The flag of the Malacandra Free Republic was adopted without change from the final form of the Martian Coalition flag devised during the Fungoid War. The original version of said flag was just the lighter green and red, representing the Helium-Thark Alliance. They added the darker green and changed the Alliance's name to the Martian Coalition when the Sarmak joined. The white cross comes from St. Andrew's Cross, the national flag of Scotland, whence most of the first-wave colonists from Earth came, and the narrower black cross overlaid upon that comes from a motif often found in Malacandri art.

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