The SWEU is kind of a neat rabbit hole. There was SW fiction that got used as the basis for stuff in the first SW roleplaying game. When Disney declared everything non-canon, that was a big blow to the EU. But someone who worked on the Rebels cartoon must have been a fan of the RPG, because there...
I saw a blog once from an effects guy who had slyly put he and his friends' ship from their old SWRPG campaign into the background of an episode of Firefly.
There's some cool stuff in there. Also some complete trash no doubt. Give me that ferret though and I'm back bought in to Star Wars. Give me a two pronged attack of series of Andor and movies about the ferret.
Yeah, as much SW media as there was, even back thone, you know some has to be total garbo. Some started as treatments for movies. Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978) was a Luke-focused book that grew from the possibility that Ford might not return for any sequels, as the possible basis of a script.
I have the thrawn novels, picked them up second hand a while back, should really give them a read. Have to be better than the actual sequel trilogy we got
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The Star Wars comics weren't bad, either. I think there was a big green bunny that was a recurring character.