Skallagrim's ramblings

There's this sensationalist rumour making the rounds that over at LucasFilm, there's an internal power struggle going on over the direction of the Star Wars franchise— and one faction wants to create a " Star Wars multiverse". This rumour is... let us be charitable and say almost certainly not true. Most likely, it's completely  made-up. But... it's actually a rather interesting premise. So even if it's nonsense, let's speculate a bit. It's what we're here for, after all. The way this idea would supposedly get implemented if the supposed proponents got their way is clever and would actually work, both in-universe and out-of-universe. I stress again, just in case you're getting ideas, that it's wise to treat the "rumour" as spurious nonsense. The source of it all is youtuber Overlord DVD, whose record with these things is, ah... hit-and-miss. The guy repeats every rumour he hears. So, yes, he's reported rumours ac