Tyrphanax said:
Father Skywalker said:
Umm, is the EU canon?? By canon, I mean, not just canon, but part of the same storyline as the movies, and do they basically add to the movies storyline?? Besides, why did screams erupt in the next room?? And then it blew up?? You just stopped quoting the book after that, and added your own stuff to that....
"I don't read that stuff. I haven't read any of the novels. I don't know anything about that world. That's a different world than my world. But I do try to keep it consistent. The way I do it now is they have a Star Wars Encyclopedia. So if I come up with a name or something else, I look it up and see if it has already been used. When I said [other people] could make their own Star Wars stories, we decided that, like Star Trek, we would have two universes: My universe and then this other one. They try to make their universe as consistent with mine as possible, but obviously they get enthusiastic and want to go off in other directions."
Don't use the books/the EU expanded universe to explain what happened in the movies. Both are canon, but are different storylines and timelines and universes, as stated in the above quote.........
Umm, all canon debates aside, i thought that most of the imperials evacuated it. So, a few of them stayed on it, kinda like the handful of fools that stay in their town after the hurricance, while everybody else evacuates???
It is generally accepted that unless Lucas explicitly overwrites what a book claims happened with something of his own design, then it is the "true canon". So, yes, the books are canon until Lucas says otherwise. If you want to go purely off the movie, then unless a character is explicitly shown to survive something, general consensus is that they are dead.
Screams were erupting in the next room because the station was falling apart already due to damage incurred from the attack, as well as the Executor crashing into it. I'm sure some Imperials did evacuate, but certainly not all of them. Just like when a ship in the navy gets destroyed in combat, not everyone can get out before it sinks.
I stopped quoting because it's not a good idea to reproduce large amounts of a legally-protected book on a public forum, and because the next part tells about Lando and Wedge escaping the superstructure and the Death Star blowing up.
Speaking of copyright issues, why would you even post any of it here in the first place???
By canon, I mean, part of the same storyline, more specifically, the "same canon".....
I know the last part already, so, no need to tell me.......
Does the book explicity say "boom, they died"!!!!