Hi. I'm not a native speaker, so this might be confusing.
The more I've spent on the server, the more opportunities I've had to delve into the less known sources of lore in the SST universe, such as the comics, the CGI show (Roughnecks) and the tabletop RPG based upon the show, the rulebooks of which remain my go-to when it comes to all things lore related - and the more I began to dislike the turns the server canon takes, including the branch-off from the main series. I've been trying to imagine what would happen if our current timeline'd come to a conclusion, and we'd start anew, from the events predating the first movie, then gradually running our story intertwined with it, and take it further on. Personally I see little use in continuing this timeline, because I think that at this point we're repeating ourselves, and some elements of the story make little sense in the context of the big picture. Example - if the war's fought for 30 years, how come we don't have better guns, armor, tanks? How come the ecomony of the Federation didn't collapse, and how come it still lives and has public support if it has to fight a war with bugs, skinnies, and then seemingly millions strong separatists - for years to no end, and then adding the progenitors ontop of that? The list goes on. I believe that by starting a new timeline we'll be able to return back to the roots - the core of SST, bugs and skinnies versus humans. It'd eliminate the need in new weapons up until a certain point in the story, and (hopefully) will offer a little sense of progression (albeit it'd essentially be a rehash) and continuity, aswell as immersion (achieved by correlating the events with the movies) to the story.
Naturally, there'll be problems: for one, it'd mean that all your characters will effectively be PK'd and you'll have to make a new one. To some, it hurts losing a character, but then again what's the difference between a PK in this situation, and rolling a 1 and dying a few days later? After all, all characters are going to die or otherwise be removed from the server's story at one point. I myself have a few characters I'd like to keep, so I'm no stranger to this problem. .net has always prided the continuity of its story, aswell, and I like and respect that - but most people here are likely to not care much about who Sky Marshal Hudson was and what'd he do on the server 10 years ago.
Another problem I see is keeping things fresh. Right now, if the wipe'd come to pass, we'd have two movies and a few issues of comics inbetween to go off of. I imagine that'll last us half a year, maybe a year, but I'm not too sure myself what'll happen afterwards. I do hope that the admins'll work out a solution by then, without letting the story branch off again, because I have none at the moment.
Finally, while I myself am not too bothered by this, I'm not sure how others would take having to roleplay knowing little about the bugs. Stuff like tankers, fireflies, anything outside of a normal warrior, hopper, plasma and a chariot bug would be unknown to SICON - at first. GnT (or FFRL, if you want), would be tasked with analyzing those types of bugs - something it currently has no ability to do, because the war's been going for 30 years and SICON already knows most of what it needs to combat the arachnids. The Marauders'd have to go temporarily - if we're sticking to the first movie, until first Marauders'd appear later on, or the faction'd have to use the Ape marauders (you could see them on my events, currently deemed too outdated to be used by the MI - courtesy of a compromise between myself, Mullberries and Jester) and Chickenhawk suits, which are a bit hard to use OOCly. Same for the APCs and tanks - but that, again, is based on what source we would be sticking to the closest.
That's about all I can write off the top of my head. Discuss, put your thoughts down below, etc.
@Xalphox
TLDR - destroy the child, corrupt them all, end the current storyline, start a new one and try to stick to the movie(s) the best we can.
is it the time to reclaim the +40 m/sgt bonus or whatever it was back in the day