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G.E.C. Conflict - Chandril Tech
Chandrilla didn't exist when I started on this board, and neither did Chandril Tech. Part of my backstory I began acquisition of Chandril Tech a canon company that devoloped minor electronics, mainly handheld sensor devices. Thru the months I devoloped the company into something more then the original design. I took an interest in the medical factions on the site, and thru RP merged the company with Selesin Medical Technologies, and eventually Vanguaard Industries. The paperwork was all done in the G.E.C, and eventually when the G.E.C. rules changed I had the companies re-organized to suit it, dropping Selesin, finding a partner for Vangaard, switching to Casual, trying to RP back up to hardocre, ect. Chandrilla even was added to the boards so I rushed to put the canon company back on it's canon planet thru RP. The rules changed again, and this one you have to be the dominant faction on the controlling planet to control the company: fine I'm one of the only (if not the only) people on Chandrilla, despite attempts to change it, so I'm claiming the company to keep it's business going.
But here's where it goes wrong and here is where I am really confused, and VERY frustrated, so please someone help me out here.
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I'm told that I cannot keep the expanded portions of my company. I'm told that I cannot RP any of the acquisitions or products or anything else that I've built up, because and I quote "what it is and what it sells, that's what you get." Now at first I was like "Oh they're still hung up about the Selesin portion, let me clarify that". So I did. And then it's like "Okay... now their hung up on the varied buisness type: well it's a multitude not just one". And then it was explained, partially in Chat, "no honey this is what we really mean."
Canon Companies = Canon
Any deviation from Canon is not allowed
Any change in Canon is prohibited
Any RP adding on to Canon is NOT Canon
Canon Companies + Not Canon = NOT allowed
Their is no comprimise, their is no flexability, no shade of gray
After a while of circular logic I was then told "You get a canon business because you want the products it produces. You don't get it to expand and evolve it. If you want to do that, create a non-canon business"
Yet that in it self makes NO sense it itself. Sure I agree in a sense "I want Rachel's General Store" create it so sell "Rachel's Generic Gun #1", which then turns in "Rachel's Generic Weaponry". Fine. But if you can't evolve the company what's the point? What's the point of RP'ing any of the companies, even one as small as Chandril Tech? I was just recently working on a possible project with CEC, subcontracting electronics for their ships in possible return for engines or hyperdrives for mine. Yet by this logic that's considered expanding is it not? CEC engines in future ChandrilTech designs? And even if I applied Chandril Tech as a non-canon company then it would get rejected on the principle that it IS a canon company, which means we're back to square one.
It was also compared this to canon locations, how they can't change, you can't destroy planets, ect. Someone stated that they can't add locations as well, yet again this is not true: all the time people add locations, buildings comapnies to canon places. Add that the the factions that spring up which are not canon, and even the planets that we're recently created. I've previously RP'ed Chandril Tech on two other planets becuase Chandrilla didn't exist. There are companies out there, that are canon, that are RP'ing on other planets because theirs do not exist, or they have no canon location: doesn't that fall in the same category. But that's not the case: Chandril Tech is currently located ON Chandrilla, having gone thru the RP process to bring it there from it's previous non-canon location.
But honestly the biggest question raised from all of this is the following I was told "it's set in canon." If that's the case, then it creates a paradox that someone somewhere might say tear a hole in the space time continium. If these companies, and by extension planets, and the like are completly set in canon, then what's the point of RP'ing at all? Shouldn't their be flexability? If not why not just start quouting every book and movie line for line charachter for character: that's canon no?
Now I don't want anythign crazy: Cahndrilla will never have a full flegded manufacturing complex, because Chandrilla itself is a world rich in natural resources: any Chandrillian that proposed leveling the forests, draining the lakes, and strip mining would be stoned or flayed alive. Cahndril Tech will never rise to be a huge shipyard like Kuat or Fondor, or even anything resembling a minor shipbuilding facility. I know that. What I'm asking for is the right to RP the company the way I've RP'ed it, the way it's evolved over the past year, not to be stuck as some stuffy minor electronics maker.
I have no clue honestly, and this just completly set me off: it makes no sense in the slightest manner at all. Please someone explain this, clarify it, show me a ruling something, anything that takes THIS and makes it seem right.