These are the legends that the characters in the Star Wars universe hear about.' 'I still want it to feel like the Star Wars people are used to… it feels like we're telling the stories of the King Arthur of the Star Wars universe.

We are kind of set in the ancient past of the Star Wars universe to begin with, we were always separated by time, so to me, being a Legend or whatever, I actually think that's awesome,' he says. 'Honestly it didn't change how we do anything. I ask Boyd if the canon swapping felt like a creative handcuff or an expansion of the team's creative freedom.

This rendered a ton of novels, comics, and other forms of media obsolete in the eyes of Star Wars films and Disney Plus TV shows, enraging a certain sect of fans. When Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012 it erased the Expanded Universe from canon (including Star Wars: The Old Republic) and dubbed the excised content 'Legends'. A decade after it debuted, and just a few short weeks before the Legacy of the Sith expansion, I sat down with Charles Boyd over Zoom to understand what kind of world that freedom has created. Star Wars: The Old Republic has been given the freedom to create media within the Star Wars Legends universe and that freedom lets BioWare dream bigger and push further. These are the kinds of stories a young Luke Skywalker might ask his uncle about over a glass of Bantha milk, featuring characters that might inspire Ben Solo's turn to the dark side. When Disney bought Lucasfilm back in 2012, SWTOR was unfazed – because, according to creative director Charles Boyd, BioWare is telling stories that transcend time and the rigid laws of Star Wars canon.

But despite its timeline distance from the main Star Wars media, Star Wars: The Old Republic is very familiar to fans of the universe, with Sith planets, Jedi turncoats, and Separatist armies.

In 2011, BioWare got the keys to the castle and was given free rein to craft stories thousands of years in the past from the popularized Star Wars tales.

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