This shit just keeps getting worse and worse from a PR standpoint.
I only hope Gina speaking out spurs other fired Lucasfilm employees into speaking out or releasing a tell-all. Especially Rinzler who probably doesn't have much time left on this Earth sadly.
And speaking of Earth, apparently the "Vow of Silver Dawn" (the Chinese-exclusive Disney Wars webnovel series set at the end of the High Republic which was discussed in the thread before) apparently canonized the SW galaxy to be the Milky Way Galaxy with the original Earth itself at the core...
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book.qidian.com
To be specific, everyone recalls that it was mentioned previously in this thread that the main setting of this story was basically space China; well the name of the main star system of this series is the Heaven System and its heart is planet Earth... The Heaven System is 99.9% humans, Chinese humans, and the cultural, language and people are referred to as Qiankun/Everything on Heaven and Earth based on translations. There are also irl items and foodstuffs in the setting, including a fruit named after the Chinese Emperor Ziying. The god of this star system is the "Holy Mother" who characters say looks like the MC, who is a guy. There's also a lot of real Chinese chicken-based foods. Also all the character names in the book are real life english and Chinese names with only one made up space name according to translations.
I knew they wanted to go the extra mile by basically making it space China for max pandering but I didn't think they would go this far. I mean obviously there was an evil american president stand-in from planet burgerland in it from the get-go, but still... And the most incriminating thing is that the book reveals that the Disney Wars Galaxy is the Milky Way Galaxy (OUR GALAXY) and is trying to imply that humans (probably the Chinese) colonized this Heaven system via a special space station called "Chi" and spread from there to the rest of the galaxy 2,000 years ago in its most recent chapters... This basically just throws a huge wrench into Disney shit's continuity and it fits even less with Pre-Disney canon like KOTOR, Tales of the Jedi and Supernatural Encounters (what with Disney poorly trying to reference them as of late) which had humans already running about way
way way before 2,000 years ago.
ThatStarWarsGirl has been reading a version of the translated series on her youtube and there's some links available on reddit that lead to a google doc which has only translated 10 chapters out of over 100, so a whole lot of shit is still missing and the translations are a bit more liberal to make it ""fit better".
Personally its best you don't waste your brain cells unless you enjoy self-imposed lobotomies.
Also here's its Wookieepedo page and its TV tropes page.
Now excuse me as I go cleanse myself.
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And to think this High Republic shit is what Disney believes will start a whole new chapter in the SW saga for them and that Vow of Silver Dawn will be the key to making Disney Wars popular in China, which (as a reminder) has flopped hard over there and met with negative reception from both non-fans and Chinese fans.
With its first original “Star Wars” story in Mandarin, Disney has new hope of finally building a China fan base for the sci-fi franchise.
www.sixthtone.com
