To clarify, they're on the back burner for the foreseeable future. We will have to do a lot of development on models, adapting the armor, plus new heads/faces, voice acting, etc. so the workload for this is going to be pretty high. We'll have to find time to set aside for this, and unfortunately adding female characters isn't something that will bring tons of players back into the game on their own. Adding more diversity is still a goal of ours, but at the moment we want to focus on larger-impact additions and features.