Pete Nash had worked on Chaosium fanzines.
[1]: 430 Mongoose Publishing started to publish game lines in 2008 to support the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons by Wizards of the Coast, one of which was Wraith Recon by Nash.
[1]: 399 Nash got new support for his Wraith Recon fantasy warfare setting through supplements for RuneQuest II.
Meanwhile, Whitaker and Nash formed a company, The Design Mechanism, to pick up the RuneQuest license and publish a sixth edition of the game in 2012.
That edition remained in print until 2016, when it was retitled Mythras.