SRE was originally conceived as a plug-in for EV: Override by Universal Wolf, several years ago. But before he could finish it, like too many other developers, he burnt out and the project died. Instead of just letting it sit on his hard drive, though, he posted it on the EVO plug-in page as the "Incomplete Plug". It was at an early beta stage, and he said that he wasn't going to work on it anymore and put it up for grabs for anyone to finish. Both Pesimist Guy and I downloaded it and resumed development separately. Later, when we found out about each other, we teamed up. From there, we massively revamped, expanded, and improved most aspects of the plug. Unfortunately, between the two of us doing this separately, things got a little messy. When Ambrosia announced it's plans to make EV: Nova, we decided that it would be pointless to continue developing SRE for EVO. Since things were such a mess, we're doing most of it again from the ground up. Due to a lack of the time I had in the past, I had to pass the programming almost entirely on to Pesimist Guy. The up side of that, though, is we're going to avoid the problems that led to the messes we had with the EVO plug. So there you are - SRE started as an abandoned EVO project and is going to (hopefully) end up a massive TC for EVN. If you want to contact Universal Wolf for some reason, his e-mail is kjetil@bucky.win.bright.net. But you might not get anything back - we haven't heard from him in awhile.
-21st Century Digital Boy
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