Okay, not much of a clip - not even 60 seconds - but its new footage:

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Found another:

(Okay, I have to admit that when we get that little taste of John Williams at 3:05, my inner child squeed with glee)

Two things about that first clip:

1) I dig how the effects like the exploding TIE look more like the original trilogy.

2) Is it me or is the next big child product scandel probably going to be a parent losing it because they think chopper is swearing?

Oh good, it wasn't just me who thought chopper said "What the Fu*k" when he came into the cockpit.

So how about the ship Ghost? I mean I know it is a Y- something from Corellian Engineering but what are its stats. Inquiring me wants to know what it stats would be as well. Any thoughts or have we gotten that far?

Ghost is a VCX-100. I've made some unofficial stats in the document you can find linked to at the bottom of this blog post.

I have not conjured stats for the Phantom shuttle that is attached to Ghost, nor are there any good rules in the game for including such a modification to a silhouette 4 starship - and I do believe the VCX-100 is a silhouette 4, it's a light freighter.

Oh good, it wasn't just me who thought chopper said "What the Fu*k" when he came into the cockpit.

That's what I thought too. It took me a couple of seconds to realize it was droid sounds, not muttered swearing.

Oh good, it wasn't just me who thought chopper said "What the Fu*k" when he came into the cockpit.

That's what I thought too. It took me a couple of seconds to realize it was droid sounds, not muttered swearing.

I for one don't think the similarity was an accident. An "easter egg" funny or perhaps done to get some news coverage and they can easily say it was not intentional, even if it was.

Here, have some pre-production art work!

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Although the wings on the TIE fighters look a little too short to me. . . .

I hope they fix that Star Destroyer. That looks messed up!

Alderaan?

The TIE fighter wings ARE a little shorter, as the McQuarrie art, which is inspiring the visual look, had them shorter. Think of them as TIE version 1 (you must unlearn what EU you have learned).

The pictures you think are Alderaan are actually the planet the show will ve focusex around, Lothal.

I would LOVE if the gozanti cruiser stats in the core book also included the imperial refit shown in the art for this show. (Mainly dince I'm basing a campaign around that ship)

The Hammer Approves

And this just game me like five cavities. I like it though.

Ahhh the artwork. Amazing.

And here is something on canon-schmanon.

That's pretty straightforward I'd say.

Yeah that's nothing really new.

The Clone Wars included some EU elements, but I also remember a part of the Clone Wars special features has Filoni talking about the time George walked in and said "I want Mandalorians" and Dave was all "Well here, look at this huge pile of Mando oriented EU we've been using as reference material." and George just being all "Yeah... I want to do Mandos this way, don't worry about that pile of stuff."

Bottom line: The EU that works and/or George likes will stay, the EU that doesn't work and/or that George doesn't like... bu-bye. Which should really be surprising to no one.

Yeah, I thought this had been obvious to everyone for years.

Kinberg isn't a part of the Star Wars Story Group though. Things that are set in stone and are unchangeable at this point pretty much only includes the movies and the Clone Wars TV series, but it's pretty much always been that way since the old Canon Hierarchy system always placed the movies and the TV show above pretty much the entirety of the EU. The Story Group's task is to do away with the hierarchy of Canon, and everything will either be canon or not canon.

If you have any kind of Star Wars Canon disputes, the things to do is just wait for the Story Group to say something.

Who is on this Story Group? Whoever Disney wants I suppose?

Nice art, but the landscapes seem to be missing that level of detail that was one of the compelling things about TCW.

Did someone say the cannon movie group?

Enter the Ninja was an AWESOME flick! Wait - what were we talking about again?

Who is on this Story Group? Whoever Disney wants I suppose?

Those are the 4 people who are make up the Star Wars Story Group.

Carrie Beck is the Director of Lucasfilm's Creative Content Strategy. It's basically been her job to help manage which products and stories have been produced for Star Wars over the past several years.

Diana Williams' job has been to make sure that all the bits and pieces in the franchise work well together.

Leland Chee as the Keeper of the Holocron has been in charge of overseeing what happens in Star Wars from a Canon Perspective for about 20 years now.

Oh, and Pablo Hidalgo has been writing for Star Wars going back to West End Games RPG modules going back to 1995 or so, and since then he has been responsible for many of the Star Wars Reference books that have been published over the years.

In other words, the Star Wars Story Group is being headed up by the exact same people who have been the most responsible for maintaining Star Wars Continuity for the past 20 years.

Kinberg on the other hand is not in the story group.

Now what we are likely to see happen is almost all of the Post Return of the Jedi material is probably going to be Retconned, although we might see some of it in the new films.

However stuff set in Star Wars Distant Past, like Knight of the Old Republic, or The Old Republic MMO are going to probably still be canon. Especially now that EA has an exclusive contract with Disney to manage the forward production of all Star Wars related video games for the next 10 years.

Well, up on the StarWars.com page, the big announcement in regards to what is and isn't canon has been made.

http://starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page.html

Short version: The films, the Clone Wars TV series, and any future released materials will be canon, while everything else falls under the header of "Legends," especially the post-RotJ stuff.

So Yuuzhan Vong, Traviss-style Mandalorians, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Chewbacca's death, Luke's marriage... until a future author makes reference to it in a later work, it's all "alternate continuity" at this point.

Happy about that; it'll amount to better films.

I did read an interview with Karen Gillan (the attractive redhead companion of the eleventh Doctor) who is playing Nebula in Marvel's guardians of the galaxy, saying she shaved off her full head of red hair, and saying that it was donated to lucasfilm who made a wig out of it. Could be for a wookie, but...

I did read an interview with Karen Gillan (the attractive redhead companion of the eleventh Doctor) who is playing Nebula in Marvel's guardians of the galaxy, saying she shaved off her full head of red hair, and saying that it was donated to lucasfilm who made a wig out of it. Could be for a wookie, but...

Or could be for a random unnamed person that appears in the background while the main characters are doing stuff.

Much as I'd love to see Mara Jade re-enter canon as Luke's wife in the new movies, I'm not expecting it to happen, as while Mara's got her fans, she's also got her detractors. And it sounds like Lucasfilm wants as clean a slate as possible for future films and associated material.

Then again, Timothy Zahn has mentioned he'd love to do a story focusing Luke, Mara, and their son Ben, even after Mara's death in the Legacy of the Force series of novels, so maybe he'll have the chance while also having the opportunity to weave it into the new canon. Probably too much to hope for though, much like any expectation of getting a reference to or actually seeing Mara Jade in the new movies.