Lit Timeline List of Legends works that can still reasonably fit into canon

The issue is that in Moving Target (which takes place after the Bothans found the Death Star plans), Leia and Luke openly discuss Luke not having a lightsaber. She asks him something like "What will you do without your lightsaber".

Shadows of the Empire is when the Bothans found the Death Star plans (that space battle involving Dash). Luke had already built his green lightsaber at the time. If he was using this or Baron Tagge's blue lightsaber, he has no reason to pretend to Leia he doesn't have a lightsaber in Moving Target. Thus, SOTE and the Marvel comics can't be in continuity with the canon book Moving Target.

 

No I don't believe he did. It's not even officially acknowledged Luke took Baron Tagge's lightsaber, just a fanon explanation (as far as I know) on why Luke has a blue lightsaber in the old Marvel comics post ESB.

As it is, I plan on having the Shadows of the Empire game fit into canon, just not the novel or comic book versions due to Luke's lightsaber. It also is more plausible that Dash planted multiple bombs to destroy Xizor's castle, not just 1 thermal detonator thrown by Lando.

 

I'm basically done with my list for now, see below for my complete list including Legends works past ESB and beyond ROTJ that I feel can fit into Disney canon. People can feel free to add things I've missed (young adult books particularly, or comic one-shots), or point out contradictions to canon in works in the list that you feel should be removed. I feel I've hit the main points on what Legends works can still be canon leading up to TFA.

I left some wiggle room--I kept the Legends retcon of Fett returning in the Bounty Hunter Wars, and also assumed Luke had some kind of full-fledged Jedi Order before Kylo wiped them out. This allows for the Jedi Academy PC game and Star Wars: Scourge to be included in the list. We can assume that Kylo and the Knights of Ren wiped out Jaden Korr, Kyle Katarn, and Mander Zuma, adding to their fearsome reputation.

Hope everyone enjoyed this list!

The list (spoilered for size):

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Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void
Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm
Dawn of the Jedi: Prisoner of Bogan
Dawn of the Jedi: Force War

Since the Dawn of the Jedi works feature the group known as Je'daii (I pronounce it like Hawaii despite what John Ostrander and Jan Duursema said on the Dark Horse forums), I consider this a separate group from the Jedi that may have really originated on Ahch-To as seen in TFA.

Tales of the Jedi Ominbus Vol. 1
Lost Tribe of the Sith Collected Stories
Tales of the Jedi Omnibus Vol. 2
Knights of the Old Republic Omnibus Vols 1-3
Knight of the Old Republic PC game
Knights of the Old Republic 2 PC game (Steam version with restored content mod, which was given an official endorsement during the Steam rerelease)
The Old Republic: Blood of the Empire
Red Harvest (placed before The Old Republic: Deceived due to mention of Jedi Temple still intact)
The Old Republic: Threat of Peace
The Old Republic: Deceived
The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
The Old Republic PC game
The Old Republic: The Lost Suns
The Old Republic: Annihilation
Lost Tribe of the Sith: Spiral

(The following works may need to be redated from their Legends timeframe. The canon Propaganda book showed that the Republic Ruusan reformation was likely in 1,032 BBY, not 1,000 BBY)

Knight Errant: Aflame
Knight Errant novel
Knight Errant: Deluge
Knight Errant: Escape
Jedi vs Sith

Jedi: The Dark Side
Rise of the Sith Omnibus
Cloak of Deception
Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
Star Wars: Starfighter
Star Wars: Battle for Naboo
TPM
Omnibus: Emissaries and Assassins
Omnibus: Quinlan Vos Jedi in Darkness (since this doesn't cover the Clone Wars, it doesn't contradict Dark Disciple)
Omnibus: Menace Revealed
Outbound Flight
The Approaching Storm
AOTC
Republic Commando novel
Clone Wars Microseries Vol. 1
Dark Horse Clone Wars TPB's Vols. 1-2
Clone Wars Adventures (comic series)
Republic Commando: Hard Contact
Republic Commando game
Republic Commando Triple Zero
Cestus Deception
Republic Commando: True Colors
General Grievous comic
TCW movie
Clone Wars Wild Space
TCW series
Clone Wars No Prisoners
Clone Wars: Crash Course
Clone Wars: In Service of the Republic
Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
Clone Wars: Hero of the Confederacy
Clone Wars: Wind Raiders of Taloraan
Deadly Hands of Shon Ju
Starcrusher Trap
Darth Maul Death Sentence
Defenders of the Lost Temple
Clone Wars Microseries Vol. 2
ROTS
Republic Commando: Order 66
Kenobi
Star Wars Purge TPB (except Seconds to Die due to it contradicting the new Marvel Vader series)
Darth Vader and the Lost Command
Dark Times comic series
Darth Vader and 9th Assassin
The Last Jedi
Darth Vader and Cry of Shadows
Droids cartoon series
Omnibus Droids
Lando Calrissian novels
Han Solo Adventures (not Trilogy)
Agent of the Empire
Star Wars Empire Vol 1
Shadow Games
Star Wars Empire at War
ANH
Star Wars A Long Time Ago Vol. 1: Doomworld
Scoundrels
Shadow Stalker
River of Chaos
Rebellion: My Brother, My Enemy
Rebellion: The Ahakista Gambit
Rebellion: Small Victories
Star Wars Adventures: Chewbacca and the Slavers of the Shadowlands
Honor Among Thieves
Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
Splinter of the Mind's Eye (comic book adaptation)
Star Wars Adventures: Princess Leia and the Royal Ransom
Star Wars Adventures: Boba Fett and the Ship of Fear
Empire and Rebellion: Razor's Edge
Rebel Heist
Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell
ESB
Star Wars Adventures: Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes
Star Wars Adventures: The Will of Darth Vader
Star Wars: Droid World book and audio
Star Wars: Planet of the Hoojibs book and audio
X-Wing vs TIE Fighter and Balance of Power PC game
Ewoks cartoon tv series
Ewoks: Shadows of Endor
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Shadows of the Empire PC game
Battle of the Bounty Hunters
ROTJ
Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand
The Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy
Truce at Bakura
The Vandelheim Mission
Shadows of the Empire: Evolution
The Jabba Tape
Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction
Jedi Academy PC game
Star Wars: Scourge

 

Thank you for compiling the list! However, I have a small remark on the Purge TPB. Purge: Seconds to Die can't fit within canon because

*SPOILER FOR THE NEW DARTH VADER SERIES BY MARVEL*

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in Seconds to Die, Anakin/Vader is shown killing Jocasta Nu in the Jedi Temple during the initial execution of Order 66, and we now know that Nu survives Order 66 in canon.

But for now, all other Purge stories can fit.

 

Thanks! My post was still recent enough that I made the edit to remove Seconds to Die from the list. Thanks a lot!

 

Personally, except for that first level in the game, I think the whole story of both Dark Forces and Jedi Knight could still fit canon. Jerec being an Inquisitor could be the only problem, but they could get around that, or he could simply be presented as one in canon...

 

I tend towards a common sense approach--Rogue One makes it clear there were no other Death Star plan heists other than Jyn's. Kyle Katarn's first level in Dark Forces just doesn't fit short of an extremely forced explanation, so Dark Forces 1 doesn't make the list (and as a result Dark Forces 2 and Jedi Knight 2 because what would they be sequels to?).

Jedi Academy makes the list because it's title and manual don't clearly make it a sequel to another work (just pretend Tavion and Kyle Katarn have some untold history).

 

Ohh, I understand! I was thinking of them like individual stories; except for that first mission, Dark Forces is about Kyle Katarn dealing with the Dark Trooper proyect, that was a response to the destruction of the Death Star. In Jedi Knight, he is trying to stop a High Inquisitor that seeks the Valley of the Jedi, and is set in a time period that hasn´t been explored in canon... so in those two particular stories, I meant, I see nothing conflictive yet...

 

I know what you mean, but for simplicity of this list I'm taking a work as a whole--if any element contradicts Disney canon, it's out. Otherwise, I would be parsing through hundreds of EU works and dividing up what elements fit in each work and what doesn't--something that I feel goes beyond what I intended for this list.

In theory, any work on this list could be labeled as Disney canon without any changes to the work itself, and still fit. They can't do that with Dark Forces--everyone now would notice as soon as they play the game on the first level that it doesn't line up with Rogue One.

 

Sure, I get it. It makes perfect sense with that criteria in mind, and it´s a very interesting list!

 

I know it's impossible but I would like the Kotor era to remain intact I love it a lot and for me the Kotor games are a thousand times better than all the 7 movies

It was a tragedy that they eliminated all the lore of Kotor

 

OK, I'm not entirely sure, but has Disney done any new material about the Old Republic era?

Because if not, then a lot of the Old Republic EU material still fits, right?

 

They have done very little with it so far. About the only things we know about the Old Republic so far in canon is the little bits of information TCW, Rebels, and some of the comics have mentioned. Yes most all of the legends Old Republic story could still fit (infact what little we know about the old republic up to this point supports the legends stories more than it does contradict them). Only thing so far that could be that different is that it might not go back quite as far in the timeline as legends does.

 

Actually, I don't believe this is stated anywhere in new canon. An issue of canon Marvel Star Wars stated that the Sith came from the Hundred Year Darkness, and the novel Tarkin states that the Sith shrine under the Jedi Temple is at least 5,000 years old as of 14 BBY. I don't believe the new canon Sith origin date has gotten any more specific than that...

 

Indeed. All we can say for sure is that the Hundred Years Darkness occurred at least 6,000 years before the Imperial era.

 

Why 6,000? I know Wookieepedia says so at http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hundred-Year_Darkness , but it's source is the novel Tarkin and unless I missed something Tarkin only refers to the Sith shrine being 5,000 years old, not 6,000...

 

Actually, there really is no contradiction between Rebels and Kotor 2, here. Malachor 5 was destroyed at the end of The Sith Lords. Malachor (the planet, not the moon, since the "5" was never mentioned) is shown in Rebels, and the Jedi remains there, were left from a battle that was fought before the Hyperspace War.

 

Malachor 5 isn't a moon, it's the 5th planet in the Malachor system. The Malachor in Rebels could be Malachor II or Malachor III, both mentioned in the game 'The Old Republic' as being habitable.

 

Forgive me, I was using Yavin IV logic. Any reason why the Malachor in Rebels couldn't be Malachor I?

 

I suppose it could be Malachor I...

 

(If memory serves me right, the current Star Wars manual of style has it that Roman numerals are for planets, and Arabic numerals for moons.)