Lit GENERAL QUESTION THREAD (What to read? Where to start? What's canon? What's not? Duros, etc.)

Is there a list I can easily get my hands on for all Canon Young Adult and Adult books for Canon and their chronological order?

 

The Wook has this timeline. You can make use of the various tabs near the top to get rid of novelizations, children’s books, etc.

 

Thanks big help

 

Had another source question, this time about General Veers. He is, of course, sort of infamous as the first cinematic character to be killed off in the EU... or was he? Per Wookieepedia, he was demoted to captain out of spite by Sedriss, then deliberately sent to his death at the Battle of Balmorra in Dark Empire. In the issue itself, though? There IS a "Captain Veers" at the battle, but he appears only as a voice giving orders. Per his article's talk page at the Wook, the narrative of his fate has been unsourced since at least 2006(!!!!!!). So I'd like to know, if there is one, the source that a) Captain Veers at the Battle of Balmorra is a demoted General Veers, and b) that he died there.

A glance at my copy of the CSWE shows that Wook's narrative reprinted there, but as that post-dates the article I'd like the ORIGINAL source to make sure it's not a bit of fanon taken into canon by mistake, as has been known to happen.

 

It's in the New Essential Guide to Characters.

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For that matter, how many cinematic characters HAVE died in the EU? I know of...

* Veers, in the Battle of Balmorra as described above.
* Madine, blasted by Durga the Hutt in Darksaber.
* Evazan, assassinated by Boba Fett in Galaxy of Fear.
* IG-88, in various places due to there being several of him.
* Mothma and Dodonna, of old age sometime during the end of Bantam-start of Del Rey timeskip.
* Chewie, squished by moon in Vector Prime.
* Ackbar, of old age at the end of the YV War.

 

Yarael Poof's death was shown in the Zam Wesell one-shot.
Oppo Rancisis's death was shown in Republic: Siege of Saleucami.
Jan Dodonna's passing is mentioned at the end of his entry in The New Essential Guide to Characters.

 

Does Sariss' ANH retcon count? Killed by Kyle Katarn in Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II.

 

Can't believe I forgot the Council members. Poor Piell died twice.

 

Veers' death is more explicit in the Dark Empire II audio drama. That is the original source.

 

So I think I may have found one of the most obscure cinematic SW characters ever, rivaling the likes of the Sixth Dignitary. Take a look at this screencap from when Obi-Wan is watching the Separatist Council in ROTS:


From the "top" of the table to the bottom in this shot, you have Haako, Gunray (Gunray standing up is obscuring Haako sitting down, but he's there), Argente, Nudo, Shu Mai, Poggle, Tambor, San Hill, Tikkes, and... wait, who's that? Yeah, there's an extra Sep Council member visible in this shot and I don't think any other, though they look just like a gray lump from this distance. Does any source say who that is? My only guess would be Wodrata or however you spell that, who is also just barely visible in the AOTC Council scene, but other than that I've got nothing.

 

Sounds like a mystery for @Barriss_Coffee!

 

The head looks elongated to me, so it could be.

 

Fett killed Evazan, but he was resurrected thanks to the research he was doing on the dead.

Dodonna is an interesting case, as he was first killed in the newspaper strips by Goodwin and Williamson, then showed up in Dark Empire, which led Stackpole to include him in his novels to explain the discrepancy, and then killed again in the New Essential Guide to Characters.

 

I am trying to find a canon list of survivors of order 66 I know there is a list that combines both legends and Canon on Wookieepidia but before I go sorting through that list do we have one of just Canon survivors?

 

Hmmmm I am almost certain Pablo Hidalgo addressed this question in one of his Q&A's around 2005 or a couple of years after. He didn't know. Wodrata makes sense, but I don't know if they kept any records around. It looks a bit like an Ishi-Tib to me.

I would bet there was a character in mind, but it could have been an intentional placeholder because they knew no one could see that clearly. Another possible clue could be hidden in the cut scenes from Mustafar that still haven't been fully released, of which there seem to have been several, but I don't know how much those were fully animated or cut on the drawing room floor. In which case, Mystery Utapau Councilor in White might not have been a top priority (but if it was Wodrata, she might have been partly animated for that).

 

Could it be Toonbuck Toora?

 

Have publishing eras been established for the Nu-Canon?

 

Thanks for answering my questions. Here's another: is there a list of Jedi characters that are known to be active in the prequel/Clone Wars era, but created before the prequels? Characters like Nejaa Halcyon, Ranik Solusar, and Quarmall are what I'm after.

 

I'm not aware of any list, but Empatojayos Brand is one. Also Avan Post: Mentioned in Wedge's Gamble or The Krytos Trap, and then reported killed battling the Separatists in one of the Clone Wars Holonet articles in Insider.

 

More than any other source, the 1987-1998 West End Games RPG books probably contributed a solid clutch, many of who were hunted down or turned into Inquisitors after the Jedi Purge. Back in the mid-2000s while working on the old Clone Wars Dossier project here in Lit, we used to have an organized list of all of these assets, but alas, they're lost in the mists of time and the oblivion of old threads.

 

One of the first things we learn about Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi is that they fought in the Clone Wars, so that certainly counts. In terms of just generic "before the time of the Empire", that's pretty much every Jedi created pre-1999 (aside from Luke's group of newbies)