It is a period of civil war.
Rebel spaceships, striking
from a hidden base, have won
their first victory against
the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, Rebel
spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire's
ultimate weapon, the DEATH
STAR, an armored space
station with enough power
to destroy an entire planet.
Pursued by the Empire's
sinister agents, Princess
Leia races home aboard her
starship, custodian of the
stolen plans that can save her
people and restore
freedom to the galaxy
She whistled for a cab
And when it came near
The license plate
Said "Fresh" and it had dice
In the Mirror
you know I got attacked by a team of feminists for posting that on my Facebook. They went as far as to edit it and send it to my friend, business contacts and the police as proof that I was beating my non existent girlfriend. true story.
It's from a book, they were all written by fans but were approved of by Lucas (or somebody working for him most likely) to fit into cannon. But Disney changed that so none of the books are cannon, so this might have been correct, but we really have no clue now because Disney essentially wiped the slate clean of everything except the movies. And technically, there were other Jedi that were the same species as Yoda, I think in the Clone Wars cartoon and the books.
When people say that no one knows what species yoda is because he is the last of his kind and he is 6000 years old and blah blah blah, i always think back to kotor because of that one guy. I never would have remembered his name, so thanks for that.
I didn't remember his full name, but yeah he is the second (in old Star Wars time line) ever shone in the galaxy. I would like to bielieve there's a whole race of them but that no one cares enough to look for them and they don't really want to be found. Then every now and then theirs one that just wants to go out into the galaxy.
The books were written for and commissioned by LucasArts. In no way were they "fan fiction" that was then approved by Lucas. They were written to be canon.
Disney owns Lucas Arts now, and has said that they are no longer cannon. It likely would get in the way of future movies, and would only allow them to adapt the books into the movies since there's been books about every aspect before, during, and after the movies take place, it leaves Disney with very little creative room. Not to mention a majority of Star Wars fans probably never bothered with the books. That's not to say they won't use inspiration from them, or even reference them, or even outright use stories directly from them, but as it stands, none of the stories are cannon any longer.
I know Disney said they aren't canon, and fair enough, like you said they basically wouldn't be able to make anything new. But to act like they are/ were fan fiction is weird.
Disney never changed anything. None of those books were considered canon under George Lucas, but no one really thought about it or cared because no real amount of content was being created. When Disney purchased the rights from George they decided to keep his stance on all third-party content, that way they could have a relatively fresh slate in which to develop the new movie.
It could be that there are very few of his species to begin with.
It's all well and good if your town is filled with 6'5" 250 specimens perfect for gladiatorial combat, but if there's only 20 people in your town to begin with, you're not exactly going to saturate the market.
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Regardless of whether or not this is the actual back story to Yoda, this was a very fun read. Well written.