that's not Karen Miller's fault. She's a newcomer to the universe who's work should be weighed on its own merits.

Hear, hear.

The whole reason Legacy authors used them is because the novel authors did not, and do not have any plans for them. They didn't want to mess with the novels' timeline/continuity/plans, as Ostrander says, so they used 2 old Jedi that would otherwise have been overlooked by the NJO. Plus, he also says that Yoda or Luke would not have sensed them because they were not drawing on the Force or acting as Jedi.

But, of course, that is not to say that the novel authors won't use them, it's always possible - they're just not really obligated to do so. Either way, I wouldn't mind, I just wanted to know why they chose K'kruhk and T'raa in the first place, and what impact this would have on the novels... which would appear to be none.

I'm sure the novel authors know this. I just don't think it would happen (if it does at all) any time soon.

But that is not to say an author might try to lead up to Legacy and use K'krukk or Traa Saa...

That link goes to a reply to this thread, Jeff.

Aaaaaand I'm an idiot. John Ostrander actually talks about their reasoning for not using Lowbacca and co. here!

Re: Clone Wars continuity --- I think it's easier just to breathe easy now, and let people like Abel G. Pena sort it out when it's all over. Will save a LOT of headaches.

It seems that the "C" in C-canon is short for "contradicting"...

So . . .

A fan who apparently wound up getting their copy of Wild Space a few days early has posted something that has continuity oriented fans in a bit of a tizzy.

If I'm understanding correctly, Anakin was knighted four weeks after AOTC, then full-scale war broke out three weeks after that.

If this is the case, it would seem to blow the "just split the continuity after Dreadnaughts of Rendili and sort of part the Red Sea to make room for TCW in the middle" idea that most of us were expecting out of the water. There's very little conceivable way, I'd think, to somehow cram 2.5 years worth of stories into under a month (which was at least a tad more feasible for several months).

This strikes me in several ways. It has been said repeatedly that the "old" Clone Wars era continuity would not be thrown out by the new TCW materials, only adjusted. This seemed to be due to the creative freedom afforded to the cartoon creative team, which did not have to fit previous continuity, though they try. (Though I really do hope that the Target info on the origin of Grievious is not going to end up part of TCW and somehow supercede his previous, detailed backstory.)

Anyway . . . this "four week knighting" scenario is not something from TCW's cartoon incarnation, but from a novel tie-in. I would think that's LucasBooks / Del Rey's department, not the TCW cartoon team. So . . . is this an error? Is this supposed to be months instead of weeks? Are the TCW novel tie-ins being treated as basically continuity unto themselves like the cartoons and any "collateral damage" to the other previously-published material is just going to be left to be swept up and reassembled later? It seems odd that a tie-in novel for the cartoon would set up one of the most jarring continuity tweaks of TCW.

Lastly, I assume that the idea of not throwing out the previous materials still stands? There seems to be a growing opinion among the few who have seen this new date that could be summarized as "Oh, the heck with it! Just do two separate continuities of the war. We give up."

Can anyone shed some light on this development?

Do the authors at Del Rey communicate with the authors at Dark Horse? It seems strange that there has been no mention of Lowie from the novels in Legacy (he should still be alive), or K'Kruck in the novels (he obviously joined the jedi at some point prior to legacy). And there are a few other character inconsistencies.

John Ostrander, the author of Legacy, has addressed that question here. Heyo!

Could be on a separate contract as Clone wars was, and Republic Commando.

Just a thought.

EDIT:

Another question Sue:

Do the authors at Del Rey communicate with the authors at Dark Horse? It seems strange that there has been no mention of Lowie from the novels in Legacy (he should still be alive), or K'Kruck in the novels (he obviously joined the jedi at some point prior to legacy). And there are a few other character inconsistencies.

You've mentioned that the authors of FOTJ are working closely to keep a (more) standard character development and plot lines, and I was wondering if the same style (if not frequency) of communcation occurs between the authors of the two mediums.

1. Imperial Commando #1 by Karen Traviss was listed on Sue's blog as having a release date of 4th August 2009, Amazon.com have just listed this book (here) with a release date of 29th September 2009 (nearly two later than previously mentioned). Which is correct?

Betting on September. Sue might still say August for now, but in these cases she almost always comes back later telling us it changed.

If you're wondering why the change, I'd remind you that Karen has other commitments, (her second Gears of War book comes out July 28) so there could have been a conflict of schedule.

Got a couple of questions if somebody could answer:

1. Imperial Commando #1 by Karen Traviss was listed on Sue's blog as having a release date of 4th August 2009, Amazon.com have just listed this book (here) with a release date of 29th September 2009 (nearly two later than previously mentioned). Which is correct?

2. Random House has listed the first four of Jude Watson's Jedi Quest books as being made available as audiobook digital downloads from the 24th March 2009 (book #4) and 14th April(books #1 thru 3)(??). Can we expect the rest of the Jedi Quest books being made available, and will other series such as Jedi Apprentice, Last of the Jedi also be made into audiobooks?

Thank you as always....