Forum:SH:So, Slaves of the Republic.

We're probably going to get official word on this soon (at least, I hope so), but in the meantime we're going to have to figure out what to do with the Slaves of the Republic issue that's bearing down on The Clone Wars: Season Four. Three upcoming episodes&mdash;"Kidnapped," "Slaves of the Republic," and "Escape from Kadavo"&mdash;are clearly an adaptation of the 2008 Slaves of the Republic story arc from The Clone Wars comic series. While these episodes are an adaptation, they're not an exact one&mdash;the notable difference being the utilization of the new character models for Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and Rex, which definitely has no correlation with the comic arc's utilization of the pre–Season Three models. All four of these characters were involved with the original comic story, and since it just wouldn't be prudent for us to assume that they go through the same story twice now with Season Four, we have to find a way to respect the new television series episodes without simply deleting the comic material off the face of Wookieepedia.

I'm proposing that we treat this Season Four story arc as canon and that we assume that since the comics have been superseded by the TV series, we no longer regard the comics as canon. That would mean placing the Ret tag on all appearances related to the previous comic arc, and that also means that we would have to explain the conflict in each affected article's Bts, to where we can simply move the comic material under the "Non-canon history" heading&mdash;that way, like for Even Piell, we can still present the original comic story, just not as canon.

This will affect a number of current status articles, including the Battle of Kiros, Battle of Kadavo, and Zygerrian, so I want to make sure that others involved agree with this proposal before we change any of the major articles in any way. If anyone has any other suggestions, please provide them.

I'm personally interested to see what (if anything) they change for the TV series, but I'm suggesting this resolution in the hopes that we will be able to decide on one so that we can incorporate the new material without consequence.  CC7567  (talk) 08:27, November 19, 2011 (UTC)