Whatever happened to those literary, "omniscient sources of information",

Then one can simply treat the source as a well-informed external historian/author, and thereby not an internal participant writing about it later (I, Jedi could be viewed that way). You simply attribute it to an anonymous informed author after the event happened. This is a lot more convienent, IMHO, an analogy than being strict about the "third-person omniscient" POV we all learned about in High School English class, because its hard to image an omniscient source being wrong, but in SW, it can be due to the whole interpretation/foggy windows/contridicting film intent thing.

This is just an analogy, but I find it a helpful one.

Not to mention, it isn't without precedent. The ANH novelisation and perhaps the SW movies themselves were once thought to be part of a fictional "Journal of the Whills" historical document recovered from a Galaxy far far away...at least that's my impression.

what is the official timeline placement for League of Spies?

We don't have one. The line in the story of it occuring a "few months" after the start of the Clone Wars throws off our stated position for "Pengalan Tradeoff." I could tell you where I think, but that would run the risk of being contradicted again.

Usually we'll catch these errors in our continuity checks, but unfortunately this one slipped through the cracks.

No one said he was leader of any army sigh. Just because he was a leader, doesn't mean he was the leader. Even read my very long post? The culture of mandalore according to the AotCs Visual dictionary? Boba maybe leading a group ofyoung boys ?

There'snothing that said he led the army.

Anyhoo, Jango was killing at the age of ten.

And Boba is currently doing bounty hunting work for Jabba the Hutt. How is thatanymore believable?

Why is the battle of Mandalore more of an urban legend, rather than an actual event that occured?

Whether or not an actual Clone Wars battle takes place in the Mandalore system is up to the authors.

I am not aware of any current plans for a young Boba to join the Mandalorians.

And just in case you're wondering, yes there is a planet Mandalore in your sourcebooks. The Guide to the starwars universe third edition says that the planet was conquered by Mandalore and his mercanary army.It became the home base of the Mandalorians.

The Star Wars Core Rule book by Wizards of the Coast says that Mandalore still exists in the PT era and Empire era and citizens of the planet are known as Mandalorians though they don't follow the necessaryily follow the old mandalorian warrior tradition. Based on sources YOU GUYS published i can only conclude that at some point there was a split between Mandaloriansthat wanted to jointhe greater galaxy and those that wanted to follow the old tradition. Those who wanted to follow the old tradition became a roaming band of mercanaries as seen in Jango Fett: Open Seasons. The planet Mandalore itself became a member of the Republic and human citizens from Mandalore became known as Mandalorians.

I can see the mandalorians using younger mandalorians as scouts. Small. Fast. Able to goin places that adults can't. They could even be used for sabotage. Such as Jango was used by Jaster Mereel in open seasons.

It would be logical for Boba to eventually try to join the Mandalorian System Protectors. After all, his training by his father was never completed. How better to complete your Mandalorian training than by joining actual mandalorians. And certainly those young adult Boba Fett books aren't going to expand the entire clone wars are they? Surely there's time for young Boba to make his way to Mandalore.

Hmm, that is the simplest explanation I've ever heard for the paragraphs, putting one during the clone wars, and putting the other after episode III. It makes perfect sense, .

The nice thing about it is the first paragraph, that refers to the clone wars, says he was setting up his "made his move to set up a galactic empire" during the clone wars, so it wasn't even an empire at the time, neither was he an emperor, . As AOTC has shown us the clone wars was his move to set up a galactic Empire, . It falls into place pretty darn well, if one interprets it that way, imo, .

Certainly, I understand that obviously palpatine wasn't the emperor at the point, and the person fenn shysa, got to know the features of, couldn't have been leia, but I'm sure there is a way to interpret the story so that it could fit...

If LFL starts turning events into tall tales, they might as well start saying there isn't really a true star wars continuity, and they can just say every story is just fuzzy story that may or may not happened as shown in a story...

Val, its not really that bad. Think of the EU as a grand bank of different historical sources from eons ago. Some corroborate, some don't, and you have a little competition going on between some of them. There's a truth, but its got to be haggled out of the comparison, and its all still subordinate to the movies, which in my RL "suspension of disbelief" little view here for a bit, is like watching a video recording or documentary about a grand event. The images and film is going to be a bit more reliable...but more complete versions of the dug up ol' tape may show up, and trump that (Special Editions)... :-p

Don't worry Val. It'll get hammered out.

Pablo et al., when will the Clone Wars timeline be updated at starwars.com?