Alaska ones draw straight from the flags
The Greenland one is based on the flag, but with the polar bear from the country's arms added (and with a Danish name since I couldn't find a Greenlandic translation for "air force")
and the Svalbard is a more traditional roundel design based off the unofficial black-white-red nordic cross design I see used to represent it sometimes.
Crazy Boris
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A few more, this time from Africa
I visited an aviation museum earlier today, so Air Force symbols have been on my mind as of late
BlackentheBorg
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Variant cover for Issue #1 of "Doomsday Clock", the much-anticipated sequel series to the 80's graphic novel series "Watchmen". Although he swore he would never again return to the franchise after severing ties with the company in 1989, series creator Alan Moore returned after 'consulting at Glycon's alter in the very early morning', bartering with DC for a substantively lofty contract and promises that he would be granted full bibliographic ownership of "Watchmen" characters and contents by the next decade. In the meantime, the series was put out under DC's new Black Label, although it met with several delays as Moore came into a handful of disputes with artists (Dave Gibbons, the artist for the original Watchmen series, would not return due to conflicts with scheduling and preexisting contracts).
While many expected the comic to be a rather immediate followup to the events in-universe, the story follows the seemingly unrelated exploits of a police precinct in modern day Oklahoma, where masks and secret identities have become mandatory, and their campaign against the Seventh Calvary, a group of antifederalist white supremacists that have co-opted the radical viewpoints of the late Rorschach. Very quickly, however, a web of conspiracies begin to form, with a handful of original characters coming back into the fray, such as Laurie Blake (formerly Laurie Jupiter/Silk Spectre) as a stoic FBI agent, and Adrian Veidt (formerly Ozymandias) occupying an enigmatic side-story where he appears to be trapped in an otherworldly realm.
Although the series was immensely successful in terms of sale, it received flack from critics and readers alike who lambasted it for its 'overtly woke' content, relative to its use of topics such as southern White Supremacist movements, political correctness, federal overreach, conspiracy theorists and the disconnect between law enforcement, citizens and corporate industry. When asked about the controversy at a creators summit in Dublin, Moore told those upset with the political content to 'stick it up their arse'.
An election poster for an alternative 1968 election in a parliamentary America.
Something about space exploration in the Thousand Week Reich timeline
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You know, while I have not read Watchmen the film nor read the book (nor seen the show), I have a good feeling that Moore's sequel would be a lot more nuanced than the TV show given his disdain for the film adaptation of V for Vendetta's misguided highlighting of the Guy Fawkes dude as an unironic "hero" (yet I know he goes up against a fascistic government but still).
Variant cover for Issue #1 of "Doomsday Clock", the much-anticipated sequel series to the 80's graphic novel series "Watchmen". Although he swore he would never again return to the franchise after severing ties with the company in 1989, series creator Alan Moore returned after 'consulting at Glycon's alter in the very early morning', bartering with DC for a substantively lofty contract and promises that he would be granted full bibliographic ownership of "Watchmen" characters and contents by the next decade. In the meantime, the series was put out under DC's new Black Label, although it met with several delays as Moore came into a handful of disputes with artists (Dave Gibbons, the artist for the original Watchmen series, would not return due to conflicts with scheduling and preexisting contracts).
While many expected the comic to be a rather immediate followup to the events in-universe, the story follows the seemingly unrelated exploits of a police precinct in modern day Oklahoma, where masks and secret identities have become mandatory, and their campaign against the Seventh Calvary, a group of antifederalist white supremacists that have co-opted the radical viewpoints of the late Rorschach. Very quickly, however, a web of conspiracies begin to form, with a handful of original characters coming back into the fray, such as Laurie Blake (formerly Laurie Jupiter/Silk Spectre) as a stoic FBI agent, and Adrian Veidt (formerly Ozymandias) occupying an enigmatic side-story where he appears to be trapped in an otherworldly realm.
Although the series was immensely successful in terms of sale, it received flack from critics and readers alike who lambasted it for its 'overtly woke' content, relative to its use of topics such as southern White Supremacist movements, political correctness, federal overreach, conspiracy theorists and the disconnect between law enforcement, citizens and corporate industry. When asked about the controversy at a creators summit in Dublin, Moore told those upset with the political content to 'stick it up their arse'.
Bulldoggus
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Agreed. I 1) don't really see him writing a sequel at all and 2) find it very convergent that he writes one that's the exact same as the TV show.
BlackentheBorg
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I mean yeah, butterflies aplenty, but I feel like there's a lot from the current show that might follow through with Moore, mostly the appropriation of Rorschach by white supremacists and major distrust of government/big business.
This one is an older design than the other two, predating the 4D drive. A ship designed for the latter would have avoided that style of habitat ring because they cause protrusions in the vita shielding that would massively increase the power requirements for 4D translation. Post 4D drive vessels also tend to be squatter to avoid a distended vita shield, which again increases power load. Another sign of the ship's age are the externally mounted fuel pods, generally avoided in subsequent eras.
It's a little bit more like a 'realistic' ship relative to current technology than later Crumpleverse ships overall.
It's a little bit more like a 'realistic' ship relative to current technology than later Crumpleverse ships overall.