> To the best of my knowledge, nobody was allowed to write specifically about that period. People were allowed to write about certain memories of characters, such as Boba Fett, the history of his armor, etc. Plenty of backstory had been written, just not directly -- and all of it approved by Lucas as "Star Wars Canon", aka "Stuff that sounds good until I decide that it is ALL WRONG! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
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> Don Monkey

Actually, from what I gathered from an article on starwars.com a while back...all the novels and such still *is* canon, and then again it isn't. Apparently all Star Wars novels and video games and whatnot from now on will have a little symbol or something on the cover saying, basically, 'This whole story is simply a POSSIBILITY. It *could* happen in the Star Wars universe, but there's probably loads of stuff that'll contradict with this, so just work it out for yourself'.

Which is *extremely* confusing.

Qua "Although personally I've already erased that Callista person from my mental Star Wars history" rtz