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Originally Posted by Gabe The Gun
What does this mean?
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Trouble.
To take Kato's perfectly sufficient answer a bit further, canon is the not-quite-correct term we've applied to the published materials of Twilight: 2000 in terms of its basis of authority. Ideally, we should be referencing the published materials as we strike off into the wilderness with our own creations.
My work is an example of non-canon material. I try to fit
Thunder Empire,
et al, into the established Twilight: 2000 universe without making dramatic changes, but one can and should use or simply enjoy anything I've done without a sense of obligation. Even some of my more eye-in-the-sky work, like
The Storm in Germany, is meant to add flesh to the bare bones of the v1 chronology. One should accept the work, reject it, or make modifications as one sees fit. Of course, I'm always receptive to well-considered counterarguments or even a simple atta-boy.
The canon v non-canon argument has had its overheated moments around here. Personally, I think some of the canon v non-canon furor has more to do with individual prejudices than devotion to the published material, but that's a subject for another thread or PM.
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