Re: Discussion topic - rewriting (future) history....?

> How do folks feel about "rewriting history", not in the Stalinist
sense of course, but in terms of making some revisions and changes to a
few of the events already written into the "canon" of the GZG 
> universe?

Without wishing to sound *too* bitchy, after the essential business of
designing, moulding, and shipping minis is done, releasing the revised
editions of the existing rulesets, and *any* finished version of FMAS,
should be a higher priority for any spare energy than the background
fluff IMNSHO.

Much of the original background always seemed wildly unlikely in the
context of real-world politics and economics anyway. The NAC never
struck me as even remotely credible. The Russian-dominated ESU was a bad
idea twenty years ago (it was written nearly a decade *after* Deng
Xiaoping launched the "new model China", leaving aside its cultural
implausibilities and unfortunate implications), and has only got worse
since. How far can you interfere with the history of major factions
without pulling a Games-Workshop-style Squats move?

So, so why not treat the existing background as a parallel universe, or
just add fifty to all the dates?