[quote=@Arawak]
By any chance have you noticed the cycle of intensive world building, progressive loss of thematic focus and eventually player drop out sprees that seems to affect sci-fi NRPs?

Interstellar Ascension is perhaps the most interest case study of such NRP cycle.
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I can contribute data to this.

I've been running/participating in a series of NRPs for three years now, and this cycle is present in every single one. This is a single series mind you (Void of the Stars and all the other things we called it), all of these RPs were connected in some way.