After Dan Devlin, President of Oak River Software, dropped in on her at the coffee shop, Kate agreed to consider helping with the proposed new Empire project. Empire was life or death for Oak River. Without Empire, they’d go under, and Dan couldn’t afford to fund it.

The forum was set up as an experiment to see whether a self-sustaining forum-style site would work. This one, at least, has not. With regret, I’m shutting it down.

“Kate” puts a word in about how things really got started, and promises to come back and sort Ron out if he needs it.