Logo Aesthetics Ideas?

So, it may be a bit early for this, but shall we discuss ideas for possibilities for a logo/insignia? Here are some thoughts I had to get the ball rolling:

We want to represent, obviously, exploration. So I quickly ran through different things in my mind that quickly and easily symbolized this. The most obvious would be a compass. However, North, South, East, and West don't really make sense in space. Then I had another thought. A sextant!. A sextant (Sexy!) is a piece of equipment used on ships that allows navigating by referring to celestial bodies. I'm not referring to horoscopes, but science! By measuring the angle between the horizon and the sun or a star in space, the operator can determine their latitude. I thought that it was appropriate that they would be navigating by the stars.

I actually tried putting together a mockup of ideas using a stylized sextant a bit like this but simplified. I also added the star from the centre of the Star Citizen Logo. However, what I ended up looked a bit too much like a Masonic Christmas tree. Especially when I plonked in a ribbon to hold our future slogan.

Anyone else have any thoughts?