Right, 'new' is purely a relative term in this instance. It's been a looooong time. Like I said, it's really the extra character slots and Virtue-centrism that kicked in first.
Should be said that the branch SGs on other servers were always spotty to begin with. The Infinity and Freedom branches were purely general-purpose Virtue spillover, but the Triumph and Justice groups were theme SGs/VGs. Theme stuff always has problems sustaining life in the long-term.
And the Little Legends concept was a theme group - because the essence of the concept was a 'next generation' team set in the future. Children or successors of existing Legendary characters. Almost all of them were derived from Virtue characters, but the collective conceit was what happened on Justice server was in an 'alternate future'.
Now.
Would rebooting Little Legends on Virtue be possible? I don't know. The children of so-and-so angle doesn't fly as well if they're on Virtue and rubbing shoulders with their older counterparts. Time travel handwaving could be used, but that would get strange if used to explain an entire SG.
It may be possible to re-conceptualize the group on Virtue as a kind of Teen Titans thing. Young Avengers. That sorta deal. Sidekicks, teenage proteges, young fans who've taken up costumed identities...paint the whole thing as a kind of junior or training team.
Or we could all make a concerted effort to go back to Justice. Granted that's less likely, logistically speaking, but it could happen.
Again, you'd probably want to talk to HLW and maybe Rev; they're the ones who came up with the initial concept, after all. I rather unintentionally supplied the name, but...
-- Acyl
Should be said that the branch SGs on other servers were always spotty to begin with. The Infinity and Freedom branches were purely general-purpose Virtue spillover, but the Triumph and Justice groups were theme SGs/VGs. Theme stuff always has problems sustaining life in the long-term.
And the Little Legends concept was a theme group - because the essence of the concept was a 'next generation' team set in the future. Children or successors of existing Legendary characters. Almost all of them were derived from Virtue characters, but the collective conceit was what happened on Justice server was in an 'alternate future'.
Now.
Would rebooting Little Legends on Virtue be possible? I don't know. The children of so-and-so angle doesn't fly as well if they're on Virtue and rubbing shoulders with their older counterparts. Time travel handwaving could be used, but that would get strange if used to explain an entire SG.
It may be possible to re-conceptualize the group on Virtue as a kind of Teen Titans thing. Young Avengers. That sorta deal. Sidekicks, teenage proteges, young fans who've taken up costumed identities...paint the whole thing as a kind of junior or training team.
Or we could all make a concerted effort to go back to Justice. Granted that's less likely, logistically speaking, but it could happen.
Again, you'd probably want to talk to HLW and maybe Rev; they're the ones who came up with the initial concept, after all. I rather unintentionally supplied the name, but...
-- Acyl