Skyblivion, the ambitious, decade-in-the-making fan effort to rebuild Oblivion within Skyrim, has been hit by a giant's club right before the finishing line, and is now facing legal threats from one of its former volunteers.

"After they left the project, we had several discussions regarding the continued use and maintenance of his work," the team said. "The main disagreement centered on their objection to our decompilation of parts of their work—a necessary step our team took to maintain functionality and fix issues in systems already built into the project after access to the original source code repository was revoked.

"Ultimately, despite us trying to work out the disagreement, they escalated to sending legal threats, which included demands for the real names and home addresses of our volunteer team leads, something we couldn't accept and think is disproportionate. A 'take your ball and go home' approach like this fundamentally contradicts the collaborative, open spirit of the modding community that makes massive passion projects like this possible."

To protect its team, Skyblivion scrubbed the former volunteer's work and started rebuilding their systems from scratch. But even with the code gone, the threats haven't stopped.

"We had zero interest in holding onto friction or fighting a former team member," the team explained. "To protect our volunteers from undue stress and ensure a clean break, in good faith we removed their code, rebuilding and improving the system from the ground up. Even so, they have continued to intensify their threats."

We sat down with Skyblivion's leads to talk about the ten-year history of the project.

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