Beginning Timeline in NJO books error.? NOT SBS ERROR

I was looking at the beginning timeline of some of the books. It says that Episode 3 is to be 20 years before ANH. Now, I'm not sure how old Luke is in ANH but I'm sure he's not supposed to be 20, and isn't it reasonable to assume that by the end of EP3 Anakin has impregnated Padme? I mean, I was wondering if at the end of EP3 we see Luke and Leia being swept away hidden.

Or, is the timeline in the beginning of the books just a rough draft still with reference to the timeperiods that each thing happens, cause then I could see that maybe EP3 happens 17-15 years prior to ANH.

Anyways, I put this thread here because if I mentione it in the movies section I'd get shot down and blasted for even mentioning anything EU.

 

Luke is supposed to be 19 in ANH.

 

Are you kidding me? REally? 19...man, I just watched the movie, and no way would I have expected that his age was supposed to be 19. Dang, learn something everyday I guess.

 

Actually Luke is 18-20

 

Luke is 20, Leia is 18, according the novelization of ANH

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Luke is 20 Leia is 18? Can twins be born two years apart in the Star Wars universe or did Padme just have a particularly long labour?

 

You'll find that ages and dates are dynamic in Star Wars. Luke and Leia are not the only characters who's age at a given point in time is different for different benchmarks used to determine it.

It's one of the mysteries of the Force. Don't try and analyze it deeper than that or you'll run into a bunch of things that don't follow "earth-universe laws."

 

Also known as the difference between tatooine standard years, and coruscant standard years(Or "was" that alderaan standard years, ).

 

Exactly.

I think it was Tatooine. And then when you take Mara's "clone physiology" into account, you end up with her shifting ages.

 

The differences in their ages could be one of two things

When Lucas first devised ANH they weren't twins.

or the Lucas is infallible answer

Being described as 18 and 20 was mistake by their guardians because they were their real parents and didn't know for sure.

 

But it is true every planet has varition in revolution and rotation, which allows for lenght of year or amount of days in years to be different. So ages can differ because of that reason.

 

Hopefully, we'll find out in Episode III.

 

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"When Lucas first devised ANH they weren't twins."

That's actually the real answer. The Luke/Leia connection did not come until after filming of the Luke/Vader climax was underway in ROTJ. Lucas just didn't have the right "hook" that would get Luke to act the way he acted. In his script, it was only a passage like "Luke gets mad and attacks."

However, without any reason, the scene kept falling flat. It wasn't until Lucas decided to make Leia Luke's sister that Luke had a valid reason for acting the way he did, and the climax could then work.

So, yes - Luke and Leia never were meant to be related in ANH, which is solely the reason for the age discrepency.