"Were"? As far as I'm concerned, even if we've all been busy with other things the Committee is still open for business anytime we're ready to reconvene. I've finally got most of the existing ship data indexed and am starting to work out upper/lower limits for filling in some of the gaps like Second and Sixth Rates... :)

Not to mention that a full deck of useless POS obusiers made ST a de-facto three-decker with a very high side profile to catch incoming hits.