Re: Cannon - What makes something Cannon?

> I mainly lurk here on the list, but in my own GZG group in Atlanta GA
USA
> and here on this list there is talk of some material being Cannon or
not
> being Cannon.

Cannon normally refers to large calibre weapons firing explosive
charges...
 
> What makes something Cannon and who decides if it is or isn't Cannon?

What makes something Canonical;

a) - if it's appeared in print, in either Full Thrust, Full Thrust 2nd
Edition, 
More Thrust, Fleet Book 1, Fleet Book 2, Dirtside 2, or Star Grunt, or
as a 
figure made by GZG or their agents ( like Eureka).
b) If Jon Tuffley has said it Ex Cathedra, with [GZG-OFFICIAL] on the
subject 
line.

Who decides?

Jon Tuffley.
  
> Seems there are a lot of web sites up that claim to be Cannon or at
least
> have Cannon material - who or what situation gave them this status?

See above. If the data paraphrases what's appeared in print, then it's 
Canonical. If it expands what's in print, then it isn't - until the
print 
catches up, if ever, or Jon gives his imprimatur.

For example, it's Canonical that there is a minor power called the
Oceanic 
Union - it appears in FT etc. It's canonical that the navy has frigates,

destroyers, light cruisers, heavy cruisers, light carriers and
boomerang-shaped 
fighters, as Eureka and GZG make these. It's canonical that the OUDF has
Grav-
Bikes for a similar reason.
But the ship designs for the OUDF on the Full Thrust Shipyard and
elsewhere 
aren't canonical; neither is the bacground "fluff" for the OU on the
Unofficial 
GZGpedia site, except where it re-states data that appears in books.
Until and 
unless Jon Tuffley says otherwise.
 
> Our group of thirty or so players here in Atlanta are starting the
process
> of developement of rules and history material.  Naturally, I became
curious
> about why some material created by others is and some isn't Cannon.

Cos Jon says
so.

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