I searched a little, and if I understand correctly, Lethal Alliance is absolutely incompatible with Dark Forces.

Which Dark Forces are we talking about? The game, at least, is S-canon, mening new sources are free to ignore its content at will.

But if you are talking about the graphic novels, that is a trickier question. Star Wars: The Comics Companion doesn't put them in neither its C or S-canon sections, and Leland has yet to divulge which canon level they fit in. Per his statement in the Holocron thread about only current comics being C-canon, which Dark Forces clearly isn't, and without them being redeemed by the Companion as other old comics have been, it would seem that they are S. Especially if they conflict with Lethal Alliance.

*Is Lethal Alliance canonical ? *

In all likelyhood. If it conflicts with nothing other than strongly implied S material, we have to assume so.

If you can't afford them, wait for the paperback. Simple solution, and for a while, they were even putting bonuses in the paperbacks in the way of short stories, etc. Don't tell them not to put them out in hardback! They'll do what sells, and no one is suffering. Just waiting. And you can always check them out from a library if you can't wait to read it until it's in paperback. Some of us prefer the hardback and trade paperback format!

*The only part of the new contract that bugs me is the number of Hardcovers. Some of us can't afford those. *ahem**

I agree, over the past two years the number of hardcovers (hc) being released has steadily increased: -

1999 = 2 (INCLUDES TPM novelization)
2000 = 2
2001 = 3
2002 = 3 (INCLUDES AotC novelization)
2003 = 3
2004 = 3
2005 = 3 (INCLUDES RotS novelization)
2006 = 3
2007 = 4
2008 = SIX: Invincible, TCW, TFU, Order 66 (not hc in UK), Millennium Falcon (not released in hc in UK till April 2009), and LS & the Shadows of Mindor; PLUS TCW: Wild Space in trade paperback (hc in UK).
(Not to mention the $100+ for The Complete Encylopedia - oh in hc!!)

2009 = FIVE planned for release, the three FotJ's, Deathtroopers, and Darth Bane #3; PLUS Karen Traviss's TCW: No Prisoners in tpb (but hc in the UK).

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Hello, I have two little questions.

• The Dark Forces novels implies that Jan Ors and Kyle Katarn never met Leia or Luke before. I can understand for Kyle (Mon Mothma doesn't trust him at all), but Jan ? Or is she simply among those wardogs than Mon Mothma keep away from official hierarchy (as Alpha Blue) ? A sort of private army, after all. Even if Jan is known among the Rebellion ranks.
• The game Lethal Alliance implies that Katarn was already in the circle of Mon Mothma and Leia. Mon Mothma, I can eventually understand : it's an agent, even if she didn't trust him in that time. But Leia ?

So, the two questions are one, after all : Jan and Kyle, unknown to Leia and Luke before 5 ABY as in Dark Forces : Rebel Agent ?

Yeah, although the hardback format is a bit rough, it was never really even a question of whether I'd buy them or not. A lot of people say they're "done" with SW altogether, but I think everyone will end up buying them anyway.

I think it's just one of those fads now to hate majorly on anything that is new SW material. I don't really like it to tell you the truth. But these forums (sw.com) are full of people ready to buy and discuss them, so I'm happy regardless.

A long time, that's for sure. Sue and crew have really been listening, and it shows: brand new authors, brand new characters, more standalone novels, etc.

Sure Jaden is an unknown character, sure, but there's only one way to change that: write about him.

Jedi Academy, which is Jaden's first and currently only major appearence, was an Xbox/PC game that came out in 2003, following the success of Jedi Outcast.

Ah. That would explain it.

When did that even come out? I never heard of it, and I'd like to consider myself a fairly innate gamer for most of my youth up until a few years ago. I always followed the SW games. Also, what console was it for?