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====== Canon ====== | ====== Canon ====== | ||
- | Canon is a term used to describe the ideas and materials considered officially part of Star Army's setting. On Star Army, the wiki is used to keep track of canon, and is the primary repository of what is canon. This is followed by the roleplaying forums, which can be used as a secondary source of canon. [[user: | + | Canon is a term used to describe the ideas and materials considered officially part of Star Army's setting. |
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+ | The reason canon exists is so that the Star Army universe can stay internally consistent so that our roleplayers can be have a shared, mutual understanding of what the Star Army universe is like. In other words, it keeps us on the same page. | ||
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+ | Canon elements must be acknowledged by and accounted for by other roleplayers on SARP. For example, if it's canon that a planet has a defense system, an enemy fleet would not be allowed to just land on the planet without dealing with the defenses first. Or if your character crashed a spaceship on a planet in your roleplaying thread, the debris should be noted on the planet’s wiki page and can then appear in other roleplay threads (maybe they can salvage it). | ||
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+ | On Star Army, the wiki is used to keep track of canon, and is the primary repository of what is canon. This is followed by the roleplaying forums, which can be used as a secondary source of canon. [[user: | ||
===== Levels of Canon ===== | ===== Levels of Canon ===== | ||
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Firm canon consists of content that has been approved as canon on the wiki, but has not actually been featured in the RP. The wiki is considered to be higher level canon than the forum RP because it's the shared space that all forum RPs are based on. | Firm canon consists of content that has been approved as canon on the wiki, but has not actually been featured in the RP. The wiki is considered to be higher level canon than the forum RP because it's the shared space that all forum RPs are based on. | ||
- | Firm canon can be changed if needed, but should only be changed if necessary. Once it's used in RP, it becomes hard canon and should not be changed. | + | Firm canon can be changed if needed, as there' |
==== Soft Canon ==== | ==== Soft Canon ==== | ||
Soft canon consists of roleplay that happened but was not added to the wiki. Some Open RP may be considered soft canon (as it might not make it to the wiki). | Soft canon consists of roleplay that happened but was not added to the wiki. Some Open RP may be considered soft canon (as it might not make it to the wiki). | ||
- | Forum RP that is not on the wiki is considered below wiki canon because the wiki is the repository of canon. Therefore, if the events and content from an RP is not shared (via the wiki) with the rest of Star Army community, other GMs cannot reasonably be expected to base their RP on those. | + | Forum RP that is not on the wiki is considered below wiki canon because the wiki is the repository of canon. Therefore, if the events and content from an RP are not shared (via the wiki) with the rest of Star Army community, other GMs cannot reasonably be expected to base their RP on those. |
- | Ideally all soft canon should become hard canon by writing about it in the wiki and getting the article approved. This should be done //as soon as possible// by the GM, thread OP, or any other person involved in the RP. | + | Ideally all soft canon should become hard canon by writing about it in the wiki and getting the article approved |
==== Non-Canon ==== | ==== Non-Canon ==== | ||
- | Non-canon is information that is not considered " | + | Non-canon is information that is not considered " |
- | Note: AS of 2016, wiki works in progress should go in the wip: namespace. | + | Note: As of 2016, wiki works in progress should go in the wip: namespace. |