"Worker's Weekly Magazine: Applying Marxism to Starfighter Piloting, pg. 37 Wrote:"Awards, kill marks, and other such designs applied to starfighter hulls tend to denote a rank or skill of a pilot along with a given individuality. Quick assumptions in the heat of combat could draw conclusions such as, "That pilot is the most dangerous, avoid him," or, "That pilot is the most dangerous, we must remove him first".

While the Coalition employs our own elite squadrons who are given all due credit, we tend to refrain from guilding our ships with such things, but perhaps they could be useful? Researchers at the Fighter Weapons and Tactics School aboard Zhukovsky Station have recently devised a scheme by which fighters are intentionally marked up in order to draw on the strings of Capitalist pilots. Essentially, using first impressions of appearance, the enemy would make assumptions and act accordingly, either trying to avoid or eliminate a given pilot. That pilot would then serve as either bait to lure the enemy pilots into a slaughterhouse, or be allowed to roam free, scaring and dispersing enemy ships, thereby weakening their level of mutual support."