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Truthfully, the sentiment that Fim is echoing is becoming increasingly common.
The Hegemony, as a cultural whole, is becoming a bit more liberal and accepting of new ideas. This always happens in the wake of an Unspeakable; like Hass Takar. There is a great pull back of freedoms and expression in obedience to the state, before slowly experimentation and openness begin to creep in, especially with the youth culture. It's not necessarily bad, just something you need to be careful with.
Many Jaxtians are decorating their uniforms like this now, still technically keeping within regulation by wearing only their uniforms and colored lanyards denoting their rank and professional field, but with a twist for individuality and fashion. It's still a violation of the uniform code, stressing conformity, but a minor one. Of course, the only real issue you have with it is it is an <span class="mu-s">Aristocrat</span> fashion. Your species has fallen behind in this regard; with Aristocrats being considered much more culturally rich and with luxurious, influential lifestyles being broadcast from their homeworlds. What little information your populace have on them, as well as the occasional boughts of space tourism from them before discovering their biological tampering in the new Star-Cluster, have only increased the Jaxtian fascination with the old age species. Highly cultured and artistically inclined, many of your own creators simply can't seem to compare.
Regardless of this, you have to consider now if you're going to stomp down on this new practice, or allow it. It would be in a way ceding cultural control to an alien power, but at the same time, the people seem to greatly enjoy these body-art inspired styles, though free from the Aristocrats degenerate practices of piercings, tattoos, body modifications... just colored lanyards accenting your own natural forms.
What do you think? Should this new form of expression be allowed?
>Yes
>Yes but only in the new colonies
>Yes but only for Fim
>No
>No, and punish harshly anyone who participated in this uniform rule-breaking
