Forum:SH:Canon conflicts

This forum post continues the train of thought from the Consular-class retrofit talk page in a more open setting, since these concerns aren't about improving the Consular-class retrofit article.

I can see where people could have concerns about canon. I consider The Clone Wars cartoon to be little more than Republic propaganda, because of the numerous retcons it has caused, like the retconning of Episode III by the Tantive IV dramatic reversal retcon (as I have come to call it) that made a mess of Corla Metonae's story, Anakin Skywalker fighting IG-100 MagnaGuards before Coruscant in the cartoon, and the existence of Ahsoka Tano, frustrate me. Ignoring the beginning of Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight with Even Piell's death in a TCW episode (not that I have read the novel), when the novel was recent enough it could have been avoided, is extremely disappointing. This kind of behavior is simply bad practice for a universe that has a continuity hierarchy.

In my opinion, these problems, and numerous other continuity issues, are major problems.

The Eclipse-class and the Sovereign-class Star Dreadnoughts are extremely irritating, when the Executor-class being a Star Dreadnought is sufficient evidence for the Eclipse and the Sovereign-class SSDs to be Star Dreadnoughts also.

The Imperial-class Star Battlecruiser/Allegiance/Imperial Star Battlecruiser/Star Destroyer-class battlecruiser are a big mess, because the Imperial-class SSD has a similar problem as the Eclipse and the Sovereign-classes only it should be a Star Battlecruiser not a Star Dreadnought, the Allegiance should be a named representative of the Imperial-class Star Battlecruiser, and Imperial Star Battlecruiser/Star Destroyer-class Battlecruiser should be alternate names for them.

The Strident-class Star Defender is a complete and total disaster thanks to the ambiguity presented in the novel Betrayal.

The Heavy Assault Vehicle/transport B5 Juggernaut is annoying, because it isn't like EaW and FoC aren't notorious for causing problems, like Wayland being in the EaW campaign, the creation of Mandal Hypernautics when MandalMotors already manufactured many of the same ships and vehicles (with their similar names and overlapping product catalogs, Mandal Hypernautics must a subsidiary of MandalMotors), and the StarViper-class attack platform being available before Yavin.

The Turbulent-class and the Rejuvenator-class Star Destroyers are little more than names at the moment thanks to the authors that created them.

The Republic-class cruiser is little more than another name for the Republic-class Star Destroyer as far as I am concerned, since they are from the same era, and haven't been mentioned or described adequately in any other sources.

The New Class Modernization Program ships not appearing during the New Jedi Order era beyond reference books, when the galaxy was facing perhaps its greatest threat, and the general lack of concern for the existing Bantam continuity by the post-GCW Del Rey novels are terrible, terrible mistakes.

But its not like I can really do anything about any of these problems, is it? Zeta1127 of the 89th Legion (talk) 07:27, August 26, 2011 (UTC)