The Mandalorians became the breaking point for the Star Wars Expanded Universe, setting the stage for Disney to change the franchise forever.
There’s a strange sense in which the Mandalorians killed the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Star Wars has always been a transmedia franchise; the first tie-in book, Alan Dean Foster’s Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, was published in 1978 – before the release of The Empire Strikes Back. But this so-called “Expanded Universe” only really became a hit in the 1990s, in the aftermath of Timothy Zahn’s “Thrawn trilogy.
Traviss wasn’t universally admired. She clearly loved the Mandalorian culture she had designed far more than anything else in Star Wars, and couldn’t help contrasting the Mandalorians with the Jedi – with the Jedi tending to come up short in the comparison. Traviss was unusually active in Star Wars forums, too, and could be harsh and abrasive to those who weren’t as enamored with the Mandalorians as she was.
Canon in Star Wars has always been controversial. Lucas’ prequel trilogy had retconned many details, and entire stories had been branded non-canon . But there had been nothing on this scale before; an entire bestselling series of books had been apparently dropped. The uneasy status quo underpinning the Expanded Universe had been pushed to breaking point.
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