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- #579315
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- If YOU Had Full Control of the Expanded Universe ...
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... what would you do? What policies would you create, enforce, or restore? If you have any ideas for storylines/storyarcs, what would they be? If you could create, change, or destroy any characters/places/events/etc. that already exist within the EU, which ones? This is the thread where YOU get to tell all in regards to how the Expanded Universe would be shaped according to your vision.
As for me, this is what I would do as master of the EU:
1. Create a "What happens in the prequel era stays in the prequel era" rule. In plain English, what this rule means is that no prequelisms are allowed to be used outside of the prequel era; no Darths, Rule of Two, desert hermit Jedi robes, non-attachment rule, younglings, padawans, blue-red-green-lightsabers-only rule, midi-chlorians, etc, etc. are allowed to be created, used, or referenced before 1000 BBY or after 19 BBY. Prequelization already made to eras outside of the PT era will remain canon and not be retconned, but they will be ignored and all references made to them will be made in the vaguest of ways or not at all.
2. Create an "Ultimate Star Wars" continuity. This continuity would co-exist alongside the already-extant Star Wars Expanded Universe as a "sister universe" of sorts. My vision is that all pre-PT EU will remain canon in this continuity, but all post-PT EU - or at least all post-PT EU that references, mirrors, or otherwise emulates the PT - will not be a part of it. This would allow writers to develop the EU as it might have been had the prequels never been made.
3. Create a regular Star Wars Infinities comic book series. This would serve as the Star Wars equivalent to the Elseworlds and What If? comic lines produced by DC & Marvel comics, allowing writers free reign to create storylines, characters, and entire worlds outside of any established continuity.
4. Officially establish Lucas' Official Definitive Star Wars Saga of the Moment, along with the OOT, the SE '97, SE' 04, the Expanded Universe, early Star Wars film drafts, etc. as part of an infinite multiverse. This would validate the OOT by making it as "real" as George's favoured version, along with making any continuity the various fans may prefer officially "canon", thus bringing an end to the stupid "Is-the-EU-canon-or-not?" debate the more anal fanboys like to engage in.
