Based on their lack of reply both IC and OOC, I've made the decision to remove Saarai and Sostos from the RP. That leaves only bittersuite and I writing on the Research Team (and my character is one I adopted when Geck0 quit). That makes it pretty difficult to continue the way we had originally planned. As such, I'd like to share my current idea for how to proceed.
Currently, I'm contemplating a major time skip of sorts that would involve me essentially writing a "middle chapter" as a single post that would serve as almost a soft reboot opening of the RP. It would pick up where we are and cover some plot points that need to be developed early on that we haven't reached yet and such. The idea is to skip what would be me RPing with myself a lot with abandoned characters and put us in a situatino where we can pick the posting right back up where some good stuff can start (which is where we were in the Research Team thread, but alas...)
This will involve some nature of having to "auto" everyone's characters to a degree. If there anything I feel is out of the box, I'll check with each of you in the process.
Does anyone have any objections to this idea? It's currently my best option but I want to know what everyone thinks.