When Disney finalized the sale of Lucasarts, they confirmed that everything created in the Star Wars universe outside of the films before April 2014, save the Clone Wars and Rebels cartoons, was now utterly non-canon. No more Dash Rendarr, no Kyle Katarn, The Emperor was never cloned and Boba Fett never crawled out of the Sarlacc.

I got a bit of a kick out of the realization that we now have what may be the most fully fleshed out alternate timeline to a fictional canon in history. The Star Wars Extended Universe is now officially a dead universe, a parallel plane of reality that now exists as a half remembered dream. Do you think the characters know it? Do you think Hans Solo ever woke up in the middle of the night with the word "Thrawn" haunting his memories for some unknown reason?

I'm a little well versed in dead universes, so it's an odd thought that makes me chuckle.