Two months ago no one would beleive this would happen.  A month ago some 
people saw this coming, but till the very last day no one thought this
would happen this way. 

About 50% of the active RZR members and all the TRSi U.K. members have
left their groups and went into Legend/PC.  Now, some of you might
remember Legend releasing a few PC games before - one or two in the
Time Runners series, etc.  We have tried to find the old LGD info file,
but that group was so insignificant at the time, no one even has it and
we could not compare the memberlists.  But the fact is - 90% of the members
in the new Legend are the guys from RZR and TRSi.

Both of those groups have not exactly been doing as great lately.  Both
still were bringing out quality releases, but each had a few problems.
For the last several months, RZR has not been very active.  All the games
came from very few active members, and the only factor that has kept RZR 
on the top was their connection in SSI.  This May was especially unfortunate
for RAZOR.  They started well with the release of Al Quadim, but than
they have released a non-English playable quest - Robinson's Requiem in 
French, and right after thet - two EGA games.  TRSi has been doing great 
during Spring, but than they lost all their US suppliers due to internal 
conflicts and now they have lost all their U.K. suppliers that alone were 
keeping TRSi name alive for the last couple of months.  Now both TRSi and
RZR have been damaged quite a lot by the happenings and no one knows whether
they will ever be able to survive it.  According to our opinion, RAZOR will
climb out of the hall even though it will take them some time to re-organize,
but TRSi is back to the position they were in just some 8 months ago, only
able to get small german games and thats where they will probably stay.

Here is the message posted by Marauder on the night LEGEND released their
first game:

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From   : Marauder                         Status: Public Message
Subject: RAZOR 1911

There will be an announcement from me tonight concerning MAJOR changes in
the group.

You may have heard/seen some rumours, but please, don't start a rumour
FACTORY...I'll post complete details this evening after I discuss some
details with the other members.

This is for sure:

1. RAZOR 1911 is *NOT* Dead!
2. RAZOR 1911 will *NOT* Die!
3. RAZOR 1911 will be smaller and better than ever effective immediately!

All ongoing group functions will continue as normal, including supply,
spread, contests, etc.

There will be an announcement of a new Courier HQ and a new European HQ in
a few hours.

Thank you for your patience!

Marauder
RAZOR 1911 LEADER
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The announcement has still not been made.  RZR has not released anything for
us to check for new boards in their info file either.  So looks like we will
just have to wait and see.  As for TRSi, who lost their WHQ to LEGEND, their
new WHQ is a nine node board Park Central ran by Silver V.


