What is really canon?
January 12, 2016 7:10AM
edited January 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_canon
Especially when it concerns the expanded universe. Here it alluded to the expanded universe being canonical even in a vague way, but it's more than vague; it's contradictory to their new storyline thread with the movies. I want to catch up to speed with Star Wars canon but i'm oh so confused, none of it makes sense. Someone save me
Especially when it concerns the expanded universe. Here it alluded to the expanded universe being canonical even in a vague way, but it's more than vague; it's contradictory to their new storyline thread with the movies. I want to catch up to speed with Star Wars canon but i'm oh so confused, none of it makes sense. Someone save me
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All pages on Wookieepedia are sorted between Legends (previously official canon) and Canon (events that have been re-added to canon since Episode VII launched). Just browsing for a bit should help.
But people are too conservative about canon. You can have several version of the universe (Star Trek and WH40K work like that). This is fiction after all.
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I think the EU was considered somewhere in the middle ground between canon and not though, rather than just a simple black and white scenario. Obviously with the new movie it's out the window and its own entity. The movies are pretty much the Alpha canon and anything that doesn't contradict that is in the green. Like how Zahn wrote that the Clone Wars were 40 years before ANH and then the movies later amended that to 20 years. But Zahn also created Coruscant and that got translated almost directly to TPM.
The EU is/was certainly considered more canon than the books from the Star Trek universe (if any of y'all aren't at a war with that saga). Basically anything show/movie for them is put on one Wiki while all their extraneous books and comics are placed on a separate one. MemoryAlpha and MemoryBeta. At least their reboot didn't rewrite everything ever and just made a parallel universe. But Star Trek is kinda known for the weird stuff.
I'm not going to let the EU go though. I'm more than happy with the direction the new trilogy is headed but you'll pry Mara Jade from my cold dead hands.
Thanks for all the feedback guys n gals =]
George Lucas created Coruscant, and Ralph McQuarrie depicted it many years ago in many production paintings for ROTJ. It was also added to the Special Edition before Episode I.
I'd agree EU would mostly be semi-canon, as Lucas would change things when it came to making his main movies, and probably would have done for the real sequel trilogy.
1. All Star Wars Episodic Movies.
2. The Clone Wars
3. Rebels
4. Specific books based on movie material
Yes that's what I said. What I meant by elements are the various types of troops and such included in the game. What isn't canon is each players individual base/character.
EU is not cannon, but Freemium games are? Sigh.....
Yeah, unfortunately.