Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140921022402/@comment-209421-20141210064759

Natedog5105 wrote: Flashfire212 wrote: Also, Disney hasn't purged any authors from the Star Wars continuity. Far from it, a lot of the authors remain.... The likelihood of quality going down just because the series was altered is miniscule. Timothy Zahn's works have been made non-canon and false. The man who wrote the first Star Wars novel, authored one of the best written Star Wars book series out there (his five Thrawn novels), and created the entire foundation for the post-Episode 6 legacy world has just been undermined. Every event that happens after that point has basically just been reduced to fan-work that never actually happens in-universe. We've lost Mara Jade, Boba Fett, the Yuuzan Vong, Kyle Kartan, and Grand Moff Thrawn, all great additions to the SW Universe. Disney kicked him out, and now I've been reduced to sitting in a corner and reading the Legacy books while crying because now I know that they're all wrong.

A few miniscule points here.

1. Boba Fett - Appeared in Attack of the Clones, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, a few episodes of The Clone Wars, and has been announced to be getting a movie dedicated to him. So no, we haven't lost him.

2. Thrawn was Grand Admiral, and is rumored to be in-line to get resurrected into the series.

Look, as annoying as it is for Zahn's work to be moved into the Legacy Vault, Lucasfilm has made it clear that they intend to bring back a lot of characters. On top of that, every product released from now onwards is canon. What's to say that Thrawn won't be the Imperial Commander in the upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront? What about his background? Hell, WHAT IF THRAWN IS IN THE UPCOMING MOVIES? It might not be the Thrawn we know, but if it's an art-admiring officer with a tactical genius, then it's Thrawn.

The loss of Mara Jade, as well as the post-ROTJ world, is what makes me sad. I adored the Solo kids, not to mention Luke and Mara's relationship.

There were three Star Wars authors that I adored, or at least viewed higher than the rest. Zahn, Allston, and Traviss. Allston passed away earlier this year. Karen Traviss quit her contract after The Clone Wars changed Mandalore from the original farming world occupied by combatitive mercenary nomads to a pacifistic culture in a radioactive desert. Zahn still writes for Star Wars, or was doing so before the reboot.

Hopefully we'll know more soon, but as a Mandalorian fan, I will not hold my breath that the people will be returned to their rightful glory. Not after Sabine in Rebels.