Beta: We chatted (sorta) about this in IRC, but I'll launch into redundancy anyways. 
It's cool. :] The honest notice is appreciated. It can be work to get things into motion/have muse.
If you didn't want to enter Tallin into things by the general plan with Vakte, or are having trouble with ideas, I can help out. Whenever you're up to joining in again. There's a lot of things that could be done with him. And yeah, I might make use of that and start integrating him into the canon. :]

Gowi: There is at least one plan, that fits any newbie pretty well, that should be in your PM's. If you didn't want to do that, though, we can figure out something else. Though it'd give a chance for any of the new characters to start interacting before they get picked up by Nova, which I think'd be smart.

Alright, I haven't properly dealt with this stuff for a bit because life's been hectic, and it looks like we might need to do some work to push back into activity. Which I wasn't up to doing because of the former factor.

A post of our collab might be up soon, no promises. I'll get on a SB post. Think it's time to start contacting some people/hatching ideas, too.

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Despite the heresy this may be, I've decided to just assume that Shepard, and all the other major characters of the main trilogy never happen in the Nova universe.
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This is really, really the smartest idea. The Reaper business gets sort of messy, and would ruin a lot of what's cool about this RP/RP setting. Particularly since it takes a more grounded/narrow focus. It would also risk the possibility of referring directly to important, main canon characters, which usually goes poorly.

Plus, we could mess with how the universe would shape up based on hints from the games, keeping in mind the Reapers aren't a factor anymore.