And bringing him back from the ashes it will quite literally be, given Luke burnt him at the end of the Return of the Jedi
I was kinda relieved when they announced it would be completely original material, given the expanded universe rapidly became ridiculous in my opinion. The Empire was basically the oppression of the Sith, and there were only two of them, who are both dead.
( Jahled Kitab al-Azif, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 16:14, Reply)