Lit Cult Encounters and Supernatural Encounters (even more new Legends material!)

So that does mean that Yun-Yuuzhan literally strode down the path of the gods and cut away parts of himself to form every star, world and Galaxy eventually ending with the yuuzhan Vong?

 

Well there are actually nine Old Ones - the two trinities, and three not assigned to either.

 

Also, anyone notice a sort of Norse mythology motif to these dark beings? Muspili, Gunninga Gap, the Soulworm condemned to eternally gnaw on itself...

 

Definitely, although really the ourobouros imagery is not limited to any one particular mythological tradition.

 

Is the Supernatural Encounters still coming out in October? I thought I read that somewhere on this forum. Am I making that up?

 

It really does feel like late Legends was... building to something with all of this. Not just these articles but FOTJ, Mindor, Book of Sith, Shadows of Endor, The Unknown Regions, the TOR "Machine Gods"...

I really wonder what we'd have gotten out of this stuff, if the reboot hadn't happened.

 

Though they are cool concepts... when you begin to think about it, I'm also afraid it was twisting Legends-EU into something that no longer felt true to the spirit of the movies.

One author saying "these are the cool progenitors, even more advanced than the present!"
Another author saying the same thing.
Someone else reconciling how these two, both who supposedly ruled the galaxy in the past, were in an arms race.
And then someone else says there are even OLDER progenitors, even more advanced... etc.

Until basically, the farther into the past you go, the more powerful and knowledgeable the galaxy was... nothing in the galaxy has ever improved, only gotten worse... and whether the newest Oldest-Progenitors are good or evil depends on that particular author's personal philosophy and how nihilistic or not they are. And the entire history of the galaxy, instead of some advancement with some dark ages, or even just steadiness with some dark ages, just becomes the story of a steep decline and a pessimistic outlook, how everything generally gets worse over time when looking at the big picture, and a lack of hope. Especially lack of hope when it comes to ordinary people of the galaxy when contending with "Gods", and how even people we previously thought of as "regular" turn out to only be part of a divine bloodline or prophecy, controlled by the Gods with no choice and no hope for individuality.

Just not Star Wars beyond appearance.

 

I feel like it would have made sense for the Legends canon to end with Luke destroying the Old Ones.

Here's the timeline I would have liked to see:

~ 25,000 BBY: Hundred-Year Darkness splits the Je'daii into the Jedi and Sith

~ 25,000 BBY - 4 ABY: Endless Jedi vs. Sith conflict followed by the movies

Immediately after ROTJ: the Dark Empire Saga

Sometime after the Dark Empire Saga: The Thrawn Trilogy

NJO Era: Rakata or True Sith invade instead of the Vong

Post-NJO: Luke battles the Old Ones. Ultimately, Luke destroys the Old Ones and everyone lives happily ever after.

 

Hmm. The Dark Siders at the time of the Legacy comic era could fight Typhojem.
Gorog could try to force the Kiliks and Ewoks under it's sway to stop them from helping out in the war.
Not sure what the others could do.
Though some battle near the heart of the Galaxy could free the Soulworm.

 

Honestly, though? There's a reason why I barely if ever post in this thread even though more generally I'm kind of a sucker for this subgenre. FOTJ's esoteric elements were never going anywhere; 90 percent of this stuff was really just the product of after-the-fact connective retcons, or at the most people drawing upon the same references for background. It's cool, but it's also the perfect example of how I used to like to say the EU was less than the sum of its parts. It wasn't ultimately "building" to anything any more than some of Zahn's stuff up to VotF was.

(I don't object to fans trying to piece it all together, mind you - I personally am just juggling way too many creative projects already.)

 

And the Bedlam Spirits too - I'm excited to learn how Tilotny and Horliss fit in, as they weren't mentioned at all in the first one.

 

Thinking of palpatine especially DE palpatine how does he fit into this cosmic arena?

 

I'm also intrigued by the article's mentioning good gods who opposed the Old Ones, like the Ewok sun god. What are they, I wonder? Celestials?

 

One thing I have observed about the celestials is that they seemed to observe and perhaps even watch over humans and duros.

The Sharu seemed to enter their area of influence and were apparently so terrified that they retreated into primitivism.

The celestials also created the Corellian system and appear to have transplanted the humans there.

What interest did the celestials have in humans? And perhaps Duros as well? Why did they seem to have a sort of protective shield around them(at least until the Rakata appeared)-it may the celestials that were the reason human ancestors made it to Nagai and Csilla.

Could they have had some subtle influence on human civilization in ancient times, perhaps even some sort of paternal ownership of less advanced species in which humans were at one time?

 

Are there any other beings suspected of being Celestials? The Mortis Trinity are dead, but could there be others still around?

 

How on Earth did you think that one up @Sinrebirth? It works but how?

 

This makes me tempted to read the Dark Nest Trilogy again and see how your theory makes me view the story.

 

Are you suggesting that the Greater Dieties created the Font of Power and Pool of Knowledge or are you suggesting that Abeloth was corrupted before that?

 

Since we know of at least one evil Celestial (the Son of Mortis), I wonder if there are any good Old Ones, too.