UPDATE: Well it started off with The G-Canon then the multiverse formed as a result of George wanting to create a space for fans to tell their own Star Wars stories. Star Wars & Indiana Jones work Off a Multiverse Canon systems for their IP’s. For Star Wars, G-Canon was at the top, In the continuity of this main universe George’s versions of events which started off The Sith, The Jedi and The Republic happen. "Everybody said, 'Oh, well, there was a war between the Jedi and the Sith.' Well, that never happened. That's just made up by fans or somebody. What really happened is, the Sith ruled the universe for a while, 2000 years ago. Each Sith has an apprentice, but the problem was, each Sith Lord got to be powerful. And the Sith Lords would try to kill each other because they all wanted to be the most powerful. So in the end they killed each other of, and there wasn't anything left. So the idea is that when you have a Sith Lord, and he has an apprentice, the apprentice is always trying to recruit somebody to join him, because he's not strong enough, usually, so that he can kill his master." So within The G-Canon The Sith ruled the universe two thousand years before The Phantom Menace but they killed each other out of their lust for power and then The Jedi & The Republic formed over the course of that time to build a better time of peace for The Galaxy and The Universe. The events of The Six films happen: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith Star Wars: A New Hope Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi With The (2003) Clone Wars show that was made during the run of The Prequel Trilogy was originally taking place between Episode 2 Attack Of The Clones & Episode 3 Revenge Of The Sith before later being retconned by George Lucas & Dave Filoni with The 2008 TCW (The Clone Wars Show) Also within The G-Canon is George Lucas’s plans for his sequel trilogy which my project is based on. T-Canon below it as an Alternate Timeline where the early version of the 2008 TCW show took place before Star Wars was sold to Disney. EU (Legends) as a whole Parallel/Alternate Universe where all The Old Books, Games , etc take place along with The (2003) Clone Wars Show that used to be apart of The G-Canon but was retconned for the creation of The 2008 (TCW) The Clone Wars Show, and now permanently placed within The EU afterwards. This is The Pre-Disney Star Wars Hierarchy of Canon. Aka The Star Wars Multiverse Canon System. G-CANON: The Six Star Wars Movies. T-CANON: Star Wars The Clone Wars. C-CANON: AlI Expanded Universe Books, Comics, Video Games etc... S-CANON: Some Pre-Zahn works and alternate choices in Video Games. NON-CANON: Star Wars Infinities and alternate endings to Video Games "Canon refers to an authoritative list of books that the Lucas Licensing editors consider an authentic part of the official Star Wars history.” “Our goal is to present a continuous and unifed history of the Star Wars galaxy, in so far as that history does not conflict with, or undermine the meaning of Mr. Lucas's saga of films and screenplays'. Things that Lucas Licensing does not consider official parts of the continuous Star Wars history show an Infinities logo or are contained in Star Wars tales. Everything else is considered canon." Sue Rostoni, Editor at Lucas Licensing Star Wars Gamer Magazine, Issue #6, July 2001 There are two worlds here," explained Lucas. "There's my world, which is the movies, and there's this other world that has been created, which I say is the parallel universe- licensing world of the books, games and comic books." -the George Lucas, Cinescape, 2002 "I don't read that stuff. I haven't read any of the novels. I don’t know anything about that world. That's a different world than my world. But I do try to keep it Consistent. The way I do it now is they have a Star Wars Encyclopedia. So if l come up with a name or something else, I look it up and see if it has already been used. When I said [other people] could make their own Star Wars stories, we decided that, like Star Trek, we would have two universes: My universe and then this other one. They try to make their universe as consistent with mine as possible, but obviously they get enthusiastic and want to go off in other directions. "n - George Lucas, Starlog, August 2005

“There are two worlds here; There’s my world, which is the movies, and there’s this other world that has been created, which I say is the parallel universe-the licensing world of the books, games and comic books.” - George Lucas, Cinescape, July 2001 “Howard tries to be consistent but sometimes he goes off on tangents and it’s hard to hold him back. He once said to me that there are two Star Trek universes: there’s the TV show and then there’s all the spin-offs. He said that these were completely different and didn’t have anything to do with each other. So I said, ‘OK, go ahead.’” - George Lucas, Total Film, May 2007 When people don’t know this or don’t want to accepted a lot of confusion happens in the fandom over what matters and what doesn’t. This isn’t me saying George didn’t care about the EU or that it’s not important this is me filling in the facts, the concept of parallel universes or a multiverse for different specific continuities has been there since the start of the EU so fans can tell their own Star Wars stories while George can tell his own Star Wars stories since he is the head of Star Wars. Disney trying to make this all one timeline and just erasing other Star Wars continuities is contradictory to George’s approach with Star Wars. Fun fact The early Clone Wars that came out before Revenge Of The Sith, Star Wars Clone Wars (2003) by Genndy Tartakovsky was originally apart of The G-Canon because under George’s direction it was meant to explore The Clone Wars at the time, George & Filoni’s TCW was also meant to be an extension of that original show but it ended up just being added to The EU as a Secondary Canon or C Canon over time. Now this is my more speculation approach To The Star Wars Multiverse with facts and opinions of what happened in it. The G-Canon which is George’s personal canon is episodes 1-6, his ideas and plans for 7-9 and his ideas of what came before the events of episode 1. Sometimes he includes The TCW(2008) show but while mostly a great masterpiece that show still has its own inconsistencies. He also originally included the (2003) clone wars show back during the run of the prequels and they still match a lot with the continuity of the films so they’re technically still canon but toward the later half of them like TCW has inconsistencies that can’t be un noticed. The EU is Universe Two of The Star Wars Multiverse where all the old iconic Star Wars books, games, and such come from and the events of the 2003 show coexist in this universe as well but the first two universes have a few events that co exist. Star Wars TCW (2008) from the end of season 5 -7 kinda branches off into the Disney canon timeline, as in George’s original vision Ahsoka would’ve died in Order 66, furthering Anakin’s fall to the Darkside so that happened in The G-Canon but in Pre Disney Canon when George was about to sell Star Wars To Disney Filoni made Ahsoka a survival arc because he was in the Ahsoka lives camp. Their are a few other things which cause inconsistencies by the end of season 5 to season 7 but I won’t get into that. That alternate timeline which lead to The Disney Canon continued with Star Wars Rebels and later Star Wars Resistance leading to the infamous Disney trilogy (famous if you like it.) So yeah we have three main universes. G-Canon, EU , & Disney Canon and a multitude of minor alternate timelines inbetween all of them. One of the bigger comparisons is that in The G-Canon The Sith came first when it came to impacting the Galaxy & universe creating Empires to rule everything but since each individual Sith were so greedy for power they killed each other that’s when The Jedi & The Republic came in to bring order and peace to The Galaxy, there is a chance The Jedi & Sith battled each other in this main universe a couple times but there were no full on wars, while in The EU, it started with The Je’daii an order of force users who used both the Lightside & the Darkside of The Force On a Planet where that created Balance due to the special moons on it made unique interestingly enough. Now in all Star Wars canons: G-Canon, T-Canon, (EU) which is all of S-Canon , C-Canon, N-Canon, & then we have Disney Canon it’s very much established that The Lightside Of The Force Is Balance and The Darkside is Imbalance. Meaning one establishes peace, while the other brings chaos & destruction but on this one planet in The EU where The Je’daii are happens to be one where it’s different in terms of balance is pretty interesting. Anyway The Je’daii couldn’t balance out using both The Lightside & The Darkside and with all the confusion both broke off into groups choosing one or the other. This would lead to many Jedi Sith Wars in The EU like The New Sith Wars which lead to The Jedi defeating The Sith eventually and The Jedi & The Sith establishing The Republic and this is after many years of war and death. So these are key differences between how things played out in the universes of The G-Canon & The EU. here’s my theory Star Wars written down. The Star Wars (1972-1973) and anything before it with universes and timelines in the early production stage was the early formation of the Star Wars multiverse. It was reborn like the rebirths in DC with The G-Canon & The EU. The first 2 Official Main Alternate Universes of The Star Wars Multiverse despite being Parallel to each other with many different or alternate events of how everything happened like The Jedi, & The Sith , they would collide in many moments like the events of CW (2003) or some events in the EU Novels or just the the fact that the events of the original six movies play out in both universes. When Anakin brings Balance to the force in both universes that was a moment when they both connected creating an expansion for The Star Wars multiverse. This intern would give The G-Canon a main Alternate Timeline over the rest of the alternate timelines The G-Canon already has known as The T-Canon and The EU would receive many alternate timelines and parallel universes as well which would explain the Star Wars comics and events like Star Wars infinites or all the retcons. The T-Canon being an alternate timeline of The G-Canon where events aren’t completely the same but similar would cause a reset which leads to creation of The Third Main Universe Of The Star Wars Multiverse, The Disney Canon where Rebels starts. So I see The Star Wars (1972-1973) as a Universe-0 so to speak with a lot of alternate timelines due to the drafts and rewrites Lucas would do, it was created as a Parallel to one of The Flash Gordon Universes, since out of everything that inspired Lucas he was a big Flash Gordon fan and originally before he made Star Wars he wanted to make a Flash Gordon adaptation but he couldn’t get the film rights. The Star Wars G-Canon & EU are Universes 1&2. The G-Canon being The First official Universe set up by George in The Star Wars Multiverse & The EU being the second with more expanded detailed events parallel to The G-Canon and completely alternate events. The T-Canon is just an alternate timeline out of many for The G-Canon. The G-Canon has many moments where the characters despite having destinies can completely change their fates by choice showing that they can literally create their own reality which is second dimensional time travel meaning your choices create more alternate timelines from your original set timeline based on entirely off your choices at the moment. This explains why Jedi don’t normally get phased by visions of the future as their always focusing on what they can do in the present since that shapes the literal reality they want to achieve which is one of compassion and self servitude to life and the force itself more importantly. This is why he said Obi Wan changed the course of history by going to face Vader on mustafar because originally Anakin would’ve been King Of The Universe. Meaning in the original events of The Timeline at that moment Obi Wan did not face Anakin on mustafar, and he didn’t get scarred In battle which means he was at his most powerful so he eventually kills Palpatine and takes The Empire for himself. Maybe he still has Padme 😂 too. Obi Wan incidentally pulled a flash and changed everything set up by Anakin’s current actions in ROTS by embracing The Darkside. & The EU has its own alternate timelines as well. There are many what if non canon stories which cover Parallel/Alternate Universes and Alternate Timelines like Star Wars infinites or when Luke as a boy had a vision of meeting Anakin as a kid from TPM but there are also parallel universes and alternate timelines connected to The EU based on all the retcons it has like the original version of The Clone Wars in Heir To Empire that’s a bit different from the events of The Prequels. The Disney Canon is the third main universe of The Star Wars Multiverse being a direct result of The G-Canon, EU & The T-Canon. Universe-3. So that’s my headspace on how it all works at the moment. Well with the Star Wars multiverse there is infinite realities but there are one pre universe when Star Wars began (with many parallel universes & alternate timelines on the side) and more importantly three main universes with alternate timelines within them and parallel universes on the side when the full Star Wars multiverse was established. That is 0.) The Star Wars (1972-1973) 1.) Star Wars G-Canon 2.) Star Wars EU 3.) Star Wars Disney Canon