User blog:DirgeOfCerberus111/Canon Expansions, Feasible?

Hello my fellow People.

Do you remember that whole Imperium of Blood incident? People had issues with the idea of a seperate storyline and whatnot, in fact there seems to be a taboo against using or mentioning canon characters or it's looked down on. Well i've been thinking about that alot. Imagine you want to make a canon expansion on Command Shadowsun. Send Shadowsun on some fanon adventure where something happens, even a character page on her. Does it conflict canon? No. She still does the things that canon says she does, just expands and adds more to it.

Or here's a better example. Some of you may know that I'm writing a story on Thunder Warriors, which is moving along. And now i'm thinking of expanding it from one story to three, a trilogy. But the problem there is so little canon from that time that i'd have to make stuff up. Characters, battles, vehicles and factions. So now let's say that i've made this expansion, but then GW gets off it's ass and makes a Thunder Warrior story of its own, new canon has been established so now my story is non canon. Also lets say as part of this expansion, i write an article on Thunder Warriors in general, like the Space Marines, but it's my take as an expansion into a grey area of the lore. It would be my imagining of the TW, witout conflicting with the spirit of 40k or canon. All the while keeping true to the idea and lore, following the rules which everyone must abide by.

We do have examples of this on the site right now. How many of you remember the Rise to Glory Trilogy written by TenHalo? Nice read btw. There we have Abaddon himself being a character, and Rynn's World under attack from Chaos AFTER Snagrod invades. This has not happened in canon obviously and yet this hardly caused a stir, i even took it up with Cal and he was fine with Abaddon being a character.

Funny how if you write an article on something, people can say it's overpowered or NCF, but make it a story, and its slides.

Now Canon is usually big enough for all to fit in there. But expansions are also fanon, as long as the rules are followed and the source material is respected. Person A can take Character X and put him in Adventure A, while Person B can also take Character X and put him in Adventure B. This also means that people can do similiar things without crossing, keeping works seperate and distinct. I could write one version of the Thunder Warriors, while someone could write another and they would not conflict.

So whats the problem with it? The more i think about it, the less reason i see why it cannot be done. Thoughts people?

Regards -DirgeOfCerberus111 (talk) 02:02, October 6, 2013 (UTC)