Thread:SavageOpress1138/@comment-104549-20151215121224/@comment-25898954-20151216004133

I'm gonna jump in here and add my two cents really quickly since Sav asked me.

I live my life by stare decisis. There's a certain simple, practical beauty to rendering verdicts according to a predetermined precedent, much akin to the beauty inherent in successfully employing the scientific method or the laws of logic. For that reason, regardless of whether "official licensed merchandise" exists combining the two franchises, I would simply label this a crossover, chuck it in the circular file, and move on. The merchandise in question is not technically an instance of an official, canon-supported crossover between Star Wars and the Transformers franchise, so in my view, the author's series still a crossover according to our policies.

Crossovers, as a general rule, are pretty cut and dry in definition, without much need for extensive clarification. The moment you start defining exceptions and provisions for such a simple subject is the moment you introduce all manner of messy loopholes and semantic distinctions best left alone.