CHAPTER 1

INSIGNIA

SECTION ONE: Military Occupancy rating insignia

This section of the manual will show you not all, but some of the mos/rating insignia of the Imperial military forces. Your MOS or otherwise called rating, will signify the main "job" or what kind of soldier, marine, or sailor you are. MOS/Rating insignia are brass, except for the Nursing Corps. Their insignia is that of a red cross with white border. MOS/Rating insignia is the same for enlisted and commissioned officers, and are placed centered on each collar of standard service and dress uniforms.

Each MOS/Rating is known as a corps(pronounced as core). Each corps has a corps color. These colors are shown on epaulettes, some waist sashes, shoulder straps, and otherwise indicated. Both enlisted personnel and commissioned officers wear their primary corps color.

MOS/Rating colored stripes: These are at least 2 inches wide and placed on each side of regulation pants, shorts, skirts, and skorts. These colored stripes are for company-grade commissioned officers. Field-grade commissioned officers have colored stripes with silver edges. Flag-grade commissioned officers have colored stripes with gold edges.

Warrant Officers: They have a 2 inch wide silver stripe on each pants leg.

Chiefs-Of-Staff: Their stripes are like flag-grade officers, except an additional 1 cm wide gold stripe runs centered down middle of bigger stripe.

Supreme Admirals/Marshals: Are similar to the Chiefs-of-Staffs, except the stripes are red.

Grand Admiral: Are similar to Supreme Admirals and Marshals, but have 2 gold 1 cm stripes running down middle of bigger stripe placed 1 cm from edges.

Commander-in-Chief: Is the Same as Grand Admirals.

Military Occupancy Specialty Rating colors: not every MOS/Rating are covered in this volume, however, some are represented as follows ...

white= starship commanders, Inspector General, Adjutant General

green= medical, nursing, and psychiatry services

light blue= infantry

dark blue= science corps

yellow= engineering, security, military police, judge advocate general's corps

crimson= ordnance, torpedoman corps

pink= communications, signal, and yeoman corps

brown= quartermaster and personnel corps

purple= pilots

red= artillery and gunners

gray= transportation corps

black= chaplain corps

orange= cavalry and tactical corps

SECTION TWO: Badges

Imperial Armed Forces Member Badge

This badge has two types and many variants. It's awarded to military personnel after graduation from basic combat training. The type and variant depends on the wearer's rank and uniform. This badge is placed 1/8th inch under the bottom row of ribbons. Type-1 consists of the Imperial Sword and Shield symbol. The shield is, of course, pointing downwards behind the shield. It is two inches long, 1 ½ inches wide.

Type-1 variants:

Junior cadets and midshipman is gold longsword with gold shield

Senior cadets and midshipmen has silver longsword with silver shield.

Enlisted soldiers/sailors/Non-commissioned officers/Warrant officers/Commissioned officers has gold longsword with silver shield

Type-2 variants:

Type-2 is similar to type-1, except the sword and shield are suspended by a colored ribbon. This type is worn by warrant officers and commissioned officers on dress uniforms as an optional item if they prefer wearing it over wearing type-1. The longsword is gold, while the shield is silver. The variants of this type are as follows ...

Service Star

The service stars denote how many years the wearer has served in the military. It's a five-pointed star pointing upwards. These are placed in rows of four left of the Imperial Armed Forces Member Badge. When officers are wearing the dress type of the IAFMB, these stars are placed left of the sword and shield part of the badge. The stars are 1/2 inch in diameter. Worn behind these stars is a colored plastic disk. The disk color depends on the wearer's branch. If a person transfers to another branch, the disk color of any service stars earned in the old branch stays the same. Service stars earned in the new branch will reflect the new branch's color.

Bronze star= 1 year

Silver star= 5 years

Gold star= 10 years

light blue disk= Army

black disk= Imperial Navy

green disk= Marine Corps

orange disk= Special Forces Operations Command

red disk= Imperial Storm Trooper Legions

Combat Star

The combat stars denote how many years the wearer has served in combat operations. It's a five-pointed star pointing upwards. The star is blood red in color with a colored border denoting the years. The star is 1/2 inch in diameter and is worn in rows of four right of the Imperial Armed Forces Badge. When officers are wearing the dress type of the IAMB, the stars are placed right of the sword and shield part of the badge.

Bronze border= 1 year

Silver border= 5 years

Gold border= 10 years

Squad Leader's Badge

This badge is a silver colored shield with a white, five-pointed star pointing up in the middle of the shield. The shield is pointed downwards. It is worn 1/8th inch above top row of ribbons.

Platoon Sergeant's Badge/ Platoon Petty Officer's Badge

This badge is similar to the Squad Leader's Badge, except with the addition of a silver longsword pointing downwards behind the shield.

Platoon Leader's Badge

This badge is similar to the Squad Leader's Badge, except with the edition of two silver crossed swords behind the shield.

Company Commander's Badge

This badge is similar to the Platoon Leader's Badge, except it is gold in color.

First Sergeant's Badge/ First Petty Officer's Badge

This badge is a silver-colored diamond 2 inches long, 2 inches wide, and is placed 1/8th inch above top row of ribbons. It also has a white, five-pointed star pointing upwards in the middle of the diamond.

Pilot's Qualification Badges

These badges consists of the Imperial Shield and Sword symbol, with wings attached to each side left and right of the shield. These badges are placed 1/8th inch above top row of ribbons. Starfighter pilots wear gold version of the badges, while all other craft pilots wear silver. The badge's wingspan is 3 inches wide. Squadron Leader's wings have a hollowed out circle(the circle must not have a diameter touching the wing tips, rather they go behind each mid point of each wing). Wing Commander's wings are like Squadron Leader's wings, except a gold or silver star is in the middle of the shield.

Starbase/Outpost Commander's Badge

This badge is gold-colored and placed 1/8th inch above top row of ribbons. The badge is 2 inches in diameter, and is a five-pointed star pointing upwards with a hollowed out circle behind star. Star points are longer than the circle.

Starship Commander's Badge

This badge is a gold-colored trident with a hollowed-out circle around the trident. The tips of the trident is longer than the circle. It is placed 1/8th inch above top row of ribbons. The badge is 2 inches in diameter.

SECTION THREE: Service hat and dress hat insignia

Training Recruits

Basic training recruits wear a 2 inch-wide, 2 ½ inches long Imperial Shield insignia on their service hats and dress hats. It's made out of brass. It has a cm-in diameter circle raised slightly from the middle of the shield.

Cadets and Midshipmen

Cadets and midshipmen wear a gold Imperial Shield and Sword symbol on their service hats and dress hats.

Enlisted soldiers and sailors

Enlisted soldiers and sailors wear a 2-inches in diameter opaque silver circle with the silver Imperial Shield and Sword symbol in the center.

Non-Commissioned Officers

NCO's wear a 2-inches in diameter opaque gold circle with the silver Imperial Shield and Sword symbol in the center.

Sergeant Generals/Master Chief Petty Officer of the Imperial Navy

They wear a gold 2-inches in diameter opaque circle with silver Imperial Shield and Sword symbol in the center. A gold five-pointed star is in center of imperial shield, and the sword and shield are surrounded by silver crescents left and right of the sword.

Warrant Officers

Warrant officers wear 1-inch wide, 2 ½ inches long imperial shield and sword symbol that's all silver.

Company-Grade Commissioned Officers

These officers wear a 1-inch wide, 2 ½ inches long imperial shield and sword symbol, with shield being silver and the sword being gold.

Field-Grade Commissioned Officers

These officers wear a silver imperial warbird symbol with the warbird having 2 ½ inches wing span.

Flag-Grade Commissioned Officers

These officers wear a gold imperial warbird symbol with the warbird having 2 ½ inches wingspan.

Grand Admiral

The Grand Admiral wears a gold imperial warbird symbol with the warbird having 1 ½ inch wingspan with a silver five-pointed star pointing upwards raised in center of warbird's chest.

Commander-In-Chief of the Imperial Armed Forces

Same as the Grand Admiral, except the star in middle of imperial warbird has a hollowed out silver circle around the star with star's points being longer than circle's diameter. Also, a silver hollowed out circle starts in the small of imperial warbird's back all around behind each wing's center points all the way around.

SECTION FOUR: Aide-de-Camp insignia

Aide-de-Camps are personal assistants or secretaries, to a person of high rank, usually a senior military officer or the Imperator/Imperatrix. They can also participate at ceremonial functions.

The badge of office is an auguilette, a braided cord that can come in different colors. Dress auguilettes are more elaborate, service auguilettes run under the arm and then over the shoulder, looping under the epaulettes. The number of loops depends on the person being aided.

Special insignia for aides are worn instead of MOS/Rating insignia, though the Aide retains his or her MOS/Rating colors on epaulettes, shoulder straps, stripes on pants, etc., etc. The Aide insignia has many variations, depending on the person being aided.

SECTION FIVE: Ship/Base Assignment Crests

These crests can come in a variety of shapes and colors. Some may even have inscriptions on them in modern Terran English or Latin languages. These crests will indicate the wearer's current starship, outpost, or base assignment is. They are located just above the right breast of the wearer on service, dress, and mess dress uniforms. Included are examples of two ship assignment crests of two of the ships of the Windstar class-Heavy Cruiser.

Task Force Commander's insignia ...

This insignia consists of an armband and a yellow shoulder loop placed on epaulettes.

Task Force Commanders also wear a double-corded yellow cords with very thin black stripes on the cord. His/her direct assistant wears one cord.

SECTION SIX: Rank insignia pins

The Imperial Armed Forces have an elaborate rank system, with some ranks being added by the dystopic Jones Dynasty in the beginning of the Imperial Era. When the benevolent and honorable Jenkins Dynasty took power, they kept many of these new rank titles. Each rank has its own rank insignia pins. They are usually worn on epaulettes, shoulder boards, shoulder marks, shoulder straps, and some collars as indicated.

Cadets and midshipmen: are gold-colored ½ inch squares

Enlisted soldiers and sailors: are gold-colored ½ inch circles(pips)

Junior Non-Commissioned Officers: are gold-colored highly detailed ½ inch diamonds

Senior Non-Commissioned Officers: are silver-colored highly detailed ½ inch diamonds

Sergeant Generals/Senior Master Chief Petty Officer: are 1 ½ inch silver-colored diamond with silver crescents on left and right side of the diamond, with the crescents facing the diamond.

Warrant Officers: are silver-colored rectangles with black squares denoting grade

Company-grade Commissioned Officers: are gold-colored rectangles

Field-grade Commissioned Officers: are gold-colored 5-pointed stars

Flag-grade Commissioned Officers: are silver-colored 5-pointed stars

Marshals/Supreme Marshals/Fleet Admirals/Supreme Admiral: are gold and silver-colored, eight-ray star bursts with the bottom-most ray being elongated.

Grand Admiral: a 1 ½ inch silver-colored star with elaborate crescents surrounding the star.

Commander-In-Chief: is a silver-colored eagle with wings outstretched, grasping a silver scroll in its talons. Its head faces to the left. Above the scroll on the eagle's chest, is a long sword(gold hilt with white blade) pointing down behind a silver shield.

SECTION SEVEN: Rank insignia stripes

All ranks have rank insignia stripes, except for pay grade E-1.

Cadets and Midshipmen: have thin gold stripes on cuffs.

Enlisted and Non-Commissioned Officers, soldiers, and sailors: rank insignia stripes are yellow-colored chevrons, rockers, crescents, and stars placed upon both shoulders of indicated uniform types. Basic combat trainees who are squad guides get one thin black stripe on cuff of their training uniforms, platoon guides wear two thin black stripes on the cuffs of their training uniform.

Warrant Officers: Warrant Officers wear silver-colored regular and broad stripes, placed on their cuffs on uniforms as indicated.

Commissioned Officers: Commissioned Officers wear gold-colored regular and broad stripes, placed on cuffs of uniforms as indicated.

CHAPTER 2

Uniforms

Welcome to the second chapter of this manual. In this chapter is a huge selection of uniforms and their variances. Not all uniforms are shown, but a great many are shown nonetheless. Your uniforms should present a neat, clean appearance. Per orders from his majesty the Commander-In-Chief of the Imperial Armed Forces(Imperator), all uniforms that those of the male gender may also be worn by the female gender. These are known as unisex uniforms, though the uniform a female may wear, will be custom-tailored to fit most body types of most species, humanoid or not. Generally, females have many more varieties of uniforms to choose from. The uniform of the day will be ordered by local unit commanders.

Color of tunics: The colors of the wearer's tunic shows the wearer's branch of service. They are as follows ...

Imperial Navy= white tunics

Marine Corps= gray tunics

Army= Green tunics

Special Operations Forces= purple tunics

Imperial Stormtrooper(special shock troops)Legion= black tunics

piping colors on uniforms: there are different-colored piping on uniforms, according to the wearer's rank. This piping is on most epaulettes, shoulder boards, shoulder marks, shoulder straps, and collars as follows ...

Enlisted soldiers and sailors= no piping

Cadets and Midshipmen= white piping

Non-Commissioned Officers= black piping

Warrant Officers= silver piping

Company-Grade Commissioned Officers= gold piping

Field-Grade Commissioned Officers= gold piping on top of silver piping

Flag-Grade Commissioned Officers= gold piping on top of gold piping

SECTION ONE: Service Uniforms

Service uniforms are the standard duty uniforms, worn for regular duty operations.

Standard duty service uniform(class-A): This is the standard duty uniform worn by all ranks and genders. It comes with duty tunic, pants, belt, and sometimes the standard duty service hats, as well as black dress gloves, and standard calf-length black duty boots. The tunic is branch-colored with epaulettes and stand-up collar. The standard duty black pants are high-waist with an elastic waist band. The standard duty black service belt is fitted at the wearer's point between rib cage and top of hip bone. The standard buckle is square-shaped for enlisted personnel, circular-shaped for officers. Most service buckles are brass, though honor guards may wear silver buckles.

MOS/Rating insignia pins are worn centered on each front-side of the stand-up collar. An MOS/Rating-colored shoulder cord is worn, looping under the right epaulette. The duty tunic length goes down to meet the end on the wearer's crotch. Duty pants are usually not tucked into duty boots, instead, their length is worn tapered at the wearer's ankle. Some officers may wear duty breaches, who's length goes three inches below the knee; in which case, black, knee-high duty boots may be worn. Females may elect to wear high-heeled versions of these duty boots. Black duty socks are worn under duty boots.