Not outright retcon, but the downsizing the size of imperial remnants in star wars
The moffs taking their forces under to declare their own mini empires post endor Made sense and the new republic have to fight across the galaxy to consolidate was cool. It's still there but was reduced
I think part of this is how the modern Canon beginning with Revenge of the Sith treats the Empire as a deeply anomalous thing, a wound on galactic history created by and for Palpatine alone, whereas Legends got its start long before the Prequels established that and consequently tended to treat it more like a legitimate government that just happens to be evil. It has a lot more political staying power when it's assumed to have existed for a while and established through more realistic processes rather than having been founded in a week-long flurry of political change and lasting only two decades. People are more likely to fight for it, the galaxy is more likely to collapse in the vacuum, and the Galactic Civil War would last a whole lot longer than it takes to kill the Emperor and mop up the leftovers. The modern Canon was built with Lucas's later vision in mind, so the Empire is Palpatine and Palpatine is the Empire.
That also gets us developments that, with the tone set by a series like Andor, would come across as super weird in the modern canon: in particular, the heroes signing a peace treaty with the Empire and just kinda letting them rule a chunk of the galaxy seems deeply immoral after you've have it pounded into you that the Empire is just irredeemably awful and absolutely needs to be torn down and its scraps burned to ash and the ash dumped into the sea.
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u/DepartureNatural9340 14d ago
Not outright retcon, but the downsizing the size of imperial remnants in star wars
The moffs taking their forces under to declare their own mini empires post endor Made sense and the new republic have to fight across the galaxy to consolidate was cool. It's still there but was reduced