[Yoseph]

I wouldn't normally do a seperate post but there's a limit to attachments, and these are just so outstanding I wanted to share them.

The first is the CDF Peacetime flag; the seceond is the CDF Wartime flag, and the final is the CDF coat of arms.

These were designed by BrandX for the fighter and other CDF ships/fighters.



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[Snail]

But sweet to live for your country? (I'm not good at Latin, nor am I Mobius, forgive me)

[Yoseph]

Aye. Its a play off the saying "Is it sweet to die for your country, but sweeter to live for it."

I'm sure patton was riffing off that when he made the quote "The objective of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other dumb bastard die for his."

[brandx0]

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimum pro patria bibere. Ergo, bibamus pro salute patriae" In English this is rendered as: "It is sweet to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland."

It's an old toast, and yes, I was inspired by Patton hehe.

I did a lot of looking through the history while making these, and one of the biggest things that stuck on me about the CDF was that they can't go home, Earth is not accessable to them.  Much of the symbolism in the flags and crest are derived from that.  I wrote it all down in a PM for Yoseph, but forgot to save it to my outbox, so if he'd like he can post up the symbols in these flags.

"Remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.  He won it by making the other dumb bastard die for his country."
-Gen. George S. Patton