52285: Brownie24128 - Friday, September 4 2026 - 1:24 AM
So those two are part of the basic course, but have a white vest because they are nobles. All special classes have a gold trimmed hat, and the two nobles from the spy class no extra features compared to their classmates.
So i guess the girl in the all white uniform is also in the basic course, but of higher status than the nobles with just a special vest?
52286: oskar loko - Friday, September 4 2026 - 2:42 AM
'Other plebeians...'
How to start rigth with the rest of the people... not this way
52287: giovanni - Friday, September 4 2026 - 5:48 AM
new uniform color
52288: LuminousLead - Friday, September 4 2026 - 7:31 AM
I wonder how Erin would feel if she received the same treatment? Would she still have the same patriotic fervor?
52289: Brite - Friday, September 4 2026 - 8:06 AM
Arrrgh blargh sorry to be that person, but it should be 'tis, not t'is. The apostrophe shows where the I in "it" was dropped.
52290: Silly Name - Friday, September 4 2026 - 4:13 AM
@Brownie24128 Since I think Blue Berets are the baseline "Magic Infantry" class, the white uniform may also serve to denote Officer-in-Training rank, which would fit pretty well with the Empire's social stratification; C.O. roles in the army of the UK for most of the 17th and 18th century were functionally reserved for the aristocracy.
52291: nanashi - Friday, September 4 2026 - 6:52 AM
'tis for your own good :^]
52292: Some guy - Friday, September 4 2026 - 2:26 PM
@Brownie24128
Could also just be a special case for the spy class. That kind of identifying feature would be a significant disadvantage there.
52296: quibble - Saturday, September 5 2026 - 11:28 PM
It becomes more and more obvious just how Mr. Kimberly managed to survive into adulthood, despite being a magic user in the Empire. Absolutely sensible remark there, honestly he has a fantastic power to pair with his knack for risk assessment.
In fact, in retrospect, I have to wonder - we have been told how he simply volunteered for the Veda Project, but now I am curious what his motives for that *actually* were.
Given his natural inclination to self-preservation, I feel like he probably weighed the options out, decided that it was fairly likely that the Empire would find out about his powers sooner rather than later (if he wasn't on a list already), and simply decided to go with the option that would disincentivize his government from killing him.
"I want to join because I am fed up with an office job" is a believable enough reason to state (and probably isn't entirely a lie either), but most of all, it also sounds less like something you'd get executed for, compared to "I want to join because I'm afraid that otherwise you'll murder me".
So those two are part of the basic course, but have a white vest because they are nobles. All special classes have a gold trimmed hat, and the two nobles from the spy class no extra features compared to their classmates.
So i guess the girl in the all white uniform is also in the basic course, but of higher status than the nobles with just a special vest?
'Other plebeians...'
How to start rigth with the rest of the people... not this way
new uniform color
I wonder how Erin would feel if she received the same treatment? Would she still have the same patriotic fervor?
Arrrgh blargh sorry to be that person, but it should be 'tis, not t'is. The apostrophe shows where the I in "it" was dropped.
@Brownie24128 Since I think Blue Berets are the baseline "Magic Infantry" class, the white uniform may also serve to denote Officer-in-Training rank, which would fit pretty well with the Empire's social stratification; C.O. roles in the army of the UK for most of the 17th and 18th century were functionally reserved for the aristocracy.
'tis for your own good :^]
@Brownie24128
Could also just be a special case for the spy class. That kind of identifying feature would be a significant disadvantage there.
It becomes more and more obvious just how Mr. Kimberly managed to survive into adulthood, despite being a magic user in the Empire. Absolutely sensible remark there, honestly he has a fantastic power to pair with his knack for risk assessment.
In fact, in retrospect, I have to wonder - we have been told how he simply volunteered for the Veda Project, but now I am curious what his motives for that *actually* were.
Given his natural inclination to self-preservation, I feel like he probably weighed the options out, decided that it was fairly likely that the Empire would find out about his powers sooner rather than later (if he wasn't on a list already), and simply decided to go with the option that would disincentivize his government from killing him.
"I want to join because I am fed up with an office job" is a believable enough reason to state (and probably isn't entirely a lie either), but most of all, it also sounds less like something you'd get executed for, compared to "I want to join because I'm afraid that otherwise you'll murder me".