User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-197.86.143.126-20200606192351/@comment-197.86.143.88-20200711051234

Najawin wrote: Like. C'mon. These statements obviously contradict things we know about the "continuity" of the world from that time.

Actually, it does nothing of the sort. It contradicts one continuity from this time today. At the time, it actually contradicted nothing at all.

I have started another thread here. [1]. It's not as open-and-shut as you make it out to be. In fact, in that case, there are multiple contradictory continuities.

However, when it comes to Master/War Chief, it is clear that Dicks and Hulke intended them to be one and the same. And they established in-narrative that they are one and the same. We can also bring up the Magistrate/War King which shows that subsequent authors intended them to be one and the same. And, not established fact, but John Simm's speeches about humans and his "Call to War" again back up "This is the same person as the War Chief". When we take real-world things like interviews with Malcolm Hulke etc. it becomes overwhelming.

By contrast, we have ONE account, namely Divided Loyalties too the contrary. (and even that comes in what is explicitly said to be a dream). Therefore, it looks like the default position is "The War Chief is the Master". And the 'alternative' account is the dream in Divided Loyalties.