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Originally posted by zoid:

chronicthehedgehog:

Too bloody right! The sodding British have taken over the universe, in unholy alliance with the inscrutable Chinese!
(zoid takes his medications and the room returns to its normal, floor-down orientation)

Just poking fun at all our new British 'coats, flush from their R2 DVD purchases. Nice to know Yanks haven't grown a decent sense of humor, huh?

Seriously, though, the name is "Anglo-Sino" Alliance. You've got a point... I just hope it doesn't get too Star Wars 'Empire'-like, wherein all the baddies have 'Oxbridge' accents. Have Chinese soldiery ever worn blue uniforms? If so, when mixed with British redcoats, you'd get 'Purplebellys'.

Just thinkin' (no matter how hard I've tried to stop).


Respectfully,

zoid
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I wondered about this as well, especially given that Londinium is the "western" capital of the Alliance, culturally western that is not geographically.

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Originally posted by Gunhand:
I think there was a merger, the Alliance flag could support that because when you look at the right side you have the obvious US stripes but the left side is a plain blue field. No starts to go with the stripes, now that could be from slopiness (doubtful because of how Joss does things), a desire not to completely break the laws of vexilogy (doubtful because the flag breaks every other law of good flagmaking) or, and here's my take on it, the field isn't the part where the stars go on a US flag, but it's the blue field that's the base of the Union Jack.

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Originally posted by EMBERS:
I mean, you can't leave out Canada and Australia

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Originally posted by EMBERS:
once you wipe out the Earth
(what happened to the Earth BTW?)

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the head western planet is Londinium (London being the capitol of England).

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I think there was a merger, the Alliance flag could support that because when you look at the right side you have the obvious US stripes but the left side is a plain blue field. No starts to go with the stripes, now that could be from slopiness (doubtful because of how Joss does things), a desire not to completely break the laws of vexilogy (doubtful because the flag breaks every other law of good flagmaking) or, and here's my take on it, the field isn't the part where the stars go on a US flag, but it's the blue field that's the base of the Union Jack.

Why aren't the associated crosses on there to make it look more Jack like? My bet is because that since the UK and US had some sort of merger that the crosses signifying the union of the countries that make up the UK seemed to be less important, to the flagmakers at least. The British types could just say the stripes on the "US side" were the ones from the Union Jack spread flat to show equality, no matter what the Americans seemed to think they were, or somesuch. And that's my explaination.

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Wasn't Londinium an ancient Roman city? Then it would go with other ancient names like Hera and Persephone.

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Originally posted by chronicthehedgehog:
merger between England and America before the forming of the Alliance

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