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Posted By: paulmarv
This is the type of enraging statement that will raise my blood-pressure and heartbeat to dangerous levels... so if I manage to retain self-unexploded fingers for typing, hear me out.
Tomorrow I go out and publish "Halo: The Real Story". It is a collection of shapes and amorphous blobs that I created from clay. I film myself casting them up into the wind, tack on some heavy-metal beats, and burn this 15 second film to a DVD. I then use a Sharpie marker to draw an artistic cover. This is "Halo: The Real Story", and it is canon; it represents the totality of events of the Battle of Reach. And you think it is canon because it isn't stated otherwise.
This canon policy is fascinatingly no more than an imaginative exercise, to see what one may envision and rename. It is honestly an act of free imagination. Have fun, please.
Good God, do you even realize how stupid you sound? The guy you quoted is completely right, if 343, or rather Microsoft, publishes any material pertaining to the Halo series, it is canon unless otherwise stated by them, and nothing you say can contradict that. You may not like it and choose to outright ignore whatever was created, but that does not change that it is canon.
And your idea would not be canon, no matter what you did, hell, it wouldn't even be fanfiction, hahaha. And you wouldn't be able to publish it, even if you did sell it, you probably find yourself winding up with either legal action or an order to cease and desist.
This is a painful argumentum ad verecundiam. Painful. "Boeing makes planes therefore they can force me to ride in them." Can you please prove me wrong... I am just fascinated by this mentality.
Your analogy is completely, totally, and utterly different as well as wrong. It is nothing at all like what switch said. If Microsoft has something published it IS canon. They own the rights to the story, they decide what is, and is not, fact in the Halo story.