Re: Canon

>You can stick with canon; you can apply your imagination to expanding
upon
>canon, either by detailing a canon power or creating
>compatible-but-non-canon nations; or you can throw the canon background
out
>and write your own.  Do whatever suits you.

And of course, according to the agreements in the mailing list charter,
once 
your grand scheme is posted here it becomes canon fodder. :)