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Tavaris has two Civil Ensigns, which are flown by civillan vessels under Tavari authority. In 1624, in the brief [[History of Tavari-Banian Relations#Second War|Second War]] with [[Federation of Bana|Bana]], a Tavari naval vessel provoked war by destroying a Banian merchant vessel under the mistaken belief it was a warship launching an attack. Tavaris sought to make sure that the same would never befall one of their own ships by mandating that civilian merchants and others flew a flag of a unique design that would indicate their civilian status. This flag, known as the Tavari Merchant Mariner flag, is the Naval Ensign with a gold border around it, charged with a gold anchor.
Akronists very quickly rose up in demand for a civil ensign of their own. The Church very much did not like the idea of having to fly a flag of merchants on Church vessels sailing for religious causes. They took particular offense to the gold on the Merchant Mariner Flag, which was specifically chosen to symbolize wealth. Said the Matron at the time, Taladri Kankrelat, "It is an insult of the order most grave to cloak a Ship of God under the banner of greed. Our ships sail for noble purposes, and to cast our lot with those in pursuit of naught but vanity and sloth may be bureaucratically convenient but would wound our spirits and slow our most precious work." A design for Church of Akrona vessels, using the orange and the diamond symbol of the Church, was passed into law the next year. In that same law, the organization that is succeeded today by the Tavat Avati
==Native Rodokan Flag==
[[File:Rodoka Native Flag.png|left|thumb|250px|The Native Rodokan flag.]]
The Native Rodokan Flag was adopted by the [[Rodoka|Rodokan Native Tribal Administration]] (RNTA) in 1992, when it assumed the role of the former Native Rodokan tribes in governing the Native Rodokan Reserve. The flag was flown from 1540 to 1634 by the High Chiefs of Rodoka and was used alongside the Tavari flag as a Rodokan flag in talks with Rodokan officials as early as 1622. During the [[Meagharia|Tavari-Milofite War]] in the early 18th century, Native Rodokan ships flew the flag as a naval ensign; today, the ships operated by the RNTA fly the Tavari Merchant Mariner Flag.
In 2020, the same bill that allowed for the Rodokan provincehood referendum declared that the Native Rodokan flag was "a national flag of Tavaris," recognizing it therefore as a national symbol, but the bill did not give the flag equal status with the national flag as defined in the Instruments of Governance. Therefore, Tavari government property flies the national flag, not the Native Rodokan flag. However, since 2021 the Royal Tavari Armed Forces has allowed the families of deceased Native Rodokan servicemembers to have their loved one's coffin draped in a Native Rodokan flag, and municipal government buildings in Lantaž and Sinajärv fly the flag in addition to the national flag. In 2020, the flag was sent to space, included along with the national flags of each [[Alliance of Northwest Gondwana]] member-state, in the first satellite launched by that agency's space program, the Alliance Space Cooperative.
[[Category:The Acronisphere]] [[Category:National Flags]]
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