About the Empire's symbol on the flag I can accept that could be difficult representate actually the description of "starship and sun" made in the books. But was really necessary that it was so similar than the Rebel Alliance of Star Wars? ..... Or it was to capture those others fans?
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My guess is it's because the symbol, as it was represented on the cover of the book, reminds people of the NASA logo:
The symbol on the cover of the book isn't quite how Asimov described it. In "Foundation" he described it so: "The golden globe with its conventionalized rays, and the oblique cigar shape that was a space vessel." The illustrator already took an artistic licence changing the "cigar shape", which is, realistically, how everybody expects a rocket and most spaceship designs to look, into an arrow-point. It's very likely that the similarity to the NASA logo is entirely deliberate. After all, most SF fans are also NASA fans.
The problem is that the international audience may not all be fans of NASA, because what about ESA, Roscosmos, CNSA and ISRO? Some redesign was needed anyway, and clearly they decided to go for a complete re-think that has the symbol for planet Earth as the main feature.
I don't say I'd like better. I just asked Why the showrunners decided to change the symbol?
So you like better the symbol on the books:
There isn't an outright contradiction, if you ask me. Since the Emperors are Brother Dawn, Brother Day and Brother Dusk, they obviously identify themselves with the sun. And you could interpret the middle circle as a starship and beneath it the exhaust plume, if you want to see it that way.
Hi Maria I'm glad for your entusiastics quests. In my case, with my entire respect to the show team, I think that is not the same important the simbology of the tv show, maybe created by a producer, tan the book's wich comes througt decades.
I thought the Empire's symbol was this:
I'm guessing you are talking about this scene:
It's the same symbol but it's seen upside down and you can see two circles to the sides.
The Rebel Alliance symbol is like this:
Vaguely similar, but not really. All right, they're both within circles. Big deal. People have been putting symbols within circles forever.
A more interesting question is what is the Empire's symbol supposed to represent. My guess would be that the big circle with the cross is Brother Day, and the two circles to the sides are Brother Dawn and Brother Dusk. And why is Brother Day a cross within a circle? My best guess is that it represents the planet Earth symbol. In the Galactic Empire, Earth has been forgotten, but fragments of knowledge from Earth remain, and presumably the Emperor uses these fragments of knowledge as symbols of his legitimacy.
If anybody has any good theory about whatever it is beneath the cross within a circle, please explain.