Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (project) Darth Vader's history and development as a character and offer illumination into other characters from "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope", "Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back", and "Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi". Ultimately, Starkiller sacrifices his life to save the leaders of the new Rebel Alliance; they honor him by adopting his family's crest as their symbol. In the sequel the players controls a clone of Starkiller, who has memories of the original Starkiller. The game ends on a cliffhanger where Starkiller captures Darth Vader and intends to bring him
Star Wars expanded to other media considered canonical within the franchise would be the primary episodic films, and and . The announcement called these works "the immovable objects of "Star Wars" history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align." It was also made clear that a planned "Star Wars" sequel trilogy, and subsequent works developed within the restructured canon, would not be based on "Legends" material but could possibly draw from it. There was some fan backlash against this decision, with one group successfully campaigning to buy a billboard pleading for Lucasfilm to continue the original "Expanded Universe" separately from the new