Sigma AU: What is and isn't canon?

As the writer of an alternate universe parallel to our own that is still in active development, one must consider, that with newer stories and information that facts may collide with older lore.

The Sigma AU adopts a "newest content takes precedence" approach to lore accuracy, and older lore entries may be updated silently to address this.

As time goes on, characters, ideas, attitudes, and places all change. The Sigma AU's "current"  state is at the turn of the century, and unless explicitly stated, all short stories take place over the course of 2100.

The primary writing focus of this blog is creative exercise and self-expression. Lore accuracy is paramount, and often, lots of time is spent making slight adjustments to ensure that events are congruent.

Dates will be constantly altered to reflect the constant influx of information constantly being created, both as primary content and supporting material.

Given the Sigma AU is an alternate version of our own universe, choices have to be made regarding what in our world carries over to the Sigma AU.

The stance taken is that unless explicitly stated, nothing has changed. The most significant events of the Sigma AU takes place after 2035. After careful consideration and review of past materials, many, many writers never thought that their creations would still be relevant to the consumers of such media, and have hastily tried to predict the technology of the future.

The Sigma AU's lore heavily focuses on real world established technology with a few grains of salt in the future. For example, the prosthetic arms worn today are powered by batteries. Today, we also have piezoelectric generators that can generate electricity from simple movement. We have ultracapacitors that can store electricity just as well, if not better, than batteries. Given the futuristic setting of the Sigma AU, and the death of Moore's Law, the technology in the Sigma AU is defined as a refined version of what we already have, giving plausibility to it.

As far as genetic engineering goes, our world already has clones, and we've successfully created hybrids. We can replace bones with titanium. One man even cured his own genetic disease using CRISPR. Reason stands to say that in the future, this technology is improved upon, allowing us to create the hybrids present in Sigma AU.

We also have awarded prizes to people for proving that alternate universes exist using quantum physics that the average person is far too stupid to understand. We've also used particle accelerators to open our own microscopic black holes, which are thought to be portals to these other universes.

These details don't necessarily prove the validity of the science fiction aspects of the Sigma AU, but rather disprove the invalidity of it, which is slightly different.

That being said, enjoy this fiction for what it is, and take safety in that the reality to the fictional characters who live in it very well could exist in some alternate universe.