The Tethealla project was started by me back in early 2008 as a way to keep my mind focused on something shortly after my dad was murdered. (No need to say "Sorry for your loss" or anything like that, I've already come to terms with everything that happened, so don't worry.)
I had always had a love for PSO and wanted to take it a step further from my proxy I developed and go full out Phantasy Star Online server.
I think PSO was very exciting then, not sure if it was AS exciting as back in the first starts of GameCube or Dreamcast, but it was still good for me.
Rapid progress was made on the server over some months. Tethealla was actually built from the ground up, which is why it had a lot of flaws. Luckily, some of the well known people in PSO like Kohle, Lee, Crono and even Schthack answered some of my questions about some things... but at some point, I put the project away. I kind of lost interest at a point due to some personal reasons and never really got back to it.
One of the other well-known PSO servers, Eden, had a couple of developers. Tofuman and Doberman, who were able to patch a lot of the problems Tethealla had as well as even get Challenge mode working. Tofuman had sent me a couple of messages on their forum and contacted me on Skype about some fixes he did that he wanted to include in the Tethealla project.
I thought it was cool that he fixed some stuff and was going to update the project, but again I got sidetracked, and I think a couple of years went by after his initial contact of me.
I don't remember why or how exactly but we got in contact again and started working together then the Tethealla project came back to life.
A huge amount of progress wasn't made, though, until this month when I had to get a medical surgery and was stuck at home for 2 and a half weeks with nothing to do. (Inguinal hernia surgery repair, in case you were wondering, so I couldn't move around much for a bit.)
Thus, here we are...!
I hope that was a good enough story for you.