[ANSTHRLD] Tristan St Catherine wheel badge
tmcd at panix.com
tmcd at panix.com
Fri Mar 28 14:49:47 PST 2003
"Chris Norman" <chris at cncnorman.com> wrote:
> (Fieldless) On a Maltese cross Gules a Catherine's wheel Or.
>
> I like the visual appearance of this badge
You have a much wworse problem as with "on a Catherine's wheel a
Maltest cross". In the case above, the Catherine's wheel would have
to be entirely on the intersection of the cross. A Maltese cross has
four NCC-1701 Enterprise uniform symbols meeting at a point at the
center:
<http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milano/7193/gif/m166a.gif>
There *is* no space at the intersection for a wheel or any other
charge. It's physically impossible. Any non-zero size wheel is
iether barely overall or non-trivial area of intersection, both of
which again cause an instant return.
There is room out on the arms of the cross, so you could do
(Fieldless) A Maltese cross gules charged on the chiefmost arms
with a Catherine's wheel Or.
(Fieldless) On a Maltese cross gules four Catherine wheels Or.
Neither of them much resemble a period badge that I've seen, and the
second has four times as many complicated-outline wheels to draw.
Daniel de Lincolia
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