After making contact with Cyan Legal, the FoF Design Team is moving forward with our part of the URU story. The plan is to continue with an HTML coded series of content pages and images while the team learns Blender (I confess the opening screen makes me dizzy ). When we have the skills needed to produce a "proper age" we will move from HTML to the 3D rendered place called Refuge -- for which the backstory is tied to La Casa and its characters. We are being careful now to steer clear of direct connection with those characters and plotlines created by Cyan, but have found a lot of niches as yet untrammeled.
I have a good feeling about all efforts being made to keep URU alive in some form or another. The MOUL story was affected by the explorers. Now that it has closed, a new chapter begins and I have the sense that Cyan (well, maybe Rand) wants us to do what we are doing -- however we can manage to do it. Sad as I was when the server shut down, I woke up later with the determination that this was not the end nor that the community was completely at the mercy of corporate contracts. I know the Star Trek analogy has been made before, but it is the best example of what an active creative body of fans can do.
I look forward to seeing your works grow, and I hope I can make a worthwhile contribution to the guild.