This is summer, vacation time and such... plus Miharu's been slow so I don't expect people to expect much from her right now. Given that, even though I wanted to go and leap into the action soon after the Yamatai storylines resolved themselves, I believe it might be best to get the new characters settled in on the ship first, establish the next goals (I'm not making it a lengthy briefing-like event. Just a mission update over dinner or something) and then we go.
So, a warm-up session to give those folks we still have active the chance to realize something is going on and be ready to pitch in... and an opportunity for the new characters to try and settle in. Those players whom become active, we'll accomodate... those whom don't we will have them tag along as 'faceless' NPCs just like we did for some folks in the first mission to give them a chance to hop on if they 'wake up late'.
Seems like the best deal to me.
Jake, I'm not in writing mood at the moment (*stares up* well, not a creative/inventive one anyways - probably because it sucks to have to rewrite something); want to wrap this up and move back to the ship and deal with the arrivals? That's likely going to take a bit, so, we could get started soonish.