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Intro

For this Hybrid Star Battle Series I will be sharing a new puzzle each week combining Star Battle with another puzzle genre. This week's genre is Chiaroscuro, a shading genre invented by PolmanPoppins on the CTC Community Discord. This genre is equipped by default with numeric clues, but we'll be using the Borders variant today.

As is becoming increasingly common with these kind of geometrically-constrained puzzles, there's no valid solution for a 2-star 8x8 puzzle, so I've provided a 1-star version instead.

Lastly, a scheduling update: I'm still planning to release a puzzle per week, but it seems that my schedule will work better to release them mid-week rather than on the weekend. Thanks for understanding!

Rules

Standard Chiaroscuro (Borders) and nearly standard Star Battle rules apply:

• Chiaroscuro (Borders): Shade some cells so that all areas of orthogonally connected shaded cells have an even number of cells and all areas of orthogonally connected unshaded cells have an odd number of cells. Two groups may not have the same shape and size, counting rotations and reflections as the same. A pair of cells separated by a bold border must contain one shaded cell and one unshaded cell.
• Star Battle: Place stars into some cells such that each row, column, and unshaded Chiaroscuro region contains exactly 2 stars (1 star in the example). Stars may not touch one another, not even diagonally.

Links

Solve on Penpa+

7x7 1-star Example (Penpa+ link):