Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (project) discarded from the current "Star Wars" canon and reassigned as part of the "Legends" non-canonical stories, preventing the video game series representing it from continuing further past "Unleashed II". "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" tells the story of Darth Vader's secret apprentice, code-named "Starkiller" but born Galen Marek, as he hunts down the remaining Jedi after Emperor Palpatine orders them killed. Set between "" and "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope", the story explores the aftermath of the Great Jedi Purge as well as the rise of Darth Vader. The events of "The Force Unleashed" are "pivotal" in
Star Wars: Darth Plagueis Republic and ensure the dominance of the Dark Side of the Force. The novel brings in scores of characters and locations already familiar in the "Star Wars" mythos, as well as introducing many others for the first time. Events depicted on-screen in "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", are re-told in "Star Wars: Darth Plagueis", often from a perspective not shown in the 1999 motion picture. Nelson Carter (COO) recently announced this Story is no longer canon to the Star Wars Universe. The novel was hailed by "Newsday" on a cover blurb as, "The best "Star Wars" publication to