Author's Notes and Acknowledgements

Oh, my, I can't believe I've left this story untouched for so long.

Alright, It's time to make up for it. First I'll clean up this version and make it a little more readable. Then, I'll try not to be so slow on the update! Maybe I'll manage to get it right, this time.

I'll state again the main idea of this story: I simply loathed the way Del Rey has massacred the Star Wars Expanded Universe in my eyes. When I started writing that fiction, I had only the New Jedi Order to complain about, but since then, oh, boy did they make it worse! Legacy of the Force… Really? What in blazes was that?

And, since this story is linked with another that takes place in the KOTOR continuity, I will state right here, right now… The Old Republic MMO JUST DOESN'T EXIST (why, Bioware, why?)!

So, if you intend to read that story, you should know. After Vision of the Future, I consider that none of the books published on the EU ever happened in my timeline. So yeah, it's very much AU.

Still, I need to be honest and as such, I think I must acknowledge the fact some elements used in the NJO books do exist, though in a different fashion, in The Second Sith War Trilogy. I think mainly of two elements: the son of Luke and Mara does exist, and I've kept some character interaction (like Anakin and Tahiri) roughly like it was staged in Edge of Victory: Conquest and Rebirth by Greg Keyes. But context and time frame will be very different.

On the whole, it is a completely different version of the Star Wars future that I plan to write about. I based my work on many books of the Expanded Universe and of course, on the exceptional movies of George Lucas.

I did take into account the events and characters of a lot of stories that happened both before and after the movies, in the expanded universe. I first of all used Wookieepedia, which conveniently provides both information and a chronology that allows making all the events fit into the Star Wars movies continuity.

Here are the works that can have an impact on the story as it stands:

- The Star Wars movies (Duh!)
- The Tales of the Jedi comic book series
- The Knights of the Old Republic video games series and comic books
- The Star Wars: Republic comic books series
- Heir to the Empire
- Dark Force Rising
- The Last Command,
- The Jedi Academy trilogy,
- Dark Saber,
- Spectre of the Past
- Vision of the Future
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed series of video games

I voluntarily avoided mentioning events of some books like Children of the Jedi, because I think the plot lacks continuity regarding the movies. I however keep mention of the character of Callista, which was a nice one; even if she didn't have the romantic potential she was meant to have. Any reference to the previous stories will be developed, so that a reader that wouldn't have read all of these books would still be able to follow my story.

However, there are a few elements that I take as granted, like the elements introduced by both Timothy Zahn and Kevin J. Anderson. So I enclosed a quick recap of the events that took place between Return of the Jedi and the beginning of this story.

I hope you will enjoy reading this.

At no time this story is meant for profit. I intended it only for fun, and I don't own any right on the characters created either by George Lucas or any of the authors of the Expanded Universe. I do however claim credit for the characters that I introduce myself in this fiction. To name them would take too much place, but if you (by any chance) want to use one of these characters, you'd be very kind to ask permission first. Otherwise… well, that would be just rude!