You may have noticed a lack of updates for my stories. Between Calculus and other life stuff, I'm going through a major rewrite of my two main works, as well as creating a set-piece.
Blackened Skies isn't dead, but it's slow writing due to it's current form. I have an ending planed out, but it involves the Forerunners. And to my knowledge, human hands(or at least the shape of the human hand) make it easier to interface with Forerunners' technology. With the addition of the weaponry of Halo, having fingers make things easier.