Flags, Banners, Standards etc. of the Fallout universe.

[autonomousoblast]

Hello, this is my first post on this forums. Having an avid interest in vexillology and heraldry along with an interest in Fallout and other such RPGs, I thought of making flags for the various civilizations, tribes, nations and the like in Fallout. This thread is intended for the display of such flags. Now, some flags I made.

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This flag was made for a crap fan fiction I made of a Fallout taking place in Texas. The flag is of a Faction/Political party within the Republic of Texas (A confederation of multiple city-states such as Houston, Austin etc.). The faction is rather militant, led by a coalition of military generals. Said faction has little to no favour within the Texan senate but has followings from many officers and troopers within the military as well as the more jingoistic populace of Texas. The militarist faction believes that it's Texas' right to expand northward into what is now Oklahoma and part of Northern Texas and eastward into Louisiana. The more pacifistic among the Texans don't want such actions taken as it would mean clashes with ghoul confederations and the BoS up north and various hostile, but primitive, tribes to the lands in the east. The idea for the game was that this flag would replace the national flag of Texas (the state flag in our world) and replace the government with what amounts to a military Junta. The player could support this faction and help it orchestrate a coup against the current government of Texas.

 

[Joelzania]

For the future, could you please put the flags in spoiler tags? Just so it's easier to navigate the page. Other than that, looks pretty nifty. How did you make it?

 

[autonomousoblast]

Another flag I had made for the "Technocratic Republic of Columbia."
Of course my idea never came to be because of Fallout 3.

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[zegh8578]

A bit of a wide-open concept, even for fan-art, imho, I mean, anything could work, like the flag of Sweden: Blue for the sky, yellow for the golden wasteland, whatever.

That said, neat enough flag designs.
I made this one for another website, unrelated idea:

but it could easily be the flag of some raider territory or something.

 

[autonomousoblast]

anything could work, like the flag of Sweden: Blue for the sky, yellow for the golden wasteland, whatever.

I don't think people in a wasteland in America really would like to adopt a Nordic cross style flag. Unless of course you can think of the circumstances under which that said flag was adopted.

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Now this could work for any raider/pirate group out in the wasteland. Or maybe even some quasi-religious cult or something.

 

[zegh8578]

Ukraine then. The flag of Ukraine would be perfect.
My point is, there's very little to separate relevance to the Fallout universe, from pure imagination, when it comes to flags. A flag "made for fallout" could just as easily be a flag made for any concept or story, since they are so up to interpretation.
A flag of for example Klamath could be almost anything imaginable, and it would be very hard to argue against it.

 

[autonomousoblast]

A flag "made for fallout" could just as easily be a flag made for any concept or story, since they are so up to interpretation.
A flag of for example Klamath could be almost anything imaginable, and it would be very hard to argue against it.

Very well then. What do you interpret the flags for the states of the NCR to be?

 

[zegh8578]

What? Apart from the modified California flag? It could be anything, and still be justified. A completely brown flag, brown for the color of the bear. A flag with a rainbow, symbolizing hope for the future. A mosquito wearing a sombrero, symbolizing historical mexican connections and mosquitos.
Look at flags of the world, there are very few of tham that truly represent something unique identifying that nation, it's always vague and universal stuff, like hope, blood of the patriots, sun, green for the landscape, etc
Look, I'm not trying to murder your idea here, I'm just saying it's sortof vague, and a flag could look like anything, and still fit.

 

[autonomousoblast]

Of course. The idea here is that vexillology in the Fallout world being relatively different due to different values, symbolism and possible even development/adoption of different political ideologies. Of course I can just take the Austro-Hungarian flag and claim it to have some meaning to the wastelanders but still I believe the people in the wasteland would adopt different types of flags than our world or even rewrite the tenets of heraldry and vexillology as they see fit. The two headed bear on the NCR flag for instance.

 

[autonomousoblast]

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This a war standard for the Texan Brotherhood of Steel with it's influence in the north of Texas and control of territories that include large swathes of Oklahoma not controlled by Ghoul communities. This war standard is used as identification for this chapter of the BoS. This chapter is rather militant and even imperialistic, the slaughter of many ghoul controlled towns at their hands and the forced assimilation of entire tribes and countless wastelanders into their ranks. The symbolism of this war banner is as follows:
Closed book - Symbolizes knowledge and the notion that the BoS must keep it to themselves, not letting anyone know. Also symbolizes the scribes of the BoS.
Crossed Swords - Symbolizes the strength of the BoS and it's military prowess. A symbol of the Brotherhood's Paladins and their nature as first in line of defense of the brotherhood and it's means of spreading it's influence.
Cogwheel - Symbolizes technology and the Brotherhood's mastery of such. Also symbolizes the Knights and their technical knowledge and yearning for such.

This flag would be carried by standard bearers of the BoS's patrols.