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Excellent, i'm looking forward to seeing these.

Alright, now that I have a small lull *looks around* I'm set to get some of these teaser test releases out to the public.

Onto layout.

Excellent.

Well, I finished the final outline and added ten more pages to the booklet. I seem to be on a roll.

I figure I have about another week's worth of writing, editing and additions before it's ready for layout (assuming I can keep to the schedule and finish some of my other writing obligations - so maybe a little bit longer.) I've decided to include the entire ComStar write up in the introduction primer to help provide a little extra backstory.

All of the factions will still require their work, but it'll move faster once this is finished.
 

Brief Description of the former Draconis Combine

The breakup of the Draconis Combine was unkind to the family Kurita. Where the Davion clan remained more in less in solidarity with each other as their nation fell apart the Kuritans took an active hand in pulling at the seems. Beginning with the secession of Galedon, dissention in the Kurita family and in the DCMS High Command allowed other provinces that long chafed beneath the Dragon’s Claws to seek freedom. Ostensibly these Kurita-powered coups were aimed at propping one Coordinator in the place of another, and with it the hope of returning the Combine to its former greatness. Instead, the very nature of the Combine’s honor-driven society worked against it. From beneath the quiet veneer of Combine culture is a society constantly at war with itself, and it was this blind adherence that would tear the nation apart. Today, outside of the fractious factions of the old Free Worlds League, the former Draconis Combine is a seething cauldron of shifting alliances, grudges, intense anger and war.

Nice.

Brief Description of the former Federated Suns

Of all the former Great Houses, the dissolution of the Federated Suns was as much an accident as it was born out of tragic decisions. House Davion’s heavy-handed actions against the ruling Dukes of the Draconis and Capellan Marches did much to undermine the stability enjoyed by the Suns since the first Civil War centuries earlier, but it was Prince Davion’s death in 2834 that finally tore the proud realm apart. While the new states of the former Federated Suns are less antagonist towards one another than those from other Great Houses, there is a deep seated mistrust between the four born from centuries of cultural drift and deeds committed long past. Today, it is not uncommon to find citizens from the factions co-mingling peaceful along border worlds, leaving the former Federated Suns in the best position to reform. However, despite the cordial attitude all talks of reconciliation are squashed – after years of independence from the throne of New Avalon the Ducal lords are in no hurry to return to their former feudal rank.     

Nice.