Third time... :

It is said in the German Version of The Star Wars Official Fact Files that Executor Sedriss was originally named Qaga Lok, that he was a descendant of Ulic Qel-Droma, who renamed himself Sedriss QL ( therefore Sedriss would be a Sith name...) in honor of the Darth title ( which he replaced by the Imperial title of Executor )...
Actually, with the unpublished Lightsider novel, Sedriss's origines are a mystery... So : are these informations official or unofficial, please ?

Just a thought: The reason the CW timeline would need to be compressed is Anakin's earlier-than-originally-established ascension to knighthood, right? In order to take a Padawan himself. But is it really necessary for Ahsoka to become his Padawan right at the start? Why can't it be she just accompanied Anakin and Obi-Wan throughout much of the war (the film, much of the TV series), only to officially become Anakin's Padawan somewhere after the Battle of Praesitlyn (possibly late part of series)? I realize the film is already finished by this point, and if she is explicitly mentioned to be his Padawan in the film, please ignore this post.

Will this timeline feature the new compressed Clone Wars timeline, or, because it's so near to publication, will it be the old timeline?

Don't be suprised if the the Clone Wars portion of the timeline is a bit vague.

I have some questions about some of Hasbro's Droids that they will be releasing as extra figures with the Legacy line. I'm wondering if you could tell me where to find some of them and who they are. Since they're lacking a proper card, I fear no info will be available on them.

I won't be addressing specifics because not all the names are final just yet. I can say that Hasbro sometimes bases many of their action figures on available reference taken during production, not necessarily from what we see in the final film. When possible, we prefer to use previously established official names for characters. The name MB-RA-7 is from the Star Wars Kids magazine.

Regarding the OT novelizations, there is no intent to update them. If you want a version more accurate to the current version of the films, I'd suggest taking a look at the Scholastic junior novels from 2004 by Ryder Windham.

Will do.

However, that does not preclude the OT novels having been rendered S-canon. Just for the record, are you at liberty to reveal how they are treated in the Holocron? I have learned not to take anything for granted when it comes to continuity, so humour me.

If the omission was deliberate, feel free to ignore the question.

Dude, it hasn't even been officially stated in which month Jedi Twilight takes place, and it says so in the book! Sadly, it says to different dates in the book, but we have neither. :P

Regarding the OT novelizations, there is no intent to update them. If you want a version more accurate to the current version of the films, I'd suggest taking a look at the Scholastic junior novels from 2004 by Ryder Windham.

Regarding The Clone Wars movie novelization, these were done a bit differently than our prequel trilogy novels (I'm not exactly sure how it was handled in the OT novels). For the prequel trilogy novels, each of the authors met directly with George Lucas to discuss story points and character motivations. The Clone Wars is more of an interpretation of the movie script (actually more like a hybrid of the individual episodic scripts which make up the movie including scenes that were done for the episodes but were cut from the movie as well as scenes that were created specifically for the movie that weren't in the individual episodes). There also wasn't any direct contact this time around between the novelization author and George Lucas or the writers and director. And as with the previous novelizations, anything created by the author or taken from previous EU is considered C-Canon and anything from the scripts and movie are T-Canon.

The main difference between George Lucas's "3-Pillars" and the Holocron's canon system is that the Holocron system does not take into account any of the 3rd Pillar fan-generated material. This material is not represented in the Holocron unless it gets canonized by an official source. The 501st Legion, R2-KT, What's the Story, etc. are just some examples.

Cheers guys.
I hadn't picked up on the new T-canon thing, but now I know.

Oh? Impractical? How do you figure?

Because (a) you don't just reprint something to fix a timeline; (b) you don't spend countless hours scouring materials for chronological references to fix when doing a reprint; and (c) in some contracts, reprinted materials that are altered are no longer reprints and have different contractual obligations involved. It's extremely rare to have errors fixed in subsequent editions, unless there is an extremely compelling reason to do so, such as the screwed up art page in Legacy that made it look as though Cade was making a loving goodbye gesture to Marasiah Fel instead of Deliah Blue.

There would have to be a compelling reason for a reprint, and for that reprint to be changed.

IMO, from a continuity standpoint, the impractical thing to do would be to reprint some very important works, after having had 25 years to spot their flaws and retcon those that could be retconned in other ways, and not fix what remain in the process. Owen Kenobi? leave him in, he's been dealt with. President of the Senate? Replace the darn thing while you are at it!

Though, I haven't actually read the updated versions, so for all I know someone already has fixed them. But when no one on the official boards, not even the continuity buffs who frequent this thread, have confirmed anything of the sort yet, I'm losing hope fast...