Azure Beacon Years is a separate universe to the Many Worlds of RWBY. Much like how that story dealt with alternate realities, Azure Beacon Years is one of them. That story has come to its conclusion. The Many Worlds of RWBY will still be continued, however. The sequels to this first story will cover both Azure's and Silvia's separate stories during their time apart and will continue on the same continuity. Azure's story and the original story can be found on the user page "jttaylorbat". Please go check out his other stories and the original "Many Worlds of RWBY", which we co-wrote. That being said, enjoy the sequel to Many Worlds of RWBY.
RWBYVERSE: The RWBYverse is slightly different from the Bookverse (which is the universe that 'jttaylorbat' had written about). The RWBYverse also has a Beacon Years, however has several major differences. For starters the Cardinal crime family is replaced by the Suro clan: a species of half Grimm half Faunus people who have the ability to turn into Grimm. A similar near mass extinction happened in a very similar fashion, but the Suro bounced back and reformed several small kingdoms in the last seven years. Another major difference is that there is no Komodo. The war that happens separate from all of that and does not correlate to the prosthetic attack, which is now brought on by simple techno-terrorists. The last change is that Viridian from the original stories was not involved with the war. Instead, he met Azure a few years after Azure left Beacon and the two formed a romantic relationship, eventually parting ways due to bad terms.