User blog comment:ZoshiX/Timelines/@comment-16075172-20160330124359/@comment-3126873-20160330192620

I honestly don't think Alpha is the best basis to start off on if we're going to create a new "main" timeline. Story-wise and plot-wise, everything is set in stone, and even if we change the characters and interactions around we'll already have a lot of history set in from TKF through WTU2, leaving any additional wiggle room to be minimal, heavily backstory-based, or taking place after everyone's old and crusty and past their character-development arcs. It's not a very modifiable universe.

If we were to create a new Timeline set where everyone could get a hella 8^y ton of opportunity to collaborate, it may be best to carry over the loose frameworks/concepts from other universes (things like Aura, Awakening, etc.), plop in the characters we want, and decide from there what to keep and what to make new. However, (pause for dramatic effect,) I think the most reasonable course of action would be to consider Nu to be our "main" timeline: for the most part, it has the most lore-wise depth to it, has been open to collaboration from the most active of users since its creation, and if I recall correctly was intended to be a reboot of Alpha. I see no reason to defunct it or relegate it, as it's been doing its job very efficiently,