Maybe I’m just late to the party, and this is a well-known bit of Star Wars lore.
Could this be the birth of the symbol for the Rebel Alliance?
Since I couldn’t find anything written or illustrated suggesting this, I slapped my own little illustration together. It’s crude, but it gets the point across.
Thoughts?
My research on the origins of the Rebel Alliance symbol led me to family crests of medieval Japan. In particular, the tsuru no maru mon, or, round crane crest.