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Originally Posted by copeab
While I can understand you wanting to support the DC Group's work. I think this is a bit excessive.
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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
Copeab I completely understand your point of view because I am quite sympathetic towards it. I have already expressed the view that material can only be canon if it is declared so by the owners of the intellectual property rights, however...
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I'm glad others have had the courage to say these things because I didn't. I am now emboldened sufficiently to say my piece.
I love this forum and I have respect and affection for its posters. It pained me to watch "The Troubles" develop here during 2009 and it pained me even more to see Kato and the DC Working Group withdraw from posting here. I support efforts to bring them back.
I enjoy reading work produced by posters here and the DC Working Group in particular produces excellent work. I want to read more of it and I have used and hopefully will use some of their work in my own campaigns. But it is not canon.
From what I have read the results of their revisions would be that the US would have far, far greater military might at the end of the Twilight War (especially the US Navy) than what canon suggests. That means that to me it doesn't have the same "feeling" as canon T2K and the future in the timeline would be radically different to canon. Basically I think that if you went with the DC Working Group's take on things in its entirety the US would be a super power again within a decade or two.
If I was currently serving in the US military or had not so long ago ended a US military career and I was writing T2K revisionist material I would probably go down a similar route to the DC Working Group. For them it must be nigh on unthinkable that the US would ever fall as low as is depicted in T2K canon. I sympathise with their view and I think I understand where they are coming from. But to put my point in a nutshell, the DC Working Group's revisions make the title of "The Last Submarine" trilogy of modules a joke.
Although Kato has decided against it I still think the DC Working Group's work, and discussions about it specifically, should be placed in its own sub-forum. That way if anyone has a serious problem with the work they can simply not visit that sub forum. If they do visit that sub forum and continually criticise the work they should be suspended or banned.
Regular visitors may have noticed that I have made (I think) only one post since Kato's announcement. That is because I have been thinking about the decision and the ramifications it will have on this forum. If for the purposes of discussions on this forum we are required to regard the DC Working Group's work as canon I am afraid I will no longer feel comfortable posting here and my input will be minimal.
This is not an ultimatum. I respect Kato's judgement and if his decision proves to be what is best for the forum then who am I to stand in its way. Increased input from the whole far outweighs reduced input from me.
With the greatest of respect,
Targan.