If Princess Leia and Senator Organa say it is so, it is so. I don't give a damn what Di$ney says about the Expanded Universe or matters of canon, especially after their unending butchery and destruction of it. Starkiller is also everything as a character, a fascinating tragic villain/hero connected to Darth Vader, that they utterly failed to make Kylo Ren. He is the best Expanded Universe character by far, created by vastly better writers, and Kathleen Kennedy and the other fools in charge shot off their own foots in trying to decanonize him. And even if they did one day bring him into their version of canon, he would undoubtedly be defiled and weakened in power, character and importance. For all the people who annoyingly claim he was too overpowered, a Gary Stu with no place in the Star Wars canon, they clearly weren’t paying any attention at all to his origin, screwed up upbringing, training, flaws and shortcomings and problems, his inner turmoil. And regardless of however powerful he was with the Force, what really went right for him in the end? He lost and died despite it. Doesn’t sound like a Gary Stu to me.
With the Force as his ally, he did battle with the Dark Lord. And he showed the measure of a true Jedi at a place called "The Death Star", where hope for the Galaxy was reborn. May all who struggle against tyranny hold his memory in their hearts.―Epitaph of the Unknown Jedi