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Post by Xorren Hedrasii on Nov 23, 2005 17:12:27 GMT -5
...A timeline from Episode I to Episode VI? I've always been interested in the years between and amongst it all.
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Andle Di-Ranos
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Post by Andle Di-Ranos on Nov 23, 2005 22:02:54 GMT -5
Here ya go, although this goes from the end of the KOTOR2 to the expanded universe. This was gathered from Wikipedia:
c. 3,900 BBY
The planet Naboo is colonized by settlers from Grizmalt.
2,000 BBY
A rogue Jedi absconds from the order with a stolen Holocron and starts a new Sith Order that engages the Jedi for the next thousand years. The New Sith War begins, lasting for over a thousand years.
1,000 BBY
The Battle of Ruusan. The remaining Sith are exterminated on Ruusan, with the exception of Darth Bane, who starts a new Sith Order with only one master and one apprentice at a time. Furthermore as part of his own reformation of the Sith Order, Darth Bane institutes the tradition that all Sith names shall begin with "Darth", a previously common but not universal appelation. The site of the final confrontation of the battle becomes the legendary Valley of the Jedi.
The Senate passes the Ruusan Reformation, setting the year of the Battle of Ruusan to the year zero.
896 BBY
Yoda, arguably the greatest Jedi Master ever to exist, is born on an unknown planet. He is discovered by the Jedi, and begins his training in infancy.
596 BBY
Jabba the Hutt is born.
490 BBY
The Corporate Sector Authority, a free-enterprise fiefdom of the galaxy, is founded to free the Senate and corporate moneymakers from each other.
350 BBY
The Trade Federation is founded.
200 BBY
A Wookiee named Chewbacca is born on Kashyyyk.
102 BBY
Count Dooku is born to an aristocratic family on Serenno. He is discovered by the Jedi, and begins his training in infancy.
92 BBY
Qui-Gon Jinn is born on an unknown planet. He is discovered by the Jedi, and begins his training in infancy.
84 BBY
Palpatine is born on the planet of Naboo and is taken into training by Darth Plagueis.
72 BBY
Mace Windu is born on Haruun Kal. He is discovered by the Jedi and begins his training at infancy.
69 BBY
Bail Organa is born on Alderaan.
68 BBY
Jango Fett is born on Concord Dawn.
60 BBY
Wilhuff Tarkin is born on Eriadu.
58 BBY
Jango Fett is orphaned when his family of simple farmers is murdered by the Mandalorian Death Watch. He is picked up by former Journeyman Protector Jaster Mereel.
57 BBY
Obi-Wan Kenobi is born on an unknown planet. He is discovered by the Jedi, and begins his training in infancy.
Darth Maul is also born on Iridonia, and is kidnapped as an infant by Palpatine. Palpatine then begins training him as his apprentice.
52 BBY
Palpatine is elected to the Galactic Senate as Senator of Naboo.
Zam Wesell is born on Zolan.
c. 50 BBY
Jar Jar Binks is born on Naboo.
46 BBY
Padmé Amidala is born to Ruwee and Jobal Naberrie on Naboo.
c. 45 BBY
The Katana fleet, the first attempt by the Republic to rebuild a standing military after Ruusan, is launched.
44 BBY
The Stark Hyperspace War (no relation to the Great Hyperspace War).
Qui-Gon Jinn takes Obi-Wan Kenobi as his padawan.
41 BBY
Anakin Skywalker, the Chosen One who will bring balance to the Force, is born to a slave named Shmi Skywalker.
40 BBY
Finis Valorum is elected Chancellor of the Republic.
39 BBY
Shmi and Anakin Skywalker come to live on Tatooine when they are purchased by Gardulla the Hutt. However, the Hutt ultimately loses her prize to a junk dealer named Watto.
35 BBY
The Great Resynchronization occurs, in an attempt to harmonize different Galactic calendars.
34 BBY
The Mandalorians are destroyed by a Jedi task force led by Count Dooku in the Battle of Galidraan. Jango Fett is the only survivor.
32 BBY
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Anakin Skywalker begins to build C-3PO out of the pieces of several broken protocol droids.
Anakin Skywalker is discovered by Qui-Gon Jinn on the planet Tatooine. After Jinn's death, Skywalker begins training to be a Jedi under Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The Battle of Naboo takes place when the Trade Federation, under the influence of Darth Sidious, blockades, and eventually invades Naboo to protest a shipping tax. Queen Amidala fights back when the Galactic Senate refuses to act: she unites her people with the Gungans and together they successfully overturn the Federation, despite the Naboos' and Gungans' mutual dislike for each other. In the battle, Darth Maul kills Qui-Gon Jinn, and Obi-Wan Kenobi kills Darth Maul. Daultay Dofine is killed when the Droid Control Ship is destroyed.
The droid R2-D2 distinguishes himself by saving Amidala's ship when it was running the blockade. On Tatooine, R2-D2 meets his future counterpart C-3PO.
Following the Naboo crisis, Senator Palpatine of Naboo is elected Chancellor of the Republic, replacing Finis Valorum.
Count Dooku leaves the Jedi Order and disappears, secretly joining Darth Sidious.
Bail Organa is elected to the Galactic Senate as Senator of Alderaan.
A clone army is created on Kamino in secret, supposedly commissioned by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. The source of the clones, Jango Fett, demands, in addition to his considerable pay, an unaltered clone for himself, whom he raises as a son and names Boba.
29 BBY
Raith Sienar presents the original concept for the Death Star to Wilhuff Tarkin.
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker visit on Zonama Sekot.
Han Solo is born on Corellia.
27 BBY
Yarael Poof is killed. He gave his life saving Coruscant from a band of terrorists who had secured a weapon powerful enough to destroy the entire planet.
24 BBY
Count Dooku reappears on Raxus Prime and alledges that the Republic has become too corrupt and pushes for citizens to break from the Republic and form a new government of their own, the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
22 BBY
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
An attack is made on Senator Amidala's landing platform, on Coruscant, by bounty hunter Zam Wesell, killing eight Naboo officers and Amidala's decoy, Corde.
After a second attempt to kill Senator Amidala, Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi chase Zam Wesell through Coruscant. Jango Fett silences Zam Wesell with a poison dart, killing her instantly.
Anakin Skywalker returns to his homeworld of Tatooine and meets his stepbrother Owen Lars. C-3PO is reunited with R2-D2.
Shmi Skywalker is killed by Tusken Raiders, driving Anakin Skywalker toward the dark side of the Force.
Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers that Nute Gunray has been attempting to orchestrate Padmé Amidala's death in revenge for foiling his plans ten years before and that Count Dooku's Confederacy of Independent Systems is preparing for war.
Palpatine is given "emergency powers" by the Senate and adopts the clone army as the Grand Army of the Republic grown on Kamino to fight the Confederacy.
The Clone Wars begin with the Battle of Geonosis. Mace Windu kills Jango Fett in the fighting and Boba is left an orphan. Poggle the Lesser passes the later concept for the Death Star to Count Dooku, who in turn places it under the protection of Darth Sidious on Coruscant.
Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala fall in love and marry in secret on Naboo.
22 - 19 BBY
Star Wars: Clone Wars
Aayla Secura and Ylenic It'kla track down a Techno Union scientist on Corellia.
Durge reamerges from hibernation and joins the Confederacy. He fights in the Battle of Muunilist against Obi-Wan and apparently is killed. However, he survives and after Asajj Ventress is defeated by Anakin Skywalker he fights with her against the Jedi. He is ultimately killed by Anakin Skywalker.
A Dark Jedi named Asajj Ventress meets Count Dooku and proclaims herself as a Sith. However after fighting with Count Dooku she understands that she is far beyond their power and wishes to join the Sith, so Darth Sidious and Count Dooku use her for their dark plan against Anakin Skywalker. Once she finds Anakin Skywalker, they engage in battle, and Ventress is defeated, but survives.
Trandoshan mercenaries capture the Republic Assault Ship Prosecuter and try to sell it to the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Republic Special Forces recapture it.
19 BBY
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
General Grievous, leader of the Separatist Army, invades Coruscant, kidnapping Chancellor Palpatine.
The Clone Wars end with the destruction of the Confederacy at the Battle of Coruscant, Mustafar, and Utapau.
Chancellor Palpatine is revealed to be Darth Sidious, kills Jedi Masters Mace Windu, Saesee Tiin, Kit Fisto, and Agen Kolar, and creates the Galactic Empire with himself as Emperor. Anakin Skywalker turns to the dark side, and becomes Darth Vader.
The Great Jedi Purge is orchestrated by Palpatine and Vader and almost all Jedi are hunted down and killed including Ki-Adi-Mundi, Aayla Secura, Plo Koon, Stass Allie, Luminara Unduli, and Barriss Offee; only a handful of Jedi Knights survive.
Darth Vader kills the Separatist Council in cold blood on Mustafar. Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi then duel. Vader loses both his legs and his left arm in the battle, then burns alive. He is rescued by Darth Sidious and rebuilt as part-man, part-machine.
Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa are born to Padmé Amidala, who dies in childbirth. Obi-Wan Kenobi, a survivor of the Great Jedi Purge leaves Luke with Anakin's step brother Owen Lars and Leia with Bail Organa, so they cannot be discovered by the Empire.
Two Jedi Masters, having escaped the Great Jedi Purge, go in exile. Obi-Wan Kenobi in a remote desert on Tatooine, Yoda in a swamp on Dagobah. They will await the coming of age of Luke Skywalker.
The first resistance to Imperial rule comes up. All of these events set the stage for the Galactic Civil War.
Construction of the Death Star secretly begins.
c. 17 BBY
Mara Jade is born on an unknown planet.
15 BBY - Star Wars: Droids (animated series)
C-3PO and R2-D2 have even more misadventures together with their masters Jann Tosh and Mungo Baobab.
13 BBY
Firmus Piett is a lieutenant at age 26.
5 BBY
Han Solo, now in a military academy, saves Chewbacca, now a slave, and is subsequently drummed out of the Imperial Navy. Chewbacca pledges a life-debt to Han Solo and remains his partner for the next three decades.
2 BBY
The Rebel Alliance takes shape with the signing of the Corellian Treaty and the Declaration of Rebellion in the Cantham House Meetings on Coruscant; and the Corellian System Meetings between Mon Mothma, Bail Organa and Garm Bel Iblis, unifying their disparate resistance efforts into one organization.
1 BBY
Bail Organa retires from the Galactic/Imperial Senate after 31 years and his adopted daughter Leia is appointed to serve his unexpired term as Senator of Alderaan until the Senate election that is due the following year.
0 BBY/ABY
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Princess Leia's blockade runner the Tantive IV is captured by Darth Vader and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 land on Tatooine and come into the service of Luke Skywalker.
Obi-Wan Kenobi finds Luke, who was beaten by Tusken Raiders, and receives R2-D2's secret message.
A squad of Imperial Stormtroopers kill Owen and Beru Lars, Luke Skywalker's uncle and aunt, leaving him without any immediate family.
The Imperial Senate is disbanded, giving Palpatine absolute power. Officially it is "Suspended for the Duration of the Galactic Emergency", but this euphemism fools nobody. Even Palpatine's loyalists know the Imperial Senate will never meet again.
After Leia refuses to disclose the location of the rebel base, Grand Moff Tarkin orders the Death Star to destroy her home world of Alderaan, killing her adoptive father, Bail Organa. Garm Bel Iblis soon leaves the Rebel Alliance due to disagreements with Mon Mothma, taking some of his forces, although most of his troops remain with the Alliance. This leaves Mon Mothma as the leader of the Rebel Alliance.
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader have their final duel, resulting in the death of Kenobi, but his spirit lives on.
The Battle of Yavin. Luke Skywalker destroys the Death Star before it can destroy the Rebel base on Yavin 4, with the assistance of Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi's spirit. Luke Skywalker and Han Solo join the Rebel Alliance. Grand Moff Tarkin dies in the destruction of the Death Star, Darth Vader becomes Palpatine's ruthless second-in-command.
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After the Battle of Yavin (ABY)
1 ABY
The Super Star Destroyer Executor is launched under the command of Captain Kendal Ozzel. It is dispatched to destroy the Rebel base on Yavin. However, a miscalculation by Admiral Griff allows the Rebels to escape.
Bakura joins the Empire.
2 ABY
An Imperial force led by Darth Vader catches up to some of the Rebels on Ord Mantell. It is here that Darth Vader learns the name of the Rebel who destroyed the Death Star, Luke Skywalker. While on Ord Mantell, a bounty hunter working for Jabba the Hutt nearly captures Han Solo.
3 ABY
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Battle of Hoth. The Empire discovers the Alliance's secret base on the ice planet Hoth and attacks the Rebel Base successfully, with many Rebel casulties.
Admiral Ozzel is killed by Darth Vader for incompetence and Captain Piett assumes command of Vader's fleet.
Luke Skywalker discovers Yoda on Dagobah, but halts his training and promises to return.
Boba Fett captures Han Solo to take him to Jabba the Hutt, after Solo is frozen in carbonite on Cloud City. Lando Calrissian joins the Alliance.
During a confrontation between the two, Darth Vader reveals to Luke Skywalker that he is his father, but Luke is uncertain about whether it is true.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Bothan spies learn that a second Death Star is under construction, and warn the Rebellion of its location.
Prince Xizor is killed by Darth Vader and Black Sun collapses.
4 ABY
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Han Solo is rescued from Jabba the Hutt, and Jabba is killed by Leia Organa. Boba Fett is imprisoned in the Sarlacc, but later escapes by detonating his rocket jet-pack and is rescued by the bounty hunter Dengar. Warlords begin to wage war over Jabba's criminal empire.
Luke returns to Dagobah to keep a promise to complete his training. Yoda dies of old age after confirming that Darth Vader is Luke's father, and also tells of another Skywalker. It is revealed by the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi that Leia Organa is Luke's sister. Luke passes this information on to her on Endor.
The Battle of Endor. Lando Calrissian, Wedge Antilles and Nien Nunb destroy the second Death Star, virtually ending the Galactic Civil War. They had help from the Ewok's fighting through Imperial forces to let a squad reach a ground station that emitted a protective force field around the Death Star. The Empire is brought to an end and begins to tear itself apart through warlordism. Admiral Piett dies when the Executor crashes into the Death Star.
Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker is turned back to the light side of the Force by the efforts of Luke Skywalker. Anakin Skywalker destroys Palpatine, saving his son's life. He thus fufills the prophecy and brings balance to the Force by eliminating the Sith. Luke cremates Anakin's body on Endor. Luke sees the spirits of Anakin, Obi-Wan and Yoda during the celebration on Endor.
Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura
The Rebel Alliance becomes the Alliance of Free Planets and recruits systems across the galaxy for the reformation of the Republic.
Battle of Bakura: First ceasefire between Alliance and Imperial forces, though only so they could unite to drive away the Ssi-ruuk invaders. Bakura leaves the Empire.
The spectral form of Anakin Skywalker briefly appears to Leia Organa.
One month after the Battle of Endor, Mon Mothma declares the restoration of the Galactic Republic; the Alliance of Free Planets becomes the New Republic. (Date locked by the Essential Chronology)
5 ABY
Luke Skywalker attains the rank of General. Six months later, after Imperial forces under the command of Lord Shadowspawn fought to the last man against his army, he retires from the military. (promotion and retirement locked by the Essential Chronology and the New Essential Guide to Characters)
Ysanne Isard applies backstabbing maneuvers to overtake the Empire and rule as empress.
6 ABY
The Core Worlds Campaign, the fledgling New Republic moves from using guerilla tactics to open warfare and begins a campaign to take and hold territory from the rapidly crumbling Galactic Empire, which quickly proceeds to capturing worlds in the Core Worlds region of the galaxy with the goal of taking Coruscant as the capital world of the New Republic.
7 ABY
Star Wars: The Bacta War
The New Republic takes Coruscant back from what remains of the Empire.
Ysanne Isard leaves an artificial virus behind on Coruscant to take the sweetness out of the New Republic's victory.
The New Republic secures the needed bacta from Thyferra to eliminate the plague.
Isard fakes her death and disappears.
8 ABY
Leia Organa marries Han Solo.
Prince Isolder allies the Hapes Consortium with the New Republic.
Imperial warlord Warlord Zsinj dies.
9 ABY
Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy
Jaina and Jacen Solo are born to Leia Organa and Han Solo.
Grand Admiral Thrawn's attempt to destroy the New Republic and restore dignity to the Galactic Empire fails. He is subsequently assassinated.
Obi-Wan Kenobi's spirit moves on.
The Noghri switch sides between the Empire and the New Republic when they discovered the Empire had been manipulating them and polluting their world.
Raynar Thul is born on an unknown planet (approximate date).
10 ABY
Star Wars: Dark Empire
Palpatine is reborn in a clone body and turns Luke Skywalker to the dark side, but Luke returns to the light side and kills Palpatine with Leia, destroying his flagship Eclipse.
11 ABY
Final Destruction of Palpatine's first Galactic Empire: The Emperor returns again, but Empatajayos Brand destroys his life-force. Brand dies and Palpatine is ultimately dead. R2-D2 destroys Eclipse II and the Galaxy Gun, causing the destruction of the Imperial Fleet of Palpatine and planet Byss, where cloning machines of Palpatine are located.
Anakin Solo is born to Leia Organa and Han Solo.
Luke Skywalker establishes a Jedi academy on Yavin 4.
The New Republic establish the Star Tours travel company. R2-D2 and C-3PO are sent to help safe guard the passengers.
The New Republic attacks the Death Star prototype built by Maw Instillation and guarded by Admiral Daala's Star Destroyer squadron.
12 ABY
Admiral Daala begins to reunify the Galactic Empire. Destroying opposing warlords and rallying some to her side, she allies with Vice Admiral Pellaeon and the remnants of Thrawn's faction to create the a unified face of the Empire. After a unsucccessful strike on Yavin IV, Daala hands control of the fleet to Pellaeon.
Durga the Hutt, the new leader of the Black Sun crime syndicate, working with Bevel Lemelisk (a leading designer of the Death Star), begins the Darksaber project. Durga attempts to build a superlaser weapon platform with as much firepower as the Death Star, but without the giant space station around it. A New Republic military operation destroys the Darksaber while it is under construction, although General Crix Madine is killed in the attack.
13 ABY
Daala and Pellaeon continue to unify the various Imperial factions, gathering support from many scattered Imperial remnants. The Empire largely moves to the Outer Rim Territories. A significant area of the galaxy, from the Mid Rim to Wild Space is firmly controlled by the Empire. The term "Imperial Remnant" first enters use to refer to this reunified Empire.
A bioterrorism threat against the New Republic called the "Death Seed Plague" ends with the loss of the Imperial Remnant losing the Antemeridian Sector to the New Republic, a major defeat for the newly reunified Empire.
14 ABY
The Empire Reborn movement, lead by Lord Hethrir and aided by the Dark Jedi Desann, attempts to rebuild the dark-side minions of the Empire by recruiting his own force-sensitive individuals as well as kidnapping students of the Jedi Praxeum, attempting to convert them all to the Dark Side, as well as augmenting them through Sith alchemy.
A bizarre extradimensional entity known as "Waru" attempts to return to its home dimension by devouring force sensitive individuals.
Following the defeat of the Empire Reborn movement, armed conflict between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic drops off. While skirmishes and small-scale battles still occur, major offensives cease and the conflict seems to almost turn into a "Cold War".
15 ABY
In the quietest, most peaceful year since the founding of the New Republic, a fleet of new Nebula-class Star Destroyers is commissioned. Although construction began during more active hostilities, the New Republic Senate raises many questions about the continuing military buildup while the Empire appears to be in decline.
16 ABY
The outbreak of the Black Fleet Crisis ends a period of relative peace in the Galaxy. Yevethan forces (former Imperial slaves who overthrew their masters) using captured Imperial ships begin a genocidal campaign to conquer the Koornacht Cluster by killing all non-Yevethans. The New Republic is forced to fight in its own defense, as well as to rescue hostages held by the Yevethans (including Han Solo).
Luke Skywalker meets the Fallanassi, a mysterious and secretive sect of Force users who are total pacifists. Luke learns new Force techniques and philosophies from them, and gains their help to aid the New Republic in one battle, but then the Fallanassi leave known space.
17 ABY
A bill to allow former Imperial officials to hold office in the New Republic develops into a massive scandal. Politically the New Republic grinds to a halt, while Leia Organa-Solo faces a No Confidence motion for her opposition to the measure, and temporarily steps down from office in favor of Mon Mothma until the crisis is resolved.
Kueller and Brakiss, Dark Jedi who were formerly students of the Jedi Academy, take advantage of growing political strife in the New Republic to try and overthrow the New Republic government.
18 ABY
In the aftermath of the recent scandals, the Imperial Remnant attempts a massive campaign to retake the galaxy, hoping to take advantage of political strife in the New Republic. The campaign is a massive disaster, leading to the Imperial Remnant losing most of its territory, it is pushed back to holding only 8 sectors of the Galaxy in the Outer Rim. In the campaign, Admiral Daala's ship was crippled and lost, while not confirmed dead, she has never been seen since.
Thrackan Sal-Solo (first cousin to Han Solo), leads the Corellian Insurrection, his plot to become a dictatorial ruler of the Corellian Sector. Politically villified for intervening in the affair, Leia Organa-Solo resigns as Chief of State of the New Republic and retires from politics.
19 ABY
Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn
A plan to restore the Empire's stature using an imposter of Grand Admiral Thrawn is foiled.
Luke Skywalker marries Mara Jade.
The New Republic and the remains of the Empire sign a peace treaty ending all legalized conflict between the Empire and the New Republic.
23 ABY
Jacen and Jaina Solo, now Jedi at Luke Skywalker's academy, fight against the Second Imperium, which attempts to disrupt the peace between the New Republic and "Imperial Remnant," as it had become known, and restart the Galactic Civil War.
24 ABY
The "Diversity Alliance," an extremist anti-human organization, is defeated by the New Republic.
25 ABY
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order begins
The Yuuzhan Vong invade the galaxy. Chewbacca dies at Sernpidal, when a moon is pulled out of its orbit and crashes into its planet.
The New Republic Historical Council sets the year of the Battle of Yavin to the year zero, adopting the current date system.
27 ABY
Ben Skywalker is born to Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade.
The Yuuzhan Vong conquer Coruscant, and the New Republic ceases to exist. Anakin Solo dies.
29 ABY
The New Republic is replaced by the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.
30 ABY
Coruscant is liberated from the Yuuzhan Vong. Zonama Sekot forges a peace accord between the Galactic Alliance and the Yuuzhan Vong. The war ends after five years.
35 ABY
Star Wars: The Dark Nest Trilogy
Efforts to rebuild Galactic civlilization after the Yuuzhan Vong war continue, with many war-torn worlds still under reconstruction.
A border war between the Chiss and Killik threatens to engulf the galaxy, especially as some younger members of the Jedi intervene in the war without permission.
Luke Skywalker discovers hidden and protected memory files deep within R2-D2. They contain recordings of his parents and Obi-Wan from the Clone Wars. Luke and Leia finally learn who their mother was, and begin to understand how their father fell to the Dark Side.
The Jedi, struggling to come to terms with a new role in the galaxy and a new philosophy on the Force are called upon to act as police and diplomats by the Galactic Alliance. Despite initially resisting these changes, Luke Skywalker comes to a deeper understanding of the role of Jedi in the galaxy, and his role as the leader of the Jedi.
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