Randall N. Bills was a fan of Battletech when he met its line developer Bryan Nystul at Gen Con 27 in the early 1990s during an all-night The Succession Wars (1987) game event.
[1]: 433 Bills got to know some members of the FASA staff over the next year and a half, and took a tour of their headquarters in Chicago, while he was writing for the fan club newsletter Mechwarrior Quarterly.
[1]: 433 InMediaRes started publication with the fiction written by its founders Bills and Coleman.
[1]: 434 Rob Boyle and Bills attempted to purchase FanPro LLC from Fantasy Productions in 2007 but when that failed they threatened to leave and bid for the WizKids licenses when they came up for renewal; WizKids came to mediate and while they would not allow Boyle and Bills to start a new company, they did grant the licenses to InMediaRes.
[1]: 435 Catalyst did a financial audit late in 2009 and discovered a large amount of money went missing; Bills later explained that the audit determined that there was a "co-mingling of funds between the personal and business had occurred involving the company's primary shareholders".