2 cents.
Okay, $2.78.
It's dissapointing to see how hot people got about this. Fact, schmact. Remember, the source code was handed over to us freely. We can make this universe whatever we want it to be.
Voilition is never going to tell us what happened at Capella, where blah-blah nebula is, whether or not Mr. Bosch isn't some Shivan commander's ***** now, or what this whole deal is about. It's up to the rest of us to make educated projections to fill in the blanks and continue the story. The non-canon stuff has totally dwarfed the canon stuff. What CAN be done is the 'if enough people agree' thing can be used to incorporate some small non-canon material, plus inject some of the goodies proposed in the more elaborate of the user-made campaigns.
I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with bringing these theories and ideas in, so long as they can be referenced as "non-canon". I can't see how anyone could whine about that, considering we're dealing with a game going on over six years old. Look at how much has been accomplished by fans alone!
We already know that any theories about the 'firecracker' issues (Bosh, Capella, Shivans) are going to be summarily dismisssed by the community. We simply weren't given enough information to 'know'. But that still leaves a lot of room for other things (why Ross 128 got hit first, where the 'Homesick' survivors are, the whole of the Terran-Vasudan War, the dawn of space travel, etc).
I'm suggesting that the non-canon stuff included be based on existing and future user-made campaigns. I think it would encourage our mission developers to be cohesive in their development (i.e., not making campaign arcs that are blatantly contradictory of one another). It would give a road map showing where the 'blanks' are in the FS universe.
I respect both sides of the issue on this. I can't help but get excited by the concept of a gaming universe with no limits, written by the people who play it.
Derelict, Fall of Episoln Pegausi, Inferno, Homesick, Sol: A History, Blackwater Operations (once it comes out), and I'm sure the Terran-Vasudan War Project are or will be easily as good as the retail campaigns and really enrich the story.
carry on....