Question on AS pilot ranking

Sgt. Sagara Sousuke · Post by **Sgt. Sagara Sousuke** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:58 am

I just wanna know about the colors strips on the AS pilot shoulders.
Wat colors represents wat rank?
All I know for now is:

Liutenent: Gold
Sergeant Major: Pink or purple
Sergeant: Red (but Kurz's strip is blue, why?)

Any thoughts on this?

Eidolon · Post by **Eidolon** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:35 pm

Pretty sure it's just artistic license, like how in Gundam Seed Kira's suit is turquoise while Mwu's is purple.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 7:57 am

Never thought about this before. I always thought it was a bit of color
coding to tell who gets what uniform.

Regards

Sgt. Sagara Sousuke · Post by **Sgt. Sagara Sousuke** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 8:36 am

hmm... yea.
they probably ran out of right sized suits wif red stripes for kurz
so they gave im a blue one...

terran empire · Post by **terran empire** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:53 pm

Then again remember that mithri is a mercenary organization though they carry official ranks they would not be recognized via the conventions on POWs or solders rights so those color bars may not mean a thing they might just be the pilots choice or a way of identifying which as they belong to and where they belong in there squad.

Sgt. Sagara Sousuke · Post by **Sgt. Sagara Sousuke** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:09 pm

wats mafa?

U're probably rite. But they do hv a strong voice in the Pentagon. Remember the last few episodes? Russian Fox, erm... i mean Kalinin got the Admiral to halt the attack on TDD-1 even after i fired upon them. For a mecenary group, their opinions sure count for a lot...

Andrei Burnside · Post by **Andrei Burnside** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 2:32 am

Color Bars are most likely personal preference or denotate squad role. Gold=Squadron Commander
Blue="Sharpshooter"
Pink="Flight Leader" Flight being 3 ASes. Melisssa, Kurz, and Sousuke.
Red="Medium Range/ Close Range"

But it really just looks like personal preference. Maybe watch the homeland arc again...It might clue us in.

Eidolon · Post by **Eidolon** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 2:36 am

Hmm, just checked the "Wind Blows from Home" eps, and Grey's blazes are grey (laff), while everyone else's are brass/gold/bronze. Sousuke's are of course red as usual.

Sgt. Sagara Sousuke · Post by **Sgt. Sagara Sousuke** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 3:00 am

Eidolon wrote:Grey's blazes are grey (laff)

Then, i guess andrea n a few other ppl were rite...
They get to choose their colors...