Warning: Nerdy Star Wars Post · 1:37pm Jan 24th, 2017
When it comes to the Star Wars Expanded Universe (rebranded as "Legends"), I'm pretty sure Disney is far more concerned with the 140 years worth of established material after the original trilogy than they are with nearly anything (25,000+ years) before the films.
New canon has been slowly trickling in, and virtually everything from the Old Republic era has been left untouched. I know they've included Thrawn, probably the most popular Expanded Universe villain, in Star Wars Rebels, and part of me is wondering if they'll start to include anything from the Old Republic era. The other part of me hopes they continue to ignore it completely.
Also wondering, if it survives these next couple years, where The Old Republic MMO will go. It started in a virtually clear area timeline-wise, 3500 years before the films, and since has only moved forward less than ten.
When it comes to the established Legends, nothing significant happens in recorded history for another 1400 years, so they've got plenty of room. After that, it's the New Sith Wars, starting in 2000 BBY, and lasting for a millennium, after which nearly all the Sith are wiped out and Darth Bane begins the Grand Plan, which over the course of the last 1000 years, leads up to the films with an unbroken line of Sith overthrowing the Republic from the inside.
That being said, I'm hoping Supreme Lord Snoke is a major plot twist coming from somewhere in the established canon or Legends, and is not someone entirely new. For the past year and a half, I've been hoping that it was somehow Darth Plageuis, Palpatine's master, or maybe even Tenebrous, who was Plageuis' master.
A bit of TOR recently got recanonized in Rebels. Kanan, a Jedi in hiding, reminded Sabine, a Mandolorian, that the Jedi won the war with the Mandos.