So, here we have the games first bit of original art! I am very excited with how this turned out, and could not have asked for a better personification of UN Law!
For those of you who have not read the RPG book (sorry, that's in beta right now, so not many copies exist), I'll fill in a little bit about Earth, so you know the context of this picture.
Earth is the seat of the United Nations, an intra-galactic government that according to itself has the best interests of all mankind at it's heart. It also claims dominion over all human settlements that do not have "sufficient" self-governing capacity.
Once any given colony gets big enough to support the purchase of Earth made goods, the UN Begins sending police, school teachers, and indentured labor to establish the basic infrastructure of society. As newer colonies develop industry, the UN arranges to purchase food stuffs, ore, luxury items such as jewelry and furniture, and sells industrial equipment and vehicles and the like, keeping the good (that is tax-paying) citizens happy, while the UN keeps up its tax revenues.
It's also important to remember that once the UN moves in its police, the police enforce UN laws, and often work to undermine local laws that are not in line with the UN's own agendas. In most cases this is not a problem, but there are cases where it has been. Mostly, the use of UN protocol drives home how far many developing world have to go before they are as "civilized" as Earth.
Thanks again to Victor, the artist who drew this. I'll post the other police picture shortly, the other cop in more "day-to-day" dress. This one is in full duty uniform.
The "full duty" uniform is completely white with some darker grey highlights, and the glasses are also white. The uniform is extremely stain resistant. The one pictured here includes light body armor, which will stop most colony manufactured hand guns, and will resist rifles, knives, and most wild life better than 20th century fibrous armor. The glasses provide visual connection the officers data tattoo, as well as the local area data network. This connection is very important, especially if the officer in question does not have cybernetic modifications that allow him to have such easy data access without the visor.
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