I don't mean to repeat what other anons are saying. But what does Ascension get out of this? Epoch has been overwhelmingly popular so with players needing to use the Ascension launcher to play Epoch, are they hoping to entice Epoch players to try Ascension?
Considering all they need to provide is server infrastructure this would actually be a good reason for Ascension to host Epoch.

I guess this means I'll be trying out turtle's fresh when it drops to finally scratch my fresh urge. We still don't have any sort of estimate on how long we need to wait for Epoch to be playable. Another week? More?