What is 'canon' re: Star Wars?

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Rossington 'VARFA' Kooymans

2008-11-12 04:49:11 UTC

What non-movie mATERIAL IS CONSIDERED 'canon' in regards to Star Wars?
What books? tech manuals? comics? SW is getting almost as bad as Trek
when it comes to an absolutely BEWILDERING spectrum of stuff available.
Is Tim Zahn's first trilogy canon? any help or link would be
appreciated!

Your Name

2008-11-12 05:12:53 UTC

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Post by Rossington 'VARFA' Kooymans
What non-movie mATERIAL IS CONSIDERED 'canon' in regards to Star Wars?
What books? tech manuals? comics? SW is getting almost as bad as Trek
when it comes to an absolutely BEWILDERING spectrum of stuff available.
Is Tim Zahn's first trilogy canon? any help or link would be
appreciated!

Seeing as this has been cross-posted to multiple newsgroups, you are
apparently just a troll.

Rossington 'VARFA' Kooymans

2008-11-12 20:09:08 UTC

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Post by Your Name
Seeing as this has been cross-posted to multiple newsgroups, you are

apparently just a troll.

Uh, no, not really. i x-posted to other scifi groups in a bid for help
to answer my query. but, as per usenet, the amount of useful info is
zero.

Your Name

2008-11-12 20:24:39 UTC

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Post by Rossington 'VARFA' Kooymans

Post by Your Name
Seeing as this has been cross-posted to multiple newsgroups,
you are apparently just a troll.

Uh, no, not really. i x-posted to other scifi groups in a bid for help
to answer my query. but, as per usenet, the amount of useful info
is zero.

Cross-posting, especially to newsgroups that are not about the topic, is
"frowned upon" and marks you as a troll.

You should have simply posted the question in a Star Wars newsgroup if you
were seriously asking, so obviously you either are a newbie or ARE a troll.
Either way you won't get any proper answers via a cross-post.

80_Knight

2008-11-12 23:57:16 UTC

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Post by Your Name

Post by Rossington 'VARFA' Kooymans

Post by Your Name
Seeing as this has been cross-posted to multiple newsgroups,
you are apparently just a troll.

Uh, no, not really. i x-posted to other scifi groups in a bid for help
to answer my query. but, as per usenet, the amount of useful info
is zero.

Cross-posting, especially to newsgroups that are not about the topic, is
"frowned upon" and marks you as a troll.
You should have simply posted the question in a Star Wars newsgroup if you
were seriously asking, so obviously you either are a newbie or ARE a troll.
Either way you won't get any proper answers via a cross-post.

Wait a second...Is this Usenet's #2 Troll trying to tell someone else they
are a Troll? My head hurts...

Rossington 'VARFA' Kooymans

2008-11-13 00:15:53 UTC

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(Your Name)

Post by Your Name
Cross-posting, especially to newsgroups that are not about the topic,

is "frowned upon" and marks you as a troll.
You should have simply posted the question in a Star Wars newsgroup if
you were seriously asking, so obviously you either are a newbie or ARE a
troll. Either way you won't get any proper answers via a cross-post.

i am neither a noob or a troll and usenet is pretty 'loose' when it
comes to rules of netiquette. i put the request in the most plACES in
the most efficient manner. quite ergonomic of me, i must say. lol.

Ivor Jones

2008-11-12 18:58:03 UTC

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In news:10070-491A6047-***@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net,
Rossington 'VARFA' Kooymans <***@webtv.net> typed, for some strange,
unexplained reason:
: What non-movie mATERIAL IS CONSIDERED 'canon' in regards to Star Wars?
: What books? tech manuals? comics? SW is getting almost as bad as Trek
: when it comes to an absolutely BEWILDERING spectrum of stuff
: available. Is Tim Zahn's first trilogy canon? any help or link would
: be appreciated!

I have no idea, but why was this posted to alt.tv.andromeda..?

Ivor

Rossington 'VARFA' Kooymans

2008-11-12 20:14:23 UTC

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Post by Ivor Jones
I have no idea, but why was this posted to alt.tv.andromeda..?

Ivor

why not? androm is scifi. SW is scifi. you should be thankful someone
still posts to the andromeda group.

Ivor Jones

2008-11-16 01:08:43 UTC

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In news:5763-491B391F-***@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net,
Rossington 'VARFA' Kooymans <***@webtv.net> typed, for some strange,
unexplained reason:
: ***@thisaddressis.invalid (Ivor Jones)
: >I have no idea, but why was this posted to alt.tv.andromeda..?
: Ivor
:
: why not? androm is scifi. SW is scifi. you should be thankful someone
: still posts to the andromeda group.

Irrelevant. The group title should tell you what is acceptable and what is
not. Or should I post questions on my car to a group about aircraft..?

Ivor

2008-11-12 06:03:28 UTC

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Does it really matter?

Beau Gustafavich Roddington-Smithee

2008-11-14 01:23:59 UTC

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Well, at last a little info. thank you.
i think that the old 'multiverse' rules apply and all permutations are
possible, kind of like Heinleins concept of 'Pantheistic Multi-Ego
Solipsism' or the old adage 'all worlds that can exist , do'. it is a
personal judgement what to include in a personal version of the SW
universe.

Jill Marie

2008-11-23 06:31:38 UTC

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Ok, fine...

What is canon?

Canon is the authorized or accepted truth or rule. The views on canon
can range from people who say only the movies are canon to those who
think everything under the sun that was released about Star Wars from
film to radio drama to comic to novel is canon.

Most people are somewhere in between, picking and choosing what they
decide depicts the "true" Star Wars universe. Since George Lucas and
the rest of Lucasfilm have never officially stated what they authorize
as canon, there's absolutely nothing that will back up your claim on
what may be considered canon in the Star Wars universe other than
people's opinions.

Remember: everyone is entitled to their own opinion whether or not you
agree with them.

~~jill marie
jeez, you'd think for dead newsgroups, people would appreciate me more....