Just a few minor updates for Daybreak to announce:

• Rewrote the third scene in v3ch10 (the tactical meeting after Cecylia's encounter with Lotharin racism). I do have the habit of editing a lot and ch10/ch11 is being pulled on especially for being unsatisfactory in my mind. You can check it out or wait till later when the volume is finished and all the major edits have gone in.

• Updated battle maps for v3ch13 - hopefully this version is less overcrowded / confusing. You may need to refresh page to see it.

• Posted the Hyperion military structure/organization as a special chapter - I've tried to discuss this in story several times but... the writing just always feels so dry. Thus it'll just be attached as a supplementary information for those interested.

Comments on any of the changes would be welcomed, whether you liked or disliked it. Chapter 13 - the battle of Gwilen River - received a lot less comments than usual, so I've been wondering if people disliked it, found it confusing, inconsistent, or anything like that?

Battles of the 6th Trinitian-Tauheed Holy War.

I'm still tempted to use something like that as chapter title instead. But alas, here's the new Daybreak chapter.

Vote here if you enjoyed it.

Maps for this chapter are a little lacking. I'm still trying to figure on how to map a battlefront of this size and complexity. Meanwhile, I'm having fun with airbrushes for the topography.

Music used as inspiration include:

• Strength of a Thousand Men; United We Stand, Divided We Fall; and Protectors of the Earth by Two Steps From Hell
• Price of a Mile by Sabaton
• Victorious and Bua Nó Bás by Adrian von Ziegler
• Vivienne's playing style is based on Máiréad Nesbitt, see The Sky and the Dawn and the Sun

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Not much to say -- here's Chapter 12.

Next one will take a while. I'm on business trip all next week and the topic will simply be difficult.

Also Daybreak is now also on WebFictionGuide. So give it a vote if you enjoy it ^^

Thanks to Hachi for the fanart.

Trying not to steal Krytyk's thunder here ^^

But alas, a faster chapter update for Daybreak, as promised. There is a certain scene in this chapter that will certainly raise eyebrows. I'm still a little concerned over its appropriateness (it's justified in a logical matter, but may rub some the wrong way). I guess we shall see.

We are now pushing into the 2nd half of Volume 3 now, which means I need to be doing battle research again -- the battlefront has ballooned from vol2's a few thousand to over 100,000. But there is still one more chapter before things truly heat up, in which Kaede will meet someone she's been wanting to talk to for a long time.

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The belated update to Daybreak is here. I do apologize for the delay -- mostly caused because I started the chapter late, as I was too busy roleplaying a giant, spacefaring mushroom on a bid to unite the universe... no seriously.

The good news is, I've already started the next chapter to make up for the delay. With any luck, it'll be out much faster this time -- hopefully around two weeks.

Also, since marksy.arc90 seems to be dead, I'm currently looking for another easy-to-use WikiCode to HTML converter to use for Daybreak. Yet to find a satisfactory one so recommendations welcomed.

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