Moon Police

That flag serves a real purpose. The moon is a mess of overlapping claims and so “exclusion zones” make up the enforced, physical borders. Vekllei has a particle accelerator on the moon to create magnetic monopoles, so they patrol huge areas around it to keep people out. Monopolar particle accelerators have been sabotaged in the past (famously in Siberia in 2031) so they’ve got a total exclusion zone in place.

Woke up and didn’t realise how shogun this thing looks.

The hood and plate poncho are to stop random rocks from killing you and the flag pole is to stop it getting twisted in zero atmosphere. I just reinvented the samurai by mistake