User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-28349479-20161216221639/@comment-28349479-20161218133331

I'd like to emphasize how this is nothing like the Vienna situation, where the creator repeatedly, directly, and unambiguously said "This is not a Doctor Who spinoff," and the only conflicting evidence was some ambiguity from the Big Finish website. In direct contrast, many FP authors have directly and unambiguously indicated that the Faction Paradox series is a part of the DWU, and the only quote that possibly suggests that Miles thinks otherwise (cited in the original thread) is completely ambiguous – not only using the word "universe" figuratively but also solely in reference to Alien Bodies and Interference – and contrary to the vast body of his other words and actions on this topic.

I've found comments in various inclusion debates that suggest there's a commonly accepted misconception that Miles created FP in some sort of "angry rebuke" of the EDAs. For instance, from Czechout's comments in Thread:125464:

"And let's not forget that he (Miles) created the FP series because he was disgusted with the BBC. Although he might see the marketing need for licensing some DWU-originating characters from Holmes, he's not trying to build an adjunct to the DWU. He's trying to tell the story of The War the way he wanted to tell it. And he is trying to create something of his own. He is not playing in the DWU as it is. He's creating something he finds creatively more satisfying and interesting. He's creating something quite definitely apart from the DWU."

This is a completely unfounded interpretation of Miles' intentions with Faction Paradox. I'm not sure where on earth it comes from, but many have repeated it on this wiki over the last five years.

At risk of sounding like a broken record, Miles started the FP spinoff before the release of 'The Ancestor Cell'; even then, he went out of his way to reconcile TAC with his FP series by explicitly stating that FP is in the same aborted timeline as Alien Bodies, Interference, The Taking of Planet 5, and the rest of the EDA War arc, making it his explicit intent for FP to be as valid as those stories (or other aborted timelines, like the Doctor's tomb on Trenzalore in The Name of the Doctor); and Miles even went so far as to incorporate the effects of TAC into several FP stories, which are explicitly set in the same post-War universe as the post-TAC EDAs.

This is a complete repeat of what I said in the OP, where I sourced all of these claims, but I feel it's necessary to directly address this ludicrous misconception before it has the chance to be echoed again.

(Thanks Dench-and-Palmer!)