In my eyes, there is a core problem with most of these.
In general,
1. Any alteration to canon must likely be strong, in order to change humanity's odds. Consider especially the level of covert intervention discussed in the Cally books. They make obvious some of the subtle bits in the earlier books. The Darhel are very good at having killed or destroyed things that would interfere with their plans.
2. Strong is likely obvious. Consider what the Kratman books and Eye of the Storm have to say about the Darhel, the Aldenata, the Posleen, and their historical interactions with humanity. The Darhel had suborned part of the US Department of State in the 1930s. They had very good intelligence on the capabilities and intentions of humanity. Any alteration too strong might have the Darhel instead opt to let the Humans and Posleen meet without warning.
3. a) If the Earth is capable of standing off the Posleen entirely on its own resources, without warning, it kinda removes the tension.
b) If humanity does not end up coupled with the Galatics somehow, they don't have an internal handle to reform the system, eventually, which raises issues like how one handles the Galactic mess from the outside, and what about the Hedren?
4) It also would seem to kinda derail the core conflict of the setting, which is the issue of the Aldenata, who ended up loading the guns that were the Posleen and Darhel, and leaving them around to go off.
For the Dahak books, Colin should have already come across traces of the Aldenata and their manipulations when he was going on the trip where he became emperor, if they didn't show up in Dahak's history or when he was standing against the mutiny.
So, there are huge potential problems in messing around with the Aldenata setting, that probably require effort, research and thought to overcome. It isn't as much 'change anything and you hurt the good guys' as Bahzell is, but it is really easy to mess things up.
Not that I let this stop me from outlining a plan for a Sailor Moon Expanded AU that had both the Aldenata and Achultaani integrated in it, some years back. (I eventually found answers to these issues that satisfied me, even if the thing was too much of a mess for me to write.) I was working off of an old piece of now ex-canon backstory that Ringo had put on his website of many years ago, and on Ben Singleton's (sp?) Legacy of the Aldenata RPG, so it wouldn't satisfy all the problems that modern known and implied canon present.
(However, I think that canon and ex-canon seems to be fairly congruent.)
And the spacebattles forum crossover with the Legacy of the Aldenata has already been done. It is called the Legacy of the Aldenata by John Ringo, and can be found here:
http://www.webscription.n...enata-by-john-ringo.aspx
*Grins, ducks, and explains while backpeddling*
Note: I figure that in canon I get eaten. I also figure that a good amount of a lot of internet forums would also get eaten.
In general,
1. Any alteration to canon must likely be strong, in order to change humanity's odds. Consider especially the level of covert intervention discussed in the Cally books. They make obvious some of the subtle bits in the earlier books. The Darhel are very good at having killed or destroyed things that would interfere with their plans.
2. Strong is likely obvious. Consider what the Kratman books and Eye of the Storm have to say about the Darhel, the Aldenata, the Posleen, and their historical interactions with humanity. The Darhel had suborned part of the US Department of State in the 1930s. They had very good intelligence on the capabilities and intentions of humanity. Any alteration too strong might have the Darhel instead opt to let the Humans and Posleen meet without warning.
3. a) If the Earth is capable of standing off the Posleen entirely on its own resources, without warning, it kinda removes the tension.
b) If humanity does not end up coupled with the Galatics somehow, they don't have an internal handle to reform the system, eventually, which raises issues like how one handles the Galactic mess from the outside, and what about the Hedren?
4) It also would seem to kinda derail the core conflict of the setting, which is the issue of the Aldenata, who ended up loading the guns that were the Posleen and Darhel, and leaving them around to go off.
For the Dahak books, Colin should have already come across traces of the Aldenata and their manipulations when he was going on the trip where he became emperor, if they didn't show up in Dahak's history or when he was standing against the mutiny.
So, there are huge potential problems in messing around with the Aldenata setting, that probably require effort, research and thought to overcome. It isn't as much 'change anything and you hurt the good guys' as Bahzell is, but it is really easy to mess things up.
Not that I let this stop me from outlining a plan for a Sailor Moon Expanded AU that had both the Aldenata and Achultaani integrated in it, some years back. (I eventually found answers to these issues that satisfied me, even if the thing was too much of a mess for me to write.) I was working off of an old piece of now ex-canon backstory that Ringo had put on his website of many years ago, and on Ben Singleton's (sp?) Legacy of the Aldenata RPG, so it wouldn't satisfy all the problems that modern known and implied canon present.
(However, I think that canon and ex-canon seems to be fairly congruent.)
And the spacebattles forum crossover with the Legacy of the Aldenata has already been done. It is called the Legacy of the Aldenata by John Ringo, and can be found here:
http://www.webscription.n...enata-by-john-ringo.aspx
*Grins, ducks, and explains while backpeddling*
Note: I figure that in canon I get eaten. I also figure that a good amount of a lot of internet forums would also get eaten.