Ding.

>(I don't mean to be overly harsh to the Exile. There's some very good
>stuff in there. But there are a LOT of howlers as well.)

Well, there's a reason I loosely label the years from, say, 1993 to 1997 as my Crap Period. :)

>Fables of the Reconstruction (sadly
>deprecated but very amazing) and Cybertron Reloaded. "Day of Infamy"
>was in there as well, perhaps the piece in the dustbin most beloved by
>fans

Infamy will be back, and much of it not too changed; it mainly needs readjusting to better reflect where things will stand at the end of Symphony No. 5, which doesn't directly affect, for example, the Battle of the Jormundgand Nebula or the Third Battle of Zeta Cygni.

I should probably un-dustbin it and just put a note on it that there's some stuff in it that's wrong and will be fixed someday. At the time I took it down, I foolishly did not realize that the next few years would involve Huge Medical Adventures and going back to college instead of, you know, finishing S5.

(Which worked out, ultimately - it's a much richer story for the delay - but still.)

As for Fables, I have plans to revive some of that material as well, though they are less concrete than those for the Infamy revisions.

>As an imprint, it has grown somewhat beyond spec, I think; I
>recall bold promises being made in 2005 about coming to the end of the
>FI era.

In terms of in-story chronology, no, it hasn't; FI still ends in 2412, exactly as planned before. I think I know the remarks you mean - they were about Cybertron Reloaded being "the last FI story", but I thought I had explicated at the time that the "last" there was in-universe, not out-of. I never intended "the end of FI" to mean FI stories would stop coming, only that there'd be another period after it (which CR is actually supposed to set up; if and when we regain momentum on that project, it will probably transition partway through the storyline to New Frontier labeling, reflecting its position as the "hinge" of that changeover.)

If this strikes you as a somewhat clunky exercise in branding, well, guilty. I like branding stuff as a lark, but I don't take it as seriously as people who use that word in a professional capacity. It's just part of the fun of pretending stuff is real, like writing brand names on the spaceship control panels we designed on posterboard as children.

... Oh come on, I can't be the only one who did that, drew a spaceship control panel on a sheet of posterboard with Magic Markers and made certain it had a Blaupunkt stereo.

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