During the 47th and 48th episodes of Galaxy Express 999 (永久戦斗実験室前編) a unique flag appears that represents one side of the warring partners. It is a horizontal tribar of white, blue, and white with a sky blue star in the center. Also the middle blue stripe is wider.
In this episode the train stops at a planet that is at perpetual war. But his perpetual war is controlled by the planetary tourism industry. They pit two sides at each other so that tourists can enjoy and watch a war.
If you are unfamiliar with this ground breaking Japanese Anime, it is kind of like Star Trek but of its own bent. Basically the Galaxy Express 999 is a throwback spaceship design of a train from the 19th century. It is famous like the Enterprise, but its route is between the Andromeda and Milky Way Galaxies.
Oddly the army fighting under the star flag, has helmet insignia of a circle. The other side has the insignia of a star. We never get to see the flag of the Star Helmet fighters, but it is a good bet it may have circle on it?
The Galaxy Express makes stops at various planets all along its journey, where it makes contact with alien and weird civilizations.
The Captain Kirk of Galaxy Express is an orphaned boy, Tetsuro, who is traveling to Andromeda for a cybernetic body so he can have an 'immortal' life. The Spock of the series is a
mysterious, beautiful, and wise woman known as Maetel. The conductor of the Spaceship Train is also a main character; he is a bit like Scottie, who must balance strict corporate policy of Galaxy Railways and every once and while bend the rules, to help is his beloved passengers: Tetsuro and Maetel. This is one series the Sheldon Cooper would have flipped his nogin: Galaxy Express 999 = Star Trek + Trains in Space!
Like all good Sci-fi: the stories deal with the heavy duty choices of human nature and the
infinite possibilities of doing good, evil, and everything else in between. Sometimes formulaic, but so was the Original Star Trek. This is must watch for any student of Anime and Star Trek. Note, this series was made just as the the OG plain Jane Han Shot first Star Wars hit our civilization in 1978.
In the sixth episode The Comet Library (
彗星図書館) aired October 19, 1978. Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, and R2-D2 make an appearance. Although the writers loved Star Wars, the series is more like Star Trek.
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| Flag from the Planet of Eternal War—1979: Galaxy Express 999 |
キリマンジャロの鳥人 was the Japanese title of Galaxy Express 999's 107th episode that was first aired on February 12, 1981 in Japan. In English is reads The Kilimanjaro's Bird Men. 
The overall story arc of the this star train trek to Andromeda, is the theme of potential immortality. The young boy Tetsuro is traveling to a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy inorder to get a cybernetic body, with the potential of living a near immortal life. However on several visits to planets, ugly issues that arise between cyborgs and organics are debated. One assumption of the future is that cyborgs look down upon organic people as inferior, and often mistreat them, and at times violently, eviscerate them from the general population.
Like all good Sci-fi: the stories deal with the heavy duty choices of human nature and the 
When you only take the view of the Articles of Confederation period, a field of four gold stars represent Rhode Island.
In honor of those orders, three flags were made to convey Delaware's positions. Since the community operating systems of the Articles of Confederation came first, they are represented by gold stars. Thus a flag with 12 golden stars represents Delaware.
Finally when you put both placement positions together, we have a single white star with 12 gold stars in a circle.
Finally there is the Constitutional and Confederation flag that denotes Maryland position as the 13th state of the Confederation and 7th state of the Constitution. 
Finally
we have the united order for New Jersey. It has stars united from the
older Golden Era and latter Silver Era. They make the pattern of a
tulip or diving eagle.
Nearly one year after the first US election, George Washington, was elected, would North Carolina ratify the US Constitution on November 21, 1789. Thus North Carolina earned the twelve white starred flag to represent herself. 
But nearly 10 years before the US Constitution was twinkle in Jefferson's eye, North Carolina became the 10th state of the United States when she ratified the Articles of Confederation on April 5, 1778.
The flag with 8 gold stars is Pennsylvania's Confederation flag. It represents Pennsylvania's lucky position as number 8. Eight is considered a lucky number in the China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Since this flag was first issued in 2020, and America now has roots to this part of the world, the number 8 is also lucky number for the USA. 
The flag with two white stars solely represents Pennsylvania's position under the Constitution. Pennsylvania won the proverbial 'silver.'
When the canton only has 7 gold stars it refers to New Hampshire's rank under the Articles of Confederation as the 7th state on March 4, 1778 during the heat of the Revolution. Note the colour gold often indicates an older time period, as is the case with this example. 
