Weekly Flag Challenge: Discussion & Entries

This sounds like something! I personally dislike ASB challenges, so a more "traditional" one is better to work with imo.

I get the impression a lot do.
Though I would have thought that ASB gives people more to work with. Perhaps that's the problem :p




The Professor said:
Replacement Challenge...

FLAG CHALLENGE #121: ARW2 Eclectic Boogaloo

The Stuart Succession in Britain went slightly different and as such the colonies in North America were consolidated into Royal Dominions.
However revolutionary fervour was merely delayed until c1800.
Your challenge is to design a flag for either a resultant independent polity in North America or a remaining Dominion.
Said states cannot cover all NA or match OTL NA states nor can the flags be based on OTL Grand Union or Stars & Stripes

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: Midnight GMT 3rd December
Voting Opens: 4th December-ish
Voting Closes 11th December-ish
 
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fyi The Professor, if this falls through you are allowed to extend the creation period, make another challenge, collect suggestions or hand over to another person. Perhaps lately people were just too busy with Black Friday shopping :p

A general round suggestion from me. Rule of Cool: Make a flag for an alternate/surviving state, kingdom or empire in this thread.
 
Its been a while, but here I am. I give you the flag of New Munster, the latest of the former British possessions in North America to gain full independence. The flag features the traditional three crowns of Munster in a canton, but the color scheme belongs wholly to the palette of the native tribes of the area. The flag was first officially raised by Prime Minister McVicker in Limerick-on-Sea's (OTL Vanouver's) Capitol Plaza in 1969 on the 50th anniversary of New Munster's independence from Britain.

Bounded on the south by Alta California, on the northwest by formerly Russian Alyeska, on the northeast by Rupertia (the last British possession on the North American mainland), and in the east by the République de Louisiane, New Munster encompasses all of the formerly British lands between the Pacific and the continental divide, with the southern border somewhat irregular around 46 degrees latitude west to the Columbia River then following it to the sea and the northern border similarly irregular, but west from the divide at around 56 degrees latitude to the coast and including all adjacent islands up to OTL Prince of Wales Island.


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The former Spanish Colony of Florida was sold to Great Britain to pay off war debts, and it was made a separate, colony. When the Dominions were created, Florida was initially made a part of the Dominion of Carolina. However, like the Dominion of New England before it, the people of the colony butted heads with the Royal Governor, and Florida was split off into its own Dominion.

The Constituent Colonies of Florida are:

East Florida
West Florida
Jamaica (Including the Caymans)
The Bahamas

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THE IROQUOIS FEDERAL REPUBLIC

The Iroquois League or Confederacy predated British rule in North America. The British gained effective control of the territory by a series of treaties which eventually led to the founding of the Iroquois Colony in 1776. In 1891, during the reign of James V, the colony was granted Dominion status. The Dominion comprised five provinces - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca.

In 1936, with the establishment of the Iroquois Federal Republic, the 1891 flag (the British Red Ensign with the Iroquois ‘Tree of Peace’ symbol) was replaced by the flag that is still in use today. The five circles denote the five provinces while the ‘Tree of Peace’ is set centrally in the upper band - overall, being a 'modern' interpretation of the Hiawatha Wampum Belt.

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Confederation of Vandalia

With their foundations set by pioneers, prospectors and settlers of the Appalachian Company in the late 1690s and early 1700s, three separate colonial ventures were set up in a region that would somewhat later be dubbed Vandalia. (The name was purportedly chosen due to queen Charlotte's family tree going as far back as the ancient Vandals.) The three colonial territories were known as Westsylvania (in north Vandalia), Anneland (named after Queen Anne, in central Vandalia) and Whartonia (named after Joseph Wharton, in southern Vandalia). By 1760, all three colonies became administered jointly under the newly formed regional administration of the Royal Dominion of Vandalia. When the Great North American War broke out in 1796 and many former royal dominions and colonies strived for independence from Great Britain, Vandalia was not far behind. Late in their independence war, the three colonies decided to reform the dominion into a confederation, with each of the three territories being semi-autonomous within the newly formed republican state. Westsylvania was renamed to New Sylvania and due to pronunciation drift in the local dialects, Anneland often became pronounced or even abbreviated to "Anland". Though geographically more distant and not in the immediate neighbourhood, some of the Confederation of Vandalia's traditionally closest and most dependable allies are the member states of the New England Coalition (which includes the Commonwealth of Massachussets, the Republic of Vermont, etc.).

The three argent stars and three vert ferns that are the centerpiece of the flag refer to the three former colonies/provinces that form the region (and now independent state) of Vandalia. The three stars are, by Vandalian vexilological tradition, three particular famous stars of the northern hemisphere: Sirius, Polaris and Rigel. The ferns represent the natural riches and beauty of Vandalia's mountains, forests and countryside - ferns are found virtually all around Vandalia and symbolise bounty and plentifulness, as they always procreate via myriads of spores.

In addition, the ferns are also a reference to William Weston, one of the most successful and skilled of Vandalian guerilla fighters, who became a key leader in local irregular warfare against British and loyalist forces during the Vandalian War of Independence. There are many accounts of him wearing a plume of small ferns on his hat. Also, according to many Vandalian folk legends and tall tales, Weston and his militiamen often favoured the tactic of hiding in the fern underbrush of forests, or even wearing freshly picked fern on their clothing, in order to plot and prepare ambushes of enemy troops more effectivelly. Though certain local species of fern - such as the more taller Dryopteris marginalis - might add a grain of truth to these legends, whether Weston and his soldiers ever used these tactics in the exact manner described remains questionable and unanswered. Nevertheless, the legends firmly entered the Vandalian popular imagination and earned Weston the folk nickname "Ol' Bill Ferny".
 
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In response to the latest challenge (https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=10168412&postcount=356), I give you the flag of Durra.

HD 40307 g I, locally known as Durra (“pearl”, in Kurdish) or in deprecating slang by its English-speaking inhabitants as Dirt and by the Surinamese Dutch-speakers as Drek, is the sole satellite of the water-planet HD 40307 g, locally known as Demari (“stepmother”, in Kurdish), orbiting the star HD 40307, which has no familiar name other than the “Sun” in the local languages of Kurdish, English and Surinamese Dutch, had no flag for the first seventeen years after the arrival of the hibernation ark Simir in orbit around Durra.

Serious work on a flag design began approximately five years after arrival. Given that Durra has no no native life larger than the microbial other than stromatolitic pseudo-lichens and mats of pseudo-algae, a representation of native life was not considered. After much discussion, and the rejection of numerous flags based upon or derived from one or more flags and symbols associated with the origins of the colonists in Kurdistan, Australia and Surinam, and the logo of the Simir (which is, however, used in modified form as the flag of the only urban area of note on the planet, the capital district of Simirbajar), the Durran Assembly agreed upon a flag bearing a representation of Durra in relation to Demari and the Sun.

A portion of the Sun is visible at the hoist in yellow, while a quadrant of Demari lies in the lower corner of the fly in blue. Durra itself appears as a disk in the center of the flag, with the hypersaline Polar Sea showing in blue at the top of the disk, below it the narrow habitable band (the width of which is rather exaggerated in the flag) in green, and the Wereldwoestenij or “Worldwaste” desert in tan occupying the remainder.


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Great idea for a new challenge, I'm surprised we didn't try it before. :)

Just one question: Can we make flags for exoplanet colonies from literary SF works that don't offer a description of those colonies' flags ?
 
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