A little status update: It's not infiltration, it's just Distant Worlds 2.
I do pretty much all the application processing for FleetComm, which ordinarily isn't too much for one person. However, Distant Worlds 2 more than doubled the size of the private group (from 3300 commanders last November to 7300), with the majority of those in January alone. The launch weekend of Distant Worlds 2, I spent something like 22 hours processing applications and, frankly, burned through my stamina. I came down with something nasty Sunday night and spent the night in a fever watching The Haunting of Hill House. I don't know why I like watching horror when I'm sick, because it really makes the whole experience more horrible
I've been slowly working through the enormous backlog of applications since then, but the progress is slow. Once those are done, then I'll put some thought into opening up the PG for new applications. I was hoping to be able to do that by this weekend, but I find myself unable to keep up the pace of processing them. The other FleetComm administrators are similarly overworked with other aspects of the expedition, so I don't really want to toss this on their plates right now.
I'm not offering this as an excuse, but I did want to give an explanation. While we're catching up with things, the kind people at Mobius have graciously agreed to take the DW2 overflow for now.
tl;dr: Backlogged; Working on it; Be open soon.