| Star Wars Timeline of Key Events All text taken from the official Star Wars Encyclopedia except when otherwise marked |
| NOTE: The Timeline is based on the Battle of Yavin being Standard Year Zero (the film Star Wars: A New Hope). Events take place BBY (before the Battle of Yavin) and ABY (after the Battle of Yavin). 3+ ABY Young Cindel Towani and her family crash on the forest moon of Endor. They are helped by a tribe of native Ewoks. 3.5 ABY Prince Xizor, head of the Black Sun criminal organization, plots to discredit Vader and become the Emperor's second-in-command by having Luke Skywalker assassinated. Instead, it is Xizor who is terminated. Luke builds his own lightsaber. 4 ABY Luke Skywalker destroyd Jabba the Hutt and rescues Han Solo. Returning to Dagobah, he finds Yoda's life force ebbing. There Luke learns that Vader is truly his father, and Leia his sister. On a moon of Endor, with the help of the Ewoks, Han and Leia destroy a shield generator that had been protecting a new, more powerful orbiting Death Star, which is destroyed by Lando and X-wing pilot Wedge Antilles during the Battle of Endor. Vader saves his son Luke from certain death at the hands of the Emperor, but is killed destroying Palpatine. 4+ ABY Just days after the victory at Endor, the Rebels have to team up with Imperial forces to defeat the reptillian Ssi-ruuk under a truce at Bakura. 4.5 ABY Rogue Squadron's X-wing pilots begin a systematic retaking of the galaxy, planet by planet. 5 ABY Viarious attempts to lead the tattered Empire include one by the three-eyed mutant known as Triculus. Young Jedi Prince Ken emerges from isolation in the underground Lost City of the Kedi. 6.5-7.5 ABY Rogue Squadron, under the leadership of Wedge Antilles, liberates the Imperial capital planet of Coruscant and engages the former head of Imperial Intelligence in a fierce struggle over the galaxy's supply of curative bacta. 8 ABY Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa finall get married, but only after Solo "kidnaps" Leia and takes her to the planet Dathomir. 9 ABY Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn returns from the far reaches of the galaxy and becomes a major threat to the New Republic, though ultimately he is killed by his own bodyguard. Leia Solo gives birth to twins, Jaina and Jacen. 10 ABY Two different clones of Emperor Palpatine, backed by forces wielding new super-weapons such as the Galaxy Gun and World Devastators, bring chaos to the New Republic, and Luke nearly succumbs to the dark side. Imperial forces briefly regain Coruscant. Leia gives birth to her third child, whom she names Anakin. 11 ABY Luke establishes a Jedi training academy on Yavin 4, but is nearly killed by the reawakened spirit of ancient Dark Lord Exar Kun. 12-13 ABY Luke has an epic - but ultimately unfulfilled - romance with one-time Jedi Knight Callista, as he is trapped aboard an old Imperial battle moon, battles a Hutt crime lord, and deals with a mysterious outbreak of a deadly plague. 14 ABY Leia and Han's three children are kidnapped by one-time Imperial official who has established an "Empire Reborn" movement. 15 ABY Luke Skywalker achieves the ability to cloak objects. 16-17 ABY The New Republic is threatened by the cruel and xenophobic Yevethan species. Luke searches for clues about his mother. Wedge Antilles becomes a general. 17 ABY Kueller, a one-time pupil at the Jedi academy, becomes a dark-side menace, even as bombs he planted endanger the New Republic. 18 ABY Thracken Sal-Solo, Han's nearly identical cousin, leads a brutal revolution ary army intent on ruling the Corellian sector. The Solo children help to stop him by disabling Sal-Solo's star-busting weapon. 22-23 ABY Anakin Solo begins his instruction at the Jedi academy. 23-24 ABY Jaina and Jacen Solo train at the Jedi academy and help to take on the evil Second Imperium. 34 ABY Luke Skywalker crashes his X-wing on and unknown planet where his is helped by an old man. The man reveals himself as Jedi Knight Rejean, who went into hiding after Darth Vader started tracking down and killing the Jedi. Rejean tells Luke his life story and then dies in a battle with his long-time nemesis, Darth Railion. Rejean Killed Railion before he dies. (This text from The Life of Jedi Knight Rejean.) |
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