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I think I prefer to stay with the rank pins as I have them. It goes with the Science theme, and truly aren't anymore confusing than any of the other rank insignia both in the real world and the SARP.
I still love your submissions, good formatting and pleasing to the eyes.
Though the thing that jumps out at me about this is a lower ranked dood can flip his rank pin over and look like a higher ranked dood.
IE:
##-- would become --##
Might be a neat defect to include. A simple fix would be to make the white background bit slightly triangular or to add a slight color difference to one of the bits.
Yeah, they could. But that wouldn't really get them anything.
The SSS is a civilian organization. Outside of the organization, the GS rating doesn't carry any real clout, its the person's actually job that determines how people would respond to them.
For example most people wouldn't care about a person being a GS-9, but being the commander of a starship they would.