It's not a dead project necessarily, Evan is just taking a break for a while since he's been going through a lot lately. I still believe Lumi has a bright future, and you should also keep believing.
Of course the project proved to be far too dangerous so they created *Project Alpha* to pacify it. Better known as *Chip*. They needed to keep her as happy as possible while they tried to find a way to remove Epsilon from her system, but then she got lost in space and, well, the rest is history.
