Another Second Strike Audio Drama?
(source: Second Strike, 08-25-05)

Here's a strange one for the fan audio community.

At the end of June, an apparently unnoticed crew call for a writer was posted on the Fan Audio message board at TheForce.Net. The post was calling for someone to write the script for a non-continuity post-ROTJ audio drama trilogy (described as half-audiobook and half-audio drama), for which the message board poster would be providing the general plotline.

Usually, these kinds of crew calls fall flat, as it seems there are very few, if any, in the fan audio community who care to take on all of the writing chores of a project without being the ones to actually craft the plotline itself. (It's an oddity, given that most cast and crew calls get a fairly robust response these days. Writing seems a different beast altogether.)

What made this call somewhat unusual, and what brought it to our attention today when another poster on the message board "bumped" the topic by replying to it, was the name of the project. The first episode of the proposed project, headed by a poster going by the username "numbah1fan," was entitled Second Strike: Set in Motion.

(And the fan audio community takes a moment to blink collectively.)

Most of the fan audio community already knows that Second Strike was the first serious fan-made Star Wars audio drama to emerge on the internet, starting with its first act (Descent) on Christmas Day of 2002. Second Strike ended with its third act (Ascension) in mid-2003. It was produced by Nathan P. Butler's Rayzur's Edge Audio, which later produced other audio dramas like Always in Motion to fit within the same "universe." Since it has been announced that Rayzur's Edge Audio is done producing audio dramas for the foreseeable future, this new call for a Second Strike: Set in Motion writer was surprising, to say the least.

Unfortunately for fans of Rayzur's Edge's audio dramas, the new project is not affiliated with the original Second Strike audio drama, nor with Rayzur's Edge Audio or Butler himself. This appears to be a completely different project, being created (or planned) for the same audio drama genre, operating under the same.

As the Second Strike (er, Rayzur's Edge's Second Strike) creator, Butler has expressed his concerns over the name issue to "numbah1fan" on that same crew call message thread. It is unknown at this time if the Set in Motion project is still underway, nor is it known whether the Second Strike naming issue was coincidence or something else, but Rayzur's Edge Audio is getting the word out that this is not a new Second Strike from REA.

Sorry to disappoint.