i dont have multiple written drafts for spire, but the idea of it's been progressing since i made cog and william in 2015.
a scrapped version of what happened to cog and william during huntec was cogs head being replaced with a tv screen as punishment for defecting against the company, this was before i made the rest of the plot and the whole story was basically 'cog and william and theres also an airship they get on'
another version of that included cog getting shot and william taking her AI chip out then and there so she gets upgraded faster, got scrapped really early too
the entirety of spire was derived from a situation where cog and william would get captured by huntec, and she gets upgraded and i kind of just polished it from there. i started on spire almost right away, since i'd been using cog and william for an oct on deviantart and was too attached to leave them to nothing.