The New Canon Timeline in Graphic Form

Reddit is a strange and upsetting place. Granted, this opinion is based on zero direct personal experience. I feel like it's what modern day spy movies like Despicable Me would mean if they refer to "the deep web." I think you go there if you want to send bitcoin bullion to the Taliban, purchase some toys made from lead, or see McDonald's secret menu.

Bantha Skull's official EOD suit happens to be at the dry cleaners, but thankfully I didn't need one since I could avoid going to Reddit directly because io9 did it for us. Reddit user "SenatorConfer" (who may or may not be a fan of the Cleveland Barons) put together a graphical timeline that shows the current canon, following Disney's destruction of the Expanded Universe.

As io9 points out, it is interesting to note that while the list of new canon sources is growing rapidly ("expanding", if "U" will), there isn't much outside the film bookends of The Phantom Menace and The Last Jedi, other than a few short stories. Only one of these, "Recipe for Death," (geared for children) takes place in the distant past and tells the harrowing tale of a missing sous chef in Maz Kanata's castle. It seems that so far, Disney is focusing its canon on filling in the spaces between film and television, and isn't too interested at this moment in delving into the ancient history of the galaxy.

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