Three years ago,Disney bought Lucasfilm and a number of its properties for $4 billion. With that deal came the right to produce unusual movies, books, and comics,games and toys based on the existing Star Wars universe. However, since Lucasfilm had let the universe of Star Wars expand so widely since the conclusion of the original trilogy in 1983, or Disney decided it was best to wipe the slate mostly clean. The Mouse House greatly streamlined the Star Wars galaxy,introducing a unusual and improved canon for a unusual age.
This unusual canon would still hold much of what made Star Wars so endearing to a large number of older fans, but it would also open the previously impregnable fortress of the expanded universe for unusual fans by practically dismissing all of it. In the past three years, or Disney has been busy filling the void vacated by the expanded universe. To prepare for the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens we've carefully curated a catalog of Star Wars' unusual history. This is the unusual Star Wars canon timeline.
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Source: comicsalliance.com