Summary

• The Legends continuity in Star Wars managed to maintain a mostly consistent timeline, but The Force Unleashed video games introduced one key inconsistency that wasn't resolved.
• Star Wars Legends was for the most part effective at using retcons and the like to fix its timeline, but the issue of the Rebel Alliance logo was never fixed by Legends.
• The origin of the Rebel Alliance logo in the Legends continuity contradicted its established origin in the Heir to the Empire sourcebook, but the modern Star Wars canon corrected this by providing a simpler and straightforward origin story.

Starkiller, the protagonist of the Star Wars books, comics, and video games to the saga movies themselves were consistent with each other.

There were, however, a few notable issues in the mostly consistent Legends continuity. The 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie and animated series simply do not fit in the Legends timeline and therefore should be considered exclusive to the modern Star Wars canon. The Force Unleashed video games created several inconsistencies as well, but the Legends timeline, unfortunately, did not end up fixing their continuity errors. One such issue concerns the symbol of the Rebel Alliance in the Star Wars original trilogy.

Starkiller Revealed The Origin Of The Rebel Alliance Logo

The Force Unleashed reveals that Starkiller’s parents, Kento and Mallie Marek, had used a vaguely phoenix-like symbol as their family crest while living on Kashyyyk. Starkiller would go on to galvanize the Rebel Alliance into forming, though three of its leaders would be arrested by Imperial forces following the Corellian Treaty, which finalized the creation of the Rebellion. In the climactic finale of The Force Unleashed, Starkiller infiltrates the Death Star and rescues the Alliance leaders, sacrificing himself in the process. To honor his sacrifice, the Rebels used the Marek family crest as their insignia.

This use of the Rebel Alliance Starbird contradicts the logo’s origin as revealed in the 1992 Heir to the Empire sourcebook, by Bill Slavicsek. The sourcebook establishes that the symbol is derived from an ancient Galactic Republic insignia. This origin would, interestingly, be reinforced by 2011’s Star Wars: The Old Republic, which gives the Galactic Republic a similar logo in the Great Galactic War era. Kento and Mallie may have derived or lifted their family crest from the ancient Galactic Republic, but the Legends continuity never officially made this relatively simple connection.

Star Wars Canon Has Rightly Taken A Different Route

The modern Star Wars canon, on the other hand, avoids such issues by simply having the Rebel Alliance’s logo originate after Palpatine’s totalitarian coup. The early rebel cell known as the Spectres used a stylized logo based on the starbird (a phoenix-like creature) which would eventually become the less avian Alliance Starbird logo by the time that the Rebel Alliance was officially formed. While lacking the old Republic connections of the Legends-era Starkiller origin, the modern Star Wars canon’s version of the Rebellion insignia is a far simpler and straightforward origin for the iconic logo.