This event was extremely close to being 'special people only, nobody else allowed.' It was basically the same cast of people running around and doing things, and nobody else was involved. I see nothing wrong with making something actually happen to spice the event up, considering that nobody else aboard had been affected, and were simply sitting around while some people did fuck-all somewhere else, without involving a significant number of people. I also have to point out that nobody was the event coordinator - Xander was, for all intents and purposes, running the event as his DO, because nobody had ever given instructions on how it was going to be run.
I said this on Discord, and I'll say it here. Unexpected things happen. Declaring something non-canon and getting into a fit over it because something didn't go as planned, or didn't go the way you like, is ridiculous, especially if you're the one who isn't running the event. Hell, a little over a month ago, Delta had the same thing happen to him (and he was actually running the event, by the way) and was basically told that shit happens, and that sucks, but you have to deal with it. And that was canon, AFAIK.
Also, how are people supposed to call a vote to make shit violent? Beg the admins over OOC to do it? People are here to enjoy themselves, and asking them to put your enjoyment ahead of theirs for the purposes of this event and everything going smoothly is, frankly, dumb.
Ninja'd by four people, but the 'opportunities to interact' didn't exist, as Security was kicking people out of the places where the ambassadors were.