This is intended as a temporary solution while we work out the long-term effects of Mav’s and Galaxiel’s departure. It is, like the title says, “taping up holes.”
Collaborative Nations/NPNs
I suggest we do away with open collabs and instead opt to grant people closed collaborative nations (e.g. you must ask to participate) if there’s a good reason (preserving history, etc). Although, for now, we can just get rid of the current collabs we have.
Tiyanki Territories
I suggest we remove the NPNs in the TT and instead make it consist of a bunch of little plots and make it kind of a mini-A1-0, where even if someone has a larger plot they can still claim one in the TT. Of course, there should be some rules like limits on what species you can use (no humans) but we can discuss that all at a later date.
Sector Lore with Stoinia
I feel like everyone has kind of overblown how much Stoinia mattered to the entire sector. By this, I mean through overarching communal lore, not lore of individual nations. The lore of individual nations needs to be handled by the owners of the nations, just as it would if anyone else had dropped out. Really the only people I forsee being extremely impacted by Mav’s departure lore-wise would be Frost (obviously) and TEM (to a lesser degree, I don’t know the true extent of Mav and TEM’s relationship IRP).
BBT/ABT
We don’t have to do away with this (Mav doesn’t have a monopoly on letters), but since this is a purely OOC way of timekeeping we can really make this whatever we want. Potential epochs could include the creation of A1-0 (the canon), the founding of the Coalition, or the creation of NS. We don’t need to get too hung up on this, and in the end we could always just change the letters to something random (like BCE/ACE (before common epoch, after common epoch)) and call it a day while still keeping the same fluid date system as before.
The guide
This needs some modifications but overall we can keep the main guide. Although if we want to rewrite this then we can ask someone to write a new one (or ask for volunteers).
Other stuff
We need to all get along for this to work, so if you refuse to communicate with others here or just come to point fingers then there are other FT RPs on NS. Blame time is over, it’s cleanup time now.
In addition, we now have the opportunity to make fundamental changes to A1-0 that may have been blocked before. For example, we can do away with the name A1-0 that caused a lot of this discourse in the first place (it’s not the main cause but a large part). Really, the world is now our oyster and we can change or modify the canon however we want. As long as everyone agrees, of course.