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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). 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).
  
-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:Wes]] is the manager of the Star Army setting, and has the final word on what is considered canon.+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. [[members:wes]] is the manager of the Star Army setting, and has the final word on what is considered canon.
  
 ===== Levels of Canon ===== ===== Levels of Canon =====
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 Non-canon is information that is not considered "official" for Star Army. This includes things like alternate universes; wiki articles that are not yet approved, and threads marked as non-canon. Reasons that RP threads might be considered non-canon include non-canon elements (e.g. unapproved tech, stuff Star Army lacks rights to), or major events and changes to the setting that were not discussed/approved with the people responsible for the affected factions or characters. Non-canon is information that is not considered "official" for Star Army. This includes things like alternate universes; wiki articles that are not yet approved, and threads marked as non-canon. Reasons that RP threads might be considered non-canon include non-canon elements (e.g. unapproved tech, stuff Star Army lacks rights to), or major events and changes to the setting that were not discussed/approved with the people responsible for the affected factions or characters.
  
-Note: As of 2016, wiki works in progress should go in the wip: namespace.+Note: As of [[calendar:2016]], wiki works in progress should go in the wip: namespace. 
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 +===== How Things Become Canon ===== 
 +The process for things to become (hard) canon is simple: 
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 +  - Roleplay 
 +  - Create wiki pages based on what happened in the RP 
 +  - Get the wiki articles approved in the [[https://stararmy.com/roleplay-forum/forums/setting-submissions.17/|Setting Submissions Forum]] 
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 +As of [[calendar:2021]], wiki articles are supposed to only be approved once there's RP about the subject of the article. Therefore, everything added is supposed to have appeared in the RP before (e.g. it must already be soft canon).
  
 ===== Open RP Is Canon, Too ====== ===== Open RP Is Canon, Too ======
-Open RP posts are always considered canon unless there's some significant reason preventing that (e.g. something in the thread doesn't match with the lore and can't be reconciled).+Open RP posts are always considered soft canon unless there's some significant reason preventing that (e.g. something in the thread doesn't match with the lore and can't be reconciled).

guide/canon.txt · Last modified: 2023/12/20 18:20 by 127.0.0.1

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