Booty and the Beasts is a 1979 monster and treasure book from Fantasy Art Enterptises. Art by Erol Otus, text by Otus, Mathias Genser, and Paul Reiche III, A pdf of this book has been floating around for a decade or more. As you can see from the dude on the front cover, some of the stuff in it leans more sci-fi than fantasy.
For a while I wanted to see what a color version of this flag would look like.
I'm just guessing at the colors here. Some combination of red, white, and blue seems like a no brainer. The texturing used by Otus suggests a non-white color for the small stars. The central star lacks that texture, suggesting a different hue. I went with yellow since ol' Sol is a yellow star. Here's an alternative take:
Here's another take that less resembles the flag used by Japan in WWII. Not sure which I prefer. Anybody got any other ideas?
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I think your first version is the best straight interpretation, with the red/white stripes harkening back to the planetbound colonies.
ReplyDeleteSeeing blue stars on a white field on a Deluxe America flag felt rather odd to me (and red stars anywhere are right out, for obvious reasons). So I tried to finagle the other traditional white stars/blue field scheme elsewhere.
That meant moving the white to the red sections... and because of the odd-numbered/five solar systems within the UEA, those colors couldn't be alternated.
In the end, I put red/white stripes within each of those starburst sections. And expect to hear from Fantasy Art Enterprises' legal team in due course. :)
https://i.postimg.cc/MK6d8CFJ/UEAFlag-Color.jpg
I like your version!
DeleteYeah, that version is awesome. I used the UEA IMC (they tried to invade when they were losing in a rebellion).
DeleteTechnically a white star, I think, but white really doesn't work for the cental star here.
ReplyDeleteThe first version looks good.
The sun is classed astronomically as a yellow dwarf.
ReplyDeleteBlue and red stripes with white stars?
ReplyDeleteI'm getting an old school "Team America" vibe from both color palettes. Probably a good thing in this case.