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>Eheh. I'll be going from the assumption that the basic core
>of most of the material that didn't end up being applied will
>head for recycling and then for storage, to be used in some
>other shape or fashion somewhere down the road when the
>appropriate moment(s) arrive(s).

Yeah, that's about right. It's more about IC bragging rights and what gets done before what other thing than what the game will look like in a year.