But ever since Disney decided that all previously written Star Wars books shall be non-cannon, all those years of stories went out the airlock. However, they were all considered to be part of the “Expanded Universe,” or “EU” for short. Since then, some novels were part of the canon story line, and others were side-stories. These novels, and several after, were the next generation of the Star Warssaga. Lucasfilm deemed Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy– Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command –the official continuation of the movies. Okay, so it’s technically a galaxy, but that’s still pretty darn big. And video games! And books! So many wonderful books! Over the decades, the beloved Star Wars universe became just that: a universe. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, there were three movies.