After a long break i was planning on getting back to continuing this game. However, when i got back to XCOM 2 to continue the game for the story, all of my saves were gone.
I don't know what caused the saves to go, i hadn't uninstalled the game or even gone into the files for anything.
So, i have to decide whether to make up the final missions, try to re-play the game in a similar enough way/just change names when i get there, or re-start the story.
I believe the best solution to do sort this out, is to re-start the story.
The War of the Chosen expansion (Which is what i suspect caused the save removing) seems to be better for a narrative position, and I've also gotten Shen's Last Gift DLC (Not getting the Alien Hunter DLC because i don't fancy having one of the characters just stomped by a ridiculously powerful boss. The chosen are tough, but they're manageable, and capture rather than instant kill soldiers, so are much better for stories).
So this version of the story must unfortunately come to an end. I don't have an idea for the title for the new version. I'll be keeping Maxim, Aya and Harold continuing on from the first story, since they tie the world together, but with the soldier bonds and everything else WotC introduces i feel a fresh new bunch of soldiers would work better.
So, sorry about the absence and ending of the story, but i prefer to leave the story writing until i'm feeling it rather than putting up sub-par stuff. The WotC and Shen's Last Gift will give me more story stuff to work with, and the bonding mechanics will make my interactions with Aya and Maxim work in game as well.
I've also learned a lot more about how to do this writing so the new one should be higher quality (i'll be using a grammar-checker and proof-reading a bit more this time). I don't know when the first part'll be up, i've got to figure out a name and that's a week of thinking on it's own, but i plan on getting it up within a month (though you should know by now not to trust me when i mention time plans)