Author Topic: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
Zethlin_Maximus  1566 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 8:38am Subject: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
Did ANH signify the start, middle, or the tail end of the war?

 

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Jedi_Master201  8832 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 8:43am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
Probably, in terms of actual combat, a little over 4 years. ANH is probably just after the first few battles.

 

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Bib Fortuna, Twi'lek  67181 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 8:46am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
It lasted about 21 years. The Rebellion was officially formed a year or two before ANH, and peace was declared with the Empire 15 years after ROTJ.

 

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Wampas_Have_Dandruff  377 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 8:49am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
A little over 6 hours. =P

 

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Zethlin_Maximus  1566 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 8:53am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
About the same lenght as WWII then?

 

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Bib Fortuna, Twi'lek  67181 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 8:54am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
Unless WW2 lasted for 21 years, then no.

 

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Zethlin_Maximus  1566 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 9:04am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
Everyone's saying that the Rebel Alliance was formed about 6 years before ROTJ. So in that case the war lasted that long.

 

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Bib Fortuna, Twi'lek  67181 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 9:05am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
The war lasted for 15 years after ROTJ.

 

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Zethlin_Maximus  1566 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 9:39am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
You should try saying all this EU stuff to them on the Ep. III site! Eat you alive, they would!

 

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Bib Fortuna, Twi'lek  67181 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 9:44am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
You asked a question that the movies didn't answer. Why are you then complaining when an EU answer is given?

 

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jedi_master_ousley  30789 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 9:53am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
Let me put it this way: It'd be pretty foolish to think that the entire Imperial fleet was at Endor in RotJ.

 

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Jedi_Master201  8832 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 9:58am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
But without an Emperor, there can be no Empire.

 

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jedi_master_ousley  30789 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 10:05am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
Why not?

 

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Bib Fortuna, Twi'lek  67181 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 10:19am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
Apparently there can be, because the war lasted for 15 more years.

 

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jedi_master_ousley  30789 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 10:22am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War?
Which is because of the various Imperial leaders who took charge in an attempt to avenge the Emperor.

You don't think those who worked so hard to get a high rank in the Empire would suddenly say "Oops, the Emperor died, oh well, we give up, go ahead and blow us to bits, Rebellion" and throw up the white flag, do you?

 

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Zethlin_Maximus  1566 posts
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Date Posted: 11/4/03 10:25am Subject: RE: How long was the Galactic Civil War? - Date Edited: 11/4/03 10:27am (1 edits total) Edited By: Zethlin_Maximus
No offence, Bib, but GL implicitly made it totally clear that the war was over after The Battle of Endor.

I myself never really believed Lucas's ending to ROTJ, that the Empire was totally finished for, either. I can't remember the exact amount of ISDs, but they number in their hundreds of thousands! And in ROTJ, I only saw about 20 ISDs, if that. Besides, as Tarkin proved in ANH, there most certainly was other Imperial officers with the ambition to take Vader and Palpatine's place as leader of the Empire. But that still doesn't change the fact that Lucas wanted the Empire to be totally over by ROTJ, which would mean the end of the war.

By asking the question, I really wanted to know whether the movies covered the entire Galactic Civil War, or was it merely a large chunk, or even just the tail end of the war; just a few years at the end after, say 10 years of conflict.

 

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