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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hard_Driver:
A friend told me that George Lucas has said Dark Empire, Thrawn Trilogy, and New Jedi Order are canon. This is pretty much because he can't be arsed to write more stuff that occurred after the movies and that he thinks the writers are excellent. A hint of this: Coruscant was not called that name until Zahn used George's ideas for a political city planet for ROTJ originally named Had Abbadon. He scrapped this idea for ROTJ because he didn't have the technology to represent such a place and knew that he would eventually represent it in the prequels. Then Zahn came along and used the idea in his Thrawn Trilogy of novels and called it Coruscant. George then used that name in the prequels and we got a first glimpse in ROTJ SE. (useless but nice information)

You can do what you want Sine, I'll just imagine they rebuilt Nar Shaddaa.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">the EU is non-canon. List posted a while back by LucasFilms, Ltd to answer this question once the EU literatue began appearing:
ONLY the films, film novelizations, and radio drama adaptations are canon. Artwork and other such related materials used to make the films, provided it does not contadict the final versions as seen in the films, may also be considered canon. The radio dramas, novels, and presumably concept material serve to fill in the gaps left by the movie (the Derra IV Massacre is mentioned in the ESB radio drama, making Commander Narra's existence and death canon, however his participation at Yavin is NOT canon because it's mentioned in none of those sources) and there's a strict hierarchy in the event of disagreements (which happens due to changes in script/etc during poduction): The radio dramas are overridden by the novels, and the films override EVERYTHING (therefore the Rebel Medical Frigate in RotJ is one of the small Nebulon-B Escort Frigates as shown on-screen, NOT one of the winged Liberty-class Star Cruisers referred to in the radio drama and novelization).

The EU and various games, technical manuals and other resources are considered official, but NON-canon as long as they don't directly contradict the films. The canon sources override the EU/games/other lesser offical souces (the size of the Executor being the most obvious).

Anything NOT made by LucasArts/LucasFilm or anything that directly contradicts the canon sources falls under the category of apocrypha. This includes fanfiction/films, as well as official literature or productions that contadicts or is overruled by the movies (which includes the novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye, written before Empire Strikes Back was conceived, and the Star Wars Holiday Special). It's never made clear whether elements of EU literature which contradicts the canon renders the entire work as apocrypha or not (IE: Zahn's trilogy sets the Clone Wars exactly 50 years prior to ANH, directly contradicting the setting as presented in the Prequel Trilogy. However does this make the entirety of the Thrawn Trilogy apocrypha?)

Lucas can therefore contradict the EU literature all he wants. It's not a part of the canon and he has no obligation to include it in the history of the Star Wars Universe and numerous examples exist of the prequels directly contradicting the EU (Threepio's age and origin, Owen Lars is NOT Obi-Wan's brother, the Death Star was NOT designed by Bevel Lemelisk in the Maw).

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sine Nomen:
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Joren DarkStar:
Sine, why not just make it a couple years after JO, and make everybody happy?

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hard_Driver:
Nice attention to detail. Pleh, I am happy because in my mind things were rebuilt after the NJO series.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">IT DOESN'T ****ING MATTER! I don't care what contradicts what, it's still Star Wars, it still can be great literature, and I really don't give a **** whether or not it's canon. I am especially annoyed by both pro-EU idiots who are like "Ohh, it's still canon this new book explains the inconsistancies blah blah blah" and anti-EU idiots that are like "STFU n00bz its nut jorge lookis its not cannon FOOLZ omgn00b i juzt hate EU cuz i'm lazy 2 red LOLOLZ omgwtf"</font>

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Darko:
Good.

Meanwhile, Sine, level looks great as always, and I'm of the school that it's your level, so you can do whatever you **** well please with the plot. And if for some reason some people can't deal with that, tough.

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