Developer Update: Week of August 2̶7̶t̶h̶ 30th, 2021
Added 2021-08-30 18:41:00 +0000 UTCI've still been busy with work, but I hope to make up for it by posting what I'm planning for after chapter 5.
Chapter 6 is going to be the big, final battle. Everything you've done will conclude here, and the fate of the Colonies and/or Sovereignty will be decided. This means that you will have the opportunity to kill/betray people and take any romantic interests to the next level. I haven't worked out the specific details of the setting, yet, but I'm a sucker for epic climaxes so it will probably just be the two armies meeting in a big old field.
After that comes the epilogue, which I am planning on making half-traditional-epilogue and half-choice-based-epilogue. By this, I mean that the epilogue will include both a summary of what characters do after the "story" is over and certain choices for the player to make. I would like the decisions to feel final, so these choices won't be too consequential at the last minute... But, for example, you might be able to choose how many children you had with X character when the narrator prompts you.