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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 6293286" data-attributes="member: 14159">Here's a primer on how Star Wars Canon used to work, pre-Disney.  There were a lot of misconceptions about it.There was an elaborate "tier" system.  Almost everything was canon, except for a few intentionally non-canon things.  Lucasfilm kept a full time employee with a database (called the Holocron) whose job was just to track the canon.At the top was "G Canon", the stuff George Lucas writes.  This meant the 6 movies.  While Lucas didn't feel confined by the other canon, he didn't overrule it too much in the Prequels because he'd always told EU writers to not touch the Clone Wars or the rise of the Empire because he was going to do that himself.  Thus, there were some contradictions in the Prequels with established materials, but with some retcons to patch things together they were kept relatively light.  (Boba Fett's Origins, the history of the Republic/Russan Reformations, and Jedi being celibate were the big changes/retcons).The next tier was "T Canon", television.  This was for the The Clone Wars series that started a few years ago.  It gave fans and canon keepers a few headaches because Lucas wanted it on a higher tier than other EU materials, but the authors of it ignored some little details of the EU.  It didn't create any really large canon headaches, but putting it on a tier to itself was a pain for tracking things.The next tier was "C Canon".  This was "continuity".  This is the vast, vast bulk of the Expanded Universe.  All those novels on the shelves, (almost) all those comic books and graphic novels were at this level.  They all "happened" and had to co-exist, and authors had to make them fit with each other.  The plotlines of the video games and the "fluff" materials from RPG materials were at this level too (but not gameplay details/mechanics)The tier below that was "S Canon" This was "secondary", mostly for some very old materials from pretty early in Star Wars before continuity was tightly watched that slipped by.  They generally didn't "happen", but if individual characters/plot events/other elements from them could be fit into the bigger picture of Star Wars, they would be.The only tier that was non-canonical was "N-Canon" for non-canon.  This was meant for things that explicitly were not meant to be part of the Star Wars canon.  Mostly some comic books that told explicitly joke/humor tales or alternate universe "what if" stories like "what if Leia used the thermal detonator on Jabba" (that one ended with Palpatine surviving at Endor, and Anakin being redeemed without dying and now wearing a white suit of armor to join up with the Rebels).Since George Lucas was done making movies, that basically meant that future canon authors pretty much had to work within the established canons, and the stuff he did was in a part of the continuity that had been carved out for him to work in since the beginning.</blockquote>

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