Trinity Report From Australia, Et Cetera

The fans are part of a Star Wars-built network Lucas divides into the father (films and TV), the son (licenced spins offs such as video games, books and comics) and the holy ghost (the fans and the internet).

‘‘Everything in the father's world is consistent, mainly because I know it so well,'' he says.

‘‘The son's world pretty much do their own thing. Once in a while they will check if they can kill off a main character, but otherwise they don't really talk to me much, and if I were to find out what was going on there there's actually an encylopedia of who does what to whom we can look up.

‘‘Then we have the holy ghost and that's the internet and all the fans, and they make up their own stories, and their own world, most of which we don't even know about. There is a giant mythology going on that is bigger than me.''

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There's also some interesting detail in the fact that this Trinity stuff is getting passed around far and wide. Hardcore EU Completists will have greater and greater difficulty convincing Star Wars fans of EU supremacy when folks have that little idea in the back of the head.