What is "canon"?

[StainlessSteelCynic]

If this comes across as rather antagonistic, that is not my intent but as I have been frequently told, I don't have a sense of humour and I'm too blunt

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

...I agree with Legbreaker that what is canon is canon. But when world events suddenly make the canon obsolete then maybe its time to be a little flexible...

Actually I believe this point is invalid, 'canon' is accepted as the body of work published by GDW (the games and their sourcebooks, Challenge magazine articles) or those bodies of work published by others with GDW's permission (The City Of Angels module). Even those articles written by former GDW staff (before or after GDW was closed down) should not be blindly accepted as canon unless they actually have GDW approval.
Real World events after the 'canon' start-of-war date of 1996 are completely irrelevant to the Twilight: 2000 game. If we completely threw out what was canon because the real world history was different to the game world histroy, nobody would ever have played Twilight: 2000 after 1996. If you start changing the canon material just to suit what's happened in the real world, you end up with the ludicrous 'Greedo fired first' situation that George Lucas foisted off on the fans in the 1990s editions of the original Star Wars movies because he felt they should be more family friendly (i.e. politically correct)

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

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

...Maybe we can get Kato to set up a NON canon separate forum and the best and the brightest like the DC group and Moh can use it set out their ideas? ...

I too feel that this is probably a suitable solution