The internet says the original 13 US colonies. Anytime you see 13 of something on US iconography that’s a pretty good first guess about what it stands for.

It’s been 19 days since this article dropped and the only different article I could find is an older newsweek article talking about the same event. The official branding guide still shows the old stuff.

The five stars probably represent the five major branches of the US military if you want to take what I asked google ai and wash it through my brain. The AI doesn’t appear to have much to work with, either, since it linked me to the branding guide with the old material. It knew about the rebrand but I don’t know if that’s because it can learn fast enough from my questions or it was drawing from the same material we already had.