[Airlift]

I think Zarp is suggesting that having black as one of their colors will make them more difficult to see, much as people were suggesting when the thought was that Vanu's second color was black.

Here is what I see as the difference: With Black & Red, black is the primary color and red is the secondary. Thus it is the newbies who will be mostly clad in black and the veterens will be mostly red.

If Vanu was Purple primary, black secondary, the situation would be reversed, and the elite would be wearing black and the newbies purple. But instead, they will mostly be wearing teal, which is theoretically less of an advantage than black.