Lit Star Wars Expanded Universe Timeline

This thread's purpose is to provide a general timeline thread for new and moderate readers.

Last Updated: 9/08/10


Color code:

Movies
Novels & Radio/Audio Dramas
Comics & Graphic Novellas
TV & Misc Visual Mediums
Video Games
Young Readers
Short Stories & E-Books

BBY=Before the Battle of Yavin
ABY=After the Battle of Yavin
ABE=After the Battle of Endor

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The Sith Era: The Old Republic (25,000 to 1,000 BBY)</center>

The Old Republic was the legendary government that united a galaxy under the rule of the senate, served by the numerous guardians of peace and justice known as the Jedi. This era chronicles the immense wars fought by the Jedi of old, and the ancient Sith.

5,000 Years BBY
-Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith by Kevin J. Anderson & Dario Carrasco Jr.
-Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire by Kevin J. Anderson & Dario Carrasco Jr.
-Lost Tribe of the Sith by John Jackson Miller

-Lost Tribe of the Sith 1: Precipice
-Lost Tribe of the Sith 2: Skyborn
-Lost Tribe of the Sith 3: Paragon
-Lost Tribe of the Sith 4: Savior
-Lost Tribe of the Sith 5: Purgatory
-Lost Tribe of the Sith 6: Sentinel
-Lost Tribe of the Sith 7: Pantheon
-Lost Tribe of the Sith 8: Secrets

4,000 Years BBY
-Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic by Tom Veitch, Chris Gossett, Janine Johnston & David Roach

3,998 Years BBY
-Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising by Tom Veitch, Tony Atkins & Denis Rodier

3,997 Years BBY
-Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith by Tom Veitch, Kevin J. Anderson, Chris Gossett & Art Wetherell

3,996 Years BBY
-Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War by Kevin J. Anderson & Dario Carrasco Jr.

3,986 Years BBY
-Tales of the Jedi: Redemption by Kevin J. Anderson & Chris Gossett

3,980 Years BBY
-Mandorla by Alex Irvine

3,964 Years BBY
-Knights of the Old Republic Volume 1: Commencement by John Jackson Miller & Brian Ching
-Knights of the Old Republic Volume 2: Flashpoint by John Jackson Miller & Brian Ching

3,963 Years BBY
-Knights of the Old Republic Volume 3: Days of Fear / Nights of Anger by John Jackson Miller, Brian Ching, Harvey Tolibao & Dustin Weaver
-Knights of the Old Republic Volume 4: Daze of Hate / Knights of Suffering by John Jackson Miller, Bong Dazo & Dustin Weaver
-Vector Volume 1: Knights of the Old Republic Volume 5 by John Jackson Miller, Bong Dazo & Scott Hepburn (also contains Dark Times Volume 3)
-Knights of the Old Republic Volume 6: Vindication by John Jackson Miller, Bong Dazo & Brian Ching
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Unlike other timelines, this timeline doesn't contain every little itty bitty source out there, but most major and slightly obscure titles are included in, for lack of a better term, "bookshelf order", as such there are areas (such as post-ANH) where there is a lot of crossover between collected volumes, but this is meant to give a rough idea of how they order for the most part.

The order listed here is a combination I did from multiple timeline sources- including TF.N Timeline and Mavrick's personal timeline.

I do, however, acknowledge that certain arrangement I'm fuzzy on as there are different interpretations from different people.

Regardless, if you see something that needs a correction, please post your suggestion :

Lastly, as far as short stories go, I'm currently planning to only include short stories from Insider/Gamer and stories reprinted on Hyperspace (though I don't think I have all of those included just yet- if anyone wants to help on those, please feel free) as well as a couple notable ones such as the Zahn/Stackpole novellas.

Also feel free to suggest additions to the reference listing. (at this point I don't want to include everything, just oftenm-cited sources, thus not every Essential Gudie will be mentioned, etc)

 

I thought about it, but I think we have enoguh stickies as it is and I'll just allow this to fall into the category of other useful-but-not-needing-sticky-status trheads like the TPB Resource threads and such.

Thoguh I have asked Raven to include a link in the forum header (and replace some of the redundant links up there)

Thanks for the typo fix, KK.

 

It semed a comfortable enough choice

 

Interesting colour scheme, i wonder what possible reason could have lead you to lump the mostly poor quality TV series and TV movies together and put them in nearly illegible text ?

The idea being, since they were a visual medium like video games, they'd share the color of the video games, with the highlight of the films.

The rest of the color scheme is meant to emulate Wild Karrde's Upcoming Release Dtaes coloring method, with some slighta djustments made (ie: i oiginally used the orange w/red highlight for short stories, as theres no equivilent on WK's work but that made the short stories stand out more than the novels which didn't seem right to me, so i switched them and gave the comics a highlights to better distinguish them as well, as the comcis and novels form the core of the EU)

though your note at the bottom probably explains it, but where is 'Murder at Slushtime' by Barbara Hambly (probably mucked up the name) ? Is that another subconcious action on your part?

Nope, just some of the Hyperspace Fiction stories I haven't yet added.

Also conspicuously missing is Rebel Assault, seeing as you included Rebel Assault II (in blue text none the less).

Good catch- I'll add that.

One thing though - I thought the first Jedi Apprentice special edition came in the middle of the series as it references the female Jedi's (Tahl??) death as happening fairly recently.

I haven't read JA yet, but as I understand it, there are two time periods in the SE books- an Obi/Anakin section and an Obi/Qui-Gons ection- so you have the placement of the Obi/Anakin sections on the timeline (much like with LOTJ and SOTJ, the most recent timeline event is where the lsiting goes by).

On there it says TALES OF THE JEDI: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC. But in the comics section of TF.N, it lists no such thing. It does, however, list a series simply called TALES OF THE JEDI, with no subtitle, which is not listed here. Are these the same thing?

Yes, originally there was just "Tales of the Jedi" before DLOTS and the rest of the series was commissioned. The original TPB was just titled TOTJ: the Collection, but subsequent printings had the KOTOR subtitle added to distinguish it amongst it's spin-offs and followups.

Including authors clutters the lines more, and the hilights can be a bit confusing.

I agree that some author inclusions (such as the m,ulti-author/artist comic TPB's) can be a little muddy when used back to back (I'll work on maybe adding the occasional underline to help break them up), but I think it's useful for reference- ie: someone might be inclined to pick up the one Marvel TPB (or at least browse it) that includes Jan's first SW issue, to compare it to her modern work.

 

It's a rough approximation- Volume 1 all happens at 4 months after Geonosis (except for Chapters 6 & 7, which are set a few months earlier), while Volume 2 primarily happens just before Episode 3 (though the first 2 or 3 chapters occur during the timespan between that and Volume 1).

Basicly though, sicne you can't physically split up chapters from a DVD, this is roughly where they would land on a "SW shelf" :