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Re: Yes, it is.
Posted By: Bry <bmulheran@gmail.com>	Date: 10/16/08 5:07 p.m.
: Star Wars is an excellent example of fiction that has been inundated with so : many sources that its hard to keep canon elements straight. This isn't : necessarily a BAD thing (it has provided a lot of entertainment for a lot : of people), but it has created a HUGE universe. So big, that many stories : don't relate to the central plot of the movies. Karen Traviss' first Star : Wars novel, Hard Contact, is one of these. It got Lucas' stamp of approval : and seriously expanded the universe with a very realistic take on the : clones and the war. But it had very little to do with the main story. Not : a single mention of Sith, the Skywakler family, Kenobi, or Yoda. I don't : think that should make it any less canon than another book that features : Anakin. To be honest, that was the appeal of Star Wars in a lot of ways. I was never really all that interested in Sith or Jedi. What captured my imagination in Star Wars was the Battle of Yavin and its follow-ups at Hoth and over Endor. The space combat, X-Wings, Y-Wings, A-Wings, TIEs, Mon Cal cruisers and Star Destroyers and all the other imagination and detail put into the Rebel and Imperial fleets through the expanded universe. Those battles are what sold me into Star Wars and its where most of my attention has focused since. The X-Wing series of novels and the half-dozen games following the exploits of Rogue Squadron or others. That was good stuff there. Still, that's not to say SW isn't quite a mess in a lot of ways. There a lot of problems to cause that, but some of the big ones imo would be the lack of effort and interest in a solid canon for many years in the EU followed by there being an incredibly high number of different authors involved, many of which playing with the key characters where you have to be most careful (look at The Flood. That novel gets a lot of grief because the Master Chief character represented in it seems to differ significantly from the Nylund MC). Speaking of Karen Traviss, I was surprised to see she has written the first GoW novel due out soon. That certainly puts expectations high imo after the likes of Hard Contact.

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