EVERY SKYWALKER in Canon and Legends Explained

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[macwelch]

Jaina, Jacen, Ben and Anakin should’ve been the main heroes of the sequel trilogy

[acklinraan]

“Jaina we don’t have time for this!”

“So die already!”

[ShamankingZuty]

Cade is so bad ass. He didn't ask for this burden and dulls his senses with deathsticks. In a world on the cusp of a new threat, he was not looking to be the hero the galaxy needed. I felt like his story was really important to tell as it was a tragic one much like Anakin, but with still enough time to redeem himself. It's an immense loss knowing that the Legacy series will never continue. It felt like a vibrant NEW world, but still taking place in the Star Wars universe we know and love. Such wasted potential.

[ace.of.skulls]

Rey is NOT a Skywalker and NEVER WILL BE!!

Edit: I also believe that giving her the name Palpatine is an insult to the Emperor himself (the original and prequel character not the Disney incarnation)

[redleg]

Cade Skywalker's dad was Kol Skywalker who had an older brother named Nat, both of whom were Jedi Masters. Kol and Nat were either Ben Skywalker's grandsons or great-grandsons.

[alexandermccabe]

cade is one of my favorites legacy was one of the first star wars comics i saw and it introduced a bunch of characters i still love

[erikmichal]

Yes! More legends content! There's so much good stuff out there, keep it coming.

[SpiderJack]

I always loved Ben going from being weaker than a Youngling to a top tier Jedi Knight in a year (the benefits of being the child of two powerful Jedi). I wish we could have seen his story continue into him becoming so powerful that maybe he was the reason Darth Krayt waited so long to strike (I always thought he waited until Ben died to attack so he wouldn’t get annihilated).

[eds]

There was also Jacen’s daughter Allana, who’s future was safety was presumably part of the reason why did some of things that he did as Darth Caedus.

As well as Ania Solo, a non-Force sensitive descendent of Han and Leia and a distant cousin of Cade Skywalker, together, they helped destroy the presumably the last Sith Empire. Thereby, finalizing the legacy of Anakin Skywalker by destroying the Sith for good as the Jedi of the prequels believed the Chosen One prophecy to be about.

[talkanddraw]

My first Star Wars books were the “Young Jedi Knights” series. Making Jacen and Jaina very important characters to me. I was actually relieved they weren’t in the Disney films

[CheepyGX]

That Palpatine imitation was on point, Great vid!

[Alarinel]

The legends stories are so good. Could have had dozens of incredible movies out of those.

[AnimaVox_]

Now this is a story I would've paid to watch. The Expanded Universe has a wealth of interesting, cool characters, and the Skywalker-Solo family are among the best.

To answer 1:06: allegedly, one of the reasons Disney-Lucasfilm didn't choose to adapt the EU is because they didn't want to pay the EU writers royalties. I recall an incident a couple years ago where several EU authors joined together to petition Disney for payments they were due and never received. To this day, I don't know if they were ever paid. I think this may have happened sometime during/after the Lucasfilm buyout, but I can't say for sure. Add it onto the ever-growing pile of insults on Disney's part.

[TheLoreUnleashed]

Not to be that guy, but shmi padme and mara jade all technically deserve to be mentioned, but allana solo even more so

[RyansReflections]

I think it’s so poetic how the skywalker lineage always deals with the light and dark aspects of their lives. Because the force is light and dark it’s cool that it symbolises anakins life and how he too had both.

My theory is that at some point in the Star Wars universe timeline (anakins birth), over thousands of years past the old republic and beyond, the force itself felt out of balance whether too far to the light (arguing for the Jedi orders dogmatism and stagnation in studying the force), or to the dark (arguing that the force felt that plagueis and palpatines rule over the galaxy would’ve been too overwhelming and evil, hence creating an answer in anakin), and needed to create a physical manifestation of its cosmic self to control its notion of balance for every generation. Creating the skywalkers as a way to control balance through the generations.

[TeamGames]

A cool idea i think would be to read the legends books and then make videos giving a summary of them with your cool art style and maybe some animation.

[ATerribleFate.ButAGreatStory.]

Ben Skywalker's journey really made him a favorite for me over time, because writers took the time to really flesh him out as an individual slowly, reasonably, and it worked. They created a smart, cynical, shocking talented person who often felt like the most realistic character in the entire family tree. That's what good writing gets you.

[Navaya]

The legends is basically decades of movies and TV-shows. Unreal how Disney could just throw it all away.

[Vaderian]

Great video SWT, but there is one little mistake. Jaina is older than Jacen by 5 minutes, its in the Last Command book.

The Skywalker family tree starts from before 32 BBY and goes into 137 ABY. Spanning many great adventures, terrible consequences, and heavy lost. The dual with Jaina and Jacen was brutal, brother and sister fighting for the future of the galaxy and it ended with Jacen dead. Anakin Solo was a sad story too.

But just think one thing we still didn't know how Luke died in the Expanded Universe, cause we know he went into exile after being told to step down from Grand Master of the New Jedi Order, and then Cade sees Luke Force ghost, while high or not on deathsticks.

[JudeWhiteman]

Love that the lore vids are back takes me to a better time before the last Jedi came out