"The Immortal Gods of the Sith," by Guillaume Ducos for Supernatural
Encounters
11/23/23 Site Update
Special thanks to Lance for helping me fix some issues on the
EU Reading List, including the
restoration of the Tartakovsky Clone Wars series and the 1 ABY area that was
missing material.
11/22/23 Site Update
Special thanks to Saban Erdman for providing us
with a corrected version of the Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook, available on
this page.
And special thanks to David Grahame for providing
us with a corrected version of Fate of the Jedi: Imprint, which you can
find on the right-hand side of this page.
11/12/23 Site Update
I added a "nonessential" tag to certain books on the
Star Wars EU Reading List
to help new readers to skip over material that is not tied to the larger saga,
has questionable canonicity, and/or is poor in quality.
11/9/23 Early Winter Gifts
Special thanks to Vaughn99 who worked hard to provide us with
digital copies of the dynamic body of Star Wars RPG magazines! More to come,
including translations of foreign language RPG magazines. (Thank you, Nick Scuessler,
for the reminder!) If you want to help with this project, contact
me.
10/31/23 Halloween Gifts
Available now is the
EPUB version of Supernatural Encounters (thank you to Makati for
putting that together) and the complete
Star Wars Missions books written by Ryder Windham and published by
Scholastic from 1997-1999, now long out-of-print and hard to find.
10/23/23 Site Update
At long last, I updated the individual eras, added the new
Cosmic Wars era, changed the name of the
Infinities page to Other Universes, and finished the
EU Reading List chronology!
10/21/23 Lightsider!
In case you missed it, here is the PDF for the Tom Veitch story,
Lightsider, a lost EU work that takes place between Dark Empire I and II.
Click on the title
here or on the right column to download it.
10/19/23 Star Wars EU Reading List
Several of you have asked me to come up with a simplified reading list for the
EU that isn't so complicated or requires jumping mid-chapter from book to book.
That is what I'm working on today! :)
Also, I've updated the protocols so that this site will now host under HTTPS
instead of HTTP, which is why some of you were seeing "warning" messages on
Chrome (and maybe other search engines). It costs $30 more per year, which I'm
not thrilled with, but it's worth it.
10/18/23 Site Update
Added Stevie B's recent interview with me ("A Supernatural Encounter with Mr.
Joe Bongiorno") and Matt Wilkins' "Wrestling with the Wookiee (Round 2)" video,
featuring Chris Nelson, Kyle Rawlings, and Patrick Maes, to the
SE page. Also, thanks to Nick
Schuesler for the correction on the Skyewalkers placement on the
Original Clone Wars Timeline.
10/15/23 Supernatural Encounters Media, Interviews, and Analysis Videos
I've added an alphabetical list of all the current media interviews, trailers,
reactions, and analysis videos up on Youtube. You can find all of that and more
right here along with a new cover
gallery!
10/3/23 Arhul Hextrophon--Nick Joseph--Signature Offer
Nick Joseph, who played Arhul Hextrophon in
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope,
is signing book plates for
Supernatural Encounters.
He first posted this on Facebook and we're including it here.
"If you would like your book signed please contact me on Facebook or Nick Joseph
Autograph Shop or scifisignersunited.weebly.com.
9/28/23 SE Chronology Fixed
The timeline now properly reflects the chapter names and numbers (and
subchapters, etc.) and should be in the right time-frame.
Also, all of the shipments are now out, save for a few domestic stragglers which
will be going out on 10/2. For those of you who missed physical copies, there
should be another batch printed for LegendsCon 2025 and Twin Suns Foundation
will be auctioning one soon.
Finally, thanks to Matt Jones for the Red Harvest chapter breakdown, and
Jaajeej for arranging Seasons 1 and 2 of the Ewoks animated series
according to what season they take place in and other internal factors.
9/18/23 The History of Space Opera
As promised, my PowerPoint presentation, "The History of Space Opera," which I
gave at LegendsCon on 9/10 is now up here.
This will eventually form part of a book on the subject, which will include a
smattering of old stories that were referenced or alluded to in Supernatural
Encounters.
9/17/23 Updates and LegendsCon
Apologies for the delay in posting here. I came home from California sick and
with a lot to do! The convention was outstanding. Kyle, Patrick, Corinthia,
Katherine, Liisa, and everyone else involved in putting it together did an
amazing job! I'll have to post picture here when I have time. Suffice it to say
that the reception I got to Supernatural Encounters and my panels was
overwhelming in the best possible way! You guys were all amazing! And getting to
reconnect with Abel, Mike K., Mike C., Mike S. (a lotta Mikes), and Jason Fry,
not to mention the coordinators above who I count as friends, was phenomenal!
When I have time, I'll show you my Waru mug that Abel and Susie got me!
First, however, I want to let domestic contributors know that your books are
shipping out tomorrow! They're all packaged and ready to go.
International customers—if you've not gotten an email from me or if you've
responded to my email already—then your books are shipping out this week.
And if you haven't yet joined the Discord server, please do, as we're about to
open it up to the various new projects that are forthcoming, and this way you'll
be better informed as to what's being worked on and what's coming out next.
The EU lives on!
9/5/23 Update
Do not use stamps.com... ever!
9/1/23 Update!
Yep, books are here, 82 boxes of them (and the books look gorgeous)! Now, the
post office is closed on Sunday and Monday, but I'm devoting all day Tuesday &
Wednesday to shipping these out. Also, if you live outside of the U.S., your
package will possibly come from UPS instead.
P.S. If your address has changed, *and you haven't yet told me*, now is the time
to do so.
8/29/23 Update! Update! Star Wars: Supernatural Encounters: The Trial and Transformation of Arhul
Hextrophon is here!
At long last, Supernatural Encounters is available for free and can be
downloaded from the cover image on this
page! And here is the new trailer
(special thanks to Kyle Rawlings and Robert Newnham)! And here is an interview I
had with the great Liisa Mountain and Kyle on
Legends Library!
8/15/23 Update Day!
Update Day!!
How are all my favorite Star Warriors? The printer should be shipping me books
this week! I've ordered and picked up all the boxes and packing materials. I've
created the shipping labels. As soon as the books show up, I'm ready to ship
them to you!!
I was supposed to do a Q&A today, but I'm not sure I have the time. A few of you
know my situation, but for those who don't: the last few months I've been taking
care of my senior dog, Sabbra, whose been dealing with crippling arthritis.
We've managed despite a few ups and downs, and she's still eating and drinking
and has that drive to *live*... and until *she's* ready to go, so she shall.
I bring this up not to make you all sad, but because it reminds me of the EU and
this movement that we have. How many times have critics sneered that "the
Extended Universe is dead! Get over it!"? Granted, most of those articles are
designed to generate outrage and clicks and are written by AI or people who
don't care about the EU or us. We've all met those kinds of people. Maybe they
dipped their toe in for a few books years ago and now act like they're some kind
of authority. Or maybe they just heard stuff about it. Whatever the case, this
desire on their part to destroy something that isn't theirs and never has been
is borderline pathological, and their ideas merit little but mockery on
our part.
For those of us who are invested, we know something they don't—the EU is a
treasure! But it has required a commitment—and one that not every fan was
willing to make. And that's totally fine. But for those of us who did, the EU is
OURS. It belongs to each fan who spent the time and money and effort to delve
deep into this wild world. And the rewards were and are great!
Thus, so long as there is the will for the EU to live, it will! And it doesn't
matter if that's five thousand people or five. It doesn't matter if the license
holders (currently Disney) participate or not. One day in the future, the EU
will no longer see new content being released (lost or otherwise), and it'll
become a relic of the past. And that's fine too. Everything in life has a cycle
of birth and death (and some would argue rebirth). We don't forget our loved
dead. And when we're gone, others not yet born will find and cherish this
beautiful thing.
But until that time, here we are! We support, nourish, and cherish these works
and the fandom we're a part of--and so despite the naysayers and cynics and
trolls, the EU lives!
I'll drop you guys a line here when I get the tracking number. The printer is
only one state away from me, so it won't be long after that. I'll email each and
every one of you once the books are here so that you have a heads-up that
they're on their way. And maybe we can reschedule the Q&A for the next Update
Day on 9/1, which is a week before I leave for LegendsCon.
8/9/23 LegendsCon!
We are pleased to announce that Joe Bongiorno will be joining us for Legends
Con! Joe's credits include West End Games, Star Wars periodicals and the recent
continuation of
Supernatural Encounters.
He will be participating in signings and panels throughout the weekend.
Get your tickets now on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../legends-consortium-2023...
8/1/23 Update Day!
Here are images of the final bound proofs (thanks be to
Chay for designing and finalizing Guillaume Ducos' beautiful illustrations)!
These arrived a few days ago and were approved! Production is underway and I
hope to have books soon! Once I do, I'll post an update here. I'll also be emailing
all of you who are contributors just to give you a heads-up. Then, once they're
out, I'll release the PDF here and on the website. No fan left behind! There will be an SE panel at LegendsCon in Burbank next
month 9/9-9/10, which I'll be on along with my editors, Kyle, Patrick, and maybe
Ed; the great Liisa will be hosting it! I believe I'll be signing books on both
days as well. For those of you unable to attend, let me know (via email) if you
want me to sign your copy before I ship it out. Work will soon begin on editing the now-translated
Hungarian Han Solo books (thank you to Matthew Smith) with the intent of
releasing them as PDFs... maybe as an omnibus for private printing (we'll see
how that goes later on). On the subject of the now-translated German Ewoks
comics (thanks to Thomas Rathausky), I've been informed that as much as they had
hoped to get them included in the forthcoming omnibus, Marvel won't allow it
since they can't locate the contracts. This is pretty much the same thing that
happened with Dark Horse and the Spanish Droids and Ewoks comics. Nor is it
surprising that foreign language contracts from 1985 can't be found. So, I'll be
preparing them and releasing them here for you guys. The copies I have are
lo-res scans. I'd prefer to do higher-res, but that would entail tracking down
the originals, of which I only have one of the five. So, maybe we'll make do
with the lo-res versions until we can put together a higher quality
presentation. Love and appreciate you all! The EU Lives! MTFBWY! Joe
7/15/23 Update Day!
It is DONE! No more revisions. No more editing. I've just made the PDF and will
send it to the printer as soon as I'm sure everything is right on it (PDFs can
be tricky and sometimes leave images out). Monday morning, they'll go over
everything and start the process--which they say takes a month. They ship via
UPS, so that should be by the third week of August, I should have books in hand.
Then, I'll email all of you and let you know here and on starwarstimeline.net.
Then, I begin packaging and shipping books to you guys.
6/30/23 One Week Extension
Due to losing time to urushiol poisoning, there's a one week extension before I
submit the final draft to the printer. So anyone who still wants a copy can
become a contributor until that time. See 6/14 for the perks list and
instructions.
6/15/23 Update Day! Hope all of you beautiful Starhoppers and Star Warriors are
doing well! My read-through of the bound proof is complete. All that is left is final corrections from Kyle, Neil,
Corey, and Ed--nothing big, just a dot here and a cross there. I expect to
implement them and send in the final draft by mid-week! I'd have been done it by this weekend but for an idiotic
move on my part to pull weeds without gloves. The weeds had poison ivy in them,
which I didn't realize until about a day later; and to boot, I lost internet
yesterday. But we don't let obstacles stand in our way. We're never
going to have perfect circumstances, and if we waiting for that, or allowing
impediments to mess us up, we'll never get anything done. So, always be ready
and willing to fight for what is necessary and good in your life! So, I'll pop on here once I've submitted the manuscript
next week. It takes them a month (give or take) to print up books. I'll let you
know when they arrive and email everyone as well just to be on the safe side. I am going to miss working on this, to be honest. It's been
part of my life now for so long! But my loss is your gain, as you'll finally get
to read and discuss this... beast... I can't call it novel. It doesn't have any
of the structural aspects of a novel. It's an annal; it's a tapestry with things
that connect in small and large ways to elements within the book and to the
larger EU (and sometimes very obscure things in the EU), lending it a framework
and history that was otherwise only ever hinted at in bits and bobs from 1977
on. So, I'm proud of the work, of all the help my team
provided, and all of you, with all the encouragement, patience, contributions,
and love you guys have given! We stand at the threshold!
6/14/23 Final SE Week
I'll be submitting the final draft and placing orders for physical copies of
Supernatural Encounters (which includes "Cult Encounters") for contributors
by next week. In other words, this is the last few days left to become a
contributor if you're interested in that. Otherwise, the PDF will be made
available once contributors have their copies in hand. A. $20.00-$59.00: Your name in the contributor credits (no physical copy included). B. $60.00-$99.00: Perk A plus an illustrated 7x10 trade paperback.C. $100.00-$199.00: Perk A plus an illustrated 7x10 hardcover.
D. $200.00-up: Perks A through C.
If you're outside of the U.S., an additional $35.00 must be added for levels B to D to cover international shipping costs.
Contributions go towards the illustrations, production of the book, and maintenance of the website, which will feature the PDF free to the public. Physical copies will be produced on a one-time limited edition basis and will not be for sale. Books will be shipped out as soon as they’re available. You can keep track of my progress, see illustrations, and pick up a few goodies on the Discord server (link forthcoming) and/or Facebook and website updates.
If you're interested, email me at thesithempire@msn.com
6/1/23 SE Update!
Update
Day is here!! Welcome all you new Starhoppers to our growing team of Star
Warriors!
I've got
some good news today!
I
surpassed page 800 last night! I'm in the middle of Ch 75 and cruising along!
That leaves 150 pages left! I've had my people working overtime catching errors,
Kyle has started recordings for the audio-drama, and I expect to be done around
the next update.
In more
good news, I now have the complete English translations of the four Hungarian
Han Solo books! This is all thanks to Matthew Smith and his assistant
(apologies, his name escapes me at the moment) who did the heavy lifting! Once
you guys have SE in your hands, I'll begin the process of proofreading/editing
them.
In yet
more good news, I've sent the English translations of the five German Ewoks
comics/magazines to Marvel, who are interested in including them in the next
Ewoks/Droids omnibus. I was hoping to have also been able to send them
translations of the eight Spanish die-cut books, which have exclusive stories,
but I can't seem to track them down--and when I do see one or two on Ebay,
they're cost-prohibitive. Frankly, I don't know if they fall into Marvel's
purview anyway, but it would've been nice to give them the option of including
it. In any case, I'm not giving up on those stories. It's just that when I
finally get them and have them translated, it'll be a digital release on the
Discord server and then here on starwarstimeline.net, as opposed to a physical
release, which I know most of us prefer.
I hope
all of you are doing well! I'm ever in your debt! Love you guys and MTFBWY!!
4/15/23 SE Update!
UPDATE DAY!! You asked for it, you got it! Book III has dropped! If you're not
on the Discord server, drop me a line and I'll send it to you. As with the
previous books, it's in B&W to prevent pirating but the final versions (PDF and
physical) will be in full color. For those of you waiting for the physical copy,
more power to you and thank you so much for your patience! For those reading
with each drop, you may be starting to see why this project has taken so long to
come to fruition. ;) There are a lot of moving pieces! And, of course, nothing
is set in stone until the physical book is out.
For those of you who missed the previous updates days, the short version is
this: I'm back on track after numerous, ridiculous setbacks, including a host of
computer issues and personal dilemmas, all of which are thankfully behind me.
I'm about halfway through the bound proof copy--but this is it! Errors or not,
this baby will be born when I get to the end. I was hoping for a May release
(because: Star Wars Day), but that's not feasible. If I can finish by the end of
May, I'll be thrilled. But as always, I'll keep you guys up to date twice a
month.
As to the other projects, they are also still moving ahead! I'm talking about
the Hungarian Han Solo books, the SE Atlas, Ewoks translations, and foreign
language RPG translations, for which I'll create a dedicated thread on the
Discord server for those of you working on them (so you can work together and
avoid needless duplication). And I'm also still excited about those of you doing
your own art and individual stories! And don't forget LegendsCon in Burbank in
September!
4/2/23 Site and SE Updates!
So with my lost files back, I can revert the site to one that doesn't have all
these broken links. That will bring us back to the Feb 6th status, which, as far
as I'm concerned, is good news! There are many more updates to come, but that
can all wait until SE is out. Speaking of that, I'm halfway through the final
pass. I've released Books I and II to contributors on the Discord server. If you
missed that or if you're not on the Discord server, by all means, hit me up and
request these (or a link to the Discord).
2/23/23 Updates!
After some minor hiccups involving having to get a new hard drive and Facebook
causing problems, I'm back up and running, albeit slowly. The proof copy arrived
and requires a bit of work, which I'll begin today. This site looks like it
needs a bit of work too, as some of the images seem to be missing. Consider this
a work-in-progress, as I have to focus my attention on SE.
2/6/23 Updates!
The bound proof copies of SE are coming by week's end! I've also added the final
chapter breakdown to the timeline.
1/27/23 Updates!
Hey everyone! I've sent corrected files to the printer earlier today. There were
production decisions that I had to deliberate over, as well as typographical
errors that my editors and I caught during the process that I wanted fixed.
These kinds of issues are nothing abnormal, but they do slow down the process a
bit. A small snag, but we're full-steam ahead now. I promised to keep you guys
informed and will continue to do so as I get further news! Cheers!
In site news, moving forward, I'm going to
approach the Star Wars Expanded Universe Timeline in the same way that SE
approaches it, in a kind of Trinitarian fashion: One Canon, Three Universes: EU,
DU, and Infinities. Nothing will change at the outset, but I'll start by
creating a separate section from the Infinities section.
1/16/23 Update Day!
Hello there, my crazy Starhoppers and Star Warriors! I've heard that the
Episode I Adventures
book series had gotten quite hard to find. So here it is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10ISaVkiGz2WEvRwizmawjE9mQq8ck9_a/view?usp=sharing.
In update news, the printer, graphic designer, and I have been working hard
these past two weeks, going back and forth to hammer out everything to their
exacting specifications. As per your suggestions, I've requested bound proofs
and those should be arriving in a week or so for me to look over. I've already
found a few errors that I've wanted fixed, and assuming the proofs don't have
anything additional that is egregious, I'll give them my "approval" and the
printing will start.
When it comes to errors, the bottom line is this:
there are going to be some.
Despite all of the hard work my editors, proofreaders, and I have put in to find
and eradicate them, in a 1000+ page document, it's inevitable that some are
going to slip through. In the big publishing houses, they have a team of
full-time proofreaders going over drafts, but even in that scenario, in your
standard 2-300 page book, errors slip in. Perfection is an ideal that we strive
for, but one we can't hope to attain, and to hold up a work for the sake of
perfectionism is a fool's game. That doesn't mean you don't put the work in (and
if you talk to my editors, they'll tell you we certainly have!) But you have to
move forward...
Instead of having you guys wait half a month for updates, from here on out, I'm
just going to let you know any major progress that occurs as it occurs. The
arrival of the bound proofs, the start of printing, the arrival of books, and
when I mail them out. That kind of means the suspension of Update Days for
awhile, though I'd like to start them up again with the Han Solo books (which
have been proceeding nicely behind-the-scenes) as that gets closer to
production. And expect updates in regards to LegendsCon! Until then, MTFBWY!
1/7/23 Site Update
Shout-out to David Koziol for helping me better place Darth Vader and the
Lost Command after Imperial Commando: 501st. I have other corrections
and updates to make, which I'll manage in the days ahead while SE is at the
printer.
1/1/23 Update Day and Happy New Year!
Hope all of you Starhoppers and Star Warriors are doing well in 2023!
Listed by year is the archived
news for that year, as well as the website updates that had originally
been on a separate page. I've decided to combine them by date for
those long-time fans of this site, as well as any that are curious to see
my chronological thoughts and editorials over the years. Occasionally,
you'll see non-Star Wars material from my other timeline sites included,
as this was before I had the lightbulb moment when I realized that
each universe should have its own "latest news" and "updates" page. Please
note too that these pages are being kept for nostalgia and research
purposes. None of the internal links, of which there are many, will
actually work, as they were created at the time the Star Wars Expanded
Universe Timeline was listed under the umbrella site Timelineuniverse.net,
which is no longer the case.
Archived News 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013
Archived News 2003
Archived
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