Prologue

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For the company preceding Cyan Productions, see Prolog.

This page is written from an OOC point of view. Events and elements surrounding the Myst Universe are regarded as fictional.

Prologue refers to the aborted attempt, by Ubisoft and Cyan, at bringing Uru: Ages Beyond Myst to the masses for the first time. It was public and NDA-less, though it did require an invitation. People who bought the game at retail were invited to apply for entry into the online portion of the game. Upon acceptance, in the form of an email from Jeff Zandi, they would then be allowed to sign on to one or multiple of the shards.

Prologue was unique in that it already had a story arc, surrounding a conflict between the DRC on the one side, and Douglas Sharper and followers of his on the other.

For a while, Prologue grew at a continuous route, with the two shards by the names of Atrus and Katran, until the Clerical Error occurred, requiring the opening of the third shard, Achenar, which had previously served as the private Rehearsal shard.

On February 9, 2004, the shards were forever switched off. This event left many people deeply saddened that their long-sought dream was, apparently, dead forever.