What is "canon"?

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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

Real World events after the 'canon' start-of-war date of 1996 are completely irrelevant to the Twilight: 2000 game.

Arguement can be successfully made to include any real world equipment that was available by 1996 but wasn't included in the books so things like the Russian APS underwater assault rifle are perfectly acceptable. However by the gameworld history as set down by GDW, Germany was still divided up until 1996 and so the G36 should not be included as the G11 was going to be the next rifle for German forces.

If anybody needs a list of what is actual 'canon' material, visit Far Future Enterprises website and see what's on the CD-ROMs for Twilight 1st edition and 2nd edition... anything else is not canon

I agree with the first part (or 1985 if you are playing V1) -- to a point. See my previous post.

As for the second part -- a good amount of weapons programs would have been accelerated as the storm clouds gathered, and during the war, previously overlooked or passed-over projects might have been put into limited production. World War 2 is a good example of this, though I'll grant you that they didn't have to contend with global nuclear strikes. On top of this, we are still finding out about weapons programs the Soviets were working on during the cold war, and after the Wall fell, we discovered a lot of surprising stuff they had. The details of my ideas on this would make too long a post; if anyone wants to know more of my thoughts, email or PM me.

As for the third part -- again, see my previous post.

T2K (not T2K13) is in a way a "dead" system -- no one is publishing anything new for it. WE (and other T2K forums and sites) are now the makers of canon. We are the means by which the T2K progresses. If GDW hadn't gone under, or if Marc Miller had decided to continue the T2K saga, our ideas might have been the driving force behind published T2K. Now, we T2K enthusiasts are the only driving force.