reem said
I have not read Tarkin, though its on my list of books to read. I would love to send an angry letter to that author.
It's nu canon and they're setting stuff up for Episode 7. That is what you gotta realise at the time that all the old books were written from the Thrawn Trilogy to Cruicible there was going to be no
episode seven. So when selling LucasArts George Lucas wrote episode 7 to make the company more valuable.
The problem was all the original actors were old and if you followed Legends(New name for EU) then you would have missed out lots of plot. You would likely be somewhere near the events of Darth Caedus
or later and those events all link together with the Yuuzhan Vong war, the Dark Nest crisis and even the thrawn trilogy. That is why they decided to cast it all as Legends/Non-canon. If you actually read theres a nice paragraph where it explains why Palps is using the old Jedi Temple as the Palace and I think it's pretty good.
Also don't get me started on Force Unleashed.... Starkiller suffers from a serious case of "Lol game character".