Yes, it is. It's S-canon.

This was a specialty of Darth Traya, who was known to control three lightsabers through telekinesis, leaving her lone hand free for other applications (like Force Lightning). Saber throw is also a somewhat basic function of telekinetic combat, as the wielder has to throw the saber at its target and pull it back when it hits (or misses, as the case may be). In the RPG, lightsabers can be fitted with "Force switches," which forgo the use of a mechanical switch in order to make the saber turn on and off via the Force (and, thus, making the saber unusable by non-Force users). They also had switch locks, which mechanically kept the switch on the saber from turning off while being thrown.

I have never seen a time when George Lucas himself referred to any level of canon. He doesn't have to, as he trusts Leland Chee with that job. It is Chee's sole job at Lucasfilm. George has never said that Boba Fett's survival was N-canon, and, on the other side of the coin, he would never say something was C-canon. It should also be noted that the Star Wars Holiday Special is ranked as S-canon. There are aspects of that show that are used in other works throughout the EU, such as Life Day. The variety show didn't happen, but the Imperials did occupy Kashyyyk in that time period, and Chewbacca did have a family on the planet. Masters of teras kasi also is an S-canon work. Arden Lyn does indeed exist in the EU, but, I do not believe there was any sort of martial arts tournament across the galaxy.

Hear hear. Han Solo was actually a foreshadowing analogue to Darth Vader. In Star Wars, we saw Han at his lowest: he tries to bilk people for money for a ride off a planet, he kills in cold blood someone who threatened that his ship would be taken from him, he was at times a coward and a reckless gallant. His arrival to save Luke at the end of the film was a surprise to the audience (and probably to Han himself). In Empire, Han's been with the Rebellion for three years, but we see the old Han coming back; after a run-in with a bounty hunter on Ord Mantell (the EU will later tell us that this was Dengar, who has a very personal vendetta against Solo, but I digress) he is ready to abandon the Rebellion and start trying to find a way to pay off Jabba. His selfishness makes him ignore that fact that the Rebellion is full of people just like him--as General Rieekan said, "A death mark's not an easy thing to live with." But, by the end of the events on Cloud City, Han has realized his love for Leia, and makes it known in a way that only Han Solo could pull off (in what I consider the greatest ad-lib line in motion picture history). In Return, in what is only his third selfless act in the trilogy, Han finally fully embraces the Rebellion and leads a team on what could be a suicide mission (something he very vocally declined in the first movie). And all this change through love: his love for Leia, his love for Luke as a friend, and probably his finally remembered love of the ideal of freedom. Meanwhile, in space, Darth Vader has led his son to the Emperor, who plans to convert him or kill him. In the end, Darth Vader performs his first selfless act in at least 22 years by sacrificing himself to save his son. Just as we saw with Han Solo, love was the catalyst that brought Vader back to the loving person he was before his fears caused him to make a very selfish and life-changing decision in Palpatine's office that set him on a path to the depths of despair and evil. By changing one scene in A New Hope, the transformation of Han Solo was greatly lessened, and the depth of the character was shallowed as a result.

The only really confusing thing about Star Wars canon is the multiple levels of canon involved. Pretty much every other time the word "canon" is used, it refers to the collection of works that are considered "correct." Take religion, for example. To (most) Christian denominations, the 66 books found in the Holy Bible are considered canon, while other works like The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene are apocryphal (that is, related, but non-canon). Take a denomination like the Church of Latter-Day Saints, and the canon also includes the Book of Mormon, The Pearl of Great Price, and the Doctrine and Covenants. In the world of fictional intellectual properties, typically everything written by an author is considered canon, while other works are considered apocryphal. The Middle Earth canon includes the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillon, as well as some letters written by Tolkien himself, and some works by his son. Fan fiction involving what might have happened off-page are not canon, nor are the movies. However, the movies themselves have a canon that includes everything included in the Extended Editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but not the novels that inspired them. Star Wars is a completely different beast. It's a universe that grew bigger than its creator, and it has been crafted by numerous authors. However, the creator has ultimate power over the universe. His material is at the highest level of canon. It overrides all others. It can be taken by itself as a complete story, or it can be just one in a myriad of stories told by a plethora of authors. Everything that is not considered G-canon (movies only), T-canon (The Clone Wars cartoon, but not the 2002 Tartovsky Clone Wars), S-canon (most games including Star Wars Galaxies, the Star Wars Holiday Special, and a few others works) or N-canon (anything specifically listed as non-canon, such as alternate-universe stories and actual game stats and mechanics) is considered C-canon. George Lucas' Star Wars lies at G-canon. The Expanded Universe is everything but N-canon. And most everything in the EU is considered "correct" as long as it doesn't conflict with a work in a higher level of canon or a more highly-recognized work on the same level. As to the Boba Fett issue: I dislike the character. I abhor his addition to the ANH Special Edition (he mugged for the camera!), and I think he became way too popular for what was essential a yes-man for the Empire and Jabba the Hutt. That said--and it really pains me to say this--Boba Fett is, up until the point of his death in a future EU work, alive. The movies (remember, the absolute authority when it comes to canon) were never specific as to Boba Fett's fate. It is obvious from the screenplays that Boba Fett was meant to die in the belly of the sarlacc. However, because the story wasn't about Boba Fett, and he was essentially a throwaway character, Lucas saw no reason to explicitly show his death, the way he showed those of Obi-Wan, Yoda, Palpatine and Anakin Skywalker. Because of this, his appearance in the post-Return EU does not contradict G-canon, and his status as a living person is confirmed. If you take the movies as a self-contained work, you are certainly entitled to make the case that Boba Fett died. The argument could be made either way. I personally like that he died to the sarlacc. it makes sense in the scheme of things. After all, if people could escape from the sarlacc, why would Jabba bother using it as an execution device? I hate to make the comparison, but think of it like the final scene of Shane. Is he dead or alive? Both answers are valid, and it's something of a statement of the viewer, rather than the work itself. But, if I'm talking about the EU, where the movies are only a part (though a very important part) of the overall universe, I cannot make the argument that Boba Fett is dead. Rather, I could, but I'd be wrong. Boba Fett survived the sarlacc. That is fact. Refusing to acknowledge it only means that you are simply wrong. It's not a case of "believe what you like." It is a case of true or false, and to say that Boba Fett died in the sarlacc pit is a blatant falsehood. TLDR version for the reading impaired: Boba Fett survived the sarlacc, but he might have died in it, depending on what boundaries you set for the discussion.

... or a Dark Shadows movie. I'll be over here grumbling like an elderly person. On topic, though, I always got the feeling that the Exile's story happened very much in secret. Not necessarily in secret, but just that the galaxy as a whole just didn't care. It was called the Jedi Civil War, after all. It was a conflict between Jedi, and the general populace couldn't care less about it if it didn't affect them. And weren't Sion and Nihilus pretty much just going after Jedi? I just got the idea playing the game that, unlike Revan and Malak or Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-droma, the trio of Sion, Nihilus and Traya, important as they may be to the story and to the events that happened surrounding that story (such as the Miraluka colony's death), just didn't achieve that notoriety they needed for anyone but the most specialized Jedi historians to take much note of. And most of the Jedi had died by that point.

The time and place referred to in "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" is wholly dependant on the physical and temporal position of the narrator.

I can't say for certain, but I do have some anecdotal evidence. In beta, I leveled up a Sith Warrior to the end of Dromund Kaas. Vette was a powerhouse, but, in the right circumstances, she could be killed. After 1.2, I started a Sith Warrior, and this character has an extra 150 presence (level 50 human with 5 maxed companions). Vette pretty much soloed the Red Machine. The hardest part about the quest was getting a few hits on the k'lor'slugs before she killed them all. The other Heroic on Korriban was just as easy. I pulled the boss, and Vette immediately took aggro and held it. In the time it took me to kill the two engineers, Vette had the elite down to 20% health, and she was at about 80%. Presence works. Putting it on the companion doesn't do anything, because the companions don't have companions to help with it. You need to put it on your gear to have an affect. Honestly, I wouldn't bother with it. But then, I've always hated having to put together multiple sets of gear. I always found the idea of "resist gear" ludicrous. Your mileage may vary, of course.

The Handmaiden is still canon. In the canon version of the tale, she traveled with the Exile just as Mical did. She replaced Atris as historian in the reformed Order, even.

Schrodinger's Fett?

George Lucas, from the intro to the ANH Special Edition VHS. That's Lucas' definition. In the universe of the movies, which is the entirety of Star Wars according to Lucas, there is the Force and the Dark Side. The Force is the Force in its natural state--peaceful, harmonious, balanced. The Dark Side is the corruption of that. He likened it to cancer, where the Force itself was more of a symbiotic relationship. One is healthy; the other kills. The EU definition, however, can be different. Dawn of the Jedi is a major example of this: The Je'daii believe that the Force is balanced by embracing both Light and Dark.

Slicing never destroyed items. It was, however, random; there was a range of values that the improvement would lie in. So, people would bring me crates full of items, and I'd use crates full of slicing tools. They'd pay me for the slicing, keep the best items for themselves and then put the rest of the items up on the market. The chance of destroying an item came from repairing it. Repair kits had a low chance of setting an item's max durability to 1.

I don't get purple drops. Nor do I buy stuff from the GTN. I'm not saying they're not too expensive. They are. 200 daily commendations is way too much. But they're not useless, either.

I actually used the legacy sniper rifle for nearly 10 levels. I went back to my BT sniper rifle once I bought a higher-rated barrel on Balmorra. I hope I can get that appearance as an orange later. If not, Bioware needs to add it. It was nice to have an actual sniper rifle for a while, rather than what would equate to a battle rifle in modern terms.

That's not false advertising in the least. That's Bioware doing what testing is meant for: figuring out what works, what doesn't, and what might be changed. I preferred it when everything was moddable, too. But to say that switching from the "everything is moddable" system to the " almost nothing is moddable" system to the hybrid system we have now while the game is in testing and has not yet released is false advertising or misleading is not only patently false, but extremely absurd on top of it. Strangely enough, I don't experience this ability delay. Every game does that. Every single one. Their previews, trailers, and screenshots are made on the highest-end computers they can buy. If you want to call out EA for this practice, go ahead. But make sure you include every other major game publisher in the industry in your rebuke.

I don't know about you, but I'm getting all three of those things.

Darth Maul was a hell of a tank. Sure, he didn't use a shield generator, but he was able to fend off two Jedi at once. In my opinion, Darth Maul was the biggest reason to give tanking abilities to Shadows and Assassins. Originally, these two ACs weren't tanks, and I questioned why because of Darth Maul. Then, later, they were given a tanking tree, and all was right with the world.

Splinter of the Mind's Eye is the only possible novel that he could be talking about, as it's the only EU novel that was published before RotJ released that included Luke and Leia. The Han Solo Trilogy was printed around the release of ESB, though. In it, the familial relationship hadn't been established yet, so, yes, there was a bit of sexual tension between Luke and Leia in the novel. They never acted on any desires, though, and they certainly didn't get married and have children. Some of that novel is no longer canon, but some of it is, like the Kaiburr Crystal. Also, I would like to note that LucasArts does not publish books. LucasArts is a publisher of video games. Del Rey is the current publisher of Star Wars novels, via a license issued by Lucas Licensing.

I don't think the Force can be used to make a force field. Not in the manner of a shield generator, anyway. If it could, Shadows and Guardians wouldn't need shield generators to produce one. She absorbed the energy. She shortened the arc of the saber in doing so. Occam's Razor.

They do this sometimes. The only example I can think of off the bat, though, is the Esseles. If the Dark Side option is chosen, and the engineering compartment is vented, there is an option to continue the conversation with a line like, "That was going too far." I would like to see more of these, and maybe even sub-branches in conversations where players and their active companions can do a bit of talking amongst themselves periodically.

Your regular Jedi or Sith, no. They'd toil away in obscurity for years before coming into their own. But, there are two things that make it more feasible for the player characters to advance so quickly: First, it's wartime. Sith and Jedi must become more powerful because, sometimes, it literally means life or death. They are getting real-world practice daily in dangerous situations. Think of it like learning a language. Sure, you can learn a language by picking up Rosetta Stone or taking a class at the community college. But, to really learn a language quickly, you can spend a few months or a year immersed in that culture. Want to get better at using the Force? Get into situations where your ability with the Force can mean the difference between your going home and your becoming one with the Force. Second, the player characters are exceptional people. They are the pinnacle of the Jedi and Sith. They are naturally talented, and they excel at what they do. The Knight is the consummate swordsman, a savant, if you will, who can defeat a saber-wielding veteran Jedi with natural talent and a training saber. The Consular is hand-picked by his master because of his aptitude, and that aptitude makes him ideal for performing the services required in that storyline. The Inquisitor is a slave chosen for training at the Academy, so already we know that he is gifted. But, he also easily sidesteps every obstacle put before him, and he works every situation to his advantage (as well as a realization that comes later explaining the source of the inquisitor's power). The Warrior is descended from a powerful lineage of Sith, and is fast-tracked in the Academy. Despite his lack of training time, he handily defeats his rivals there, and goes on to quickly become a prominent Sith. Combine those two elements, and you have characters that thrive in adversity, who can quickly rise through the ranks based on their merits. I think the timeline of the game right now is more along the lines of three to four years, with much of that actually spent in hyperspace. But, since spending weeks inside a cramped starship isn't very conducive to heroic storytelling (or gameplay, when you really want to get to another planet to meet up with some friends), that part is skipped over.

A little bit of Monica in my life A little bit of Erica by my side A little bit of Rita is all I need A little bit of Tina is what I see A little bit of Sandra in the sun A little bit of Mary all night long A little bit of Jessica here I am A little bit of you makes me your man

The devs never said it was going to be in 1.2. Some players decided that "soon" meant "next patch," and started the rumor. This happens with a lot of stuff. The devs will say that they're working on something down the line, and some people will immediately assume it's in the next patch, and they will then spread that rumor, which way too many people take as gospel. Then, when the patch hits, and that feature didn't make it in, some of those players start threads like "The Developers Lied!" and "I thought ___ was going to be in this patch. So much for Customer Service!" even though that feature was never on the test server, and was never announced as in the patch. I always wonder how much bad customer service can be attributed to bad customers. A lot, I think.

As a Scoundrel, I get a lot of "Effect Condition Not Met" or something like that. When does this happen? When I'm standing behind a mob trying to use Back Blast. The Condition not met? Being behind the target. I have to move out to the side in order to hit him.

Boot camp shouldn't be holding any of your memory back when you boot into Windows. It should be using all of it. Or do you mean hard drive space? That's storage. RAM is memory. Just a heads-up on the terminology, as I was really confused as to how your particular installation of Boot Camp would be working. So, yeah, you'd need an NTFS partition for Boot Camp. Your RAM would be fully utilized.