No, I do believe you are perfectly correct. The things is though, I -personally- feel as if this matter is the same with [i]any[/i] small scale game based in a setting which is not either fan-fic or historical. The Op will always have an ideal world they want to create, myself included. I am imagining a dark, gloomy epoch, seeded with corruption and all hope for any meaningful future having long since passed. Undoubtedly not everyone will agree with me. Some might want to believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, or maybe that they themselves can bring such about. They are no more correct then I am and I do not see it as my place as an OP to correct them, only to provide the possibility that they are right and the possibility that they are wrong. From there they must decide.

This is [i]not[/i] the same thing as stunting their rp. Yes, what you say is true, I will not allow a character that does not fit with the setting. But who determines what that setting is? Is it I? Its creator? Or is it the players? Personally, I believe it is both. You see, the reason I wrote out such a document of lore was not to bind characters into its constrictive if voluminous passages. It was to provide reference in the formulation of their own. A planet as vast as Mars or as crowded as Luna can not be summed up into a paragraph or two, as much as I originally tried. These are generalizations. They are a quick notion of an overlying concept which could itself be completely false depending upon who you ask. I cannot promise that I will not, and never will, fail as an OP. It would be a lie, just as it would be for any in the same position. What I can say is that the reason I did not simply write a novel, as you put it, was because I wanted to see what people would do with this setting. I wanted to know how others came to recognize it; how they came to exist within and as part of it, building outwards.

But of course, I could be wrong.