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That would probably be highly unlikely...

Skink, an author's bible is something created by authors, particularly those of series and collaborative works, in order to try to keep some kind of continuity between books, and especially between authors. They are generally kept out of the public eye, for various reasons, but especially because they may contain information about the proposed future of plot lines, characters, and places that the author(s) do not wish to make public -- they contain spoilers! -- and sometimes the book(s) do not remain true to the bible. They can also be anything from random notes in a shoebox to highly detailed databases on a computer

I happen to have an author's bible in my possession, not for Starfist, but for War World.

I don't imagine that anyone here remembers a book series, a "shared universe", that was originated by Jerry Pournelle as a part of his overall CoDominium/Empire of Man future history. This was a series called War World. I happen to have a copy of the series bible; I earned one because I contribued to it. Because of my interest in Pournelle's work, I had put together a CoDo/EoM chronology that was far more detailed than even Pournelle had ever done, to that point (his books in that series generally had a minimal chronology appearing in the preface). I submitted my chronology to John Carr, who was the series editor at the time, and it was incorporated into the bible. Carr later sent me a copy of the bible with my chronology included. That was something like fifteen years or so ago.

I really liked that series, and considered trying to write an installment (like a short story), but never got around to it. The series ran out of legs some time back, unfortunately. I did write Pournelle a couple of years ago suggesting he dust the series off one more time, and even gave him an idea of how possibly to do so -- a plot idea. He said he liked my idea, but had a lot of doubt whether he could get his publisher interested. I guess it's the same kind of problem that David and Dan have had with SF Force Recon and DemonTech.

I think it is a good ambition to want to have an author's bible for a series one is interested in -- and I would jump at it myself -- but the chances of David or Dan even remotely considering passing it out to common folks like us, Skink, is as close to nonexistent as it is possible to get without it becoming zero. Now I will grant you that it's possible that Eric might have been given the privilege of seeing the authors bible in order to make his screenplay as accurate as possible. But maybe even he did not get to see it.