Did you ever heard the tragedy of the Star Wars expanded universe? I thought not. It's not a story the Empire of the Mouse would tell you. It's a space opera legend. The Star Wars expanded universe was a shared universe of space opera literature so huge and so old, it's writers could use their skill to influence George Lucas to create...new stories. It's greatest writers had such knowledge of the mechanics and history of the shared universe, that they could even retcon the characters they cared about... from death. The expanded universe is a pathway to many stories some consider to be legends. It became so big... the only thing it was afraid of was losing its status, which eventually, of course, it did. Unfortunately, it showed it's successor everything it created, and then one night, the Empire of the Mouse killed it in it's sleep. Ironic. It could retcon others back from death, but not itself.