Welcome to the boards, Warriorpoets1. The news archive for republic 50 says it's 2 months after AOTC. Republic 49 was about 1 month later, so if I had to guess I would say Jedi:Mace Windu would be 3 months later. That's just a guess though, and until it comes out, your guess is as good as mine.

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VIPs:

Will all the Essential guides be revised? Including chronology and species? And do you plan to add any others? For chronology, I'd suggest releasing them in more detailed volumes for each era. That'd be really cool.

The Radio Drama goes . . .

VEERS: Lord Vader, the starfleet has moved out of lightspeed. All our ships made the transition without incident, but?that is?

VADER: You will pay a terrible price for your next hesitation, General!

VEERS: Com-scan has detected an energy field protecting Hoth, where our probe droid was destroyed. It is a defensive shield, strong enough to deflect any bombardment the starfleet can deliver.

4. When utilizing the scene for stories that include that snippet, the former is used, not the latter, as it is the most widely read and recognized as correct.

5. When comparing the scenes of Luke building his lightsaber, he is presumed to be delivering the dialogue with R2 from the Radio Drama, not necessarily the same type of dialogue as, say, in SOTE.

6. Jedi Knight: The official ending has Kyle becoming a Jedi Knight. The apocryphal ending has Kyle becoming the next emperor. Result: Kyle is a Jedi Knight.

VIPs, will there ever be any material about the Madalorian Wars?

• can we get a concise list of the things they were specifically told they could not do before the NJO

There isn't a concise list -- always in motion, the list is.

The Bantam authors couldn't kill a character from the films, i.e., we had to get George's okay to let Crix Madine go in DARKSABER.

There was a restriction on Jedi who had joined the Force showing up in their ghostly form.

We didn't want anybody taking Boba Fett's helmet off, although this might have been lifted for the Bounty Hunter trilogy -- I can't remember if the author described Fett's face or not...

I can't think of any other ones at the moment. We probably should have had a restriction on kidnappings!
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Sue (or whomever): What about the issue of a long term love interest for Luke, or things like who could and couldn't have children? Any do's or don't's on those?

And what type of restrictions did authors have for the NJO, other than just "follow the framework."

i have to read books before i see episode three ?

For a complete timeline of the planned or released clone wars materials see my site here:

http://www.geocities.com/c lonewarseu/timeline

*how many books will be made to fill the gap between AOTC and epIII? *

There's no definite number yet, but with the Clone Wars project starting to take off, you can bet that there will be plenty of EU material covering that time period - novels, young readers' books, comics, games, and the TV shorts on Cartoon Network. :**)

but how many books will be made to fill the gap between AOTC and epIII?

Go to the News Archive of the "Expanded Universe" section here and look up "Chronicling the Clone Wars" this helps to cover much of the books being written during that time.

Sremmuy,Will there be a SW novel in early 2005 and will it be set in the New Republic era or the prequel era?