The Games and Canon

Matt7 · Post by **Matt7** » 2003-07-10 07:59pm

Do we count the SW games as canon? Especially X-Wing, TIE Fighter, XvT, X-Wing Alliance, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, and Jedi Outcast?

Matt7 · Post by **Matt7** » 2003-07-10 08:00pm

Especially since the games are made by a Lucas company (Lucasarts)

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-07-10 08:01pm

You should just make one big thread with all your questions in it. It's less annoying than starting multiple seperate ones and having them littered throughout the PSW.

To answer your question: The events in the games are canon, the game mehcanics are not.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-07-10 08:04pm

Video games are the lowest level of canon and pretty much anything not apocryphal overrides them. But they usually don't contradict the rest of the EU.

Matt7 · Post by **Matt7** » 2003-07-10 08:12pm

side thought: Does Kyle Katarn appear in any books? I can't remember if he does or not

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-07-10 08:30pm

Matt7 wrote:side thought: Does Kyle Katarn appear in any books? I can't remember if he does or not

The Dark Forces series: Soldier for the Empire, Rebel Trooper (or something like that) and Jedi Knight.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-07-10 09:33pm

Kyle Katarn is briefly mentioned in Force Heretic I: Remnant. So he still exists within continuity.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-07-10 09:36pm

Durran Korr wrote:Kyle Katarn is briefly mentioned in Force Heretic I: Remnant. So he still exists within continuity.

He's also mentioned in a NJO role in NEGTC.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-07-11 03:06am

That would make X-Wing non-canon if the story supports that a generic career pilot destroys the Death Star. Same with Alliance... what would the policy be then? I think we could consider original stories canon, and some of the general events that happen. In other words I think we should doubt everything but not say it's bullshit outright.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-07-11 05:46am

This is in the canon quotes list at the top of the page, stickified. In short, games count as part of the continuity insofar as they do not conflict with canon. Furthermore, game mechanics are not part of the heirarchy.