作者： Morgane

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Comiket 92 Adventures

by Morgane 2017年8月16日

Alright, pictures from Zero’s rolling in.

Due to environmental regulations we couldn’t get our regular books ready in time. Zero ended up rushing the scene with some short-printed copies of DEFENSE 5.

(Straight from our Japanese collaborator’s twitter. You can head over there to see what else they’ve got. Plenty of interesting stuff.)

Okay. This one’s not November. It’s Maria’s European shipgirls book. It’s also being ran by Circle NEIGHBORS. You can find plenty of examples of his art on his Pixiv here.

(I used to think this was just British, but well, there are German ships too. I haven’t gotten my hands on a copy yet, but I’ll be looking forward to it)

Sadly, there wasn’t a new Nyagato or a new Admiral Stalin/Mao/Kim/Putin has been deployed to the Naval Base series. Zero made plenty of visits to other circles, though, and here’s his haul.

Well, some of these are gifts.

Some apparently are “just for a friend.”

Others are for uh, “research” purposes.

Yeah. Research.

See you next time. 🙂

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Clean up progress: day 5.

by Morgane 2017年8月15日

Tags are largely purged.

Pages are set-up.

Zero and Ethan are looking into upgrade options.

I just finished cleaning up most of the Pacific picture archives. I now have something like 2210 draft, sketch, and other images on hand that I haven’t collected before.

Like, I’m sure I’ve posted this SOMEWHERE, but a look around shows that I haven’t?

So yeah, stuff like this. Old designs that we ultimately discarded in favor of something else.

Pose exercises like these that we ended up settling on something else.

Stuff like that. It’s kind of sobering to see how much stuff is out there. Gonna take me weeks to sort everything out.

Moral of today’s story, guys? Keep things organized while you can. I’m gonna crash now. Night. 🙂

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[Mail Call] 2017/08/13 – Assessment

by Morgane 2017年8月14日

What, you didn’t think we’ve stopped actually working on Pacific just because I’m re-organizing content, did you?

Work is never-ending. 🙂 Besides, if it’s a hobby, it’s not really work.

Say it’s the year 1992 and the President has just appointed me (I’m a two-star admiral) in charge of some segment of the world’s oceans to defend.

What stuff does STEC have to help me with my job?

Which shipgirl is the best?

How many can I get?

First of all, Abyssals come in all shapes and sizes. I’ve said this one before. It’s really not a one-size fits all solution.

Secondly, shipgirls aren’t Pokemon. Mike isn’t shouting orders at them and telling them to fire. While there’s definitely a command, control, and communication element to his job, STEC’s commander is, at the end of the day, managing a (reasonably) small group of highly powerful individuals.

Thirdly, this sort of ties in what we’re probably going to do with the site.

DEFENSE tends to be our test-bed for new layouts and new configurations. The Japanese folks for some reason have a culture of preview books, and this year I thought I’d not just give them what they’ll get in the actual Pacific book, but more information instead.

So, I stared at a bunch of old naval records – people familiar with the military will likely recognize the inspiration (and much of the criteria) for what this is.

My current plan is to use the fact that websites have near-unlimited spacing to seriously revamp the character profiles. A lot of information can be communicated in this way. I’m just trying to figure out the best way to do it, since I’d rather not do another spring cleaning again.

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Clean-up progress: day III

by Morgane 2017年8月13日

Yes. Day 3. Not 1 or 2 because I’ve been at this for two whole days.

Currently I am dealing with

290ish articles posted on the site, to be properly organized and beaten into shape.

About close to 1 million or so words and about 1000 word documents of Pacific drafts, notes, designs, and etc. Some should be posted. Others need to be revised.

That picture above is 1/1603 or about 30,000 sketches that we’ve accumulated over the last two and a half, three years. This is to say nothing of completed works. Historical stuff.

I’m doing my best. xD Talk to you guys in a few more days. Zero should have pictures from Comiket and the Chengdu convention, too. He’s just been traveling a lot. The others are as usual, busy. 🙂

好多的东西啊… （Ethan：你真能写啊……）