User blog comment:Ahalosniper/The B312 Incongruency/@comment-5114689-20130425192736

I think cases like this show something inherently wrong with our rules on canon friendliness. I am not advocating we turn into fanfictionhalo, I am not advocating we go balls to the wall crazy and just do away with the rule, but it is a tad ridiculous that no user can make an alternate scenario or such without being named canon unfriendly. Most users try to skirt this by either doing a time period Bungie has never covered (pre war) or just going after the war and practically pretending previous Halo didn't exist so that they can have free reign.

The idea that it is fine to add tons of new alien species, vehicles, characters and events to any time period you want as long as they don't cover 2525 - 2552 seems silly and simply limiting on users freedom to right. If a user acknowledges their story is not following Halo canon to the key and does it within reason, then why should we care that much? The users ideas probably aren't any more outlandish than a lot of the Good Article and Fanon of the Month award winners articles, just in a different time period. And I personally think that having an alternate story where a character survive is a lot less odd than a lot of things that are deemed canon friendly.