The Rafian community has responded overwhelmingly positively to the patch. On the official Rafian Discourse forum, user "edge_master_42" wrote:
: In Simons' work, patches often serve as a form of "conceptual montage". For this feature, the patches function as emblems of a fictional institution— Edge 51 —borrowing the visual authority of military or university uniforms while remaining stripped of real-world grounding. Design Elements : rafian at the edge 51 patched