The years Inbetween!

Now i've been thinking.. what happens inbetween the SW films. Discuss any gap u like for example
ep1-2,2-3 and so on, i'm anxious to hear wut u think happens in between each SW film, Now i'm sure gl has said wut happens inbetween so if needed that can be added to..

 

Well, I think that between Ep. 3 and Ep. 4, the citizens of the Empire will start to realize how corrupt the government really is.

 

There's tons of Expanded Universe stuff that covers this (perhaps this belongs in that forum).

Shadows of the Empire covers the year between Empire and Jedi, while other books and comics cover years between Ep I and II, Ep II and III, and Ep IV and V. There's even some stuff that covers between EP III and IV, but I'm not too familiar with it.

 

If you like, I can post the titles of all the Expanded Universe stories taking place between and during the movies for you.

 

sure why not, i'm alwayz interested in finding out new info

 

Films
Novels
Chapter and Children's Books
Comics and Graphic Novels
Short Stories
Video Games



32 Years BBY
Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace
The Queen's Amulet
Episode 1 Adventures
Episode I Adventures: Danger on Naboo
Episode I Adventures: Podrace to Freedom
Battle For Naboo
Episode I Journal: Queen Amidala
Episode I Journal: Darth Maul
Episode I Journal: Anakin Skywalker
Outlander: The Exile of Sharrad Hett
Emissaries to Malastare


31 Years BBY
Twilight
Aurra's Song
Infinity's End


30 Years BBY
Star Crash
Deep Spoilers
Bounty Hunter
Jango Fett: Open Seasons
The Hunt For Aurra Sing
Heart of Fire
Darkness
The Stark Hyperspace War
The Devaronian Version
Rite of Passage


29 Years BBY
Jedi Apprentice: Deceptions
Rogue Planet
Jedi Quest: Path to Truth
Poison Moon
Jedi Apprentice: The Followers


28 Years BBY
Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice
Jedi Quest: The Trail of the Jedi
Jedi Quest: The Dangerous Games


26 Years BBY
Jedi Quest: The Master of Disguise


25 Years BBY
Jedi Quest: The School of Fear
Jedi Quest: The Shadow Trap


27 Years BBY
Jango Fett
Zam Wesell


24 Years BBY
Starfighter: Crossbones
Republic: Honor and Duty


23 Years BBY
Star Wars Adventures: Hunt the Sun Runner
Star Wars Adventures: The Cavern of Screaming Skulls
Star Wars Adventures: The Hostage Princess
Star Wars Adventures: Jango Fett vs. The Razor Eaters
Star Wars Adventures: The Shape Shifter Strikes
Star Wars Adventures: Warlords of Balmorra
Toys "R" Us: Full of Surprises
Toys "R" Us: Practice Makes Perfect
Anakin: Apprentice


22.5 Years BBY
The Approaching Storm
Jedi Starfighter


22 Years BBY
Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones
Toys "R" Us: Machines of War
Toys "R" Us: Most Precious Weapon
Boba Fett: The Fight To Survive
Elusion Illusion: A Tale of the Clone Wars
The New Droid Army
Galactic Battlegrounds: The Clone Campaigns
The Clone Wars
Republic: Sacrifice
Boba Fett: Crossfire
Boba Fett: Maze of Deception
Republic: Battle of Kamino
Republic: Defense of Naboo
Blast Radius
Republic: Codes
Jedi: Shaak Ti
Jedi: Aayla Secura
Mace Windu: Shatterpoint
The Clone Wars: The Pengalan Tradeoff
Escape From Dagu
The Cestus Deception
Jedi Trial


21 Years BBY
Republic: Last Stand on Jabiim


19 Years BBY
Mist Encounter
Dark Vendetta


12 to 5 Years BBY
Droids: The Destroyer
Droids: The Ultimate Weapon!
Droids: The Scarlet Pirate!
Droids: Lost in Time Part 1
Droids--The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO: The White Witch
Droids--The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO: Escape into Terror
Droids--The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO: The Trigon Unleashed
Droids--The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO: A Race to the Finish
Droids--The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO: The Lost Prince
Droids--The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO: The New King
Droids--The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO: The Pirates of Tranoonga
Droids--The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO: The Revenge of Kybo Ren
Droids--The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO: Coby and the Starhunters
Droids--The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO: The Great Heep
Droids--The Adventures of R2-D2 and C

 

Let's start from the beginning. I'll put in the estimated years between.

The Phantom Menace
10 years later
Attack of the Clones
3 years later
Episode III
20 years later
A New Hope
3 years later
Empire Strikes Back
1 year later
Return of the Jedi

 

wow one year between jedi and empire.. so were they building the death star during empire but we just didn't see or does it only take a year to build an operational deathstar?

 

THE_MISSING_TRIPLET: Well, yes.

The construction site of the second Death Star was a point above the surface of the forest moon of Endor, in a remote region nominally governed by Quanta Sector's Moff Jerjerrod. It seems as if the half-completed state of this new Death Star was achieved after only a few months of construction.

If it had been finished, the volume of this battle station would have been more than three or four hundred times that of the original. In order to avoid overburdening regular naval supply systems, the Emperor partly outsourced shipping of raw materials to the XTS corporation. Nevertheless, the scale of the project was still much smaller than the scale of the whole galactic society, and it remained quite secret until it was deliberately leaked to Bothan spies.

If the radius of the moon was about 5200km then the Death Star was situated approximately 2000km above its surface. It should subtend about 27 degress of arc on the Endorian sky near the garrison, which is consistent with views of the sky seen on film. The motion of the Death Star was such that it remained directly above the generator of its protective deflector shield. The orbital period therefore matched the spin period of the Moon. In other words, it behaved as if it were in a synchronous orbit.

Unfortunately the velocity required for a stable orbit at that altitude would give rise to an orbital period of only a few hours. For the measurements of the moon used in this document the orbital period is a mere two and a half hours. This means that they "day" of the moon must be only two and a half hours long if the Death Star II is to remain above its shield generator and not overtake the moon's rotation. On the other hand if the Endorian rotation is more comparable to Earth's day then a true free geosynchronous orbit would require greater distances from the moon. Either the moon had a very rapid spin to match such a short Death Star orbital period, or else the Death Star's equilibrium position was dominated by more than just the moon's gravity. A supplementary repulsive force is needed to prevent the Death Star from falling from the Ewoks' sky. The required force must amount to about one third of the Earth's surface gravity.

It is possible that the incomplete battle station was equipped with massive repulsorlift generators to push against the gravity of the moon. However if this were so then it would be difficult to explain how the superstructure could be supported in the early phases before its main reactor and repulsors were activated- perhaps initial construction did take place elsewhere in the system with the station towed into its final position after completion of its repulsor engines.



Ken Kenobi- And you have a nice day

 

Now i've been thinking.. what happens inbetween the SW films?

EU

 

If you think about it. The second Death Star probably was started shortly after the first one was blown up by Luke. Which would be four years of contruction when we see it in the ESB. The Emperor was in a hurry, so he wanted it operational before it was completed.

 

Sounds good cuz it would take some time to build a death star.(even if it didn't look like it on the outside). Was there a reason we weren't shown it in ESB or even hinted around it?

 

Umm, I think ANH is 19 years after Ep3, isn't it?

 

something like that yeah... they didn't begin building it right after ep3.. or do they?

 

Ok, here is a synopsis of the construction of every Death Star (courtesy of the SWTC) known to be constructed (or at least begun to be built, if not completed), listed with their identification.


The Death Star [v. Prototype] [image=http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/books/weg/jasb3.gif]

The Maw is a tight and seemingly unstable cluster of black holes. At least one Death Star prototype was constructed at a secret and isolated research facility situated within the perilous Maw black hole cluster near the Kessel system.

Its stability is something of a mystery; such a collection ought to have ended in collision and coalescence of the holes long ago. Some astrophysicists had speculated that the improbable stability of the Maw indicates that it was deliberately constructed by an advanced civilisation at some time in the forgotten past, for reasons unknown. In any case, the interior of the Maw is a virtually unnavigable cauldron of deadly radiation and infalling plasma contorted by dreadful gravitational forces. The Maw has long been avoided as a peril to hyperspace travel near the planet Kessel. Safe passages around or through the Maw are extremely difficult to calculate; approaching the black hole cluster is virtually suicidal. Along with the secret discovery of a gravitationally stable zone hidden inside the Maw, this remoteness and inaccessibility made it an ideal site for Grand Moff Tarkin's secret superweapons research facility.


The Death Star [v. 1.0] [image=http://massassi.yavin4.com/sw_img/e4spac14.jpg]

The first fully functional Death Star battle station was built using convict labour in orbit around the tropical penal world of Despayre in the Horuz system. As a precaution against premature disclosure of the Death Star's existence, the planet was used as the target of one of the earliest test firings. Rather than be annihlated, the military forces previously stationed on Despayre appear to have been redeployed in detention duty aboard the Death Star. The fate of the convicts is unknown.

A mere two years elapsed between the initiation of the Death Star project at the secret Maw Installation and the time when the first operational Death Star destroyed Alderaan. This is indicative of the astonishing efficiency of the Imperial research effort, not to mention galactic construction technologies and the supply system for the raw construction materials.

Some have suggested that the original Death Star project strained the resources of the Empire, but this couldn't be literally true, considering the ease with which the Death Star II (hundreds of times more massive) was built. The initial research effort needed to prove and develop the superlaser concept may have been much more expensive than the actual construction of a battle station. The constant need to keep the project a secret from the prying Imperial Senate would also be a burden; four years later the Emperor could act with impunity. Indeed it is even possible that the first Death Star depended exclusively on the local resources available to Grand Moff Tarkin, which would be nearly nothing compared to what is available to the Empire as a whole.


The Death Star [v. 2.0] [image=http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/vidi4/rotj085.jpg]

The construction site of the second Death Star was a point above the surface of the forest moon of Endor, in a remote region nominally governed by Quanta Sector's Moff Jerjerrod. It seems as if the half-completed state of this new Death Star was achieved after only a few months of construction.

If it had been finished, the volume of this battle station would have been more than three or four hundred times that of the original. In order to avoid overburdening regular naval supply systems, the Emperor partly outsourced shipping of raw materials to the XTS corporation. Nevertheless, the scale of the project was still much smaller than the scale of the whole galactic society, and it remained quite secret until it

 

Nice pictures, Ken. I especially like that one of the twin Death Stars. That was a scrapped idea from one of George's first drafts of ROTJ, wasn't it? In addition to all the Death Stars you've listed, there were two more: the Tarkin and the Death Star III.

 

Death Star III?? pffft...!!!

(that ought to be enough to get Valiento in here.)