Random thought rolling around in my head as I was looking up some stats for the Heavy-Z95.

Now that the House of the Mouse owns Lucasfilm and has obliterated the EU continuity (I'll keep my opinion on that in check for now) what will FFG be doing going forward in their sourcebooks? Thus far FFG's have heavily mined the EU for information in Edge of the Empire and Age of Rebellion which is great for GM's like me because I'm trying to still follow EU continuity in my EotE game.

If the Lucas Story Group dictates that FFG stop using Legends material what are they going to fill their books with? There is new material starting to come out in the new novels and the four different Marvel comic books (which are excellent by the way). Obviously material appearing in Star Wars: Rebels will be canon. But that leaves a relatively small pool of source to load their high quality books up with.

I've been away from the forums for a few months so I was curious if FFG has made any official announcement on their stance yet. Odds are it won't be left up to their choice; however, if it is they may be best suited using Legends just for the sake of having something to write about. I don't think Force and Destiny will be hit that hard since they had the prequels and Clone Wars to mine from; however, EotE and AoR are going to be left short of source in my lowly opinion.

Last I checked there is nothing that Disney (The house of the mouse as you put it) put in the license that prevents EU/Legends mining.

They still allow SWTOR mmo to be fully living in the EU with a valid license.

What are they going to be short of? What Disney said when it came to the EU was that they were not going to be held to the story continuity . They said they will freely pick and choose whatever they like and use it however they like while not being held to precisely how it was introduced within the context of the story and the EU . So I don't understand why you think FFG can't just grab spaceship X or character Y and use them. Everything they publish going forward is going to be cleared by the mouse so it isn't like they don't have access to all that stuff , they will just pitch an idea , and get a thumbs up or down it doesn't mean EU is disappearing .

Given how much "EU mining" that FFG has done thus far, I doubt there's going to be any change in them further mining the EU/Legends for material.

If there was anything in the contract that prevented FFG from doing so, or requiring them to stick to canon, we probably wouldn't have seen as much EU stuff as we have in the past few releases.

Disney came back a few months after the initial EU/Legends announcement and clarified that the goal wasn't meant to 'obliterate' the expanded universe but more to 'separate' it from Canon so that projects going forward (particularly the movies) could be free to establish content without conflicting previous material.

This is why we're seeing EU material (particularly locations, technology and organizations) re-emerge in canon novels, comics, and games.

Yeah, "Legends" is a branding identifier for old novels and anything that follows their continuity. Its not a canonicity label. TOR, and RPG are both noncanon materials that are also not Legends. Likely well see more eventually...

Events, characters, and worlds Disney has plans for will probably be affected but I seriously doubt Disney cares what ship and vehicle models, weapon models, or lesser planets appear in FFG material.

I was worried they might scrap Interdictors in the new canon but they've actually included pretty much every Interdictor class native to Imperial space from Legends in the new canon so that's obviously not a concern any more. (So far no Interdictor Star Destroyers or the Alliance Interdictor Strike cruisers but Heir to the Jedi mentions that Interdictor Star Destroyers are entering production and there were only a handful of Interdictor Strike cruisers in Legends.)