Lit One Canon - Merging Legends and the New Canon - TFA spoilers, very much so

The Unknown Regions were unknown to the Jedi in ToR too. They likely didn’t have access to it.


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I had long assumed the Temple on Ahch-To was the first Jedi one, and the Je’daii one differed. Clearly the Jedi knew more of the Unknown Regions once upon a time but not by the time Satele rediscovers Tython.

RE: Ackbar, hardly a spoiler as he was in Bloodline and TFA - the Vong were poised to win the war. Ackbar faking his death in those circumstances seems perfectly acceptable - otherwise if they lost the entire High Command is known (and most of it at the invasion of Yuuzhan’tar). After the Battle is win, it is revealed as subterfuge, and Leia of course convinces him to join the Resistance.

The Vong War has to predate Bloodline, if we shuffle forward Coruscant falling in Legends due to when it fell in Canon and so forth.

TFA and TLJ aren’t impossible to struggle with as the same answer prevails - Jacen changed time. He either did it at the end of Invincible, or the moment he saw Abeloth and made his decision. Either way it knocks LotF onwards out of the timeline... or TFA onwards out, depending on your preferences.

Personally, I presently allow for the time jump forward 5 years thanks to the Coruscant/Vong War move to end the NJO in 25 ABY, plenty of time for the build up to TFA in 34 ABY.

Of less clarity for me is whether I can accept the references to 37 ABY instead of 40 ABY throughout LotF to pull forward Jacen’s death to 32 ABY.........

... but it’s still unclear when Luke and Ben lost the New Jedi Order. I quite like the idea that the Remnant swelled from Centrist secessions at the same time as Corellia and others seceded, but the Moffs were marginalised by the newcomers when there were so few left. That and Jacen easily killed fifty Jedi during his rein; enough that Ben’s subsequent treachery would indeed decimate the Order. It also makes Lumiya an (unwitting?) agent of Snoke... but that’s just fun coincidences and until we know exactly when Luke left I won’t push it.

Presently - everything up to the end of NJO works just fine (I even have a quote by Finn about alien invasions to rely on), and after that it’s down to personal preference. Anything after Invincible doesn’t (and shouldn’t) fit, but between Dark Nest and Invincible.

The time constraints being largely set by the ages of Jacen, Jaina, Anakin, Ben and Allana...


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When he was within the First Order, referred to in Before the Awakening.

There were mandatory morale sessions twice a day, when everyone was required to stop what they were doing and direct their attention to the nearest holoprojector to watch a recorded speech from High Command, most often from General Hux himself. Those would be interspersed with news feeds showing the deplorable conditions throughout the Republic: the famines on Ibaar and Adarlon, the brutal suppression of the population of Balamak, the unchecked alien advances throughout the Outer Rim.

Vague, but I could choose to interpret at least some of the propaganda here as based on truth. I expect some would have had root in fact, somewhere. An amusing stretch if you wish.


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Well you would be doing well, being as Jacen’s arc pushes itself out of the main continuity anyway.

TLJ did less change than Bomber Command, actually.

TFA already requires us to lean on Jacen having changed time as Han died. With everything else in TLJ, it leans even further on the concept that Jacen changed time. So that reinforces the point.

What’s more of note is that Bomber Command confirms that Borosk belongs to the First Order, but Cassander did not. The Imperial Remnant in the old canon expands to the Inner Rim, which includes Cassander, in 35 ABY I.e. during the Dark Nest Trilogy.

While I was anticipating the secessions in LotF to segue with the secessions by some of the Centrists, seemingly this is not the case even if I nudge forward DNT to 29 ABY and LotF to 31 ABY (by the time gained with Coruscant falling in 5 ABY and the NJO being four years long not five).

So the timeline has to split during the DNT... which makes more sense being as the fact that the identity of the Dark Man was in flux by Betrayal... unless the Empire was driven back to 8 sectors by the end of LotF... which could be implied by the fact that none of the new territories of the Remnant after the NJO are mentioned during Jag Fel’s rein as participating in the Civil War following Daala’s coup attempt... so what can I say?

A bit of maybe if I really want LotF to predate TFA, but it’s more unlikely being as the massacre at Luke’s Temple seems kinda unlikely to have taken place two years prior to TFA.........

So let’s roll with the likelihood that everything post-NJO is taken out of sync by Jacen, but for now, it should roll neatly to the end of TSW (especially as the FO going public after the Chiss and Killiks are defanged is perfect), but less clearly to the end of LotF.

FotJ and Legacy are confirmed to be in the alternate reality that Jacen creates.


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Depending on whether Malachor V was Malachor from Rebels, and not Malachor II, or III...


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I’m inclined to consider it to be Malachor IV maybe, or maybe the outermost Malachor, if there is a sixth.


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