Blue 3

By David Aungst Tweet

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The second craft is "my ship". I came up with a story for it that goes something like this: The ship is "Blue 3" of the 15th Deep Space Recon Squadron (DSRS) assigned to the "Olympia", one of the large galactic rim exploration ships. After nearly losing a ship near a strong gravi-magnetic field, the unit's commander decided it was time to make it so the ships showed up better on visual scans. He sponsored a competition within the unit to come up with better high-visibility markings for the ships. The competition was fierce, but the victor was this set of markings, inspired by the tail markings on the RF-101C Voodoo aircraft of the 15th TRS / 18th TFW in the early 1960's from which the 15th DSRS draws its lineage. The ship's pilot, Lt. Christopher Tyson, is the creator of the markings and is a descendant of a pilot that flew in those ancient Voodoo aircraft. Lt. Tyson could not resist also adding some spice to the markings in the form of a pinup picture and his girlfriend's name, "Jandina". The black and yellow markings dramatically improved the effectiveness of picking out the ships with visual scan and have on two occasions been instrumental at recovering lost ships. The markings are so successful that the 15th DSRS has petitioned Earth-Dome to officially adopt the black and yellow markings for all Deep Spaces Recon Squadrons. Earth-Dome has taken the matter under advisement, pending further studies.

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