Introduction

In an effort to allow a more open voice from users, one complaint we on the mod team heard in comments or in mod mail regarded fanfiction and the want to remove it from the subreddit. As we didn't want to unilaterally ban something because of the complaints of just dozens of people, we decided to hold a subreddit vote. The poll results are linked .

As you can see, there's an overwhelming consensus that voted to keep fanfiction. Thus, fanfiction shall remain on the subreddit. However, there is a new rule attached to this as suggested in the comments of that thread.

New Rule

is meant to be a subreddit that talks about the Expanded media of Star Wars. It was like that before the current mod team joined and it will continue to be that way. Fanfiction falls outside of this and is thus not EU. However, we don't want to ban people for wanting to talk about fan-made stories that continue post-Crucible in Legends or have interesting writing excersises that they wish to partake in. Therefore, a compromise was made.

Fanfiction will be placed in a stickied Monthly Fanfiction Post for all users

This will allow users that want to discuss their favorite fanfiction creations a chance to talk about it. Or a place for fanfiction writers to get feedback on their work.

Fanfiction

Defining

Since the people may be confused, how exactly are we defining fanfiction here?

Well, fanfiction is simply media created and released outside of official channels where it was not approved by the company in charge. In this case, that company is Lucasfilm. While companies like Random House Worlds, Dark Horse, Marvel, etc. are publishing stories, they were all approved and overseen by Lucasfilm. So things outside of this are designated fanfiction.

Just because you don't like an official story doesn't make it fanfiction. By that same token, just because you like a fanfiction doesn't make it canon or official.

What is NOT Fanfiction?

Please note that, in accordance with the rule of discussions surrounding the EU being intellectually honest, there are things that you can't call fanfiction.

• Legends: Legends is a continuity overseen by Lucasfilm from 1991 to 2014, although it's still being continued through SWTOR. This is not fanfiction. Lucasfilm as a company is involved in its creation, approval, and publishing.

• Story Group Canon: Story Group Canon is a continuity overseen by the Lucasfilm Story Group from 2014 to the Present Day. This is not fanfiction either. Lucasfilm is still the company involved in its creation, approval, and publishing. Even though Lucasfilm is owned by a parent company, the company making the decisions remains the same.

• Infinities: Non-Canon stories that are published by official means are also not fanfiction. They are non-canon, yes, but they're still released through official channels.

What IS Fanfiction?

Because fanfiction can be written by any and everyone, we're only going to point out the biggest examples. But fanfiction is anything that was created, written, edited, approved, and released with the approval of Lucasfilm. Anything that does not meet those criteria are, by definition, fanfiction. Such examples include:

• - A great user of this subreddit that has written their own continuation of the Legends universe on fanfiction websites.

• - Another great user of this subreddit that has written their own fanfiction novels.

• Joe Bongiorno and Supernatural Encounters - Supernatural Encounters is a fanfiction story written by Joe. Originally commissioned by Lucasfilm but then never reviewed by Lucasfilm or released by them, making the story fanfiction.

These examples, and the countless others that I couldn't mention, should only be posted in the monthly stickied thread.

Conclusion

We thank all of the users that participated in the poll to have their voices heard. Please note that the monthly thread, and thus the new rule, will be implemented on May 1 and continue on the first of every month. Thank you again.

And if you have any suggestions for the subreddit, you can leave them in the comments of this post or message the team in modmail if you believe something will improve the subreddit.

Thank you again and May the Force Be With You.