Star Wars: Tales from a Parallel Universe
Recently announced on the EU section of StarWars.com and by Dark Horse Comics is the new Legacy comics series. Whereas the rest of the 'Expanded Universe' has always either stuck with the same characters from the films or (rarely) leapt backward in time to a point well before the film era (but curiously similar to it), Legacy is where we truly find ourselves with Star Wars: The Next Generation, with an "all new Sith Order!", "all new Skywalker!", and most interestingly an "all new Empire!".
See, that last part's the kicker. If it's an all new Empire then, well, whatever. But the main site suggests that we're looking at "a galaxy held in thrall by a resurgent Empire seeking to destroy the last of the Jedi". In other words, we're talking about Palpatine's Galactic Empire, which in the EU has continued to exist into the New Jedi Order era decades after the canon declared the Empire "dead" as of the end of Return of the Jedi (after which point Lucas simply thinks Han and Leia settle down into a pleasant life in the new Republic, contrary to the struggles shown in the EU).
If the Empire has survived and taken over from the New Republic in the EU at this point, over a century after RoTJ, then this means several things. First, nothing in the rest of the post-RoTJ EU has particularly mattered. Second, and most importantly, there can be no doubt that the EU is a parallel universe.
posted by Author @ 05:45
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If the Empire has survived and taken over from the New Republic in the EU at this point, over a century after RoTJ, then this means several things.
1. First, nothing in the rest of the post-RoTJ EU has particularly mattered. 2. Second, and most importantly, there can be no doubt that the EU is a parallel universe.
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1. On the long term, I'd agree with that point.
2. I don't understand the reasoning. What Lucas did made clear, well above the supposedly final destruction of the Empire in ROTJ, is that the Sith were no more.
Now, with holocrons here and there, and dark Force users turning lucky in their search of the Sith legacy, they may have found an old Sith spirit, or a Sith holocron, or both, and learned enough to restart the Sith lineage, since being Sith is nothing more than a question of being recognized as a Sith, following the way of life of the Sith, and possessing the knowledge of the Sith, all of which could be achieved, learnt and obtained by founding decent Sith holocrons and above all a Sith spirit which is the EU throws around from time to time.
So, despite the zero-imagination milking of the franchise, this doesn't seem to be enough to declare the EU non canon.
Other more conclusive pieces of evidence are needed for that.
A. The Sith are irrelevant. My point is in regards to the Empire and its continued existence in the post-RoTJ EU.
B. Other more conclusive pieces of evidence exist in abundance. Hit the site index and peek at the Star Wars canon section.
Thanks!
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