As part of his cover's banter, Han casually mentions the Death Star's destruction to that imperial...
I think I've literally always assumed that the Death Star was highly classified and not public knowledge and that the Empire would've had a cover story handy for Alderaan's destruction.
I guess the Rebels would've leaked that information everywhere but in my mind it would've been perceived by the average citizen as Truther nuttery.
Well
A. The entire point of the Death Star to keep wayward systems in line through fear. It's hard to fear something if you don't know it exists.
B. The sheer amount of resources and personnel it would take to build that thing would make keeping it a secret a giant pain in the ass. Not to mention all the people it would take to staff it.
re: the 2nd point. I dunno, if the clone wars stuff is still canon, they fought a whole galactic war with only what, 3 million people? (Please dear god let that be one of the things that was wiped out with the canon reset)
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As part of his cover's banter, Han casually mentions the Death Star's destruction to that imperial...
I think I've literally always assumed that the Death Star was highly classified and not public knowledge and that the Empire would've had a cover story handy for Alderaan's destruction.
I guess the Rebels would've leaked that information everywhere but in my mind it would've been perceived by the average citizen as Truther nuttery.
Well
A. The entire point of the Death Star to keep wayward systems in line through fear. It's hard to fear something if you don't know it exists.
B. The sheer amount of resources and personnel it would take to build that thing would make keeping it a secret a giant pain in the ass. Not to mention all the people it would take to staff it.
re: the 2nd point. I dunno, if the clone wars stuff is still canon, they fought a whole galactic war with only what, 3 million people? (Please dear god let that be one of the things that was wiped out with the canon reset)
Things that are canon: The original trilogy, the prequel movies, these comics, maybe the new Rebels cartoon?
Things that are not canon: literally everything else
it appears you are correct. Six films, Clone Wars series, these comics, and Rebels
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On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm and Disney revised the franchise's canon. They announced that the existing six films and The Clone Wars television series are the "immovable objects" of Star Wars storytelling. Previously published material has been relabeled under a "Legends" label, and future content will present a different vision of people, places and events after Return of the Jedi. They also announced that all future Star Wars stories will be connected, with guidance coming from the Star Wars story group.
I think the rules of canon are functionally the same as they've always been
Everything is canon until directly contradicted
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nope, they were very clear about that. No existing stories outside of the 6 movies and Clone Wars are canon, all new stories going forward will be canon. The entire EU is officially non-canon.
Right, they definitely contradicted stuff already, and will continue to do so
I'm just saying that there's some stuff, like KOTOR, that is so far in the past that it has no bearing on anything they'll be doing from now on unless they want to tell a different story set back then
Even when they had grades of canon, it was the same functionally, except now they aren't going to say "this didn't really happen" when retelling something
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re: the 2nd point. I dunno, if the clone wars stuff is still canon, they fought a whole galactic war with only what, 3 million people? (Please dear god let that be one of the things that was wiped out with the canon reset)
Things that are canon: The original trilogy, the prequel movies, these comics, maybe the new Rebels cartoon?
Things that are not canon: literally everything else
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it appears you are correct. Six films, Clone Wars series, these comics, and Rebels
Everything is canon until directly contradicted
I'd say they've directly contradicted the old stuff already
I mean Chewie straight out shoots a platoon's worth but in hand to hand, Leia is not to be messed with
I'm just saying that there's some stuff, like KOTOR, that is so far in the past that it has no bearing on anything they'll be doing from now on unless they want to tell a different story set back then
Even when they had grades of canon, it was the same functionally, except now they aren't going to say "this didn't really happen" when retelling something
Full stop
16:40 to 17:06 is what I was going for
YOU CUT ME DEEP GG
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