The web site just keeps getting bigger, better, and badder! Here's whats been added or changed in the past week or so:

1. New character profiles created for Nur Rohana binti Ishak (Doctor Rohana), Brehim, Imbris Laselle, and High Admiral Audrene Bel-Taulon.
2. Rupus Dyne, Frane Harth, and Ragnar Otkellsson updated with character images.
3. All Tanker profiles now include a scale visualisation image.
4. The Tanker Regiment featured article has been updated/enhanced with the latest images and links.
5. New character/society page added for Glanced Esteem.
6. Profile page added for the ICS Hammer.
7. Category pages added for the Imperial Starship Design Roadmap and Imperial Facilities.
8. Pages created in Facilities for Gemen Station and Forge Ruinous.
9. Planet profile created for Jasamma.
10. As well as Uninhabited Planets, the Places section now lists Incidental Planets. These are worlds about which there is insufficient information to justify an entire profile page.

There have been yet more additions and improvements this weekend. Strap yourself in!

Quite a lot of work goes on behind the scenes, as well as constant edits to keep the site current with the latest books and correct small, unnoticed errors.

It's always good to know that people are visiting the site and poring over the information here, so feel free to comment.

1. ​A new (and quite long) page was added for MAGA.
2. A new page was added for the Imperial Navy, which is now the parent to the freshly streamlined Imperial Starships page. Expect individual ship profiles soon for the featured ships.
3. A section on meritocracy was added to the Imperial Combine overview, and the page has been cleaned up.
4. The [spoiler] panel has been added to more character profiles, particularly those whose latest involvements are heavily plot-related.
5. The legends on [spoiler] panels have been edited to show which book/s the spoilers are from.
6. Many character profiles have been edited and cleaned up, those with long entries being broken into sections.
7. The people section was trimmed down and no longer duplicates links to all the characters listed elsewhere.
8. Image tiles for secondary characters were added to the homepage.
9. Facebook Like/Share buttons were added to main and secondary character profiles.
10. The "signing" item was removed from the store, and all paperbacks now come signed.
11. Flairs were added to product thumbnails to show sale prices or low stock.
12. The storefront was cleaned up and now only shows key featured products.
13. The Privacy & Policies page has moved under the FAQ, along with a new Asset Usage page.
14. The Books 4 & 5 Omnibus now has a placeholder page.

Some improvements have hit the site over the past week... some major, some just tweaks:

1. All main and secondary human characters now have images.
2. Some of the character images are now used as the header images for the respective pages.
3. Most characters with images now have a downloadable, high resolution image with a transparent background, which you are free to use for personal projects.
4. Deceased characters now have a skull and crossbones ☠️ icon in the browser page title.
5. For characters who have associates and/or enemies listed, it is now indicated if those people are deceased ☠️, a current love interest ❤️, or an ex-partner 💔.
6. A page was added for the planet Damastion, and one was also added for Eyes and Ears. Links have been updated accordingly throughout the site.
7. Pages were added for the characters Captain Orri Hekekia, and Master-at-Arms Willon Panovar.
8. A new section titled 'Adversity' was added to the profile pages for Elm Caden, Rendir Throam, and Euryce Eilentes.

Regular visitors might have noticed that the previously mentioned character pictures have been undergoing rapid and iterative improvements. They're now available for all human main and secondary characters, and higher resolution images are replacing the pictures which were first uploaded.

Thanks to Adobe's "free-use preview" of Fuse, their developing character design tool, the site is now getting some images of your favourite characters.

So far as it is possible, these images follow the descriptions given in the books to illustrate what various characters would look like. They are now populating to the Main Characters and Secondary Characters sections.

There are some shortcomings. For example although it's possible, it's still really difficult to apply Ren's tattoos and scars. And the controls for eye shape are fairly primordial, so Santani's heritage doesn't exactly leap out at you.

Yes, the Eyes and Ears personnel all doing a "dunno?" pose is deliberate.

As you probably guessed, this software is nowhere near sufficient to model Bruiser, Burner, or Caecald. If any 3D or digital art whizzes out there fancy a crack, fan art is ALWAYS welcome on the Facebook page.

The current Armada Wars protagonist Elm Caden has been featured in the "Character Focus" series on Brittany M. Willows' writing blog. You can read the full article here.

Entries in Brittany's series each feature a single character from a specific author, and they appear every Monday.

A new category was sneaked into the Universe section this week, and it adds eighteen Technology articles! This section will be under continuous development, with more entries being made as more technology is revealed in upcoming releases.

Also this week... the book pages were all given a makeover to remove clutter, improve appearance for mobile devices, add images for external destinations like Amazon and Audible, and introduce a touch of per-book colour theming.

Lastly, a pronunciation audio file has been added for xtryllium.

In the past two days, massive improvements have been made to this site. And we're not just talking usability here, oh no. Piles of content have been added!

• ​Most of the 100+ characters now have individual profile pages under the Universe section.
• People are split into main characters, secondary characters, and everybody else.
• A large addition to the People section's main page now lets you view all people by role (e.g. Shards) and by group (e.g. known Rasas).
• Those of you who secretly fancy Bruiser will be glad to hear he has been upgraded to main character status.
• The Imperial Combine page and Alien Civilisations page were brought together under one new heading: Societies.
• Wait for it... added to the Societies section are pages for the Mastalekt, the Lem Bataan Confederation, and the mother-funking Rodori.
• Most regularly used pages are now more mobile friendly.
• You may also find something on the site which is being tested...

Some more improvements to the site this week:

• ​A series category has been added to the books section, which may be of interest!
• A page for The Great War of the Shaeld is now under the new series category.
• A countdown has been added for the upcoming Omnibus' Kindle launch.
• ​The main characters page has been split in two, with the less important people being moved to the new secondary characters page.

The web site has been lavished with attention this week. In the past day, the following changes have gone live:

• Voice and Maber Castigon got their own character pages under the Main Characters category.
• Pages referencing them were linked (and some links to renamed pages were fixed too — please report any broken links).
• Biology notes were added to the Viskr and Shaeld Hratha pages.
• The Books section was reorganised so that novels, novellas, and the omnibus editions all come under their own sections.
• A section was added to the FAQ to assist those wanting to update their Kindle editions.
• Unnecessary duplicate headings were pruned throughout the site.
• Links to the new Facebook fan pages were added to the volume details for A Storm to the Savage, Forge Ruinous, and Books 1–3 Omnibus.
• And... shipping categories in the store were relabelled so that Canada is no longer referred to as being in the USA. Whoops.

See the post from the other day to read about the other changes made this week.