Star Wars: The Complete History of the Galaxy - Full Legends Timeline 

Okay I was confused, I thought "So there's a city of Iziz on Onderon and Alderaan?" It's cool that the Clone Wars took from that lore though.

And after he died, he was entombed on Onderon’s moon, Dxun

This will be good, keep up the amazing work

Hey Corey, notice how similar the beginnings of Star Wars, and Halo are to each other? Read my other comment for detail.

Amd meanwhile, porgs just be chillen on ach-to, in their own little world where none of this even matters

@@emzonik8851 I don't mind the idea of the Yuuzhan Vong. If Endor is the climax of the films, an extragalatic invasion is the climax to the whole Star Wars mythos. That said, I wish the Vong war was set a couple hundred years later than it is. Let Luke, Leia, and Han have their happy ending.

@@MatthewLee-fo3me I don't mind the concept either, it's actually amazing. However, while the Vong invasion itself wouldn't bother me if handled properly, its actual scale kinda does. Cos restoring balance to the Force by Anakin Skywalker IS the climax to all of star wars and should never be undermined by Expanded Universe stories. Nonetheless, I don't think YV arch actually does, it's simply dangerously close to doing that.

​@@emzonik8851The Yuuzan Vong make sense as new enemies unlike the sith and empire who were supposed to be destroyed from Anakin's prophecy which was a problem i had with most post ROTJ stories in the EU.

A video like this could be any length, and I could do multiple versions going.more in depth for different runtimes, but for a lot of people going over 20 minutes wouldn't be especially accessible so it seemed like a good place to start.

@@CoreysDatapad I see.

If it were an hour long, I wouldn't watch it.

@@CoreysDatapad I'd love a much longer version

@@allnamesaretakenful you would watch it and you would like it

They're following prequel movie only logic which states the Republic was founded only a thousand years prior, after the galactic war with the Sith. They're using that as the starting point for their Star Wars timeline I assume.

Yeah they fucked up when they said when hyperspace travel was invented

@@corruptangel6793 They kinda fixed that with the Darth Bane books by explaining the Old republic was gone after the new sith wars was ended and the new Galactic Republic was founded. Similar to legends when the new republic fell and the Galactic alliance was reformed from the remnants. But I don't follow the new Canon so I don't know and care what the high republic is I just know legends stuff.

@@digitalninja5941 same.

@@RevanMartinez what? I don't think modern canon has established a fixed point for when Hyperspace was invented yet.

So called canon...

This version of the galaxy had almost 40 years to build to this point. Give the new canon time. It’ll get up to this level of detail and possibly even more.

@@blaineishere3851 It doesn't mean they can't continue the old canon at the same time.

@@emzonik8851 I didn’t say they shouldn’t.

@@blaineishere3851 The original Star Wars lore only had 23 years from 1991 to 2014 to really develop and grow to become a true continuity : "The premise of all the comic books, novels, games, and other spin-off works is that they all work chronologically, that the continuity forms one unbroken story. […] Since our movies have their own internal continuity, we maintain that in the spin-off works. Technically, George Lucas has been doing continuity all along by mapping out the nine films. But it wasn't until 1991, when Timothy Zahn wrote the novel Heir to the Empire, the first Star Wars best-seller, which was the beginning of what we call the Star Wars renaissance, that continuity became an issue." LUCASFILM CONTINUITY EDITOR ALLAN KAUSCH, 1996

I always thought Legacy happenes to close to the main story and the post - Endor events like NJO and LOTF, it would be better if it took place like 250 - 300 years or so later. And I'd love stories ser millenia into the furure.

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" seems pretty explanatory to me

Anime, huh? What are you watching?

Well the thing is, while she was far more powerfull being than any previous villan, she didn't impact the history of the galaxy on a scale Darth Sidious or even others like the ancient Sith, Rakata or tye Vong did. She was soley a Jedi opponent and caused some damage on coruscant for example, other tha that the galaxy continued to exist as it had been, nothing had changed. So in a summary video like this, that looks at the history of the entire galaxy, only the key events can be mentioned, like the Jedi-Sith wars, the Vong war and of course the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire.

Yes!!! I agree!!

That’s why it’ll remain infinitely better than cannon for all of Star Wars’ legacy.

Better. its better than Canon

This will always be canon

Damn right son!

@@kevinvassago agreed

A “giant 3D printer” powered by the Dark Side though. So your average SCP.

I just want to know 3 things for my EU experience to feel wrapped up: 1. Zayne Carrick's fate during the Jedi civil war and following purge 2. Who sits on the Throne of Balance, what's Allana's destiny 3. The creation of the Fel Empire, how did Jagged become emperor, how is Jaina involved, creation of the Imperial Knights...

I gotta ask, how'd you feel about your biopic? I know they didn't use your real name, but did you think Kylo Ren did a good job? 🤣

And then there’s my canon, which is Legends Canon, Lucas Canon, and Rogue One. That’s what I choose to believe.

A lot of people created various forms of headcanon to explain that away. Like it only applied to the Rule of Two Sith specifically, or that he failed to fullfil his destiny alltogether. The headcanon I used played on Yoda's mention that they might have misread the prophesy and that the Chosen One wasn't a single person, but a bloodline. The Skywalker bloodline to be exact.

@@corruptangel6793 those are all great ideas

I use my own head canon in which Disney wars sucks ass and legends never left lol

Same

Eh, Palpatine coming back might've worked if we got an actual fight between him and Luke. As for the planet busters, maybe swap them out for the Eclipse and World Devastators?

You aren't missing much.

Episode 8 is.. surprising (sometimes in a bad way, sometimes in a good way, least bad of the trilogy imo), episode 9 is an embarassing disaster. Not worth the watch, it's pretty clear the trilogy was improvised as the movies came out and Disney had no idea what 9 would be when they did 7. Very incompetent trilogy overall, and does not do much to expand the SW universe.

Star Wars and Game of Thrones were heavily influenced by the old Dune books.

Back in the EU days George's saga wasn't meant to be continued after the prequels. The saga was about Anakin Skywalker and how he changed the galaxy, once Anakin died the main story ended. Spinoff movies and shows were expected but no sequel trilogy. Thus the EU writers were free to, well, expand the universe as much as they could, they told many story archs like the continuation of the timeline beyond Return Of The Jedi, including how Luke restarted the Jedi Order and what new threats did it have to face, like the Yuuzhan Vong or Jacen Solo's fall to the Dark Side. These stories were jot of course the vision of George Lucas, he did aproove them (and yeah they were officially canon), but he obviously cared mostly about his story, the one which was already finished. Closer ro the end of his ownership of Lucasfilm, George did think about a sequel trilogy (which would've contradicted the EU) for financial reasons but he chose to retire and sell SW to instead. Disney on the other hand wanted to make as many movies and shows as possible, they wanted to create their own version of Star Wars, their own continuation of the Big 3's adventures. Yet the EU was so huge and comprehensive (and wasn't in line with what they wanted to do - basically bring back the well known themes that the mass would buy), they decided to basically restart the continuity, leaving only Episodes 1-6 and TCW as a base for new stories, mostly movies and TV shows but also new novels comics and cideo games that would be in line with the new timeline. The EU material was rebranded into Legends, a separate universe also built around the same story of Anakin Skywalker, though unfortunately Disney wanted and still wants everyone ro focus on their story, so they prevenyed Legends from being continued or advertised on any large scale and new fans don't even know what Legends really is. Anyway, that's how the New Canon began. The official reason for its creation was "creative freedom", however they basically did it to pick and choose what they like from the old canon and reshape it the way that matched their agenda. Nonetheless, the EU wasn't really designed for a sequel trilogy. To keep it all in one universe, the sequel movies would have to adapt the EU, which was possible but quite unlikely. So this is I think enough to understand why and how they split the continuities.

​@@emzonik8851 thanks. The EU has a massive and unlimited storyline comparing to the Disney's official canon. The books, comics, games has told a lot already. The beginning of the universe, and sentients,the Jedii order is much more interesting than any other commercial stuff. Wish Lucas had a chance to dig in to that story independently.

@@papapalps2415 What?

@@starwars90001 He’s saying you always give incredibly hot takes.

It’s one of the more Inportant aspects of the unquestionably canon movie era. Though it’s not as big of factor in either the old Legends continuity and nor the new canon on the larger scale, which makes some sense being the galactic history stretches back at least a thousand generations.

@@eds1942 That's what I mean, in the grand scale of Star Wars not just the movie era, the events of the movies almost feel small.

The movies didn't have the budget for a World Devestator type scene, and the books had to keep on-upping past a planet destroying device and subsequently past each previous novel's stakes until we end up with galaxy ending devices in the Infinite Empire timelines. The novels created some incredible scenarios that I'm glad exist, but the movies started the entire process. I would also hardly say the original trilogy was a footnote, since they ended the tyrannical subjugation of the entire galaxy by the Empire which I don't think was matched except by the Yuuzan Vong or perhaps the Rakata.

Disney can always import material from Legends into the canon stories. Which they are slowly doing.

Yeah? Like who?

@@nightraven2975 Ayla secura and shaak ti (again)

Nah, that's Roan Fel, though I've always assumed he was made using a similar reference as Ardus Kaine

6:33 - 7:03

To be fair, Lucas was already rebooting the Expanded Universe/Legends via The Clone Wars, for example Grievous always having the cough instead getting it from Mace force crushing his chest on Coruscant. Disney kept that going via adaptation distillation, trying to take what were considered the best parts and leaving out the worst ones. Which makes it all the more ironic the sequel trilogy became an unintenitonal blend of Legacy of the Force, Dark Empire and Jedi Prince. Three of the more divisive stories from Legends.

@@johnnygyro2295 Lucas had next to nothing to do with TCW so that is a lie. Filoni ran rough shot over the entire Clone Wars era unchecked.

@@johnnygyro2295 The Grievous retcon was actually a result of George Lucas not communicating his intentions with Genndy Tartakovsky and forcing him to make his version match the film at the last moment. I highly doubt the Sequels were originally going to have Dark Empire elements in the original plans, but that changed when Rian Johnson took over and added all kinds of things that were then retconned by JJ in The Rise of Skywalker. However, I'm actually saying that before all of their infighting, the writers could have just let parts of the Expanded Universe exist as they were and then build on it with JJ's "new" story of Rey taking on a new Empire with her own brand of rogues and forcepowers. I know, Disney couldn't allow that as they really wanted to make bank on the existing IP (EG the likeness of the cast from the Original Trilogy and the minority of fans who "only take the movies as canon"), but they would have been equally or even more successful if they had just appealed to the many loyal fans who had been following the EU content since the late 80s. Filoni did exactly that, and now he and Favreau are singlehandedly carrying what remains of the license into profit. Imagine what would have happened if JJ and crew had done that too.

@@johnnygyro2295 - changing a character slightly isn't anything like trashing 30 years of content and replacing it with different characters and stories entirely (outside of bringing back eu characters only to butcher them).

Uh, yeah. Humans appear in almost every sci-fi universe I can think of.

Why a BAD feeling? Would be great

@Joshua Sharwood Oh I can. Probably better than Justin's cat too.

Some dude at NASA fired one off in the piss bag and it made it all the way to Coruscant via a rip in space-time. Because it’s easier to anthropomorphize them.

They didn't. The Legends continuity is still around for us to enjoy. Disney can always incorporate elements of Legends in their current canon if they need to. If you don't like the current canon, simply ignore the new stuff and stick to the Legends material.

As the title says, this is the Legends timeline.

@@CoreysDatapad oh. I didn’t know that was what it meant.

@@WCLCooke It's basically the old canon, the one that existed before Disney created the new canon to make new movies without restraints. It composes of George Lucas's 6 movies, TCW seasons 1-6 (sevwn is new canon only) and the Exoanded Universe - all canon (in Legends) material built around the movies, books, games, comics etc. The New Canon and Legends share Episodes 1-6 and TCW yet they're totally separate and very different from each other. As you see the events before and after the movies from each continuity have very little in common.

@@emzonik8851 both timelines having events that have little in common is honestly just weird. You would have thought adapting popular wars from EU and being like an MCU for EU universe would be more marketable, while they keep printing EU as a separate universe similar to 616 to mine stories from.

Darth Maul frankly never does anything important on the galactic scale that warrants mentioning in a 20 minute overview.

@@CoreysDatapad True true!!!

11:40 The "Giant 3d printer" otherwise known as the Star Forge. It used the material and energy from the star it orbited to replicate entire armies of ships and battle droids. (Spoilers for Kotor I guess)

Not counting the Old Republic?

Yes, I'm not counting that MMO due to not being finished yet and having a lot of story inconsistencies.

To most people yes but to disney no.

@@Banana-Boi lol most peoplre

Really hard to kill, even with blasters

They're resistant to the force naturally, meaning that they have very strong wills and minds.

and they are huge and can move fast in bursts, thay also have a massive slave force and employ mercs

Nothing was erased- it's all still as accessible as it ever was and it's even still in print. There's a difference between saying "it's all shot and we can do better" and saying "it's hard to make new movies that have to be fit within 40 years of predetermined stories." Lucasfilm was bought by Disney but it's largely still the same people doing the same things as before the buyout, down to some of the same authors. If it had never been bought and Lucas has made his own sequels it would have been a similar if not the same situation.

@@CoreysDatapad I must agree, however untill like the last year or 2 of his ownership of the franchise, George considered his story, whixh was the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker and the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire, as finished. He was pretty sure there'd be no sequel trilogy, only the Spinoffs, which were in fact in works. His idea for the sequels came with the financial issues, however again, because all those years he hadn't planed to make a sequel trilogy, it wasn't long before he came to the clonclusion that his nest course was to sell it all and retire. So with that in mind, it's no wonder that the EU wasn't designed to incorporate a sequel trilogy. It was possible to adapt it into new movies but as you said, it would've been a lot harder. The best scenario would have been, had George kept Lucasfilm but focused soley on spinoff material and the the sequels never been made (or had Disney chosen not to make episodes 7 - 9, which was pretty unlikely).

Disney will fuck it up

Sadly it has nothing g to do with any of this. It's set Luke 200 years before episode 1. Also their version of a functioning republic is literally a socialist utopia, so expect a lot of clumsy, heavy handed political and economic preaching from the writers working for the mouse over a solid story.

So what that I covered do you cut in favour of going into more depth in those eras? The point is to give a broad level overview, and the thing about TOR is it has like 0 implications for how stuff for after it so going into more depth there compared to the emergence of the Sith in the first place doesn't make much sense. You could make the same comment about pretty much any era but the the video easily gets over an hour.

@@CoreysDatapad I mean I get your point, but SWTOR actually does get kind of impactful. When we're talking material from the very end of the EU (2011-2014) stuff from SWTOR starts to get brought in elsewhere and as the only ongoing part of EU storytelling, it's technically hard to ignore. And when I say "mention" I usually mean one short sentence or phrase, not elaborating on it in-depth.

@@CoreysDatapad Basically everything from 17:18 on had no impact either, heck arguably less so than SWTOR and what minor things that did happen were just copy/pastings of better stories. It's just a few minor events that the bulk of the Galaxy barely noticed, excluding Darth Krayt. Caedus went out like a wet fart really only setting some trees on fire and Abeloth only really killed some Sith the Galaxy didn't know were there anyways (really just being a blame shadow war). You nearly spent more time on the Killiks (who again were more a potential threat than a real one) than the Yuuzhan Vong who killed more people than every other war combined. Further Denningverse is arguably just a terrible retconning of Zahn's books (destroying Mara Jade's characterization and the dangers in the Unknown regions Zahn had painstakingly set up) while also ignoring all the character development in NJO. It's a terrible retconning of far better stories, that was terribly executed, utterly mishandled Luke's Jedi Order basically making them nearly Sith themselves. All of Denningverse really deserves to be shuffled into Infinities. After about 2005 to 2008, Legends really stopped caring about continuity, just letting their authors do whatever the heck they wanted. This is Denningverse, SWTOR, and TCW. These stories really shouldn't be part of Legends proper timeline. Yeah, a few authors did care, Zahn obviously connected his books and James Luciano was a continuity superbuff (even he basically had Han in Millennium Falcon basically say for him that he had no idea wtf happened after NJO)... but most other things basically gave continuity the middle finger. At least beyond affecting Kotor 2 and Revan, SWTOR didn't affect much but Denningverse basically threw gasoline on all the prior books and then had its authors all on different pages working against each other. Characters radically shifted motivations and personalities from one book to the next.

@@jonathanryan9946 hard to care about continuity when Filoni is allowed to do whatever he wants

@@goodmind4940 I mentioned TCW as another example of not caring about continuity too... its basically a case of the 3 major things coming out after 2005 not caring about any continuity but their own.

The actors are too old. If he had made them around the same time as the prequels, then it might have worked.