As we learned earlier, Del Rey is sponsoring a contest to name the new Sith Lord. Well, darthwho.com went operational today, forwarding to starwars.com/darthwho.
It works like so: Starting tomorrow, fans send in their names. A panel of folks from Lucasfilm and Del Rey (including the series authors) will pick five finalists. Those five names will then be voted on by starwars.com members.
So I don’t think we’ll be seeing Darth Stephen Colbert or anything, but I still find myself rather wary of this type of fan interaction. But we’ll just have to see.