Before Disney bought LucasFilm and took control of “Star Wars” a few years back, it was a super dense universe of stories, all entangled and connected. It had a history.
Most of that history was erased in 2014, a necessary part of moving forward with the film saga because accommodating it would have been extremely creatively-limiting. So those hundreds of novels, comics and video games I spent years of my life absorbed in no longer “count.”
“Star Wars” as I have known it no longer exists.
Yes, some old stuff carried over — the movies, obviously, and the “Clone Wars” TV show — but most of “Star Wars” existed outside of those things.