Dear Carrion,
I agree with you about the colors. I would appriciate your opinion about where to place the moto (#142 or #143). Reagrding the backround, please think that you have a pencil and you plot the diagramm of the logo with many parallel lines.....(
http://www.charfishdesign.com/goodies/19-free-hand-drawn-sketch-icons)....this will help you