It would have been easy for Mythic to just crank out a Dark Age of Camelot 2, claim they learned from their mistakes in the first one and turned out a run-of-the-mill sequel — similar to what SOE did with EverQuest 2. Doing so runs the risk of alienating your current player base with the inevitable cries of, "Why don't you just upgrade the current game? I don't want to get a new game!" Well, okay, you get those no matter what. In 2002, Mythic announced their follow-up game, Imperator, would not be a fantasy game, but instead based on science fiction. At the end of April, Mythic held a pre-E3 event at their offices in Fairfax, Virginia, to show off the current progress of Imperator. Since Imperator isn't due out until late 2006, most of this is likely to change — perhaps even as soon as a week from now, when we see the E3 build.