This was Timothy Zahn's post on face book about it . Having now had a few days to process the news from LFL, a few thoughts: First, since many of you are wondering, I have *not* yet been asked to write any new Star Wars books. But that doesn’t mean I won’t receive such an invitation in the future. If that happens, whether or not I accept will depend on what kind of story I’m asked to write, what input I’d have on the content, what era the story will be set in, etc. I would certainly *like* to return to the GFFA, but at the moment that’s not my decision to make. Second, as far as I can tell from the announcement, LFL is *not* erasing the EU, but simply making it clear that nothing there is official canon. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, nor does it immediately send everything into alternate-universe status. If nothing from the Thrawn Trilogy, say, is used in future movies (and if there’s nothing in the movies that contradicts it), then we can reasonably continue to assume that those events *did* happen. It looks to me like the “Legends” banner is going to be used mainly to distinguish Story-Group-Approved canon books from those that aren’t officially canon but might still exist. Third, even if something from the Thrawn Trilogy *does* show up in a movie in a different form, we authors are masters of spackle, back-fill, and hand-waving. For example, if Ghent appears in the movies but never mentions Thrawn, I can argue that he simply doesn’t want to talk about that era, or else has completely forgotten about it. (Which for Ghent isn’t really much of a stretch.) Finally, there’s nothing inherently demeaning in the term “Legends.” Think back (a little farther…a little farther) to Disney’s 1950s “Davy Crockett” TV series, (a show I grew up with) which presented stories and legends about the King of the Wild Frontier. Historians have Crockett’s genuine history, but there’s nothing that says these TV adventures *didn’t* happen, right? So until and unless the legend puts Davy in Tennessee at the same time the real history puts him in Virginia, we can still believe those adventures happened. That’s how I expect it to be with the “real” Star Wars history versus the “legendary” adventures of the EU. Bottom line: let’s all sit back and relax and see what new adventures are offered to us, both in new books and new movies. It’ll be Star Wars, and that’s what counts.

broke out my disks.

happened to me too full dl from assets 1 out come the disks

I miss the salute

Why nerf Something that hurts no one,and benifits possibly everyone who doesn't want to do the planet grind on alts? Its the customers $15 or less If they want to level that way let them

I guess the hamsters went on strike again?

in KOTOR it is mentioned and in KORTOR 2 there are 2 stealth classes. Jedi watchman and sith assasian. It also mentions Ulic Quel drona(killed spelling) mentioned as a jedi watchman

oops fixed

He found a way to survive he actually did have a quest line in S.W.G.

J'ville here too:csw_tattooine:

/sign

So BC. WOTLK, and Cata all launched in 04?

Well said OP I find myself somewhere in the middle. So I just usually keep my head down. However From time to time I just have to chime in.

Actually The dark clothes were explained in dark forces (book). and the Palpatine clone was mentioned in I,Jedi. I would assume that the whole series was then adopted into cannon.

God the op is great well done