Forum:Restoring Halo Fanon Partnership

After reviewing what the members of the Halo Fanon Wiki have told me, I believe we were too quick in judging them without all of the appropriate information. Basically, Star Wars Fanon and Halo Fanon really have to be two completely different types of fanon. In Star Wars Fanon, the area in which we can make up our own worlds, factions, species, etc…all that stuff, is much larger. It takes place over thousands and thousands of years and has an entire galaxy to play with. That’s why we can pretty much make anything here.

However, that’s different in Halo. It takes place in only one spiral arm of the galaxy, it takes place between 2100 and 2553 (events after that in fanon are held in mixed review, but not restricted) and it has a strict adherence to science fiction with very little science fantasy. Basically, the reason they restrict so many fanon articles is because people make things that are just not realistic to them. It’s not that it really contradicts canon, but it’s that it just does not make any sense. We may allow Force sensitive battle droids, but it’s their prerogative to ban them.

Many of the members of Halo Fanon and many of the Administrators believe that their restrictions are for the best. Because of that, we cannot tell them what they can and cannot do. Their universe is much different than the Star Wars universe, which gives them more restrictions. We have the Force and amazingly advanced technology. They have the real universe with more realistic weapons, events, etc. such as plain technology from our real world.

After being told this, I looked around Halo Fanon and I have to say that nearly all of the articles there make sense and are plausible. That, in my opinion, is a good thing because things need to fit into that universe. I mean, they’ve actually one-uped us in terms of realism because so many of our 16,000 articles are absolute junk. Basically, we can’t bring the Sith into Halo, because that’s just not what happens in that universe. We are judging things from a Star Wars POV and, while the term “Fanon Wiki” and “Where the users can express themselves all they want” may be a bit deceiving, I believe it was wrong to end our partnership with them without putting ourselves into their position.

Ultimately, fanon in Star Wars and fanon in Halo are two totally different things, and rightly so. Therefore, because we now have an actual dialogue with the Halo Fanon Wiki, I believe we should restore our partnership with them based upon the fact that we should not judge them based on our own Star Wars POV and that we can now have a flow of members going back and forth between Star Wars Fanon and Halo Fanon. - President Brandon Rhea  (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  00:38, 26 November 2007 (UTC)