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"Your armour looks good. Lot better than this regulation blue stuff they give the rest of us."
"They told us each one has a unique ability; I've been trying to figure out what mine is."

Does this refer to freelancer armour only, or to RvB Spartan armour in general?

We see freelancers getting their AIs cancelled and they're all white and black armour; does the colour have any relevance to whatever the special ability is?
...And then we go and see York in his just-rubbing-it-in tan. Hah. That because he's no longer active? And the fact an inactive freelancer would keep his Mjolnir kit anyway... it's almost like the 1.0s and their pride in what they are.
I'm obviously biased as hell because of Morelli (damn, I can't first name him at all here! Both cases we're just dropping the "New -"...) but I'd figure tan armour, as with Lopez' brown, would come in on the Red spectrum; however, Tex comes down on the Blue side of the line like whoa... is it his original colour? Do freelancers come from both Red and Blue sides (not going into the B_G story...)?

Do different colours among the regular troops represent anything? There's thoughts... apart from teal being the Official Pimp Colour, mind.

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[nicotinedragon.livejournal.com]

I think that maybe, perhaps, this is still set in the Covenant-Human war, where Blue was one branch, like ONI, and Red was something else, like UNSC. The color of the armor was like what we use berets for in modern military uniforms, to distinguish units(USSF, SAS, UN, etc). Red was one branch of Spartans, Blue was another.

The Special Spartan Forces got either White (military police or something like it, capturing escaped prisoners, quelling riots, infiltration, etc. They maintain order within human ranks) or Black (special special forces; the best of the best, used in units demanding the performance closer to a Spartan II(who are quite rare), the spearhead of military campaigns).

The code names helped to strip them of identity and give a sense of immortality (Oh, crap, Washington's dead, train a new guy and call him 'Washington'). I believe the SAS uses this in their operations.

When the Red-Blue War broke out, this unit had already been deemed a failure and scrapped, so they remained neutral. Without leadership, they drifted apart. The 1.1s would have killed to get a hold of this neutral unit before it could get absorbed by Red or Blue, thought this might not have been a complete success.

York might have been originally white but changed it to tan when the unit fell through. His tan armor would have blended in better with his environment then white. The white flashes he left on are more of a pride thing then anything else. He doesn't want to be confused with a common Red spartan. Also, a pure white or a pure black Spartan could be identified as one of the original 49, so remaining in white would put Delta in unnecessary danger. White-on-tan is is way of maintaining pride in what he is without arousing suspicion of onboard passengers from people he couldn't trust.

And I think the variations of red and blue amongst normal troops is more like custom colors earned from missions. Like individuality is something to be earned among the Spartans. The NCOs wear standard colors to protect rookies and throw off the belief that a certain color means a weak link. Enemy troops would see standard colors as weak points, and grunts who earned their colors might pick on those with less experence; Simmons and Grif picking on Donut is a good example. If you can't tell who's a rookie and who's an NCO, you might er on the side of caution. Commissioned officers wear custom colors like everyone else. Which is why Cappy wore teal instead of blue, but maybe Ensigns and Second Lieutenaunts have to wear standard colors too.

[dragonchan.livejournal.com]

Once again? YOU ARE BRILLIANT AT THIS STUFF. I like your thinking. I like it a *lot*. (Nice one with the SSF up there.) The idea of the early armour colours being a distinguishing thing between branches, yes, that's nice, and it gives a nice starting point for the whole thing... and I like the explanation for 'recruits and officers in regulation colours'.
I think I'm just going to make 'hell yes' noises over here for the moment. :)