#// my actual recruitment patch is on the front of my flight jacket right above the squad designation embroidery

[msmc-796-official]

Oh, that's really sweet, actually! Good to know, at any rate - last thing I need to be doing is giving Marketing any more ideas. (Christ-the Buddha knows how many "ideas" I've had to shut down since becoming an official PR spokesperson...)

That reminds me, I should put up that star map of the Argo Navis system in my PR office - yes, I have an office of my own for PR reasons separate from my bunk; I don't know why Upper Management decided I needed one either. It was meant to be a reminder of home - I know I mention it a lot, but I'm originally from Pyxis (one of Carina's moons), so Argo Navis is my home star system - but I've been so busy around here that I forgot I even had it.

As for official MSMC merch - we don't have a ton, and that's somewhat on purpose. According to the files Recruitment gave me, the only officially-licensed merch we have are the patches and decals we hand out as part of the welcome package for our new recruits, as well as a flight jacket with your MSMC squad designation number embroidered on it. Of course, it's not mandatory to wear any of it publicly, but most pilots who sign on with us at least put the patch on a jacket or something.

Really, it's just meant to be a way to distinguish our pilots from any other mercenary companies - a little something extra to show who belongs to which company outside of one's official pilot designation (aka the big long title all MSMC mercs have, listing their full name, callsign, squad number, and rank).

That being said, if you're interested in getting your hands on some of our merch early, here's an offer you might be interested in: I've got a small stash of prototype patches that Marketing dropped off and doesn't want back (the designs got scrapped after our current logo was greenlit). As far as I know they're one-of-a-kind, so if you want some exclusive merch that no other pilot has, this would be it!

-- Angel

Greeting and hail! It's Angel, from MSMC.

Slipshod was browsing your tags and noticed something that I believe merits further discussion, so I decided to reach out here rather than clogging up a post intended for useful build tips.

You said you had a MSMC poster hung up by your bunk? Where in RA's name did you manage to acquire one of those?

...no, seriously, I'm asking. If the marketing team finds out we have unlicensed merchandise circulating out there somewhere, they're gonna pitch a fit (and probably send me out with a stack of officially-licensed MSMC merch to hand out as part of my PR duties, as well as a few cease-and-desist notices from our legal teams).

Out of curiosity, though - what's on it? I can't imagine we have too much actual merch out there, outside of the usual mech decals and uniform patches our pilots receive upon signing on with us for a term. (I certainly hope Marketing hasn't gone behind our backs and made merch of the 796th as the "official faces of MSMC" or something dumb like that - we already get enough flak from our fellow squads as "Heaven's PR Department". Besides, none of us consented to that at any point! That'd be an explicit breach of our PR contract!)

-- Angel

+ Oh, no, I hope I didn't scare you guys, making you think I like, bought something. I have a little collection of 'posters' around my sleeping quarters with all sorts of things, like starmaps, ship blueprints, printed logs from interesting events, etcetera. I added a print out of the MSMC logo to my board not too long ago, and I guess I got a little too used to referring to my cutouts as 'posters' after bantering with my friends for so long. I know you all only recently put your faces on the Omninet— If they were already plastered on some PR poster, I'd be surprised and a little impressed.

+ Though, uhm— do you guys offer official merchandise? Asking for a friend.