Today was short and I only made progress on The Lyre of Binding Chapter and some of the Hipper’s new paint job.

With the Lyre chapter I’m writing events chronologically and leaving small gaps for additional content later on. I’m just getting key events written before they start morphing out of control again. Less essential content can come later. It’s going well and there’s a good chance I’ll have the first draft finished before September. I do need to pick up the pace, though.

As for Hipper, there’s less good news there. I just can’t find a paint scheme that both looks good on this particular style of ship, and fits the Kaiser faction as a whole. I might just have to keep experimenting with different combinations until something sticks. The only problem is that the fastest way to change the colors of the grid requires a tool that uses hex values for identifying blocks, but rgb values for inputing color changes. Having to run all of these color conversions (that look different in different programs mind you) makes things take five times as long as they should. It also forces me to write down a bunch notes to keep track of the values.

And this is the ‘fast’ way of making specific grid-wide changes.

I’m tired.