History ContinuityNod / Literature

*** While authors try to mimic Zahn in this way, Creator/LucasArts itself seems to merely despise the fanbase when they ignore the idea that there is any pre-established continuity. They ultimately decide the outline of new ''Star Wars'' material, and in an actual ''inversion'' of the Continuity Nod that goes beyond simple Retcon, they add new events to the timeline thousands of years apart and then connect them together. For example, the new ''Fate of the Jedi'' series, which takes place about 40 years after the movies, involves plot elements from 5,000 years before movies. Previously, the span of important events covered to about 4,000 years before. When they ran out of room to reference events, they just tacked it on the end, and at an arbitrary date no less. Plans spawned from said 5,000 year plot must coexist alongside other plans, such as [[ItWasHisSled Palpatine's rise to power]], The Sith Empire from ''The Old Republic'' hiding in the Unknown Regions, and The One Sith (which is itself another example of this): all of these plans manipulate politics and events at a ''galactic'' level, yet they never contradict one another. This new element is simply the newest of a long trend, and one that just ramps it UpToEleven. The characters are unaware of these plots (as is the audience) but the Galaxy Far, Far Away, in its omniscience, knew about them the whole time.