Talk:The Beyond Sector

Canon Conflict

The beyond sector (and Vanguard Reaches Sector) is the source of some canon conflict.

As Jim Kundert points out:

This map (used by Peter Gray and Gray Matter) first appeared in the DGP Alien Module for Alien - Solomani & Aslan (1991). It varies considerably from the original Paranoia Press version of the sector (1981!). So much so that only the sector's name is the same. Due to this I have not noted the original subsector names at all, since they have no relevance to this version. All border information and names of interstellar states derive from Solomani & Aslan.

So we have two versions of these two sectors: the canon produced by Paranoia Press and the map produced by DGP. Both of these products have been extended by others.

I'd love to include both sets of data, but we need a clear way of marking (using a proper category?) them. Or should we simply pick one or the other and if so, which? Tjoneslo 01:44, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I suppose that we could mark one of them as non-canon in the lead page for the sector and put a header block into the down-pages to indicate non-canon entries. The question is which one to choose.

My thought on this to go with Paranoia Press as the canon. I base this on a brief email discussion I had with Roger Sanger. In that brief conversation I received the impression that all the DPG data will be archived for an indefinite time because of major differences in trying to get it re-released and properly authorized.

The sad part about this is that I haven't seen anything from DGP (I am waiting to leave to head back to the states, so that I can pick up the stuff I ordered from Joe Fugate in another two weeks or so). Sstefan 08:05, 17 Jul 06 (at least that's the local time here in Iraq)