personally, I think you're all shooting yourselves in the foot trying to restart within the Vanguard Universe continuity. no matter how much you try not to bring back the old plotlines somebody's going to start bringing old stuff in. We had that experience on Vanguard Europe, as well (which was started to get away from the ongoing plots also).
I think you'd be better served just making a clean break and doing a streamlined or "Ultimate" version of the characters.
