Forum:Mutiny on the "Rand Ecliptic": which is canon?


 * There seems to be some heavy continuity discrepancies between some sources as to how Biggs Darklighter and Derek Klivian staged their "mutiny" aboard the Rand Ecliptic in their attempt to defect to the Rebellion. The problem seems to be between what I call Side A, with both Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back and The Essential Guide to Characters (if there are more, I do not know) telling of a trip to the Bestine system, where the two took over the ship and defected (please see the Biggs Darklighter article, in his Early life section, for a nice summary of that version); and Side B, which I'm guessing is/are the Star Wars Empire: Darklighter comic(s?), which tells of a quite different story aboard an entirely different version of the Rand Ecliptic (please see the Rand Ecliptic article for this version). Side A names the ship as a simple merchant ship, with the two serving as the number 2 and 3 officers, while Side B apparently identifies the ship as a type of war cruiser, with both men apparently serving as starfighter pilots. Just because I have both sources belonging to Side A, I like to think that would be the more canon story, especially considering there are two sources backing up that story, as opposed to the one of Side B, but which is more canon? Are they both canon - can they be worked together somehow? Either way, I feel both versions need to at least be included into the Ecliptic page, but I'm not sure how it would work. Toprawa and Ralltiir 05:31, 29 October 2007 (UTC)