xhonzi said:

Tom Veitch referred to "Prison Ships used to Transport Jedi during the Clone Wars" early in Dark Empire.  It boggles my mind what he might have been thinking when he wrote that.

Zahn wrote that the Dark Side cave on Dagobah was so since several Dark Jedi from Bpfassh (sp?) died/were destroyed there.  Kind of an interesting thought.

Of course the spaarti cylinders are an interesting item.  The whole bit about how it took a year to grow a full blown clone and the issue with the force driving them mad...

I get the impression from Zahn that cloning Jedi was definitely a big goal during the Clone Wars, but was darn near impossible.

I think Luke&Leia's mom gets a name in one of the books.

I think Luke's dad was called "Tam Skywalker" in one of the early Marvel comics.  But he was called Anakin before the OT was over (at least according to Kenner), so you can probably safely throw that out.

The Archie Goodwin Star Wars daily comic strips referred, once, to Luke's father as a "Tan Skywalker". I'm assuming this would be pronounced like Han but with the T. However, as we all know, Vader/Luke's dad is called and referenced as Anakin Skywalker several times (by Luke and Obi-Wan). 

The "Tan" name has been ret-conned as an honorific title given to great pilots by the society where the supercomputer is from that says this name. 

Star Wars Purist said:

The "Tan" name has been ret-conned as an honorific title given to great pilots by the society where the supercomputer is from that says this name. 

xhonzi said:

 

Star Wars Purist said:

The "Tan" name has been ret-conned as an honorific title given to great pilots by the society where the supercomputer is from that says this name. 

*eyeroll*

 

haha!  Star Wars is no stranger to ret-cons.  It all started with Darth Vader's most famous line of dialogue! 

Yeah, but retconning in the EU has gotten so far out of hand that it's become a massive coronary of a joke.

Take the post-ROTJ Marvel comics for example. Those stories outright declare that the Empire swiftly collapsed following the Battle of Endor, leaving only a few remnants here and there. But, more-or-less beginning with the Thrawn trilogy, the later EU in the 90s depicted an Empire that stayed strong following the Battle of Endor, only collapsing several more years of conflict with the Rebels. These two takes on the post-ROTJ Empire don't mesh at all, but that hasn't stopped the losers who run the EU from shoving round pegs into square holes and declaring it all as "canon".

DuracellEnergizer said:

Yeah, but retconning in the EU has gotten so far out of hand that it's become a massive coronary of a joke.

Take the post-ROTJ Marvel comics for example. Those stories outright declare that the Empire swiftly collapsed following the Battle of Endor, leaving only a few remnants here and there. But, more-or-less beginning with the Thrawn trilogy, the later EU in the 90s depicted an Empire that stayed strong following the Battle of Endor, only collapsing several more years of conflict with the Rebels. These two takes on the post-ROTJ Empire don't mesh at all, but that hasn't stopped the losers who run the EU from shoving round pegs into square holes and declaring it all as "canon".

I haven't read the Marvel series up to the post-ROTJ era, but doesn't that fit with The Thrawn Trilogy, which shows only a few Imperial "remnants here and there", one of which really only shows itself once Thrawn and his great scheme comes into play? I will agree that the Post-Thrawn books such as "Truce at Bakura" and so forth show a very much alive Empire.  Personally, I definitely liked Zahn's vision the best, where the Empire was markedly wounded and limited, yet still present.  The post-ROTJ Marvel series seems unrealistic (even for a Marvel series fan such as myself) and a lot of those post-Thrawn '90s books make it seem as though ROTJ never happened! 

As for all the ret-cons?  Yes.  They're terrible.  I don't mind ones such as the "Tan" one, since an original trilogy film overrides it.  Now when the Prequels and Prequel-related works ret-con things...then I get a little pissed, as I know you yourself did.  We both remember how cool The Clone Wars and Darth Vader & Boba Fett's origins were before Lucas got involved...