Star Wars canon

Initially, when the Star Wars saga began, there was no formal organization of canon. The films, novelizations, radio dramas, and spin-off novels were produced, but no standards of canon were set.

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When the Star Wars series reagained popularity in 1991 with the publication of Timothy Zahn's enormously popular [[Heir to the Empire and his eventual The Thrawn Trilogy|Thrawn Trilogy, Lucasfilm Ltd. decided something had to be done to organize the increasingly large collection of media which chronicled the Star Wars universe. So, it was decided that a system of canon would be developed which would organize the materials into what was and wasn't fit for the Star Wars story.

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