Jonric: In overview, what is Exarch? What type of game is it, what's the underlying concept, and how is it related to the project you were working on a year ago, Trade Wars: Dark Millennium?

David Adams: In short, Exarch is a massive multiplayer online action RPG, an MMPOARPG - WHEW! If you took a tablespoon of EverQuest, a cup of Diablo, and added some special sauce, you would have a pretty good recipe for Exarch (we can't divulge, at this juncture, the ingredients of the special sauce - but we can tell you that it's roughly relish-based).

Setting-wise, Exarch takes place in a fantasy-future, meaning that there are equal doses of sci-fi and fantasy. On any given street within the Exarch universe, you might see someone walking around in power armor with a rifle slung over their back, and someone else wearing leather armor with a sword at their hip.

As far as Trade Wars is concerned, it's easier to think of Exarch as a completely new game. There is absolutely no tie-in between Trade Wars and Exarch; Exarch is a completely different animal. (Is that clear enough? Trade Wars does not = Exarch.)