I'll add an "Oh, no!" of my own: Oh, no! And Calahan just was one of the people I thought I could convince to sub temporarily untill the unknown Preponderance player could take over.
I went and checked the Preponderance thread, but from comments there it's quite hard to guess how long the game might still take. (Could be over tomorrow, but could just as easily be weeks from the little I could see.) Do you - as one of the players in the game - have a better estimate? Could be of intrest to potential temporary subs.