Faction #2 - Symbol Thread

Managed to scrape this together from two google searches yielding an image of the milky way courtesy of nasa and a picture of a mechanical hand from "drons" on deviantart. The hand is not in an ideal position and of course the whole aesthetic doesn't quite fit with PA's art style, but this picture has the right objects so hopefully you understand what I mean.

The middle symbol is a division sign representing the divided machines. The smaller cog depicting the unbelievers & the larger cog depicting the faction.

Maybe a large star shining on cogs?

I whipped this up. I like it okay. Looking for a temple-y feel with an eye representing the founder. (so the "mountains" need more building details, but you get the point, yeah?)

Anything sunburst-y would fit with enlightened ideas.

how about something like the War hammer 40k machine god symbol but add a supreme God-robot to the symbol instead of a skull.

Some more I made my messing around with designs.

If their belief is in a machine god, shouldn't the symbolism heavily favor a network connecting everything in the universe together? Perhaps the stars and gasses in the sky form something similar to the image below, but instead of a human scull, it could be a square pattern like that of microchips and circuit boards?

I agree, it depends on which faction name is chosen.

If The Enlightened is chosen the symbol could be a star shining upon worlds with some talons or mechanical hands around the sides like it's protecting the star and worlds it holds (like hands holding a pigeon, or something like that)

Temple of the fist should have some sort of building in the symbol representing the temple.

Followers of the Founder should have a symbol, how about a sword in the middle with 2 talons or claws on the sides and in the middle a shining star, given that the main believe of this faction is if you are not with us, you are against us

Army of the Creator should have some rebellion symbols in it, like what Binkenstein said in an earlier thread, an upraised fist like the red faction game...

For this faction I was thinking it would be based on 3's and uses a triangle in the background. The circular shape with the hieroglyphic like letter-forms are corrupt files that were combined forming their religion and mythologies. (the text was pulled from opening an image file with wordpad, which makes some pretty interesting character combinations)

Your idea immediatly sparked this. Rough draft and all those excuses, feel free to expand on it if you want.

Perhaps some amalgamation of religious symbols, pieced together from the Commander's memory banks? With more mechanical influences of course.



Or maybe something simpler? Something machines would equate to religion? Life & Death.

Nation of 01 from the Animatrix, white and black symbol.


0 & 1 - On & Off

I get what people are saying about the different names, but I actually think good iconography would work with all of them. They all have some very important things in common:

• Religious under (over?) tones
• Aggression
• The founder (and his watchful eye)

Which is where my own idea came from. Obviously you could do something to match closer to the name, but I don't know that I'd say it's necessary.

So just thrown this together for now its pretty simple, thinking of adding a little more detail.

Have tried to get a large amount of the factions story into this design, with the star representing the machine god (I am really trying to avoid gears and any thing else that would be associated with 40ks machine spirit/god), the ruined city where the faction started out and the boarder U around it representing with them or against them.

That idea of 0/1 is great.
Very simple, not loaded with details that'd get lost in higher zoom and quite clear in its meaning: you follow or you're offline.

If I were to come up with a symbol, I would try to imagine would these machines would see on their interfaces, if they have one. (I'm sure they don't have organic eyes and instead have a HUD) It could be either something resembling computer programs from the 80s or the use of the green text black background hacker movie style, or something like the new star trek when the two characters are flying through space debris and have the objects in the HUD displaying in neon.

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Nice but maybe join that with the on/off power symbol?

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i've got an idea! but it's so late i'll finish tomorrow and post