Development Notebook

Chapter X – Theme Focus

Primary Theme: Friendship / Duty / Perseverance

Secondary Theme: Optional

Key Moment: Describe the main scene or decision that shows the theme

Symbol / Image: Recurring object, action, or visual (e.g. broken sword, shared promise, storm)

How It Advances the Arc: How this chapter pushes the overall themes forward

Scratch Pad

• Additional
  • flat additions to the base value
  • sum with each other
• Percent Increased/Reduced the base value
  • Percent change
• Percent More/Less the modified value
  • Applied after increased/reduced

1. Sum all Added and Base values -> 10
2. Sum all Increased into one multiplier -> 1.45
3. Multiply Added/Base total x Increased multiplier ->10x1.45=14.5
4. Multiply by each More separately -> 14.5 x 1.05 x 1.3 x 1.1 = 21.77
5. Multiply by Amplified separately

Naval Combat

• Long Range (up to 250,000 km) -- lasers + railguns
• Missile Range (up to 1,000,000 km)
• Close range (under 20,000 km) --ion beams

    *ion beams are short range, but cause massive internal thermal and radiation effects.

Marine Hierarchy

• Fire Team
• Squad
• Platoon
• Company
• Battalion
• Regiment
• Brigade (1st Sylvan Marines)
• Division

navy will perform air cavalry and troop transport role with gunships. I need to flesh out the marine recon role.

Increase the length of the prologue, to have more fleeing, near death experiences, etc.,

Add the character artwork as commissions prior to a design change for the uniforms. They'll serve as bonus artwork on the special edition hardcovers.
Here is a list of characters

Here is a list of warships

Here are the Species and Professions.

http://robertplewis.com/index.php/Category:Naval_Weapons

http://robertplewis.com/index.php/System_Titles