Intergalactic Summit

I see what you mean, I think, but in the case of building a Blooder ship one isn't taking advantage of salvage so clearly--it's making new things, increasing the total number of Blooder ships unnecessarily. With the effort and material involved in that, saying that you're doing so out of spite doesn't sound half as convincing.

Turning one's ship into an unlovely peeled tuber, Purist-style, doesn't increase Purist anything. A Purist skin in the coronation fleet is a proud announcement of two things: that the Empress's right to the throne is manifestly pure, and that there are lots of frozen bits in space that are no longer able to contend otherwise.

It also announces the capsuleer has awful taste, though. I'm serious. Matte white. Fly pretty for our new Empress, pilots? Please?

Pragmatically, pilot, if we're stuck identifying people purely by their SKINs, as opposed to IFF and ID tags, we've really got a problem. Capsuleers are normally really easy to identify as such, at least to each other.

If the "Purity" rebels managed to scramble everybody's pilot and ship registries like that, the logical thing would be to blend in with the (probably far more numerous) regular military forces appearing in Imperial Navy cream and gold. If you can really play that kind of elaborate trick, why would you not come in at least partially under a false flag?

I admit in theory identification shouldn't be a problem but we are all aware of bombings or killings that happened to fleets that were theoricaly allied and being tagged accordingly. Friendly fire isn't rare because of wrong identification.
And you're correct to point me that "Purity" rebels could simply disguise and come that way.
In anyway isn't it a real security problem ? And thanks for enlightening me on this.

Thank you for your explanations and their clarity.

I did some research on this in some history book because I am trying to get my ship made into the right colors (not so easy) but also trying to get the right outfit together for the Coronation parties. The Navy has white with black accents, by the way, not white and gold. Black is special to the Reclamation and I don't know if that is why it is associated to the Khanid but the Khanid were the first to be Reclaimed so we feel a special duty to the sacred Reclamation and carry it as our banner. Someone else said that it was a how the Khanid dressed to separate themselves from Amarr, and, as they were the vanguard on Athra in the old days they would dress in black. White represents the light of God, and purity of course, but above all the other colors white represents True Amarr more than any other, it is their special color and the color they used in the old days to identify themselves, and if you go to Athra you will see ALOT of Amarrians wearing white especially in the higher castes, but they will also dress their slaves that way sometimes. Gold is considered to be synonymous with White but is special to the pure faithful and practical material matters of Amarr. Blue can be used in place of White I've heard, and Red can be used as a substitute for Gold because it represents the flesh of the martyrs so it's basically the same thing as Gold.

Valid security concerns are valid.

I will be there with surprise.