How about Lucas was making it all up as he went and Obi Wan in Star Wars 1977 did not lie. At that point Vader and Luke's father were two seperate characters and Leia was not the sister.
Plus Lucas can decide on something then change it years later. Originally Obi Wan was owen's brother. What Anakin's relation to Owen and kenobi is not known or destribed in the Return of the Jedi novelization. But that same novelization also puts the Kibosh on Leia's mother dieing right when she was just born.
Yoda was originally obi wans teacher and not as the prequels crap all over the concept, neither were there characters like Maul, jar jar or qui gon. There is no frickin midi chlorians this is just bad form of returning back to quantifying the force remember the Kiber crystal?
Also very bad idea since Lucas got the idea from mitochrondria. Star Wars is space fantasy not science fiction. If it was really science fiction well it would be science friction,lol.
It would be like trying to use plausible science to explain Eastern Mysticism, or the very basic form of meta physical new age spriitualism.
There are already a lot of retcons in the original trilogy between the films without the prequels having to add allsorts of stupid ones that make zero sense and actually make more questions than they answer.
The Emporer as an original concept and in the star wars novelization as well as in empire strikes back is a more mystery man behind the curtain wizard of oz type character than the cackling maniac in jedi.
In fact its not really described and may have been one of Alan Dean Fosters additions but the emperor may have been a victim as well, he was controlled by the very assistants and bootlickers who got him on the throne. They through fear and treachery had the jedi killed. Sounds more like Rome than star wars imperials.
Vader as originally written comes off as an Evil Ronin Samurai. Or maybe one of the Knights Templar who went bad.
Oh and the reckless younger days of Kenobi were relocated to the EU junior novels jedi apprentice series.
Kind of like how to experience the full clone wars which were not told on screen you needed the comics the video games, the novels and now 2 very contracdictory cartoons series.
Such cross media was not done since shadows of the empire and was done again with the force unleashed.
Too bad in recent years Lucasfilm products leave a lot to be desired, i remember when their games devision was second to none and when they made good films.
Now Star Wars and Indiana Jones are just a giant empire of merchandising without any other thought than making money.