Editing Myst Online: Uru Live (section)

====The Clerical Error====
While it was to continue past Prologue and throughout actual subcriptions, none of this ended up happening, due to a mistake that became known as the '''Clerical Error''', the Rehearsal in fact ended much earlier than the Prologue itself. On January 2, [[2004 CE|2004]], mere weeks after Rehearsal had begun, an Ubisoft employee in Montreal accidentally invited all pending Prologue registrations, causing a script to send out thousands of invitations simultaneously, and many to actually join within the day. The two public shards were completely unprepared to handle the added node, and, in an effort to minimize the damage, the Rehearsal shard became a public one under the name [[Achenar]]; to undo the invitations was deemed unethical, even though it had been a mistake.

Due to the lack of an actual subscription-based Uru Live launch, and due to the premature Rehearsal cancellation even during Prologue, the idea was not truly tested at that time.

On February 9, [[2004 CE|2004]], the shards were switched off; this event left many people deeply saddened that their long-sought dream was, apparently, dead forever.