Levels of Canon

## Canon?

Canon is the overarching official story of a universe. Prior to April of 2014, Star Wars had a single unified canon from 1976 when the novelization for Star Wars came out until April of 2014 with the last handful of novels and comics being made by Del Rey and Dark Horse. From April 2014 onward, Disney has maintained a new canon. Both of these canons are valid and have a multitude of fans. Some are even fans of both continuities, with some in favor of a combined canon of both timelines. This is tricky as not everything lines up and decisions on what to keep in instances of conflicting information need to be made with a system in place. Both legends and new canon have their own continuity systems in place and this unofficial continuation is no different.

## Canon under Lucas

Legends or the Expanded Universe as it was called at the time had a simplistic system that was put into place in the 90s and was not changed until 2012. The change made to it was detrimental to the health of the universe and partially led to the reboot under Disney. Prior to 2012, the canon tiers system was as follows: G-Canon = George Lucas's 6 films, C-Canon = Continuity: Books, Comics, Videogames, TV shows, S-Canon = Secondary: Star Wars 1977 run of Marvel Comics, The Holiday Special, RPGs, Tales, and other dubiously canonical material, N-Canon = Non-Canon: Star Wars Tales stories that cannot exist or are parodies, Detours, Infinities Comics, alternate endings to videogames, certain parody games like LEGO Star Wars, etc.

After the 2012 Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV show came out and caused a giant mess in the established canon of the Clone Wars era, Mandalorian society in general, and various other issues, Lucasfilm decided to create a new canon tier called T-Canon. This TV Canon would be put in place below G-Canon but above C-Canon, making it hold sway over everything besides the films. This was a mistake as before they were able to come up with satisfying retcons to fix the numerous issues (outside of most concerning Mandalore) the universe was rebooted.

## Canon under Disney

Under Disney, their new expanded universe was supposed to be entirely on even footing across the board, even to the point of being evenly canonical to the films and shows. This was a lie. Secretly they developed their own levels of canon. Based on their own actions these un-admitted levels of canon are as follows: F-Canon = Films, T-Canon = TV/Streaming Shows, C-Canon = Continuity: Books, Comics, Videogames, S-Canon = Secondary: Sourcebooks, in universe books, LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, RPGs, A-Canon = Adjacent Canon: LEGO Freemaker Adventures, Star Wars Visions, Ronin, N-Canon = Non-Canon: Art Books.

## Canon Under the Legends Unofficial Continuation

Due to the combination of Legends and new canon material within this timeline, some ground rules need to be established. Legends tiers of canon are reverting to the traditional G, C, S, N, with TCW being slid into the S-Canon category to avoid continuity errors as much as possible. New canon works are added to this schema on a case by case basis with most falling within S and C. When a conflict arises between Disney and Legends information, it is looked at on a case by case basis, but with the priority being to keep legends information over new canon.

Therefore: G-Canon = 1-6, plus Rogue One, C-Canon = legends and canon novels, comics, and videogames, and legends tv shows S-Canon = TCW, some legends tv shows, some new canon novels, comics, and videogames, RPGs, Marvel 1977 comics, A-Canon = Apocrypha: Canon Adjacent stories from the new canon, plus unpublished officially, but licensed Star Wars legends works such as Heart of the Jedi and Supernatural Encounters, F-Canon = Fanon: Fanfiction stories that exist without conflicting with legends, new canon, and each other and are curated by CowboyCam1138, N-Canon: Non-Canon stories such as some Tales, some Adventures, the Sequel Trilogy, certain new canon novels and comics, parody games, etc.