It's 12 months, not 10. Leland confirmed the change earlier this year.

yet without Bail Organa knowing about the Sith until the Clone Wars. Who ever said SW was rational?

Argh, I'd forgotten about that...

Given what GL has done to Anakin's RotJ ghost, the difference in appearance between Ragnos in Golden Age and Ragnos in Dark Lords actually makes sense, after the fact. The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader explains that Vader was able to project an image of himself as a ghost, and apparently he could do with it as he pleased appearance-wise, seeing as he was able to look like 20-something Hayden Christensen rather than his Sebastian Shaw self. So it is plausible that Ragnos could look however he pleased too. Of course, it makes no sense that he would want to look like a human, but there you have it.

I agree on the design changes. Deplorable, but part of a larger trend of bringing the EU as close to the movies as possible. KotOR pales compared to TOR, if you hadn't noticed, what with its shameless stealing of movies-era design on every turn. It is one of the reasons I've begun to see SW history as cyclical rather than linear. That the EU is just a way of telling more movie-like stories by setting them on a chronological line, yet without much really changing over time, the way it would in real life.

Who needs alternate universes and reboots, when you can just place your desired stories on a timeline, with umpteen Sith Empires assaulting the galaxy again and again over a period of a few thousand years, yet without Bail Organa knowing about the Sith until the Clone Wars. Who ever said SW was rational?

No, both Exar and Ulics' entries in The Dark Side Sourcebook says it was Ragnos...which actually conflicts a little with the comic itself, where the leader of the host is described as the reigning Dark Lord, yet complains of the Republic attack on Sith Space during his time. It isn't quite a discrepancy, though, since we know the ghost was around to have experienced it, while the amulets could well have been made while he was alive. In any case, since the comic says the leader was the Dark Lord roughly at the time of the Republic attack, there is only a handful of people it could possibly have been. And of those, Ragnos at least, as you say, had the helmet.

Nadd's work was not complete in Ragnos opinion. Since he says: "I now complete your initiation into the power of the dark side..." while branding Kun. All Nadd did was convert Kun's Force fuel and traumatize him a bit. His goals were still his own, as they had been before. Ragnos was the one to turn him into an Empire-builder.

As for Ulic knowing about Exar, I never thought he did, no. I never thought the Jedi deliberately stopped him, or even landed on Yavin at all, the way the TOR vid makes clear, so I wasn't aware that they even knew. But since part of KotOR's reinterpretation of the TotJ era included a lengthy struggle at Yavin in stead of the Jedi blitz in the comics, per Suvam Tan, I guess this latest addition of a Jedi strike force on the ground actively preventing Kun from leaving the temple isn't too far out. Better than this vague wall of light the Jedi projected, at least. So since they apparently did know of Kun's ghost, I guess Ulic had simply fallen so far out of their grace that they kept it from him. Gave him some peace of mind too, I guess.

You are right about the Databank entry, which I find curious, because clearly Gnost-Dural is more in line with the actual comic. It says Kun wanted to run rampant across the cosmos in his ghost state, only the Jedi wall of light extinguished the Sith power he unleashed. Saying they directly or indirectly trapped him there seems like an obvious extension, not a contradiction.

I'm more annoyed at how every recap of that story fails to mention the Sith mojo Ragnos applied to Kun and Qel-Droma to enslave them, in stead portraying their fall as that of the stereotypical evil darksider with delusions of grandeur. Darksider or no, Kun always tried to improve the Jedi, and he consistently refused to play along with Nadd's schemes. Misguided Force-wise, perhaps, but he was not this evil tyrant until Ragnos came along and enslaved him. But one pretty much needs the comic to even suspect that.

And if Gnost and everyone else simply didn't know that, they shouldn't have known about the the Sith spirit host supporting Kun, either.

First he was named Tukker Val Loo, then Lev'loa and now the name has been changed to Halsey.
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What's the deal with the background Roonan jedi from +Grievous Intrigue+?
First he was named Tukker Val Loo, then Lev'loa and now the name has been changed to Halsey.

If I would be able to ask a follow up question - should we think of the Films Only and Films/TCW + EU continuities as the core background information that needs to be adherred to by different media (e.g. a TCW episode only needs to consider the contents of the Films Only continuity as canon that must be adherred to, while an EU novel must consider the contents of the Films/TCW + EU continuity as canon to be adherred to), or should we think of the Films Only and Films/TCW + EU continuities as two separate, alternate storylines of Star Wars (in a similar, for example, that the Ultimate Spiderman and the Amazing Spiderman comic series are alternate versions of a similar storyline)?

Hey Mr. Chee, who says the line "Imperial troops have entered the base!" in ESB? Is it Mon Mothma's son, Jobin, or someone else? The Entrenched comic shows it to be some other trooper, but the CSWE says it's Jobin. Can you clarify? Thanks.

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