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Alright. Part 2 has been ready for some time, but did anyone have any questions about part 1 before I move on to 5 ABY to 25 ABY?


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Exactly so.

If you read the Thrawn Trilogy in conjunction with the Atlas and guide to Warfare, you realise that Thrawn was acting within New Republic space as a rogue for three months and the full Empire was revealed to be on-board for one month. That's it, and as such for the first three months the Empire can be complying with the Galactic Concordance.

Even during the Zsinj arc, it's five months where the Empire is taking a step back and it can feasibly be following the treaty for that timeframe.

The peace is often described in the new works as uneasy, which can be accounted for by breaches of the treaty until the Empire signs up to stricter regulations under the Bastion Accords. Of course even under the old canon the Deep Core keeps fighting for six more years and everyone considers the war to be over - the logic carries over to a combined canon for other time periods during the Galactic Civil War.


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Double post!

Part 2! From 5 ABY to 25 ABY, remembering everything has been pulled forward roughly four years.

One month after the Concordance - the Bacta War against Iceheart comes to an end, and the hunt for Zsinj begins when he strikes a Bacta convoy at Alderaan. Over the next four months this results in a back and forth and Zsinj oversteps when he steals a Super Star Destroyer from
Kuat, and the Empire declares war on him, and joins the New Republic in doing so, albeit secretly as the peace is too fresh for the Imperial government to publicly ally. (X-wing 4 to 7)

Five months after the Concordance - the Battle of Dathomir occurs, killing Zsinj and decapitating the regime, and the Concordance is breached by the Empire as it attacks Zsinj's territory, shortly coming into direct conflict with the New Republic. In retaliation the New Republic confiscates several sectors, including Kuat and Anaxes. The Pentastar Alignment, Cuitric Hegemony, Federated Teradoc Union and Drommel sign the Galactic Concordance after each are bruised by the seizure of the Borderlands by the New Republic, together the treaty covering, with the Empire proper, a quarter of former Imperial space. (New Essential Chronology, Atlas, Warfare)

Eight months after the Concordance - the Battle of Obroa Skai is commonly considered the true start of the campaigns of Grand Admiral Thrawn, a rogue at the time and publicly condemned by the Empire - who nonetheless secretly supplies his task force, consisting of Death Squadron. (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising)

Eleven months after the Concordance - the mainstream Empire attacks the New Republic under Thrawn, breaking the Concordance, convinced that the development of new cloaking technology, a clone army, and the seizure of much of the Katana Fleet is enough to turn the tide. A full quarter of the galaxy is seized by the Empire in a month, and the Pentastar Alignment is poised to directly intervene. Jacen and Jaina Solo are born. (Last Command)

One year after the Concordance - at the Battle of Bilbringi, the Empire is shattered and Thrawn killed, and the joint and almost simultaneous losses of Garos IV and Wayland render both the cloaking device and clone production impossible. The New Republic confiscates sectors from the Empire and strikes at several warlords, deciding to finish off the shattered Empire while it hurriedly retreats - unknowing that it's resources are fleeing into the Deep Core at the direction of a reborn Emperor. (Last Command, X-wing 8)

One year and one month after the Concordance - the Dark Empire, not a signatory of the Concordance, strikes at the New Republic, and much of the Empire, warlord and otherwise, joins the assault on the New Republic once it becomes apparent that complete victory is in their grasp. Half the galaxy falls under the control of the Empire, with much of what remains within nominal New Republic hands having been shredded by Thrawn a month ago; the New Republic becomes known as a Rebel Alliance again. (Dark Empire opening)

One year and nine months after the Concordance - Anakin Solo is born, Palpatine is finally defeated, and the Dark Empire collapses. Peacekeeping initiatives begin anew and portions of the Empire even consider resigning the Concordance and going further, portions which are undone by political infighting which verges on civil war. With the seizure of Coruscant and Orinda, the capital becomes Ord Cantrell. (Dark Empire Trilogy)

Twenty four months after the Concordance - the Crimson Empire collapses after civil war strikes Ord Cantrell, and no central Empire exists and police keeping actions against Tavira, Furgan and Daala occur, each individual pirate gangs or terrorists, a full year of peace asserting itself even if punctuated with the discovery of a Death Star prototype, the Sun Crusher and the Eye of Palpatine superweapons. (Crimson Empire 1 & 2, Jedi Academy Trilogy, I, Jedi, Children of the Jedi)

Thirty six months after the Concordance - the Empire reunifies under Daala in the Deep Core and then Pellaeon in the Rim as her successor, breaching the Concordance five months into the year and being defeated at the Battle of Yavin. Six months later, in a month long campaign starting at Orinda, the Empire stabilises as an independent regime but is also weakened anew by several defeats, though Orinda is held and becomes the capital once more, now a capital on the ostensible frontline at the year end. (Darksaber)

Forty eight months after the Concordance - engagements at Nam Chorios, Adumar and Pallaxides see the Empire defeated in all three venues and the Antemeridian sector annexed. The Restored Empire attempts to seize control of the True Empire and is defeated, interfering with a potential new peace treaty and resulting in extensive losses for the Empire and the New Republic in the final round of hostilities, a last wave of battles caused by the Restored Empire lashing out at both and intentions being misconstrued between the warring powers. The Concordance reasserts itself when the Empire is bloodied at the Battle of Celanon and peacekeeping actions against rogue Imperial factions persists five months into the year - the war had in essence ignited for less than six months. The Deep Core is reorganised into a coalition of successor warlords by Daala, but peace is mostly restored for four more years in spite of the Disciples of Ragnos terrorist crisis and the Yevethan Purge causing short lived bursts of conflict. (Planet of Twilight, X-wing 9, Crimson Empire 3, Empire Reborn Trilogy, Black Fleet Crisis)

Eight years after the Concordance - the Rim True Empire reunites with the Deep Core and launches an invasion of New Republic space, an again short campaign which sees the New Republic thoroughly shatter the Empire in both theatres. The Concordance is imposed with a military line and blockade, and the Deep Core is rearranged into the Second Imperium. (New Essential Chronology, misc)

Ten years after the Concordance - the Rim Empire signs the Galactic Concordance anew under the Bastion Accords as the Imperial Remnant, and is allowed to keep possession of the forces it has, though reparations and limits on further development are imposed. The Second Imperium does not sign, but for the Remnant the war is very much over; for the New Republic, it still ended at Jakku, and save for the twin campaigns of Thrawn and Palpatine the Empire should have given up a decade ago; in hindsight for the Empire, it had been finished as a power at Endor. (Hand of Thrawn Duology, YJK arc)

Sixteen years after the Concordance - the Deep Core Imperials are thoroughly rooted out of their territories during policing of the region, retreating to the Maw, in time for the Yuuzhan Vong to arrive. On a war footing, the galaxy rearms against the invaders but slowly. The Imperial Remnant assists but is outflanked and seals its borders after a handful of months of engaging the Yuuzhan Vong regime, which itself enjoys victory after victory against the New Republic. The Empire of the Hand sends limited forces to assist, determined to hold the line in the Unknown Regions while the First Order watches. (Vector Prime, Dark Tide Duology)

Eighteen years after the Concordance - the Yuuzhan Vong capture Coruscant and force the capital to relocate to Dac. The First Order make their first moves to dominate the Unknown Regions, sabotaging the safety measures between the Killiks and the Chiss and beginning the Chiss Civil War. The Empire of the Hand is destroyed in the Unknown Regions by the First Order, and the Chiss embrace the remnants of the Empire of the Hand as a means to ending the Chiss Civil war. (Star by Star)

Nineteen years after the Concordance - fresh from the defeat at Ebaq 9, the Yuuzhan Vong strike a host of neutral states including the Imperial Remnant, in a failed effort to prevent the New Republic - rebranded the Galactic Alliance to encompass the Hapans allying with them - all of which declare war on the Yuuzhan Vong and join the Galactic Alliance. (Destiny's Way, Force Heretic trilogy)

Twenty years after the Concordance - the Imperial Remnant, New Republic and a coalition of lesser powers defeat the Yuuzhan Vong and raises the Galactic Alliance flag on Coruscant. The Capital is relocated to Denon. (The Final Prophecy, The Unifying Force)


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Borrow away. Between the month after Zsinj, ten months of continual warfare from Thrawn and Palpatine, the week odd of Daala, four months of Pellaeon and the unspecified but presumably relatively short final campaigns of the Remnant, the Concordance is breached by the legitimate treaty signing Empire for around sixteen months out of ten years. It's not a lot. A year and a half at most out of ten, and then six years until the Vong War, and by the time of TFA the Empire has been bad for one and half years out of twenty nine. It's been more than good for a year during the Vong War. The Concordance is relatively solid in all.


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To be fair the Yuuzhan Vong War is so short in the context of the greater timeline, and recent retcons before the reboot shortened it from five to four years on a study of the internal timeline of the NJO novels.

The births are all that fixes the timeline in place. The only novel that probably requires some finer tuning is Tatooine Ghost, drawing Leia and Han to Tatooine earlier to reflect that the conclusion of the book drives Leia to accept having children. As Ben is roughly 29 in TFA, according to sources, he has to be older than Jacen, Jaina and Anakin.

What with the war being on-going around Ben's birth and the threat of kidnapping, it makes sense to keep the four children separate for much of the time, which can be taken into account with Ben's development being so aggression based.

I'm pretty tempted to suggest that the Caamas Crisis was the first appearance of the Centrist and Populist dynamic in the New Republic, but the names for the two divides were born when the New Republic was constitutionally amended in the aftermath of the Yuuzhan Vong War.

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It's a good question. By the time Jacen takes centre stage, I feel as if the First Order has to take a background position by the time of Revelation if Pellaeon is to take back control of the Remnant.

Being as the 2nd Civil War was so very short in LotF (barely a year), I like to think that TFA is the start of it, and Invincible could be the end.

More, if my gut about Episode VIII is true I could see the First Order = Galactic Alliance. But that's me.


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Oh that would be hilarity.


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*edits into part 2 the books that it refers to as he omitted to*


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Interesting. So everything happens as is until the Vong War, which starts earlier... Cutting at the ages of Jacen, Jaina and Anakin by five years (so they are 12, 13 in NJO?)... And the Vong War lasts four to five years... Luke is cut out of the Dark Nest stuff... And presumably LotF takes place after this?


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Double post but shrug.

Black Fleet Crisis, with the Super Star Destroyers lost in the Unknown Regions - First Order?


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