As I mentioned in the Discord server (link) towards the end of February I started having issues with the breaker for the room my computer is in randomly tripping again, which is annoying because it had been a few months since the last time it happened so I was hopeful that whatever was causing it had fixed itself. As a result of this issue I wasn't able to get all the renders I needed done so that we wouldn't be in the middle of a conversation. As evidenced by nothing having come out this past Friday, or thereabouts, I ended up making the decision to hold off because I really don't want a release to end in the middle of a conversation.

Linked below are also two extra renders I ended up doing when I had to create a scene to use on a prop for one of the scenes for this update.
Proton Drive

Hey all, its been a while. Going to start off with, can we just act like 2024 never existed?

Moving on, I am not going to be pausing payments in February. The reason being that I am finally back into a groove of sorts and so barring anything going really really wrong, my plan is to release an Alpha style build of what is currently completed at the end of February, and hopefully the rest of the update won't be not too far behind.

The main thing holding back release at this point is just the renders. I have not had as much time as I would have liked to work on them, add to that sometimes needing to redo renders because they don't quite come out looking like I wanted. The script is largely complete with mostly just some tweaking to improve the flow being needed. Didn't really have anything I would classify as code this month to deal with.

With this update, their will be a split early on depending on if you decided to hang out with Birgitta or not back in Chapter 3.

If you decided not to hang out with Birgitta then you will spend sometime walking around Starbase 40 by yourself and have a lewd scene early on, the renders for this branch are still baking in the oven so I don't have any previews for it at this time.