In what surely some detractors will consider a wholly expected situation, it appears Prophet will not be active in the development of ML in the near future.

As has been previously stated if I recall, I have been a real life friend of him for well over a decade now. As of about 4pm today, I recieved a rather cryptic Facebook message concerning his personal life and situation, which I will not explain further - there is still such a thing as privacy after all.

Following that, it appears his FB profile has been either disabled or deleted. So, other than the statement that he will be offline for a while, I have no more information than anyone else.

What does that mean for Martial Law? Well, I would love to say that I am taking over the reigns and continuing to build the game. However, my programming knowledge is firmly rooted in the late 80s and early 90s - if ML were built in GWBASIC, we'd be golden. I can still write BASIC code and batch files as if they were English.

However, at this point I know nothing. Prophet could be back in 2 hours after sorting some things out. He could be back in 3 years. I don't know.

As of right now, I highly recommend (and I firmly believe Prophet would have said this, had he been in the frame of mind to do so) that anyone within the refund period take advantage of said refund.

To those who are not - I know that should it prove possible at any point, Prophet will continue to develop ML - this project is the thing I have seen him most passionate about in the 14 or so years I have known him.

Secondarily, should I somehow get up the gumption to learn Unity and all the associated jazz, I would be glad to continue the development - but I think Hell will have frozen over before that happens.

I will keep the community posted of any news.

5/\L out.