Lit What do you want from a canon Old Republic?

I wonder if the Galactic Roundel represents 8 Elder Houses who founded the Republic.

 

Hmmm.... unless there are significant changes, the first actual hints of the past should be showing up in the updated Locations, I would imagine, in the Coruscant entries.

 

How about an ancestor of the Skywalkers? Or maybe a Kenobi?

 

I third this. The eternal war between Jedi and Sith was one of the things about the old EU that annoyed me the most towards the end.

 

Sith ruling the galaxy just as Palpatine said they once did.

 

Is this a hint jasonfry that you may be working on new canon old republic work?>!!!!!

 

It's not. Just curious what y'all think.

 

If they do go back, I'd be interested, eventually, in having a different core Saga series, complete with numbering. I'd love, after this ST end, perhaps start a NEW Saga, perhaps just about barely 1 thousand or so years in the past (so Yoda can be involved. Ahem!), and begin it with EPISODE I.

I like the idea of having separate sagas with distinct numbering, which are also distinct from the stand-alone "A Star Wars Story".

It actually would be a kind of cool SW tradition: SAGA TRILOGY [IV, V, VI] followed by SAGA TRILOGY IN THE PAST [I, II, III] followed by SAGA TRILOGY IN THE FUTURE [VII, VIII, IX] followed by ... beginnign a new saga in the past [JEDI v SITH WARS: I, II, III] , then Saga Trilogy in the future [Either X, XI, XII], etc..

Doing it this way would be cool, which would allow the storytelling in the future to inform the storytelling in the past, as well as the past to inform the future. The PT added some amazing worldbuilding to SW that is paying off in new later-era content.

Having a movie saga featuring Yoda, Darth Bane, Mandalorians, and even Maz, but with a whole new set of characters whose fates we DON'T know, set in the past, would be super cool. I'd be game for that.

Plus - it would bug me if there are other stories told before Episode I: The Phantom Menace without having a NEW film with an 'Episode I' to be the launchpad of that epic era.

 

Honestly. We have such a rich non-Force using culture in both the Prequel-era and the OT-era. It's these non-Forcers, like chancellors and officers, that are the ones leading the galaxy, so let's see how they did it. It would be a great opportunity to showcase politics that aren't being manipulated by Palpatine behind the scenes, while also demonstrating the tensions between a non-Force using government and the Jedi/Sith/whatever.

 

Something completely different. If they're going to erase the old EU, they should do an entire new story in regards to all the eras. I don't want to see Revan, Malak, etc again. Well I do, but I'd like them in Legends where they actually belong. Copying and pasting because of laziness a good story does not make. They axed the old EU. Great, now make something new.

 

Agreed.

 

I thought it would be interesting if in Rebels we saw Ezra getting a more formal education while with the crew...Kanan emphasizing that being a Jedi is about more than the Force but also understanding history politics, etc....

So in the show you might see them traveling to an ORD world and Kanan questioning Ezra on the meaning with Ezra talking about how they were established as Ordnance/Regional Depots by the Republic as it pushed it's boundaries outward...and during the Pius Dea era expansion thru holy war the Republic used them as military and scouting bases.

Or discussing they Hydian Way and Ezra makes the point that Freia Kallea did not really scout and establish the Hydian but connected several already existing shorter hyperlanes into the Hydian Way.

 

The Galactic Roundel shouldn't have any pre-Palpatine history as a Sith symbol. Wouldn't the Jedi notice if the Republic was using a symbol that has a history as a Sith symbol? Also, I feel that the Empire should be rooted in the Republic's history, not the Sith's.

 

The Galactic Roundel was the post-Ruusan logo, it was Republic all the way (and then Imperial). It was SWTOR that for some reason gave Vitiate's Empire the same symbol. And yeah in Legends the Empire was Republic nationalism all the way. What Sheev did was bring back the Early Republic. The Republic of conquest, of Contispex, of Pius Dea, rather than the one of the Jedi Civil War, Cold War and Ruusan.

 

Thats not going to happen for the same reason Thrawn is back and The Force Awakens had tons of stuff from the old EU. The fact is too many SW fans have played the games, read the comics and books over the years so when some of them get the chance to make new SW products that previous EU stuff is still going to influence them regardless of what they do. When the Old Republic does re-emerge it will probably have some new stuff yes but expect a lot of old stuff back as well.

Just look at DC Comics they have tried multiple times to reboot their universe and every time they just end up bringing back all the old stuff anyway over time. Same will happen with Star Wars (It's already happening).

 

A world where technology progresses in increments.

 

That's fine.

It just means I won't be reading it.

The era before the movies is really the only era left untainted, the only era that could still interest me.

 

why do you want this?

 

Naboo is Palpatine's homeworld, red is a prominent color in Naboo culture, and the starwars.com trivia gallery for Shadow Warrior mentions "a long-secreted Sith presence on Naboo."

 

I guess that begs the question - what do you think, Jason?

 

I'm sure we'll see Revan again. Even ignoring his almost-cameo in TCW, the character is way too popular for them not to bring back. Especially given a really surprising number of fans who really ought to know better, let alone the wider casual fan base, still seem to be under the impression that KOTOR is part of the new continuity. I mean, they brought back Thrawn - other than Mara Jade, Revan is probably the only other EU character who is at the level of Thrawn's level of popularity to the wider audience.

One thing I've talked about before here, I like the idea that the first group to use the Force didn't have the distinction between light and dark, and it's only when that distinction arose that the original Force users splintered off into Jedi and Sith (at the same time, not something where the Jedi existed for tens of thousands of years before the Sith).

 

Rakata and Sith purebloods.

 

Except why SHOULDN'T it be taken literally? There's no reason not to.