Maybe there should just be an Essential Calendar?

After the end of TCW such a thing will be really, really necessary... sigh

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet. So much simpler and reader-friendly.

Okay, Leland, this one's for you:

Given that we just did the Atlas in-universe dating on a 12-month calendar, even the two films that had their dates originate on a 10-month calendar, and given other considerations of the 10 vs. 12 month calendar dating that we've discussed in the past . . .

It would seem that, barring a very few minor dates (now somewhat in limbo due to the confirmation of the ESB 10-month date as its 12-mnth date), all of the 10-month dates of years past seem to have been mostly limited to obscure RPG materials from the WEG days, S-Canonical and so forth.

Is there any chance that we could simply, for the sake of simplicity and user-friendly dates, just assume that the old in-universe Galaxywide News Nets and other WEG RPG dates from a 10-month calendar were actually on a 12-month calendar like the current one all along? Perhaps we just never saw any dates from Months 11 or 12. The only dates that would still be head-scratchers might be Fete Weeks (which could easily overlap with regular weeks very much like, say, Jewish and Islamic holidays that last more than a few days).

It would certainly seem logical and an easy way to "fix" the age old 10 vs. 12 month question in "one swift stroke."

And it'd fit with how we were directed in creating the dates for the the Atlas, which seems like it it the way things are leaning anyway.

What say you?

I agree with you VK, but the thought that Palpatine might have had +most of +all of it planed makes him scary as the 9 hells!

According to Wookieepedia Palpatine was feeling Dooku out before the events of Episode I. Yes, he didn't leave the Order and being working with Sidious until after Qui-Gon's death, but I think Palpy foresaw that he would. Therefore Maul became expendable at some point or other.

But Palpatine was already working with Dooku by this point, using him to use Syfo-Dias to create the GAR.

The way I see it the situation surrounding Naboo and Amidala was all about one thing for Palpy: becoming Chancellor. Sure, the ideal scenario would've probably seen Maul survive but I think stating that he was upset over Maul's death is an a bit overstated. We already know about his speciesism so I think Maul was merely a savage, Jedi-hating War Machine used by the future Emperor as a means to an end. Same for Dooku, and Palps clearly shed no tears during his death.

You are all forgetting that Sids risked revealing the existence of the Sith by sending Maul to retrieve Amidala. There is no reason he would have done that, unless his goal in fact was to take legal control of Naboo. If he wanted her to escape and apprear before the Senate, sending Maul of all people after her would be the purest folly.

Thing about having foreseen stuff is that if we are to believe Yoda's: "Always in motion, the future is", we must make room for the possibility that Palp wasn't always in control of what was going to happen. However, I do think he made several contingency plans, one for each possible scenario.

lol Palpatine has discovered a new Force power: Media Awareness? Not unlike Deadpool's mutation of Comic Awareness, how he's aware that he's a comic book character?

Anakin: "Chancellor! How long has it been?"
Palpatine: "Since Jedi Quest, Issue 1."

Ah, the fourth wall. How fragile it is.

So, in conclusion, I don't think it's so much that Jedi v. Sith supercedes (not retcon, because a retcon implies that both are true, from a certain POV; a retcon would be that he was lying) the novel, but that the content of the next movies (G-canon) outweighs the novel (C-canon) and that Jedi v. Sith was based on the grand scheme as seen in the G-canon films.

Besides, Palpatine had no sense of regret, really. He knew that if Maul were strong enough to be his apprentice all his life and eventually become a Master, then he wouldn't have been killed by Obi-Wan. If he died, it was because he was weak, not because of a fluke. Same goes with Dooku.

In the Phantom Menace novel, Palpatine was displeased with the outcome of the Battle of Naboo, angry over Darth Maul's death, and Anakin had only come to his notice before then. In the Essential Guide to the Force, however, Palpatine has seen Anakin days prior, foreseen he would become his apprentice, and therefore sacrificed Maul. Maul was said to be a tool to rattle the Jedi's long-complacent attitude.

Which is the canon version? Does the Essential Guide to the Force retcon the Phantom Menace novelization?