skyjedi2005 said:

The one thing the Sequel trilogy is going to do and will have fans up in arms. Is that everything which started with Heir to the Empire is now gone. The EU has been effectively rebooted or erased.

Not exactly the thing EU fans thought they were getting. They maybe imagined wrongly that the Zahn trilogy would be loosely followed by the new scripts.

Lucas has always maintained that the EU never happened or was a separate universe. Was something that came out of licensing and was just really a source of revenue. Remember Lucas was financing his own films he was not a multi- billion dollar studio like Disney.

He never intended to make them after 2005 the sequel films i mean. He intended the story to always be the tragedy of darth vader. Wonder what Retcon is coming to undue that the Empire is dead and its only six films. Where is this new story going to come from. Probably whole cloth and whether or not its accepted is anyone's guess.

They may as well have Tarkin come on screen and say " the last vestiges of the Old EU have been swept away."

It will be like JJ Trek where Enterprise happened but not the original series the movies or the next gen. Only the 2011 star wars prequel and special edition will be the continuity the sequels follow. The oot or pre sequel EU never happened.

Not everyone religiously follows the EU. Disney is going to be courting people who have only seen the films as well. About the only time the EU even got national media attention was when Chewbacca was killed off in Vector Prime.

If people are going to have a hissy fit because the novels are being ignored, they're better off staying home. The EU isn't the backbone of the SW universe, the films are.

Abram's Trek takes place in a alternate timeline. Everything that happened still happened.