expanded universe
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How Star Wars’ Biggest Fan Wiki Found Itself in a Fight Over Trans Identity
If you’re a Star Wars fan online, there stands a high chance that you’ve not only heard of Wookieepedia — the Fandom-owned community resource archiving eons of material from the franchise — but spent more time than you’d like to admit looking up everything from Ickabel G’ont to the history of the Grysk Hegemony. But…
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The Too-Short Story of Ahmed Best’s Other Star Wars Roles
We are, at long last, living in the early days of what is a long-overdue Ahmed Best renaissance. After years of horrifying torment the actor received for having the audacity to bring Jar Jar Binks to life, Star Wars (both its fandom and its institution) has accepted Best into its heart again as he hosts…
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Of Course The Mandalorian Is Interested In What The Expanded Universe Could Add Back To Star Wars Canon
Ever since Disney and Lucasfilm rehauled the Star Wars canon in the wake of the former’s acquisition of the latter, the Expanded Universe, a vault of Star Wars storytelling for decades, was reclassified as mythological “legend,” non-canonical tales of a bygone age. But that doesn’t mean it’s gone for good, and the people behind The…
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In Lando Calrissian And The Flamewind Of Oseon, Everyone Wants Lando Dead For Very Dumb Reasons
Last week we started an adventure of, well, reading L. Neil Smith’s The Lando Adventures, a trilogy of ’80s novels that imagine the life of Lando before he became the Baron of Cloud City. While Mindharp of Sharu ended up being a weird, fanciful escapade, its follow-up, Flamewind of Oseon, is weird for much less…