Star Wars Just Canonized a Fan-Favorite Character from Legends Lore

A fan-favorite Legends character was just canon in a recently released Star Wars comic. 

After all legacy Star Wars content (outside of the six mainline movies and Clone Wars TV series/movie) was deemed not canon when Disney purchased Lucasfilm back in 2012, the studio has slowly been hand-picking things from those legends titles and bringing them into the universe proper. 

The biggest example of this is probably what the studio has been doing with Grand Admiral Thrawn. The character originally debuted in the Legends book Heir to the Empire books by Timothy Zahn and has since been made canon. 

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