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What's the inspiration behind the Minmatar seal?
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Utremi Fasolasi
La Dolce Vita
#1 - 2013-09-26 17:22:39 UTC
Is it a stylized armadillo?
Roga Dracor
Gladiators of Rage
Fraternity.
#2 - 2013-09-26 20:11:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Roga Dracor
General concensus (I believe) is that it is a stylized Nautilus..

Many of the individual tribes symbols can be equated to the individual parts of the animal, for instance, the nautilus has an open "eye", not a contained sphere, it has no lens, like most other creatures.. The Brutor symbol bears a striking resemblance to a stylized nautilus eye..

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Horatius Caul
Kitzless
#3 - 2013-09-26 21:02:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Horatius Caul
The five parts may represent the presumed five original settlements on Matar, the peoples who would go on to become the Starkmanir, Nefantar, Krusual, Thukker, and Sebiestor Tribes (Brutor and Vherokior claiming to be descended from the Starkmanir).

Or it represents the five tribes that emerged from the Amarr subjugation: the Brutor, the Sebiestor, the Thukker, the Krusual, and the Vherokior (The Starkmanir being presumed destroyed and the Nefantar staying with the Amarr).

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Tractus Vesica
Helghast Empire
#4 - 2013-09-27 15:35:21 UTC
The Minmatar really like shell fish.

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Teinyhr
Ourumur
#5 - 2013-09-28 10:11:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Teinyhr
Horatius Caul wrote:
The five parts may represent the presumed five original settlements on Matar, the peoples who would go on to become the Starkmanir, Nefantar, Krusual, Thukker, and Sebiestor Tribes (Brutor and Vherokior claiming to be descended from the Starkmanir).

Or it represents the five tribes that emerged from the Amarr subjugation: the Brutor, the Sebiestor, the Thukker, the Krusual, and the Vherokior (The Starkmanir being presumed destroyed and the Nefantar staying with the Amarr).


These sound like the most plausible reasons and intention of the imagery. Another reason could be that the "tail" represents the 4 major landmasses of Matar and the main body represents the planet itself - Matar, the "Old Mother." Because as far as I know we don't know how old is this seal - was it created after Amarr occupation or has it always been the symbol of the Minmatar as a people, since their early space colonization days?