WIP Update – 01 Apr 26
I mentioned last time that I was having to do all these adjustments based on a new understanding of Midshipman’s Cruises. As I was writing the last entry, I did commit to setting the cruises at the end of the academic year, even if this makes the schedule wonky for the normal spring and winter cycles as opposed to the summer and winter cycles that were grafted on later. (In the Earth Union, the typical academic year is comprised of four 11-week terms with two three-week breaks for summer and winter and two one-week breaks for spring and fall. For the Naval Academy, only the first term is 11 weeks, the others reduced to ten in order to secure six weeks for the Midshipman’s Cruise.) Once all this was set, Lydia’s Senior Midshipman’s Cruise had to be moved back to August and September of NE 113, seven months earlier than the previous version. I then had to change references in Tico1, Tico2 and “Casualty Notification”, as well as the description of the Midshipman’s Cruise from the prologue of Tico2. As you may know by this point, when I make a change, I have to perpetuate that change across three locations and log it in my running commentary about the production process. Occupied a little of my time. Thankfully, the new timeframe didn’t affect where Matt was at the time, as he’d been transferred to the 48th SAR in August of NE 113, shortly after the incident with his previous unit. (The Air Force figured that even though he had been cleared of wrongdoing, keeping him around wouldn’t have been good for unit cohesion and so just quietly transferred him out.)
On the OreHosa side, I made two new charas in DaysAI. The first was Lieutenant Lin Mengjie, the battalion EEO officer who becomes sort of the sitcom archnemesis to Carlo for reasons that should be obvious. The second was Ashara e Hazor, Maya’s biological mother. Of course, I wasn’t just making images but the stories to go with them. The setting is getting fleshed out more and more, which is great, but I still haven’t gotten to RttW. Time is running out and you’d be right to be dubious about me making the deadline. I’ll make a genuine stab at it, though. Stay tuned.
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