Hey Noel. I would quite glad to have your skills and input on this game. I left how involved cannon characters are with this new academy intentionally vague. I have no plans to involve cannon characters in the plot of this game or even to really have them around the academy at all. I believe they are all off living their own lives and doing their own things, that they more or less founded the school then left it be. But I am not against them making a brief 1 to 3 post cameo. However that would only be if it would perfectly fit into the direction the game was going. I have no intentions of shoehorning cannon characters into this game and I would prefer if we focused on your own characters entirely. I also agree with the star system mattering, that is where I lean for this game. Would be very boring if there was no room for growth after all.