Shadows of the Empire has about as much chance as anything making it due to the fact that it was written when it was at another publishing company. It also has been rewritten in comic book form and video game form. Also the sequel that was written for it was only written in comic book format I believe. Dark Horse has also lost the license for Star Wars as Disney is moving it to Marvel so even the comics could be out of the continuity loop. However, do to the fact that FFW is drawing from other video games who knows. Also WEG did a lot of things that are not a part of continuity in their books. While I am not positive I do not ever remember anywhere in continuity where a group of spacers hijacked an entire Imperial Star Destroyer. That is one of my friend's favorite adventures from the old WEG and it came from one of their adventures apparently. As I said I am not positive that is accurate.

As for what Disney has planned for continuity I just hope they let FFG keep the license agreement. Even if that means some of what they already released and let them keep going. Not to knock Disney but unlike other things they already have I doubt that they have a RPG mechanism in their repertoire of resources.

The new movie is taking place 30 years after RotJ is pretty close to real life Chronological age of the Actors.

thus I could easily see the big three (Han, Liea, Luke) reprising their roles and it is almost certain they will. The main characters Could be Han and Liea's offspring and maybe a friend

DIsney has already stated the can, and likely will change EU to suit their needs. I have no problems with them Ditching the Vong war... in fact it would likely be easier if they did

Didn't see this anywhere in this topic, so thought I'd give it a quick plug:

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Readers-Companion-Star-Wars/dp/0345511190

The Essential Reader's Companion is where it's at if you feel at all daunted getting into the EU. The book is put together by Pablo Hidalgo.

@Dex Vulen, I wouldn't use the the term "Canon Police," but yes there is a Story Group that will be establishing a cohesive continuity from the messy "hierarchy" that has been the Star Wars canon for the past couple decades. This group includes Pablo Hidalgo as well.

There also used to be a star wars encyclopedia that came out I owned the first and second editions. They were great in my opinion but Wookieepedia has done a good job of taking over. Also the Essentials are pretty good too but I don't know how many editions those have.

We will know soon enough how much EU canon remains intact after the first movie. I expect we'll see most of what was available from WEG in its time to survive in some form as that game line did more to expand on existing material rather than create new events or storylines, Earlier novels like Thrawn Trilogy, Shadows of the Empire etc... I think are most likely to remain.

Dark Empire comics is iffy, The Force Unleashed was already relegated to game designer fan fiction. Galaxy spanning events outside the movies that somehow require explanation also likely gone, Jedi Children/New Jedi Order/Legacy stuff likely meets a canon meatgrinder

Bioware by retaining its liscense w/ Disney for Old Republic MMO I think we can safely assume races or locales portrayed within are likely to remain canon, which spares Chiss.

Only things I really hope they keep are the Thrawn Trilogy and Shadows of the Empire. I always felt they were a good fit for the movie universe and well written (especially the Thrawn trilogy.) Another thing I hope that gets completed or maybe even carried on from Dark Horse to Marvel is the Legacy series. I don't really care if they don't get made canon or not, but I like to see it at least completed as they've been an entertaining read. As for the rest... I really didn't care for it. I think most of that has to do with me not really liking Jedi and so many of the later books seemed to do nothing but revolve around them and their drama. The X-wing/Rogue squadron books didn't, now that I think of it, but even those didn't do to much for me for some reason. Maybe I'm broken.

I hope they keep the first 8 X-Wing Novels as well but a lot of the rest of the post Return of the Jedi Stuff I honestly don't care if they keep or reject. I hope they scrap Dark Empire since I think the whole Palpatine back from the dead plot was dumb.

Well, looks like the shoe dropped:

So, Thrawn? Gone. Mara? Gone. All the solo kids? Gone. TIE Defenders, Z-95s, Victory Star Destroyers, Jodo Kast, Giant Green Rabbits - all on the scrap-heap.

Strangely enough, this means that the Star Wars Holiday Special - being on the screen - is spared the Expanded Universe purge. Delicious irony!

Unlikely to be remotely accurate. The odds of them wiping everything when they have a team that is supposed to be picking what stays are zero IMO. They might cut a lot but not everything..

I wonder if that includes the computer screen?

Honestly anything pre-Thrawn trilogy is probably safe. Unless the new films include flashbacks to what Luke, Leia, Han, and friends were doing the day after Endor, flashbacks to the fall of Coruscant, or an exact date when that took place, or flashbacks or an exact date for Han and Leia's wedding they are fine. The Thrawn Trilogy is in more danger because it introduces Han and Leia's first two children and they might want different names, genders, ages, or numbers in the new films.

As for ships most of them are safe unless the new flims actually say that certain models never existed. Also of the ships you specifically mentioned Desslok a variant of Z-95 was shown on screen in The Clone Wars and both Z-95s and Victory class Star Destroyers are old enough that not appearing on screen in 34-35 ABY means little while TIE Defenders were always very rare so the lack f them on screen again means little.

*SPOLIER*

We do know that Pablo Hidalgo hated having to kill off Chewbacca in Vector Prime, so at least that will probably be gone

@Desslok, I can't find that conversation on Twitter. Mayhap it was deleted? In any case, we don't really know what that means. It could very well be a reference to the old (and actually still-extant) "hierarchy" system, wherein the only true "canon" was what was on screen and then the rest of "canon" was simply established to help EU authors not to step on each other's toes and give fans a sense of continuity.

The new continuity that Hidalgo, Chee et al are working on has yet to be publicly established, so Hidalgo's erstwhile tweet is still completely accurate (EDIT), while technically not being exclusionary.

Honestly, the only EU stuff I want to see remain on continuity is the Dark Forces games. Kyle Katarn needs his own movie/ series

The Z-95 Headhunter is actually safe, since he appears in TCW series.

That is one of my friend's favorite adventures from the old WEG and it came from one of their adventures apparently. As I said I am not positive that is accurate.

The WEG SWRPG adventure Starfall centered around the PCs attempting to escape a Victory-class Star Destroyer after it came under attack by an Alliance strike fleet. The PCs start in the brig, but then bam, the power goes out and it's time to get out and away before the VSD decides to blow up.

I don't think there's an adventure where the PCs "took over" a VSD, or an ISD, for that matter. There was a short story about how Han and the commando team captured one in the mop-up after Endor, though.

That was hilarious. The story was basically Han being debriefed about the seizing of the Star Destroyer. First thing he does is try to claim it was all Chewie's idea