For Star Wars, “canon” is a word I don’t find useful. I prefer to call it “continuity”. There is in currently created Star Wars stories, one continuity. But…

That just means future storytellers take into account the story that other storytellers have laid down. The GOAL of almost all storytelling is to deliver a compelling emotional experience….

Star Wars is not a history documentary. It is currently telling one overarching continuity, but each part is from….a certain point of view.

Anyway, for those who cling to the word canon, and insist that every detail line up exactly in overlapping telling of the same events, I refer you to centuries of Biblical scholarship about the sometimes conflicting accounts in the Gospels!

“A story is in the telling,” I like to say. Stories are not about the correct imparting of cold facts. Were that true, you could read a Wikipedia page about “The Empire Strikes Back” and it would be as satisfying an experience as watching the movie.