I agree that choosing between the one-year-later and the total restart is best decided by a vote. Whichever we go with, though, I intend to continue writing solo stories and feature stories with my Vanguard character, and I hope the rest of you will do the same. Yeah, the group story seems to have fizzled, but there's still a lot of good material for individual authors to pick up and run with. A total restart for group stories might do us good as a group, but not all of us are tired of all the characters that've been created. I for one would hate to see all that hard work come to nothing in the end. So I'll go with whatever we decide as far as group writing goes, but I'm not finished with all my characters - or the Vanguard continuity.