About a week ago I came up with the following proposal.

We formed RETSP after seeing the failures of the communities we had all been parts of. Resident Evil: The Escape, Resident Evil: Shadows of Fire, etcetera. Over the course of our life we succeeded in accomplishing what none of the others had been capable of doing. We released a playable build. Though this was a forced reaction it was certainly a proud time for us. Regardless of the mixed reviews we had triumphed over adversity and released something with what we had. Resident Evil mods are notoriously passed over for their short life spans and yet we had managed a release larger than I had ever anticipated for alpha 1.1.

When we were screwed over by Temp we banded together in a way I hadn't ever seen the team do. In two weeks we accomplished more than we had in the prior two months. What I'm proposing is that we all band together once more and put aside our differences for not just one final release but something we could be proud to label Resident Evil: To Serve and Protect. Something that we could be proud of. Not a failed project that died because the team fell into bad terms. Rather a team that had completed what they set out to do and went their separate ways as not only friends but comrades in the fight to accomplish what has been long thought to be impossible.

I know we've all had our differences and I'm not asking you to forgive myself, or anyone else that has angered you in the past. I'm merely asking that we put this aside to do what we all committed to doing a year ago.

This would be called "Resident Evil: To Serve and Protect FINAL". My plan for this is to go through our list of team members and anyone from the community who has sought to give work in the past and to draw everyone, past and present together to finalize a more solid version of RETSP. Once this was completed we could all go our separate ways triumphant and the RETSP boards would be turned into a tech support for the mod and a community as it had been in the past. The SP story would be converted into a Machinima project.

The basis for this version would be from the original alpha 1.2 outline but would include everything that anyone and everyone from the community would want to contribute. From here, we could expand upon this based upon who we had for each job. I realize that many of you have moved on to Aberrant Haven but I also have been informed that work isn't going to seriously begin until after the road trip between Andrew, Daniel, and Perry.

I think we should gather together who we can find and release everything in around a months time so that we can finally close the doors on the project the way it should have been.

I am capable of building a new team but I really feel that we should combine once more not only for the project but ourselves. We all used to be friends. Don't let this end as a failure. It doesn't have to be. If you won't do this because you hate me, think about the overwhelming majority that voted for one final release on the old boards. Think about MaXeR who still continues to model for the project to this day. Think about Morrath who put endless hours into the code. Think about yourselves and every ounce of energy you put into this project to see it succeed. Let's not make the last year for nothing.

At this point we have the following people signed up to work on this final version of RETSP.

• Chaossaber314


• Menome


• Kennedyisazombie


• SethWalker


• Fiskedusen


• Civilian Soldier


• Termin8tor


• Gleeful


• MaskedBloke


• Enix


• SSG H


• Lt. Kelly


• Rayne

The forums will be up in a bit as well. It seems we may have had a corrupted backup so these may be new forums. We're still trying to find a way to work around this.