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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] This is more SW Canon 101, just from the new textbook. First, regarding my earlier reference: "When he created Star Wars, George Lucas built a universe that sparked the imagination, and inspired others to create. He opened up that universe to be a creative space for other people to tell their own tales. This became the Expanded Universe, or EU, of comics, novels, videogames, and more. While Lucasfilm always strived to keep the stories created for the EU consistent with our film and television content as well as internally consistent, Lucas always made it clear that he was not beholden to the EU. He set the films he created as the canon. This includes the six Star Wars episodes, and the many hours of content he developed and produced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. These stories are the immovable objects of Star Wars history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align." And here is your "ZERO": "While the universe that readers knew is changing, it is not being discarded. Creators of new Star Wars entertainment have full access to the rich content of the Expanded Universe." http://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page Zahn is not and never was the final arbiter, and I have more than a few references to licensee creatives who were unsurprisingly unaware of the details. Zahn himself, for instance, seems to have only met Lucas for a few minutes, which seems contrary to your impression that he and Lucas were joined at the hip creating post-RotJ EU: "Bookpg SD: How much is Lucas involved in the novels? Timothy Zahn: As far as I know, George Lucas himself is not involved. He has a liaison group that deals with the book people, the game people, etc. They do the day-to-day work. Occasionally, he will be asked a question and will give an answer." "I did meet Lucas once for a few minutes." "Question: I heard that George Lucas doesn't read the STAR WARS novels, or only reads a few. Has he read the Thrawn trilogy, and what did he think of it? Timothy Zahn: As far as I know, he has not read any of the novels. From what I've heard, Lucas is a visual man. He likes comic books for the visual aspect. Frankly, I don't think he has time to read, so I'm not offended." - Timothy Zahn, EU Author, Nov. 1997 - Interview in "The Book Report" http://www.canonwars.com/SWCanonquotes2.html#EUAuthors The questions and answers with Lucas via the liaison group were done by memo, incidentally. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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