That's great to hear! And I also wish them the best. I appreciate the difficulty of their situation. I'm willing to transfer the group (only smods and above can do it), but I told them (well, someone high-up in the group in VMs) before that I would only transfer the group if BattleStar contacted me and told me who to transfer it to. 'Cause it's still his group and it would be wrong to reappropriate it, plus I don't want to be involved in the politics (if the leader everyone picks starts being abusive or whatever then I am in some way responsible and have to step in and so on and so on, it's not something I want to continuously monitor).
Unfortunately I don't know if BattleStar will be willing to pass it on. Which is a great shame for them, since the group has a lot of history + members + content. But to do anything else would be kinda heavy-handed, I think, especially if there wasn't total consensus on who should lead.