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Through the post-ROTJ EU is what brought Star Wars into the public consciousness once more with Heir to the Empire, it has never been arguably able to maintain that quality bar set by Heir to the Empire, with criticisms of it, starting with the NJO, being too "dark" or "sad" or "ultraviolent"; that or the Post-ROTJ EU is a "festering ground" for "Mary Sues and Gary Stus". Some books such as Dark Empire have even fallen out of favor over time. By contrast the pre-prequel era EU with the KOTOR games, and the prequel-era EU with books such as Darth Plagueis and the The Clone Wars series have both become more favorable publishing eras. TCW is significant here because TCW has been actively praised by the media for "fixing" or "redeeming" the Prequel era and is one of the few things still canon from the old EU as kept by Disney for it's SWCU(Star Wars Cinematic Universe).

As such, with any PoD, have the post-OT era EU maintain the quality set by Heir to the Empire and the X-Wing books and not make the mistakes the writers of the post-OT EU made OTL. There of course will be bad and polarizing stories from time to time, but the PoD is to not let it be as glaring issue as OTL.

Bonus points if this allows Disney to have Star Wars Legends be updated assuming a buyout still happens(ie: SWEU existing alongside their planned SWCU)

One POD is that Karen Traviss stops writing in her prime(before she went Mando) and Mara Jade is kept alive, also have some of the better authors Zahn or Stackpole be a contributor or an "ideas man" for the EU over gradually stopping writing SW--they could give some of their insight or ideas.

Alternatively, a common complaint I get is that the post-ROTJ EU focuses on the trio too much, gets too dark or make other characters stronger than the OTtrio. If that is the case maybe they scale down after the NJO and focus on the smaller, day-to-day aspects of the universe- ordinary people going about their lives and their own personal stories, separate from the galactic wars and political machinations that define so much of the verse. That or less stuff like Legacy and more like Jedi Outcast, which focuses on smaller scale over large-scale threats.

Also maybe better Prequels, told more akin to TCW than what they were could help, maybe people's lack of intrest in the Post-ROTJ EU is because they wanted more from the Prequels, or something "redeeming" or "justifying" it's existence given the myriad problems of the films--and The Clone Wars fulfilled that demand. Maybe if the Prequels lived up to expectation there might not be a demand for quality stories in that era to "alleviate" for the quality of the PT.
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