Mr. Chee, does the Holocron continuty database offer explanations as to why dark side users die different ways? Palpatine and Joruus C'baoth exploded in blue light of dark side energy, Jerec, Darth Nihilus, and others dissolved in dark side energy, and Dooku and most other Sith Lords just die and that's it. Since the holocron database explains that certain Jedi turn into force ghosts only when they know how to be one with the force, does it also have some explanation for this similar behavior for dark side users?

Hello Mr. Chee!

I have a question regarding Mazzic from the Thrawn trilogy books and comics. In Star Wars Gamer 3 he is described and depicted as a human, but the comic adaption of The Last Command shows him as a Myke. What does the Holocron say about his species - is he human or Myke?

Thanks in advance!

Are the Jedi titles "Master of the Order" and "Grand Master" meant to be the same? They have separate entries in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, but Yoda (who was identified as a Master of the Order in the CSWE) was called Grand Master in Yoda: Dark Rendezvous. The entry for Grand Master hints that the titleholder was the sole leader of the Jedi Order, which seems odd for Luke Skywalker, as Grand Master of the New Jedi Order, to be part of a council.

And while I'm on the subject, would that make Mace Windu, the Master of the Order until after the Battle of Geonosis per the CSWE, a Grand Master as well?

That quote doesn't give reason to think movie novelizations are G.

Also, I've often wondered whether that quote is representative of the Holocron's continuity paradigm. Confirm or deny, Leland?

I could be wrong.

Personally, I take everything except contradictions to be of exactly equal canon level, so I've never had more than a casual interest in the official position on said. However, I would assume that as the novelizations are written separately from the movie by authors other than Lucas, they wouldn't be as "canon" as the things he has directed/produced/overseen (the movies and TV).

The novelizations are more canon than the EU, but less so than the movies.

For example, the ROTJ novelization says that Owen Lars is Obi-wan's brother. Clearly not the truth, he's actually Anakin's half brother.

Therefore, they cannot be the same canon level as the movies and TV series as made by GL.

Oh, that's a tricky one. In fear of stealing jSarek's line, all such instances are determined on a case by case basis. No hard and fast rules. But the TV show being T-canon, while the novels are C, one would assume the former wins out.

Mind sharing the contradiction?

Hello.

There's something I've been wondering for a while now when it comes to the canon hierarchy I've seen mentioned in this thread, and I was hoping Chee would have the time to reply. If there's a contradiction between the movie novelizations and the Clone Wars series that's on the telly now, which is considered more accurate? If the novelization says something that's not in the movies and the CW series says something else, which will be considered canon?

Why does it say in the Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia that Tikkes was killed on Mustafar when you said before that he didn't even go to Mustafar?

Oh, and another continuity error I've spotted in the Thrawn Trilogy!

Leia comes to the ghastly realization that the Noghri home world of Honoghr was first despoiled 44 years ago--which Leia says was during the Clone Wars. If the TT takes place in 9 ABY, then 44 years earlier would be 36 BBY (someone check my math here >_> )--which is before Episode I, much less Episode II and the outbreak of the Clone Wars. Moreover, Vader couldn't appear to "aid" the Noghri people at that time since at that point he was still a slave boy on Tatooine--who wouldn't even don the dark mask for another 17 years!

How do we reconcile this continuity error as well? It seems that when Zahn wrote his trilogy, he figured the Clone Wars to be a longer time ago than they actually were (which itself doesn't make sense in light of even the original trilogy (much less the prequels!), since Obi-Wan told Luke that he and his father fought in those wars together before he became Vader).