Retroactive continuity

• In A New Hope, Ben Kenobi informed Luke Skywalker that Darth Vader, a former student, had betrayed and murdered his father. [5] However, The Empire Strikes Back reveals that Darth Vader is, in fact, Luke Skywalker's father. [6] Later, in Return of the Jedi, Obi-Wan clarified his earlier statement, explaining to Luke that what he said was true "from a certain point of view," because the Anakin he once knew and admired "was destroyed" upon embracing the dark side of the Force. Consequently, Obi-Wan no longer regarded him as "Anakin" (this is reinforced by Obi-Wan's consistent use of "Darth" instead of Anakin's name in A New Hope). While this in-universe explanation offers a reasonable justification, the question of whether this was actually a retcon from an out-of-universe perspective remains a subject of intense debate concerning the original trilogy. [7] [8] [9] [10] This was further elaborated upon in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi.

• In the original version of A New Hope, Han Solo proactively shot Greedo. However, subsequent re-releases, up until Disney's acquisition, depicted Greedo firing first, narrowly missing Han, before Han returned fire. Despite the shooting script indicating otherwise, Lucas later asserted that Greedo had always shot first. This led to the infamous " Han shot first " controversy amongst fans.

• In A New Hope, Ben Kenobi mentions that the Old Republic endured for a thousand generations. [11] Expanded Universe materials interpreted this to mean 25,000 years. Conversely, in Attack of the Clones, Palpatine stated that the Republic had "stood for a thousand years". [12] The Legends Expanded Universe addressed this discrepancy by introducing the Ruusan Reformation. However, after April 2014, the Expanded Universe, now known as Star Wars Legends, lost its canonical status. 2020's The Star Wars Book later confirmed that the canon Old Republic was indeed established more than 25,000 years before A New Hope. [13]

• In The Empire Strikes Back, Ben Kenobi's statement that Luke was the "last hope" [14] could imply either that he was unaware of Luke's and Leia's relationship, or that he didn't believe Leia was capable of filling Luke's role. However, in Revenge of the Sith, he was present at the birth of Luke and Leia to Padmé Amidala, and even assisted in arranging for Bail Organa to adopt Leia.

• In The Empire Strikes Back, Obi-Wan claims that Jedi Grand Master Yoda instructed him in the ways of the Jedi. [15] However, The Phantom Menace retconned this, establishing that he was taught by Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn.

• In Return of the Jedi, Obi-Wan asserts that he made the decision to train Anakin as a Jedi. This was later contradicted in The Phantom Menace, where he initially opposed the idea but ultimately agreed to fulfill the dying wish of his master, Qui-Gon Jinn.

• In Return of the Jedi, Leia tells Luke that she has vague memories of her mother's appearance. [16] However, in Revenge of the Sith, Padmé Amidala dies shortly after giving birth to them. There has been some debate as to whether Leia was referring to Breha Organa, her adoptive mother (despite Luke's specific question about her "real mother"). StarWars.com has stated that Leia was indeed remembering Padmé, making it unclear whether this remains canonical. [17] Notably, when illustrator Iain McCaig was tasked with creating concept art for Breha, he incorporated Amidala's features into Breha's design to explain how Leia could recall her mother's smile. [18]

• Poe Dameron and Rey initially met in Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization, but this was later retconned, with their first encounter occurring in Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi. [19] [20]

• In Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi, both Kylo Ren and Luke Skywalker stated that Kylo deliberately destroyed the Jedi Temple of Luke Skywalker, recruited several students, and slaughtered the remaining ones. However, The Rise of Kylo Ren 1 reveals that Ben accidentally destroyed the Temple, no students joined him, and the surviving students only pursued him after he fled. [21]

• In the novelizations of The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, as well as the visual dictionary for The Last Jedi, Snoke is portrayed as a dark side user with no connection to the Sith, who had witnessed the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire. However, The Rise of Skywalker instead establishes that Darth Sidious created Snoke and was directly responsible for the events leading to the rise of the First Order and Ben Solo's corruption to the dark side.

The Clone Wars introduced numerous retcons to established continuity upon its release.

• In the 2005 Revenge of the Sith novelization, Anakin mentions only having read about MagnaGuards before encountering them aboard the Invisible Hand. However, the season one episode " Duel of the Droids " depicts him fighting MagnaGuards while rescuing R2-D2. [22]

• Previous EU materials depicted Ryloth as a tidally locked planet, with one side permanently facing its sun. [23] However, when Ryloth appeared in The Clone Wars, it was shown as a planet with a normal day/night cycle and a less extreme environment. [24]

• Clone trooper Echo's designation number was originally given as CT-21-0408 in " Clone Cadets ": all members of Domino Squad had their numbers displayed on their training armor, even though they weren't spoken aloud. [25] Both the unfinished and final versions of the later episode "The Bad Batch" changed Echo's number to CT-1409. [26]

• The tie-in graphic novel Shipyards of Doom features a Republic strike team, including Anakin Skywalker, using carbon-freezing as an infiltration tactic. [27] However, the third-season episode " The Citadel " involves the same tactic, but Anakin claims to have never undergone the procedure.

• " Citadel Rescue " retconned a portion of the novel Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight by killing off Even Piell, who was originally depicted as dying later in the timeline in that novel. [28] [29]

• The season four episodes " Kidnapped," " Slaves of the Republic," and " Escape from Kadavo" were adapted from the first story arc of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars monthly comic series. However, numerous elements were altered during the adaptation. The comic, released around the same time as the show's first season, was set early in the Clone Wars, depicting Ahsoka Tano as a young and inexperienced Padawan. By season 4, the TV series had progressed a few years into the war, and Ahsoka was considerably more experienced. [30] This change also led to the removal of several characters: Asajj Ventress had been expelled from the Separatists' service during season three, [31] and clone trooper Waxer, who made a brief appearance, had been killed off in "Carnage of Krell," the episode preceding the arc. As a result, Boil assumed Waxer's role. [32] The Separatists' involvement is lessened, with Separatist forces no longer participating in the Battle of Kadavo, and a plotline involving Count Dooku attempting to frame the Jedi for murdering the colonists of Kiros was removed. [33] Several characters original to the comic strip, including Onyx and his crew and Xerius Ugg, were omitted. [34] They were replaced with TV-series original character Darts D'Nar and his ship, the Tecora. [30]

• " An Old Friend ": According to her entry in the original Databank, Teckla Minnau survived the Clone Wars and married a writer while serving as a handmaiden to Queen Kylantha. [35] This episode retconned that by killing her off during the events on Scipio. [36]

• " The Lost One ": Republic 61, dated to 22 BBY by The Essential Reader's Companion, [37] depicted the death of former Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum in a terrorist attack. [38] This episode, originally dated to 20 BBY, [39] portrayed Valorum as alive and well. [40]

• The " Bad Batch " arc, which opened the series' revived seventh season, was initially released on StarWars.com as a series of unfinished story reels. The final versions of the four episodes contained several changes: The finished versions of all four episodes have different opening morals to the ones in the story reels. "The Bad Batch": The explanation Rex gives to Anakin Skywalker and Mace Windu regarding how exactly the Separatists seem to be keeping the upper hand during the Battle of Anaxes has been changed: in the story reel, he is more upfront with his theory that the presumed-dead ARC trooper Echo may still be alive, and about the existence of the strategy algorithm the Separatists are using that has led him to this conclusion. In the finished episode, he instead gives the Jedi Generals a more vague explanation, and only confides his real theory to Cody later in the barracks in a new scene as he feels the Jedi wouldn't have believed him.[26] Kix has his original almost-bald hairstyle in the story reel, but in the finished episode sports a full head of hair. Similarly, Jesse's ARC trooper helmet has a rangefinder in the story reel that is absent in the finished episode.[26] In the reel, Jesse makes a comment while the Bad Batch is fighting the battle droids in the canyon, wondering "Are these guys for real?" The line is gone in the final version.[26] "A Distant Echo": The story reel includes provocative nose art of Padmé Amidala on the Marauder. The nose art is no longer present in the final release of the episode, nor is it visible in other episodes in which the shuttle makes an appearance. Instead, the scene where Anakin Skywalker objects to the nose art is replaced with a scene where he has a private holo-call with Padmé, while Rex attempts to keep Obi-Wan Kenobi from interrupting.[41] Hunter's dialogue about the Marauder not being an obviously Republic ship is not present in the final version.[41] The insensitive remarks Crosshair makes on Skako Minor that lead Rex to lose his temper and punch him are, in the story reel, an insinuation that Echo may have willingly gone over to the Separatists after being left for dead. In the final episode, Crosshair instead goads Rex by suggesting Echo's death was Rex's fault.[41] "On the Wings of Keeradaks": The scene where Wat Tambor demonstrates the Decimator on a Poletec test subject is gone from the final episode.[42] "Unfinished Business": In the story reel, Echo says that Trench is unaware of his rescue because Wat Tambor is too afraid of the Harch Admiral to inform him of that crucial fact. In the final episode, he instead frames Trench's ignorance as due to Tambor's greed making him loath to admit the loss.[43] Gold Leader, in the story reel, is wearing the same flight suit and face-revealing helmet as the clone pilots in Revenge of the Sith. In the final version, he is instead wearing the face-concealing helmet and Phase II armor introduced for clone pilots in season 4.[43] The reel version of the episode ends with a medal ceremony. In the final version, the last scene is instead Rex seeing Echo off after the latter decides to take up the Bad Batch's offer to join them.[43]

• The four-part grand finale of The Clone Wars (" Old Friends Not Forgotten," " The Phantom Apprentice," " Shattered," " Victory and Death"), released in 2020, retcons almost all of the details regarding the Siege of Mandalore and Ahsoka Tano and Rex's survival of and escape from Order 66 as presented in the 2016 novel Ahsoka. [44] In the novel, Ahsoka's last conversation with Anakin is him warning her about how dangerous Maul is.[44] "Old Friends Not Forgotten" has their last conversation be them wishing each other luck and discussing the changes Anakin made to Ahsoka Tano's lightsabers. In addition, the lightsabers themselves are now blue, whereas the novel has them with their original blade colors, green and yellow-green.[45] Editions of the novel published after the episode's release updated the description of the lightsabers to match the TV show.[44] In the novel, Ahsoka owns a weapons belt that she wore during the Siege and used to hold her lightsabers.[44] The TV series gives Ahsoka a Mandalorian-designed combat outfit that lacks a separate belt and has catches located at her hips for her to carry her weapons.[45] Ahsoka's last duel with Maul during the Siege, in the novel, takes place in a plaza in Sundari. Their conversation is an exchange of insults regarding her departure from the Jedi and him only being "half" a Sith. Maul is captured when Ahsoka lures him into a ray shield that her allies activate.[44] In "The Phantom Apprentice", conversely, their final duel takes place on the support beams of Sundari's bio-dome, and their conversation is about Maul's earlier offer to her to team up so they can defeat Darth Sidious. Ahsoka is disarmed before she captures Maul by knocking him off of a beam and suspending him in mid-air with the Force, whereupon Rex arrives with backup in several gunships. Two Mandalorian warriors then secure Maul with their wrist-cables before Rex shoots him with a stun blast.[46] In the flashback of the Siege, Maul addresses Ahsoka as "Lady Tano,"[44] which is what he calls her in Star Wars Rebels episode "Twilight of the Apprentice."[47] The novel states that Maul got the title from the clone troopers, who called Ahsoka that as a form of respect since she was no longer officially part of the Republic Military.[44] In the episodes, conversely, the clones treat Ahsoka as if she never left, addressing her as "Commander" in reference to her former rank of Jedi Commander up until Order 66 happens.[45][48] The only character referred to as "Lady" in the episodes is Bo-Katan Kryze.[45] While the novel does not show the execution of Order 66 itself, it is implied that it is issued quite soon after the end of the Siege, while Ahsoka, Rex and Maul are still on Mandalore. It is hinted that Maul takes the opportunity to escape in the chaos, and Ahsoka is forced to choose between killing him or saving Rex's life, opting for the latter.[44] While the order is given after the end of the Siege in the TV show, Ahsoka and Rex have already left Mandalore, intending to deliver the captured Maul to the Jedi Council on Coruscant, and as such they are onboard a Star Destroyer in hyperspace when it happens. Maul does not escape his confinement, but is intentionally released by Ahsoka as a diversion for the clones.[48] Ahsoka is indeed forced to make a choice between dealing with Maul or saving Rex at the climax, but the decision with Maul is whether to let him escape in the shuttle he is stealing.[49] Finally, in the novel, after escaping, Ahsoka and Rex fake their deaths to the Empire by burying another clone in Rex's armor, marking the grave with a headstone claiming that they killed each other. Having acquired two starships and having decided to split up, Rex leaves first before Ahsoka, left alone in the night, turns on her lightsabers one last time before kneeling and placing them on the gravesite to seal the deception. She then leaves as well.[44] In the episode, the gravesite is, instead of Mandalore as implied in the novel, on a moon, where the Star Destroyer they were onboard crashed after Maul destroyed its hyperdrive. No attempt is made to create a fake grave for Rex, as he keeps his armor and he and Ahsoka instead bury the bodies of the clones who died in the crash, and no inscribed grave markers are created, as the clones' helmets on poles are used instead. Ahsoka does not abandon her weapons at night, but in the daytime, and does not abandon her lightsabers together, with her only being shown abandoning her primary weapon, not the shoto lightsaber. She does not ignite the blade, instead only briefly hesitating before dropping it on the ground. She and Rex are also implied to leave the moon together, only parting ways afterwards, as they only have one starship.[49]

The series premiere, "Aftermath", directly contradicts events depicted in the Star Wars: Kanan comic series concerning the Battle of Kaller and how Depa Billaba and Caleb Dume experienced Order 66.

• In the comic, CC-10/994 "Grey" is a Clone Commander with red armor markings and equipment including a pauldron over his right shoulder and a vibrosword on a bandolier. [50] "Aftermath" depicts him as a Clone Captain with green markings, no sword, and a pauldron over his left shoulder. [51]

• Billaba's lightsaber changes from green in the comic [50] to blue in the episode, [51] in line with the reference book Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection. [52] The blue color originated from concept art created for Star Wars: The Clone Wars before the series' initial cancellation. [53]

• In Kanan, Commander Grey and Captain Styles attack Billaba and Dume at a campground at night on Kaller after the Separatists have surrendered Kaller to the Republic. Grey responds to the order with "Yes, my Lord." Billaba and Dume fight together until Billaba orders Dume to run while she is shot down. Afterwards, he is hunted in the forest by Rostu Squad. [54] "Aftermath" has Dume separated from Billaba during the daytime in the immediate aftermath of a battle as he follows Clone Force 99. At this point, Captain Grey receives Order 66 and, saying nothing in response, attacks Billaba with his men. Dume runs back towards his Master, but, after being told to run, escapes into the forest and is followed by Clone Sergeant Hunter and Crosshair. The latter attacks Dume, while Hunter attempts to help him. Dume eventually escapes by leaping over a small canyon. [51]

• Kanan depicts Dume using his Jedi cloak to conceal his identity while evading clone forces. [54] "Aftermath" shows him losing it in the woods while being followed by members of the Bad Batch. [51]

• Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide states that Cassian Andor was born on the planet Fest. [55] However, in the first episode of Andor, " Kassa", it is revealed that Cassian was actually born on the planet Kenari. [56] This discrepancy would later be explained in the next episode, " That Would Be Me", as Fest being an in-universe fabricated false birthplace created by his adoptive mother Maarva Andor to hide his Kenari origins. [57]

• In one 1978 series of strips that was later titled The Constancia Affair, Luke Skywalker's parents were called "Master and Mistress Tan Skywalker." At the time, the Expanded Universe was in its early stages, and nobody knew what the name of Luke's father was going to be, save that the two probably shared the surname Skywalker. The given name "Anakin" was only revealed in the 1983 movie Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, five years after the release of The Constantia Affair. The name " Tan" was later retconned into a title-rank that was bestowed to exceptionally skilled pilots.

• The novelization of Return of the Jedi mentions that the planet Endor no longer exists, but the planet Endor appears in the film and in Star Wars Legends sources, so The Essential Atlas retconned the claim in the novelization of Return of the Jedi into being a hoax.

• The Ewoks tv series shows the Endor system to be a binary star system, but all other appearances show the Endor system to only have one star, so the StarWars.com Databank entry for Endor retconned the Ewoks tv series to be showing Ewok mythology. [58]

• Ever since A New Hope, it was understood that the Republic had engaged in the Clone Wars, and the Expanded Universe (EU) introduced several other conflicts, such as the Great Sith War. However, in Attack of the Clones, Sio Bibble stated that "there hasn't been a full-scale war since the formation of the Republic." The aforementioned Ruusan Reformation also addressed this inconsistency.

• In the novelization of _Return of the

It is widely known, Jedi_ , that Darth Vader met his demise by falling into lava. However, in Revenge of the Sith , Anakin Skywalker never actually made contact with the lava itself. His clothes, however, did catch fire due to the extreme heat of the fumes. Rather than being a simple continuity error, this adjustment was likely made to enhance the believability of Anakin's survival. Additionally, the idea that Obi-Wan Kenobi and Owen Lars were brothers was once considered, even though Attack of the Clones portrays them as unrelated individuals. (Interestingly, in the real world, Nash Edgerton, brother to Joel Edgerton (who played young Owen Lars), served as a stunt double for Ewan McGregor (young Obi-Wan)). Furthermore, while the Coruscanti population was depicted as having great affection for Palpatine (a notion reinforced by Coruscant and the Core Worlds, which stated they saw him as a virtual demigod), the Special Edition of the film shows Coruscant celebrating his death, even going so far as to topple a statue of him. - Heir to the Empire initially established Coruscant as the name of the Imperial capital planet. However, in The Truce at Bakura , characters refer to it as Imperial Center. To reconcile this, Shadows of the Empire clarified that Imperial Center was the designation given to Coruscant by the Empire. - The Coruscant Uprising, along with the Empire's brutal suppression of it, contradicts the optimistic atmosphere of the post-Endor celebrations on Coruscant as depicted in the special edition of Return of the Jedi. This is due to the fact that the planet remained under Imperial rule for an additional two years. - The Dark Empire trilogy suggests that Palpatine's clone bodies deteriorated rapidly because they were overwhelmed by his essence. However, Crimson Empire reveals that Carnor Jax bribed Palpatine's physician to intentionally cause the clones to decay quickly. - The Essential Chronology retroactively designated both Lumiya and Arden Lyn as Emperor's Hands, and The Emperor's Pawns did the same for Blackhole and Jeng Droga. - Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 0 established the existence of the Sith long before 5000 BBY. In contrast, the novelization of The Phantom Menace, set in 32 BBY, states that "the Sith had come into being almost two thousand years ago." The Essential Chronology reinterpreted the novelization to refer specifically to the founding of the New Sith. - In The Phantom Menace, Yoda mentions the Rule of Two. However, The Essential Chronology clarifies that Darth Bane established the Rule of Two after the apparent destruction of the Sith in 1000 BBY. Evil Never Dies: The Sith Dynasties details how Kibh Jeen discovered the Order of the Sith Lords and informed the Jedi, who dismissed him as insane. - Dark Forces: Rebel Agent and Dark Forces: Jedi Knight make no connection between the Brotherhood of Darkness and the Sith. However, The Essential Chronology reveals that the Brotherhood of Darkness was the form the New Sith took near the end of the New Sith Wars, and that the Seventh Battle of Ruusan led the Jedi to believe the Sith were extinct until The Phantom Menace. - Dark Forces: Rebel Agent and Dark Forces: Jedi Knight establish that the spirits of the thought bomb's victims were trapped on Ruusan until Kyle Katarn's arrival. However, in Bane of the Sith, Darth Bane sees ghosts of Qordis and Kaan on Dxun. Darth Bane: Rule of Two reinterprets the ghosts on Dxun as hallucinations caused by brain damage from the thought bomb. - In Bane of the Sith, Darth Bane recalls warning Kaan against using a thought bomb. Conversely, in Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Darth Bane is the one who suggests the idea to Kaan. - For many years, the leader of the Republic was referred to as the President of the Republic [59] or the President of the Galactic Senate. [60] When the prequels introduced the title of Supreme Chancellor, the term "President of the Senate" was retroactively designated as one of the Chancellor's official titles (with some suggesting it was the title used before the Reformation). - In the Jedi Prince series, Bertroff Hissa, Trioculus, and Kadann attempted to usurp power from Ysanne Isard. Isard is never mentioned in the series, and it's often implied that Trioculus is the sole Imperial leader. This retcon was implemented to integrate the series into the established timeline. - The Dark Side Sourcebook reinterprets the Prophets of the Dark Side featured in the Jedi Prince series as imposters of the true Prophets of the Dark Side. - The EU initially established that Raith Sienar provided Tarkin with the Death Star designs, and that Bevel Lemelisk developed the superlaser. After Episode II revealed that the Geonosians gave the plans to Tyranus / Sidious, it was retconned that the Geonosians elaborated on outlines provided by Sienar and Lemelisk. The history of the Death Star has become so complex that a novel was dedicated to the topic, serving as a comprehensive retcon. - The show Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO depicted C-3PO and R2-D2 experiencing numerous adventures between the rise of the Empire and Episode IV. After Episode III showed them in the service of the same individuals as in Episode IV, it was retconned that Corla Metonae separated the droids from their owners after Episode III, and they were reunited sometime before Episode IV. - A-wings were not meant to exist before the Battle of Yavin, yet they appear in the Droids series, which takes place between the two trilogies. The R-22 Spearhead was then "invented" as an identical predecessor to the A-wing to explain their presence in the Droids era. - The title Darth was originally believed to have originated during the New Sith Wars. However, the game Knights of the Old Republic introduced Darth Revan and Darth Malak, who lived 2,000 years before that period. It's generally assumed that the title was forgotten and then revived. The first Sith Lord to use the title Darth in the New Sith Wars era also changed over time, initially thought to be Darth Bane, then Darth Rivan, and later Darth Ruin. - Timothy Zahn, in Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, portrayed the Clone Masters as the antagonists of the Galactic Republic in the Clone Wars, reflecting the view of many '90s authors that cloners and their clones were the "villains." However, after Attack of the Clones revealed the clones fought for the Republic, the Clone Masters were retconned into renegades who only attacked after the Empire's formation. - The Confederacy of Independent Systems' use of Morgukai clones during the Siege of Saleucami, depicted in the Star Wars: Republic storyline of the same name, and Gilad Pellaeon's presence among the Republic forces, explains Pellaeon's claim in Heir to the Empire to have fought unstable clones during the Clone Wars long before. - The BBY system, used to denote dates in the Star Wars timeline, is itself a retcon. It began as an external dating system and, after gaining popularity, was incorporated into the universe as a system used by the New Republic. - According to their original backstory in The Star Wars Sourcebook, the Mon Calamari and the Quarren encountered offworlders for the first time when the Galactic Empire discovered their planet. This created continuity issues when Quarren appeared as background aliens in Episode I, and when the Mon Calamari Padawan Bant Eerin appeared in the Jedi Apprentice series. The idea that the Mon Calamari's conflict with the Empire marked their initial contact with offworlders was retconned when they were depicted as loyal members of the Galactic Republic in Star Wars: Clone Wars. Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds explained these earlier references as Imperial propaganda. - Little Kessel was created for The Essential Atlas to clarify that the lush, idyllic "Kessel" seen in The Second Kessel Run and the "regular" Kessel – a desolate, unpleasant world often used as a synonym for Hell – are distinct planets. - The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett suggested that Jaster Mereel was the actual name of Boba Fett. However, Attack of the Clones revealed Boba to be a clone of his "father", Jango Fett. Consequently, Jango Fett: Open Seasons reinterpreted Jaster Mereel as a separate character, Jango's mentor and predecessor as Mandalore. Star Wars Gamer 10's entry for State of the Arts explained that Boba used "Jaster Mereel" as an alias. - As revealed in the comic book Star Wars 68, Boba Fett was believed to have served with a group of Mandalorian supercommandos called the Mandalorian Protectors near the end of the Clone Wars. According to Fenn Shysa, only three survived: himself, Fett, and Tobbi Dala. However, The History of the Mandalorians retconned this "Boba Fett" as not being the real Boba Fett, but rather a rogue ARC trooper named Spar who was obsessed with restoring the Mandalorians to their former glory. [61] - The rumor mentioned in The History of the Mandalorians that the renegade clone Spar was actually Jango Fett's son rationalizes Fenn Shysa's claim that, during the Clone Wars, he and the Mandalorian Protectors had served under Boba Fett - who was later shown to have been only 13 at the end of the conflict. - The History of the Mandalorians retconned Boba Fett's appearances in Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights as actually being appearances of his daughter, Ailyn Vel. - Before the release of Attack of the Clones, Stormtroopers during the Galactic Civil War were rarely identified as clones, except in the article Soldiers of the Empire!. Furthermore, numerous Expanded Universe sources mentioned ordinary human stormtroopers (such as Davin Felth and Kyle Katarn) and depicted Imperial academies (such as Carida) that trained regular humans to become stormtroopers. Later, large numbers of clones were retroactively added to the stormtrooper ranks. Star Wars: Battlefront II explained that, following the Kamino uprising, clones of individuals other than Jango Fett and non-clone humans began to be recruited as stormtroopers, although the 501st Legion remained composed entirely of Jango Fett clones as late as the Battle of Endor. - The Phase Zero dark troopers —aging and wounded Clone Wars veterans essentially transformed into cyborgs—provide an explanation for how the Battlefront games can include " Dark troopers" in the Imperial arsenal as early as 18 BBY, even though the Empire didn't first use them until after the Battle of Yavin. - The novel I, Jedi places Corran Horn at the Jedi Praxeum during the events of The Jedi Academy Trilogy, and also adjusts some of the trilogy's events to align with later canon. - In the Return of the Jedi novelization, Obi-Wan Kenobi refers to Owen Lars as his brother, and in Jedi Apprentice: The Hidden Past, Obi-Wan has a vision of a brother named Owen. Since Attack of the Clones established that Owen Lars is unrelated to Obi-Wan, Lone Wolf: A Tale of Obi-Wan and Luke reinterpreted Owen Kenobi in the vision as symbolizing Obi-Wan and Owen Lars's shared responsibility in raising Luke Skywalker. [62] - The Dark Jedi Jerec wears a blindfold. The New Essential Guide to Characters described Jerec as a human who had been blind since birth. However, more recent sources have retconned him into a member of the eyeless species Miraluka. - Although the 2002 video game Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast refers to its Imperial antagonists as the " Imperial Remnant," The Dark Forces Saga, Part 6: Outcasts and Megalomaniacs Welcome retconned them to actually be representatives of the Empire Reborn, [63] an Imperial splinter faction that was first introduced in the 1994 novel The Crystal Star. [64] - George Lucas originally wrote the character of Quinlan Vos to appear in Episode III as one of the many Jedi killed during Order 66. Despite plans for further stories with Vos, the Star Wars: Republic writers inserted the scene into the film's comic book adaptation. However, upon learning that Lucas had never filmed Vos' death scene, they retconned Vos's death to have him survive the explosion, bringing him back, albeit severely burned, in Republic 82. [65] - In Dark Apprentice, the Massassi are described as "grayish-green," but in Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 4 and all subsequent appearances, the Massassi are depicted as red-skinned. - In Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 1, it is stated that Naga Sadow was "a member of an elite priesthood, of pure Sith blood, who were in rebellion against their rulers, the fallen Jedi who wore the title Dark Lords of the Sith." However, in Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War 4, Exar Kun refers to "the Dark Lord Naga Sadow," and in Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith, Naga Sadow is a Dark Lord of the Sith with mostly human blood. - In Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith 2, it is mentioned that the Sith fled to Korriban after the Republic attempted to exterminate them. In contrast, in Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 2, the Sith Empire uses Korriban as a burial ground for their Dark Lords before the Republic discovers them. - In Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 0, the First Great Schism is described as leading to "a century of bloodshed" that ended with the Exiles being banished from the known galaxy. However, The New Essential Chronology reveals that the Second Great Schism led to the Hundred-Year Darkness, which it identifies as the same event as the "century of bloodshed" mentioned in Tales of the Jedi - The Golden Age of the Sith 0. ## Notes and references ## External links - Retroactive continuity on Wikipedia