The moment you see this, you will most likely realize that it's nothing good. Unfortunately, your suspicions are correct. This story will not be updated anymore, and should be considered a deadfic.

Why, you ask?

Allow me to explain.

The reason why I am interrupting this story is because I find it too difficult to continue it in the current situation. Situation, which is my fault. Thing is, I made a very big mistake by making this a crossover and deciding to work in the Seed storyline.

You see, making this a crossover means I have to dedicate an entire story to nothing else but introduction of the Armored Core universe in the Gundam Seed universe. Doing so, makes it very difficult to advance the plot, since I feel there are thousands of various things I should introduce and explain before I can move on. Considering the scale of my work, these things are too many for me to handle. In fact, this entire story was supposed to be little more than an introduction story where I bring the two universes together and establish a foundation for future work.

My second mistake was the decision to work inside the Gundam Seed canon storyline. First of all, you all have watched Gundam Seed and probably Destiny as well. You all know what is going on. As a result, I was basically retelling the story some of you might have heard/read/seen several times. That alone drains the originality. Furthermore, it also limited my workspace. Yeah, I did start making changes in the last chapters, but I was still working within the canon storyline. Orb would still be invaded, Genesis would still be fired, Yachin Due would still be destroyed and so on. I was changing merely details, not the big things.

Working within a canon storyline is good, when you're writing an AU fic, where you are changing relatively few details (extra pilot, someone who should have died lives and so on). When writing what is basically the first, introduction story of a four story crossover series, the changes are far too big to fit into the Seed storyline.

A lot of time during these months was spent, thinking about what to do and how to salvage the situation. Unfortunately, an answer, that would have allowed me to continue this story, escaped me. Therefore, I decided to stop writing this story.

However, just because I have stopped writing this story, does not mean I will stop writing.

The storyline I have planned is just too good for me to simply drop it and walk away. I must be written.

Therefore, I will be starting another story, one, which will be the first one of a trilogy. Although I still have to polish a few details, I will reveal a few things about it.

First of all, it will be a pure Gundam Seed story, not a crossover. This will allow me to get straight to the action and the main plot, without having to introduce an entire universe. Something, which is a bit over my head and beyond my ability to handle.

Second, the story will be set some time after Gundam Seed and will follow a completely original storyline. While Destiny characters will feature in my stories, Destiny itself will not (at least as far as the plot is considered.), it will be rewritten, so to speak.

Hopefully, this will make things easier for me.

As for the OC's, they will be redesigned, renamed, tweaked a bit and probably included in the new story. No promises yet.

Basically, this is the end of my announcement. I would like to say thanks to all my readers, especially reviewers. Your support did a lot to motivate me and made me feel very good. So, thanks.

To all those who wanted to see this story continued, I offer my apologies. Hopefully the new story will be able to entertain you at least as much as this one did.

I can't say for sure, when the new story will be up. Or how will I name it. All I know is that it will be the first story of The Tainted Renaissance series.

Once again, thank you for your support and sorry for dropping this story.

Bye, for now.

- Asmus