Calendar

Where does this come from?

If writing, say, KOTOR fanfics, may I expect that the year 3,956 BBY is 21,044 by the calendar the Republic used back then?

Also, what calendar does the Legacy era Empire use? BBY is the in-universe system used by the Rebel Alliance and its legal successors (presumably up to and including the GACF), but would the new Empire choose to use the calendar whose starting point is the date of a major defeat of the old Empire - and the date of the crime associated with it that was the destruction of Alderaan?

 

The Empire uses the GR system, I'd think. As would anyone else who doesn't read Voren's nonsense.

 

At the following link, you find a little more info about the Ruusan Reformation:

http://www.holonetnews.com/45/life/13228_2.html

p.s. this was an official Lucasfilm website..

And the Great ReSynchronization-calendar of which OOO speaks in the above post is the one I base my timeline on...

 

Makes me wonder what they will do if there's a third EC - again stylized as an in-universe book... Unless they drop Legacy altogether, which would be lame.

 

Or they make it OOU, which would be equally lame.

My dream would be one written by an objective historian, using the GR system.

 

KOTOR has given us dates in the text things, haven't they?

 

I assume you're referring to the comic? There was some sort of date in the "Taris Newsfeed" in KOTOR #0, but without a reference point...

 

According to the Trawn Trilogy, the Empire changed the dating system sometime after it was founded.

 

We here on Earth have all adopted a "B.C./A.D. (Before Christ, In the year of our Lord) style convention. Despite Political correctness attempts to make it B.C.E. (Before common era) the true meaning of the dating convention is still out there. It is used by countries where the majority do not believe in Jesus Christ and is also used by people that probably despise the very thought of Christ. By the Legacy proper, I do not think that Fel's Empire really wants to be tightly associated with Palpatine and judging by Lord Nihl "My master won't make Palpatine's Mistake" the Sith don't really give a crap that the Rebellion began to topple Palpatine's Empire. There is no true reason to change the convention.

Carnage

 

Since the dates are all off, I'd be willing to consider that bit apocryphal.

Anyway, the old Galaxy NewsNets in the AJ used the GR system, so I'd still go with that one.

 

LFL is putting together a calendar internally, which breaks things down day-by-day for each book. Sue has mentioned this many times. It'd be sweet if they released it once finished.

 

And it seems they're using the GR system, too.

 

"The Taris Holofeed: Prime Edition" from KOTOR 0 has the following numbers: 39:56:1434. If 1434 is the year, we can extrapolate that the reference point is 5,398 BBY, but this date looks completely arbitrary. These numbers just don't make any sense to me.

"The Admiral's List" in KOTOR 13 has no numbers whatsoever.

As for BC/AD, it doesn't really mean anything anymore, since it's estimated that Jesus was born in about 4BC... I doubt many people today even know what "BC" and "AD" stand for.

 

As for BC/AD, it doesn't really mean anything anymore, since it's estimated that Jesus was born in about 4BC...

Actually, only the Gospel of Matthew does....the Gospel of Luke gives a date of 2 AD...


"The Taris Holofeed: Prime Edition" from KOTOR 0 has the following numbers: 39:56:1434. If 1434 is the year, we can extrapolate that the reference point is 5,398 BBY, but this date looks completely arbitrary. These numbers just don't make any sense to me.

Those day and month numbers also seem wacky... 56? 39?

 

My best guess is it's a local calendar. Maybe the local year is obscenely long, or something.

 

Or Taris is spinning like the dickens.

That's pretty cool about LFL using the GrS system internally. Maybe the next Essential Chronology can finally steer us away from the ABY system for good. Voren won't be writing it, so that'll be a start.

 

Perhaps the third EC will be written by a functionary in the Fel Empire....

 

That'd be about eight levels of awesome.

You listening, Dan?

 

Fixed.

 

That would be... less than ideal.

 

I don't know.....maybe not that Anno Domini part of it but I'm pretty sure that everyone knows B.C. is Before Christ. I think they teach you that in second grade when you learn how to read a clock. As for that year not being the exact year that Jesus was born...whatever. It's close enough. I guess they say he wasn't really born on Christmas either but noone is moving that around. The point is that the convention isn't just arbitrary....it's based off the birth of a religious figure that 70% of the world doesn't believe in.

Carnage

 

Well, I'd hazard a guess that even less of the world believes in Norse gods (days of the week) or Roman gods (months of the year), so fail to see any point in changing it.

 

Not everyone in the world is a native English speaker, you know.

 

My version of the GrS calendar, based on the Star Wars Timeline Gold (content from the document used with the author's permission).

With the Battle of Yavin taking place sometime in 35:3, maybe 35:3:5 or 35:3:6.