Unfortunately due to the enormous pressures related to working for this game and some professional needs of my own personally, I must quit as the settings leader. There have been some very stressful disagreements with that players base that I cannot reconcile myself with and there is just no way I can foresee my self continuing to be happy and grow as a person under the current conditions.
I hope sincerely that no one will take this as negative reflection on the dev team, or on themselves personally. It is not the fact that one or another of you have offended me, it is the aggregate of things that I can no longer deal with. I must now tend to my health and well being and work on continuing my education in a manner that moves me more toward a paying job that will find me in a better place.
If things settle down for me personally, or I gain some perspective I may well return to work on this great game.
It has been great knowing all of you and this is not a good bye I hope, just a "see you later."
Best of luck to PlaneShift.