[Nasir]

It would be nice if someone like Nasir, Eru or even Overdose(xd) would continue with the shard

To be honest, I'm pretty flaky with personal projects. After we merged with XUO I would come and go at random. Every time a vagina comes around, I pretty much drop everything. At best, I could host the shard, but I wouldn't pay out of pocket and keeping the server up would be 100% out of donations. It would be bound to go down. Taran was in a good position by using a server at his house with an awesome Swedish internet connection. That kept bandwidth costs down.

I'm also not really interested in emulating Sphere anymore. I never was, really. I started IN:Reborn because I wanted to keep IN alive, not sphere gameplay. If I ever create another shard, I might use the IN name and IN statics, but I'm 99% certain it would be more like IN2 (>= AoS). A lot less focus on deviating from stock RunUO and more focus on entertainment and website integration. It would need to be something new, not an attempt to recreate a nostalgic feeling.

Don't fret though. Many people have the code for this shard (although not the worldsaves). I'm pretty sure someone will, eventually, use IN code (or parts of it) to create something new. UO interest goes in cycles.