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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.
Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: Xd00999
I'm sure they have some hard rule for canon buried somewhere in an interview or document, but I have yet to see it. They will probably come out with a more official statement if many contradictions start to pop up or they start putting out much more material. As it is, I agree with Coma and Elder (good to see you again, by the way, Coma) that 343i's policy should only affect material produced by 343i. If we apply policies to material made under a different one, things can get confusing.
The idea of canon hierarchies always seems a bit odd to me. I don't think one story should be able to overwrite another just because of how it was told. I think that everything should be considered a valid view of the universe, to put one view over another seems like an insult to the authors and artists who slaved over their work only to have it be declared invalid.
They might, I never heard or saw it though, so if they do have one it's unknown to me. For me personally I still go by Bungie's method of sorting things, if it's newer material or something straight from horse's mouth so to speak (IE something Bungie directly created, like the games, or one of Bungie's story writers for the games wrote, like Contact Harvest) then it's the highest authority around. (Yeah good to see you too, how come you don't really come by Archive anymore?)
Well I don't see it as a constant really, it's more a guideline for if you find a contradiction anywhere. When there are no contradictions I view them as equal...though I always trust something straight from the creators more than something that's not. The further you get from the source of it, it's going to get a bit murkier and muddled. I never saw it though where anything beneath the game was automatically lesser or something like that. Unless I find contradictions, then they're all valid and as equal as anything can be.
I too would take the word of Bungie/343i over other sources. The second paragraph is 40k rubbing off on me. They play fast and loose with the idea of canon, and the second paragraph is a paraphrase of their canon policy. 40k is also the reason I have drifted from the Archive; I have lost the interest I've once had.