Fang Zei said:

imperialscum said:

As for EU sources that used big-time characters in order to try to increase their popularity they will pay the price now.

Here's the thing, though: they've had 20+ years to kill off Han, Luke and Leia in the EU and they haven't. Also, didn't Chewie's death need to be OK'd by GL himself? That, to me, makes it semi-official.

You don't kill the milk cow. Unless some EU author wants be an attention whore and tries to make himself look important by killing one of the big-time character. But Lucas kept them in line that much.