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Lit Legends reading order between ANH and ESB

Discussion in 'Literature' started by srd5090, Nov 24, 2019.

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  1. TOD-UK

    TOD-UK Jedi Grand Master star 3

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    Wow! Just wow! I’m only halfway through the second month but that’s some great work!

    Also, I have a copy of ‘Leia’s Trust’ upstairs if you want more information!
     
    TOD-UK, Apr 21, 2020
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  2. TalonCard

    TalonCard •Author: Slave Pits of Lorrd •TFN EU Staff star 5 VIP

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    That'd be great! I'll PM you. :)
     
    TalonCard, Apr 21, 2020
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  3. Sinrebirth

    Sinrebirth Mod-Emperor of the EUC, Lit, RPF and SWC star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    I am poised to update my bookcase.

    :D
     
    Sinrebirth , Apr 22, 2020
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  4. Chrissonofpear2

    Chrissonofpear2 Jedi Knight star 3

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    One thing kinda stretched a bit is the implication that months pass between Luke being on Aridus and meeting Frija and Torlock on Hoth, as Shadow Stalker implies. I'd say the period allowed at most a month, maybe a month and a half...
     
    Chrissonofpear2, Apr 29, 2020
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  5. QuinlanSolo

    QuinlanSolo Jedi Knight star 1

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    @TalonCard It seems that the last three months (4-6) before the final evacuation of Yavin 4 are much less crowded than the first three. Is this approximately how things shake out?:

    - Rebel Force #6: Uprising
    - Missions #5-8
    - World of Fire
    - Gambler’s World
    - Princess Leia, Imperial Servant
    - Bring Me the Children
    - As Long as We Live
    - Tilotny Throws a Shape
    - Star Wars #35-37
    - Galaxy of Fear #1-4
    - Tales: Lady Luck
    - Tale of EV-9D9
    - Missions #9-12
    - Classic SW #15: Doom Mission (remaining pages?)
    - SW Kids: X-Wing Marks the Spot
    - SW Kids: Imperial Spy (evac underway, stalls to flush our Rogor, Q-7N alive) (all but last six panels)
    - Missions #18-20 (Tycho flies with the Rogues, Q-7N dies)
    - Classic Star Wars: Race for Survival (April 18th-27th, 1983)
    - [Portrayals of Evac in various Galactic Battlegrounds and Battlefront games]
    - Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike (Revenge of the Empire - Luke battles TIEs, escorts Dodonna to the last transport, thinks he sees him get on)
    - Classic Star Wars: Race for Survival (April 28th-May 4th, 1983 - Dodonna slipped off, seems to sacrifice himself to take out TIEs)
    - SW Kids: Death Star Pirates (also in Tales #8 - getting ready to jump from Yavin system, planning to meet at Hoth)
    - Classic Star Wars: Race for Survival (May 5th-July 10th, 1983 - evading Imp fleet and solar flares to finally jump)
    - SW Kids: Imperial Spy (last six panels - Falcon and Rebel fleet in hyperspace, Vader confronts Rogor on Yavin 4)
     
    QuinlanSolo, May 26, 2020
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  6. TalonCard

    TalonCard •Author: Slave Pits of Lorrd •TFN EU Staff star 5 VIP

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    Sorry, I'll be posting another update soon. That's pretty close to what I have; the main differences are that I moved Rebel Force #6 to after Missions #5-8, since Missions #5 was originally set only weeks after ANH and it gives Soresh more time to build his power base and put his plan into motion. I'm puting World of Fire between the two to transition back into the Yavin based stories with a crazy theory. I also have all of the remaining Early Adventures stories after the Yavin evacuation, but I'm trying to figure out why. (I know I had a reason because I'd kept them before the evacuation for a long time before finally being convinced otherwise, I just can't remember why.) The Vader time Capsule article places them after Marvel #35, I do know that.

    I've also backtracked and re-ordered a little to include some other fringe stories.

    The last couple of months do seem to be less packed, mostly because Star Wood forced a lot of the post-ANH stories into a two month period. Still, I think that might be somewhat misleading; both Missions #5-8 and Rebel Force #6 take place over several weeks, several stories pick up right after an unseen adventure, the evacuation itself needs to be extended to accommodate comics and video game levels, and there are still a bunch of stories that take place in what we'd call month 6, but after the evacuation from Yavin.

    And, TBH, at this point I'm mostly using the months very selectively as markers to divide the stories into manageable chunks. If we went by actual time passing in the stories themselves we'd be looking at something like ten months instead of the generally accepted six; if we tried to order the stories based solely on references to time having passed since ANH we'd keep running into inconsistencies between stories.

    TC
     
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    TalonCard, May 26, 2020
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  7. QuinlanSolo

    QuinlanSolo Jedi Knight star 1

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    Well, the Wook has all the remaining Early Adventures at 1 ABY. Time Capsule: Darth Vader 1980 seems to place them not only after Marvel #35-37, but also after the Frozen World of Ota, and TC: DV1980 also describes Vader in Gambler's World as trying to find the [presumably new] Rebel base. NEGTC puts both The Faithful Wookiee and Ota after the evacuation. Given the Life Day-every-three-years thing and keeping Kashyyyk Depths right before TESB, Faithful Wookiee must be after the first evacuation, while Ota (and the remaining Early Adventures) may come after the second/final evac.
     
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    QuinlanSolo, May 27, 2020
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  8. TalonCard

    TalonCard •Author: Slave Pits of Lorrd •TFN EU Staff star 5 VIP

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    Okay, I have the first six months revised and done. Apologies for the multiple posts; I'm trying to use spoiler tags to keep it contained. I've gone ahead and added any short stories from the Essential Reader's Companion, as well as all video game levels. I've checked notes and timelines sent to me by @TOD-UK and @Mavrick889, and added some things I was missing. I've also added in some non-Legends continuity sources that I've been wanting to see if it was possible to place in a Legends context for a long time now: the Celebration Smuggler's audio dramas, the canon novel Heir to the Jedi (which was very nearly a Legends release) and Russ Manning's preliminary Tatooine storyline proposal.

    -First off, thanks to everyone who participated in this thread and the many, many others I’ve spoken to about this over the years. I really appreciate @TOD-UK, Nightowl, @Mavrick889 and @The2ndQuest sharing their timelines and resources. It’s great to be able to learn from and share with other folks who are just as obsessed with this period of time as I am.

    -My chief goal here is to create a reading list that puts the events from all of these often contradictory stories into an order that is as consistent as possible.

    -The order of stories and the amount of time in which they are supposed to take place has changed drastically over the years, right up until the very last year of the EU. I don’t think this would have been possible to do until the continuity was finally “locked” under the Legends banner.

    -In addition to the usual novels/comics/YA material, I tried to incorporate as many sources as possible that featured the main characters from the films active in the wider galaxy, specifically Luke, Leia, Han, Vader, Lando and the bounty hunters from TESB. Tangential stories (like the Ewoks and some of the really minor RPG stuff) have been left out for now. (I’ll leave the Legends Ewok timeline as a project for next year, lol.)

    -I’ve given the most weight in placing sources to references within the sources themselves; if one source depicts the founding of Rogue Squadron, for instance, I’m going to take that at face value. Since continuity between sources is so rare in this era, I give extra weight to one source referencing another source.

    -Second most weight goes to internal references to time having passed since the Battle of Yavin. (It doesn’t make much sense to have Luke’s identity widely known in one source that claims only “weeks” have passed, while another has it being a closely guarded secret a few “months” after Yavin, for example.)

    -Third comes the source placements provided in sourcebooks and other out-of-universe sources. (Because the story order was so often revised by works released after the sourcebooks came out, they’re useful, but not always definitive.

    -Fourth is any information on placement from official blogs, Twitter, personal correspondence with other timeliners, etc. (For example, I’m not going to force a timeline placement because of something Leland Chee wrote in 2012 to accommodate future stories when Legends in this period is now dormant.)

    -I’ve tried desperately not to put stories out of order, even though it is sometimes convenient to do so. There are two exceptions (Missions #17 and 18 and Marvel #37), but by and large I’ve tried to just split sources up to accommodate other stories when necessary. (I’m taking the lead of Scoundrels, a novel that inserts an entire three week long romp into a single issue of Marvel Star Wars.)

    -I’m working on the assumption that Vader learns Luke’s name about two months after Yavin, and that the final evacuation of Yavin was in the sixth month after Yavin. This seemed to be the official assumption as of the end of the Legends era, and it helps break up the period into digestible chunks. This also definitely does not work if you take the time to count out references to days and weeks and months within each source and add them up, so one really has to assume that there are lots of different months, weeks, days, and time zones at play as our heroes go hopping from planet to planet.

    -I wanted this reading order to be as inclusive as possible, but I’m aware that not everyone is going to be willing or able to track down all the obscurities. The entries in bold are the main comics, novels, and young adult books. Entries in regular font are the harder to find comics (those not available on Marvel Unlimited), game books, video games, etc. Entries in italics were considered Infinities under the old canon system, but are included here to be as complete as possible. Bold underlined italics indicate a source that was announced for Legends, but was ultimately released as a Canon story.

    -There were two main ongoing comic series called Star Wars set in this time period: the very first Marvel series (1977-1986) and the more recent series written by Brian Wood. It's obvious enough which is based on issue titles and placement that I'm listing them by their official, identical series title in the timeline. In the notes these will be referred to as "Marvel #X" and "Star Wood #X" for clarity.

    -The Classic Star Wars comic series was a 1990s colorization and re-edit of most of the Star Wars newspaper comic storylines from the 1970s and 80s. I'm using the issue numbers from the CSW release because it's more efficient on a timeline, but I'm referring back to the original strips whenever possible as there are some details that were lost in the transition to comic book form. Fortunately most of the arcs that weren’t adapted for CSW don’t require a page-by-page breakdown.

    -Notes on placement follow most entries under spoilers tags. All comic page numbers are from Marvel Unlimited where possible.

    SWW #97-99: THE DAY AFTER THE DEATH STAR
    -Literally the day after the Battle of Yavin, as per the title. Luke crashes the X-Wing he flew in ANH into a swamp on Yavin.
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #1: ASSAULT ON YAVIN
    -The introduction places this story on the day after the battle of Yavin. Luke’s X-Wing seems intact here, but this can’t take place before SWW #97-99 since the Missions story runs continuously over the next several days. They’ve either fished it out of the swamp or just assigned Luke a new one.
    EMPIRE #14: THE SAVAGE HEART (Pages 18-23)
    REBEL FORCE #1: TARGET (Pages 1-9)
    -Vader reports to the Empire (unseen) en route to Coruscant, presumably on the shuttle he appropriated from the Vaal Outpost.
    DARKSABER (Pages 34-38)
    -Bevel was hiding on Hefi for a short time before being summoned to Coruscant, as per Galaxy Guide 5.
    GALAXY MAGAZINE #12: PRIORITY X
    -The Essential Reader’s Companion places this at about 10 months after Yavin (after Galaxy of Fear #10), but this seems to have occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Yavin.
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #2: ESCAPE FROM THYFERRA
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #3: ATTACK ON DELRAKKIN
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #4: DESTROY THE LIQUIDATOR
    -Conclusion of the first Missions arc. Tix and Termo are left adrift in an escape pod for now.
    EMPIRE #14: THE SAVAGE HEART (Page 24)
    -Vader arrives on Coruscant to meet with Palpatine. Vader: The Ultimate Guide explains that Palpatine does not see him as expected at the end of Savage Heart, but rather he is sent back to Vaal by Sate Pestage to retrieve the prototype TIE fighter Vader left behind. (A retcon to accommodate both Scoundrel's Luck and Star Wars Missions, below.) This begins a loose arc of Vader being continually scorned by the Emperor for his failure at Yavin.

    STAR WARS #0: KEEPER’S WORLD
    -Keeper's World is the first story published that follows up on A New Hope, predating even the Aduba arc of the Marvel comic. Since Artoo is suffering from inadequate repairs made from the Battle of Yavin, and Leia is in a hurry to contact other Rebel bases, it makes sense to keep it as the first post-Missions story.
    PIZZAZZ #10-16 (SWW#57-60): THE KINGDOM OF ICE
    -Continuation to the story beginning in Keeper's World.
    STAR WARS WEEKLY #60: WAR ON ICE
    -Finale to the story beginning in Keeper's World.

    ADVENTURE JOURNAL #3: DROID TROUBLE
    -Placement per the Essential Readers Guide, before Rebel Force #1 and Scoundrels.
    -This short story has an RPG adventure follow-up, A Deal Gone Sour, in Adventure Journal #4.

    ADVENTURE JOURNAL #13: THE OCCUPATION OF RHAMALAI
    -Placement per the Essential Readers Guide, before Rebel Force #1 and Scoundrels.

    ADVENTURE JOURNAL #6: TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY
    -The destruction of Alderaan and the Death Star are mentioned as recent events.
    -Placement per the Essential Readers Guide, before Rebel Force #1 and Scoundrels.

    GALAXY MAGAZINE #10: SANDBOUND ON TATOOINE
    -Placement per the Essential Readers Guide, before Rebel Force #1 and Scoundrels.

    STAR WARS KIDS #1-5: THE REBEL THIEF
    -As this story opens, the Rebels are aware that a counterattack by the Empire could come sometime in the next few weeks. This places it before the meeting in Rebel Force #1, below. They assume Vader (here referred to as the "Pilot of that TIE prototype", though he is known to the Rebels as Vader during this time according to Luke's Journal) is still missing.
    -Han has returned an amount equivalent to the cost of "four flights of X-Wings" to the Alliance. X-Wings cost 150,000 credits and are four fighters to a flight according to the Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, which would bring this amount to 2,400,000. (It’s more than likely that Han was exaggerating here.)
    -There have been a lot of convoluted theories and misunderstandings about Han's reward, since there are multiple sources explaining its value and what happened to it after ANH, of which this is just the first.
    -Marvel assumes that Luke’s “more wealth than you can imagine” line proves to be true, while the ANH radio drama assumes, more logically, that the Rebels were pretty much broke and had to dip into their supplies of valuable metals in order to pay Han off.
    -Even so, rather than try to explain how Han lost and regained his reward money multiple times, I propose that Han's reward was simply large enough to cover all scenarios, as per Marvel #7, where Han states that even after paying back Jabba, he and Chewie have enough to buy “a small planet”. Thus, Han has only returned part of the reward here.
    -Perhaps, in the aftermath of the Death Star’s destruction and the ramp-up to complete the Death Star II and Executor, the value of the precious metals Han received from the Rebels doubled, and the amount he returned to the Rebels represents the “original investment”. Or something.
    - Han takes the treasure from Missions #1 and leaves Yavin, partially to get the Rebels some credits, partially to pay Jabba off. (And if some of the treasure made it into the cases left empty when Han returned part of his reward to the Rebels, well, that wouldn't be too surprising.)
    -Han receives 500,000 for the treasure from Sprool the Trader, the Dok-Ondar of Legends. He returns to Yavin to give these credits to the alliance to put towards X-Wings. He sends an unknown amount of credits to Jabba via Sprool, but Jabba refuses to call off the bounty. Presumably Han will need to return and pay back the gangster personally, with his own money.
    -Fett is still on Tatooine in Jabba’s service here; presumably he hasn’t left the planet since ANH.

    EMPIRE #7: SACRIFICE
    -Begins “shortly after the Battle of Yavin”, according to the Boba Fett Omnibus.
    -Placed after Rebel Thief due to Fett’s appearance in that comic.

    EMPIRE #16-17: TO THE LAST MAN
    -”Shortly after the Battle of Yavin”, according to Empire #16.
    EMPIRE #18: TO THE LAST MAN (Pages 1-19)

    REBEL FORCE #1: TARGET (Pages 10-36)
    -According to Rebel Force #1, Luke has been at the Rebel base with Han Solo for "nearly two weeks". Even with Luke and Han's occasional departures for Missions books and comics, this still leaves some time for Luke to hang around the base and be teased by Han. This does seem to be nearly two weeks after the Battle of Yavin, as Rebel Force #2 is said to be three weeks after the destruction of Alderaan.
    -The Rebels learn that the Empire knows about Yavin base, but have no plans to attack it directly, placing this after Rebel Thief. Instead, the Empire will target known Alliance leaders such as Princess Leia. (This will become a plot point in future stories.) Luke's identity will be a closely guarded secret for now, as it will be in some form in the Marvel comics.
    STAR WARS #7: NEW PLANETS, NEW PERILS (pages 1-7)
    -Han leaves Yavin as promised to pay Jabba off, and has his fortune stolen by Crimson Jack.
    -Crimson Jack's raiders are described as being the Falcon's first passengers since Luke, Ben, and company, so this particular part of the comic has to take place as soon after ANH as possible.
    -In a slight deviation from the events as presented in the original Marvel comics, I assume that Han is contacted by General Dodonna to take Leia to Delaya after the hijacking and before he goes into hiding. Rebel Force implies that Han never left Yavin, but other than that, this works fairly well as Han states his intention to leave in one scene and then reappears unexpectedly a day later.
    - Han's reward is gone without explanation in the remainder of the Rebel Force series. Scoundrels will establish that Han tried to keep the loss of his reward from Leia for a time.
    REBEL FORCE #1: TARGET (Pages 36-186)

    GALAXIES: AN EMPIRE DIVIDED
    -Galaxies takes place over the course of several years in universe, with most of the storylines occuring in 1 ABY, but Seji-X Arrogantus can be encountered, suggesting that the earliest moment of the original version of the game, an encounter with one of Vader's Star Destroyers, takes place before Serji is killed in the Marvel Aduba arc, below.

    EMPIRE AT WAR: FORCES OF CORRUPTION
    Mission 6: Remnants of the Death Star
    -Tyber Zann shows up near Yavin to raid the Death Star’s datapods before the Imperial Fleet arrives.
    -Scavengers have not yet picked the Death Star clean.
    -Wedge makes an appearance, flying as Red 2.
    -The Imperial fleet arrives, and withdraws to support the blockade after a skirmish with Zann’s forces.
    -Both editions of the Essential Chronology state that around this time (just after Han and Chewie leave in Marvel #7) the heavy equipment has been evacuated from Yavin IV, but the evacuation is interrupted by a flotilla of Interdictor Cruisers that appear in-system and prevent larger ships from leaving or entering the system. Eventually this blockade will extend to the entire sector. (This was probably originally intended as a retcon for a level in Force Commander, see below.)
    -(Seems to have been retconned, but worth mentioning: The databank states that the system blockade was put in place after the Achtnak Turbine Station was destroyed in Marvel #26.)
    -Since Zann states at the beginning of this mission that the Empire hasn’t had a chance to send a fleet to Yavin yet, the system blockade probably happens either just after or during this level.
    BATTLEFRONT II
    Yavin 4: Vader's Fist Strikes Back
    -The intro for this level describes an exhausted remnant of the 501st that escaped the Death Star, cut off from their command, joining an Imperial fleet for an impromptu retaliatory attack on Yavin.
    -This best describes the immediate aftermath of ANH, when Vader is still missing.
    -This makes the action here an unauthorized one that must happen after Rebel Thief and Rebel Force #1, since there has not yet been an Imperial attack in those sources.
    -It would make sense to consolidate these events with the brief arrival of Imperial ships in the Forces of Corruption level, above.
    FORCE COMMANDER
    The Trap at Yavin 4
    -The Empire has tracked several transports leaving the Yavin system, and believes that most of the important equipment and officers have already been evacuated.
    -Nevertheless, the Rebels continue to occupy the base with a skeleton crew. They’ve begun making regular patrols.
    -The Empire has moved in to blockade the planet (er, moon.)
    -General Brashin sends Brenn Tantor is sent to the surface to reconnoiter the area and eliminate the Rebels left behind.
    -While fighting the Rebels, Tantor’s forces received a distress call from Colonel Veers, who crash landed an escape pod here after the Death Star was destroyed.
    -Vader contacts Brashin and Tantor to thank them for recovering Veers. Vader has foreseen Veers’s importance in an upcoming operation. (Presumably the Battle of Hoth, though Vader and Veers will next meet on Zaloriis in Galactic Battlegrounds.)
    -It seems likely that the Essential Chronology and The New Essential Guide to Characters intended to retcon this level as an earlier blockade action rather than the later attack during the evacuation of Yavin. (Veers’s entry in the Characters guide says as much, and states that he’d been stranded on Yavin for “days” rather than months.)
    -This likely takes place just after or during the same time as the above Battlefront and Forces of Corruption levels.
    -Vader’s cameo here likely takes place before he ends up comatose in his TIE Fighter after attempting to retrieve it from Vaal.
    BATTLEFRONT: ELITE SQUADRON (DS)
    Yavin IV
    -This level covers the events of ANH, but the last part of the level involves stealing an Imperial transponder from the Death Star wreckage to bypass the just-established system blockade of Yavin.
    REBEL FORCE #2: HOSTAGE (Pages 1-186)
    -Three weeks have passed since Alderaan was destroyed. The Essential Reader's Companion places Scoundrels (below) before the Rebel Force series, but this doesn't seem to make sense as Scoundrels takes place over the course of several weeks, and at the end of that story Han's debt is much higher than it is in Rebel Force #3, below.
    -Vader is said to be heading to the Alderaan system to take Leia into custody, but our heroes leave before he arrives. Presumably he doesn't make it out of the Gordian Reach before ending up comatose in his damaged TIE Fighter as per Scoundrel's Luck, below.
    -X7 receives orders to kill Luke Skywalker when the opportunity arises. I assume that this attempt was delayed by nearly a month when Luke and Leia are sent to scout for a new base site in Classic Star Wars #1 and then to search for Darth Vader before Scoundrel's Luck, below.

    STAR WARS MANGA SILVER: OH!! JAWA JAWA
    -A group of stormtroopers on Dewbacks attack a Rebel in a damaged X-Wing.
    -After destroying his sandcrawler's cargo of droids, a young Jawa redeems himself by helping to salvage and repair the X-Wing.
    -The Jawas happen upon a group of salvagers who have recovered Vader's crashed TIE Advanced after the Battle of Yavin.
    -The young Jawa uses the X-Wing to frighten the salvagers and claim the TIE, though he ends up crashing the X-Wing.
    -Vader had previously left his TIE on Vaal in Empire #14. It's possible these Jawas live on Vaal, or that the salvagers had recovered the TIE there and brought it back to Tatooine.
    -If this is Tatooine, the X-Wing pilot was probably stationed at the Anchorhead Base from Rebel Assault.
    STAR WARS TALES #16: THE LONG, BAD DAY (Pages 22-59)
    -This comedic take on Vader’s activities after the Battle of Yavin was never meant to be taken seriously, but it does end with Vader’s wingless TIE being picked up by a Star Destroyer, which can work with Scoundrel’s Luck. (Consider it Vader’s dreams about the Battle of Yavin while comatose after recovering his TIE at Vaal/Tatooine.)

    CLASSIC STAR WARS #1: THE BOUNTY HUNTER OF ORD MANTELL
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #2: THE BOUNTY HUNTER OF ORD MANTELL/DARTH VADER STRIKES (Pages 1-17)
    -Placed here since this seems to be Luke and Leia's first trip to Ord Mantell, or at least their first with Han Solo. The trio will return to the planet in Scoundrel's Luck, below.
    -The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons has Drub McKumb attempt to warn Han about the bounty on his head during this story. Han first mentioned the incident in Children of the Jedi, though his recollection of the timing was a bit off. (Han remembers this occurring just before the Battle of Hoth, while the Guide places this story just after Yavin.)
    -Galaxywide Newsnet in Adventure Journal #5 originally placed this story in the first month of 1 ABY, or 11 months after the Battle of Yavin by the 10 month calendar then in use. All Yavin based stories were retconned into the first six months after Yavin by the Essential Chronology. The Newsnet dates and information were in-universe, and occasionally (and intentionally) out of date and inaccurate enough that we can assume that the dates refer to when the news was reported, rather than when it originally occurred. (Some of the events of ANH went unreported for months even by the Newsnet’s own internal continuity, for example.)


    SCIENCE ADVENTURES #1: EMERGENCY IN ESCAPE POD FOUR
    -Luke, Leia, and Han are back on Yavin for a brief scene, and the droids are sent on a new mission. The rest of Science Adventure #1 overlaps with the hunt for Vader, arc below.
    -Luke, Han, and Leia are sent on a month-long mission to locate the missing Darth Vader, as per Scoundrel's Luck. (Given the crowded nature of the timeline, this is likely less than exactly a month.) I assume X7 is left on Yavin, hoping that Skywalker will return, and feeding Rebel secrets to the Empire through Soresh in the meantime.
    SCIENCE ADVENTURES #2: JOURNEY ACROSS PLANET X
    -Threepio contacts Leia about a spy on Yavin. Leia's location is not stated, I assume she is on the Falcon hunting for Vader. The series ends on a cliffhanger, so the spy plot was never followed up on. I like to assume the spy is X7.
    -The nearly month-long mission to hunt Vader is a good time to accommodate the undocumented science adventures of the droids, since they aren’t necessarily part of the Falcon’s crew during this time.


    EMPIRE #18: TO THE LAST MAN (Pages 20-24)
    -Four weeks after the main events of the story.


    REBEL FORCE #2: HOSTAGE (Pages 186-188)
    REBEL FORCE #3: RENEGADE (Pages 1-33)
    -I assume that the Falcon crew have finally returned to Yavin after a long search for Vader, giving X7 the opening he needs to go after Luke in the closing chapters of Rebel Force #2.
    STAR WARS: THE CLASSIC NEWSPAPER COMICS VOLUME 1: INTRODUCTION (RUSS MANNING “SANDMAN” SAMPLE)
    -Russ Manning, future writer and artist of the Star Wars daily newspaper comic strip (the same strip that would eventually provide material for the Classic Star Wars comic series) provided Lucusfilm with a sample story synopsis and six comic strips to audition for the strip.
    -Though Manning got the job, the full storyline never appeared. This story, featuring Luke, Leia (recently broken up with Han Solo), and the droids pursuing the abandoned escape pod from Tantive IV on orders from the Yavin Rebels shortly after ANH, is distinct from the Tatooine story that eventually appeared in the newspaper strip as Tatooine Sojourn. Here Leia is kidnapped by Tusken Raiders. The story was never completed.
    -The synopsis and the strips were included in the IDW Classic Newspaper Comics collection.
    -While these aren’t part of the official continuity, Luke, Leia, and the droids do end up on Tatooine shortly after ANH in Rebel Force #3, after a breakup (well, of sorts) with Han Solo. If one was inclined to include the story, this would be the best point to do so.
    -The Manning outline indicates that Leia and company are sent to Tatooine on a mission, while Rebel Force has them going into hiding with no one in the Rebellion aware of their destination. If this story is included, we would assume that the Rebellion is unaware that Luke and company remain on Tatooine after the mission, taking the shuttle to the edge of the Dune Sea without informing Yavin of their whereabouts.
    REBEL FORCE #3: RENEGADE (Pages 34-170)
    -Leia instructs Luke not to tell his friends on Tatooine what he's been up to "for the past few months", and none of his friends learn that he's with the rebellion. Given that the last time he saw them was during the deleted Anchorhead scenes in ANH, this is the first reference to more than one month having passed since ANH, even though the previous book took place just three weeks after Yavin. The missing time sort of justifies the added Scoundrel’s Luck Vader hunt time jump. I’m assuming that we’re still not quite at the two month mark yet, but close enough for Leia’s statement to make sense.
    -Han is offered a job that pays 40,000 credits, which is enough to cover his debt to Jabba, a new exhaust port for the Falcon, and 8,000 credits to Avrik Lore. This puts the story before the actual events of Scoundrel's Luck, when the debt is much larger. Boba Fett will later state in The Bounty Hunter that the dispute between Han and Jabba was over a matter of 30,000 credits.
    -This is explicitly Luke's first return to Mos Eisley since ANH, (he returns of his own volition to honor Biggs) putting it ahead of all the other return-to-Tatooine stories. Camie and Fixer are engaged but not yet married, as they will be in later Marvel comics. This creates some serious continuity issues in their Marvel interactions with Luke (see below) but it can't be helped.
    -Luke becomes targeted by Bossk, who has no idea who he is, but is after Han. Luke fights him to a standstill after an encounter that endangers all of his friends. Bossk returns to Jabba, who throws him into the rancor pit to see if he survives, and vows to hire Boba Fett.
    -Indeed, Boba Fett attempts to capture Han in his next appearance, Scoundrels. Both Boba Fett and Bossk will then be seen hunting Han in the "Star Wood" series.
    -Presumably having endangered his friends here is the reason Luke at first refuses to return to Tatooine when ordered in Tatooine Sojourn, below.
    -In order to maintain continuity with Scoundrels and Scoundrel's Luck, I assume that after this mission, the Rebels return the droids to Yavin. Han proposes they take a brief vacation on Ord Mantell.
    -Han doesn’t choose to go to Ord Mantell very often (in most other stories Han’s visits are unplanned), but one of the few times he does is the vacation described in Scoundrel’s Luck.
    -The Star Wars Rules Companion adventure To Free the Forgotten ends with Han making a cameo appearance on his way to “Ord Mandel” (a typo, as it’s clear from the gamemaster’s notes that they’re referring to Ord Mantell) for “a date”. It’s implied that Leia is involved in this visit also. This fits best with the visit in Scoundrel’s Luck, so I’m assuming that Rebel command diverts the Falcon to pick up a team of Rebels and the prisoners they liberated on nearby Captivity. (To Free the Forgotten).
    -Han also mentions an Ord Mantell drop in the novel Scoundrels, which is when he learned about an upcoming high-paying job on Wukkar. I’m assuming that this drop was when they offloaded the newly liberated prisoners and Rebel agents on Ord Mantell, thus saving Han from making three separate trips in this busy time.
    -The in-universe memo “Balancing the Books” from the Star Wars Sourcebook totals Han Solo’s debt around 10 days after Boba Fett began hunting Han Solo at 224,190. (This itemized list explains how Han’s debt ballooned in such a short period of time.)
     
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    SCOUNDREL’S LUCK
    -Here Han's debt to Jabba has increased to 225,000 credits. Han attempts to raise the money by gambling, using his 25,000 credit reward for rescuing Princess Leia as a stake. Wookieepedia seems to think that these were Alliance, rather than Imperial credits, which are only worth 25% of Imperial credits. I can confirm the credit exchange rate in the WEG Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, but not that Han received that amount in Alliance credits. (Scoundrel's Luck does not specify.) It would be a handy fix, though: In this case Han may only be trying to raise 56,250 from 850, and we can assume that the Alliance just tossed some of their credits in with the precious metals, and that Crimson Jack either overlooked or didn't bother with such a small amount during his raid. Either way, Han's debt is higher here than in any story so far.
    -Luke is assigned to scout new base worlds with his wing before the story begins, leaving Han and Leia on Ord Mantell.
    -This choose-your-own adventure style story has an optional path where the reader can encounter the Super Star Destroyer Executor, Captain Piett, and Admiral Ozzel. In spite of so many timeline revisions, this combination of elements remains problematic. It is easiest to assume that this is an alternate series of events where the reader's choices started a butterfly effect that resulted in the Executor being launched from Fondor early, with Ozzel and Piett promoted to command.
    -Vader and his TIE Fighter are returned to the Empire following this story.
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #17: DARTH VADER’S RETURN (Pages 1-4)
    STAR WARS MANGA - BLACK: PERFECT EVIL, PART 1 (Pages 33-36)
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #17: DARTH VADER’S RETURN (Pages 4-11)
    STAR WARS MANGA - BLACK: PERFECT EVIL, PART 1 (Pages 37-52)
    STAR WARS MANGA- SILVER: PERFECT EVIL, PART 2 (Pages 1-5)
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #17: DARTH VADER’S RETURN (Pages 12-70)
    -Both of these stories show Vader returning to Coruscant in his TIE Fighter after the Battle of Yavin, but they can work together if you squint hard enough. Perfect Evil wasn't technically Legends Canon, but I'm including it for completeness sake.
    -This begins a pattern of the Emperor meeting with Vader as though it were the first time they've spoken since the Battle of Yavin, blaming him for the station's destruction, then appearing to calm down and assigning him a new mission. This is an inconsistency simply because so many authors tried to write the same scene in different stories, but it is in line with Palpatine's characterization in the Darth Maul Journal: act cool about an apprentice's failures, then hide dinkos in their bedroom weeks later as punishment. Vader is not off the hook yet…
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #18: ROGUE SQUADRON TO THE RESCUE (Pages 1-7, 73-74)
    -This is the most drastic source-rearrangement in this timeline. I'm decoupling the Vader mission from the Rogue Squadron storyline in both books to delay Q7-N's involvement and because Rogue Squadron and Tycho Celchu aren't in play yet. This is a definite alteration to the intended series of events, but since most sources ignore the Missions books, it's the best option to smooth out the continuity issues. There’s the absolute thinnest justification in the books themselves: Frap Radicon, Imperial scientist, will later state in Missions #19 that he spent “weeks” waiting for Vader to scout a new location for the Imperial gravity well project, but that gap in time isn’t otherwise apparent in Vader’s activities during Missions #17-20.
    -Vader leaves Coruscant in his TIE Fighter for the starship yards of Fondor on the orders of the Emperor, in a setup for his Classic Star Wars appearance, below.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #2: THE BOUNTY HUNTER OF ORD MANTELL/DARTH VADER STRIKES (Pages 18-22)
    -Vader runs a test using a Falcon drone duplicate and meets with Imperial admirals at Jovan station on his way to Fondor, insinuating that the delayed strike on the Rebels will only resume when the Executor is finished. According to the Geonisis and the Outer Rim Sourcebook, Jovan station is the headquarters for the sector blockade that keeps the Rebels around Yavin.
    -A bit of a cheat here, as the Falcon returns Luke, Leia, and Han to the droids after Ord Mantell. I'm assuming that Han and Leia picked Luke up after his scouting mission, and that they are being reunited for the first time since they left for Ord Mantell prior to Scoundrel's Luck, rather than the intended earlier encounter with Skorr.
    -Several weeks will pass between these events and the rest of the Classic Star Wars Fondor arc, as made clear in the original daily strip version of the story.
    SCOUNDRELS
    -One of the last major Legends sources released in this era, Scoundrels inserts itself in the period between Han losing his reward to pirates in Marvel #7 and Leia finding out about it in Marvel #11.
    -Han is offered a share of 163,000,000 credits if he participates in the heist. He thinks that even a small slice of this would pay off Jabba a dozen times over. Han is set to bring in “almost” 15,000,000 from the heist. This could suggest that his debt is as much as 1,500,000 at this point, but it’s accurate no matter the amount.
    -I'm assuming that the "Ord Mantell drop" referred to at the beginning of this story is part of the Scoundrel's Luck backstory, above. This is partially to consolidate events in this crowded time period, and partially because Han Solo's debt balloons to 500,000 credits at the end of the story, the highest it’s been so far.
    -Han and Chewie end up with 163,000 credits at the end of the story. He offers to pay out 111,000 to the others to be able to keep a set of encoded blackmail cards, which would leave them with 52,000 credits. This is said to be enough to pay off the debt to Jabba before he finds out that the debt has been raised to 500,000. (This is close to being consistent with Scoundrel's Luck if we assume that story refers to Alliance credits.)
    STAR WARS #7: NEW PLANETS, NEW PERILS (Pages 8-18)
    -We finally return to the main Marvel storyline after the long break necessitated by Scoundrels. The comic's storyline is continuous from here through #15.
    STAR WARS #8: EIGHT FOR ADUBA-3
    STAR WARS #9: SHOWDOWN ON A WASTELAND WORLD
    STAR WARS #10: BEHEMOTH FROM THE WORLD BELOW
    STAR WARS #11: STAR SEARCH
    -Leia learns directly about Crimson Jack's theft of Han's reward while Han is present, putting this run of comics after Scoundrels.
    STAR WARS #12: DOOMWORLD
    STAR WARS #13: DAY OF THE DRAGON LORDS
    STAR WARS #14: THE SOUND OF ARMAGEDDON
    STAR WARS #15: STAR DUEL!
    -This story doesn't lead directly into any other adventure.


    STAR WARS #24: SILENT DRIFTING
    -This double-flashback issue has a framing story that takes place after Star Wars #15, according to the editor's notes in the same story.

    STAR WARS #70: THE STENAX SHUFFLE (Pages 6-23)
    -According to Luke in the comic, this flashback occurred sometime "just after Han and I joined the Rebellion." As it's not tied to Vader or any of the other usual post-ANH era makers, placing it in this gap between Marvel arcs makes sense.


    STAR WARS #16: THE HUNTER
    -Star Wars #16 assumes that there is a major time jump between the end of #10 and this issue; Jimm the Starkiller kid is now married to Merri, the woman who became interested in him in #10 and they are expecting their first child.
    -Unfortunately, while I would love to slot in more adventures between these two issues, there simply aren't that many that fit the requirements: Han's debt has to be at or over 500,000 credits, Luke can't know that Vader is alive, and Vader can't have discovered Skywalker's name yet. And since all the Yavin based stories are limited to six months ABY or less, there's not a lot of time for a break for Jimm's major life events, period.
    -One possible unseen adventure Luke, Han, and Leia could have is a trip to Kashyyyk to honor Chewbacca. (See the Holiday Special notes, below.)
    -We just have to assume that the courtship, marriage, conception, and detection of the pregnancy all took place in a very short amount of time--not what the comic writers intended, but not totally implausible either.


    STAR WARS #18: THE EMPIRE STRIKES!
    STAR WARS #19: THE ULTIMATE GAMBLE
    STAR WARS #20: DEATHGAME
    STAR WARS #21: SHADOW OF A DARK LORD
    -I assume that Vader has left his assignment at Fondor to raid the Rebel outpost on Ultaar in search of information on the pilot who destroyed the Death Star. He finds Valence has gotten there ahead of him.
    -The spirit of Ben Kenobi appears to help Luke after he fell into a coma while meditating. This is somewhat at odds with Rebel Force #4 and 5, where Ben's spirit is actively avoiding Luke and Luke is just beginning to meditate with the Force, but this small discontinuity is necessary because Vader hasn't yet learned Luke's name here but has in Rebel Force #5.
    -Luke is able to tell Han and Leia that, as they suspected (probably from their close call at Delaya and the incident with Sodarra), Vader survived the Battle of Yavin and is hunting for them.
    STAR WARS #22: TO THE LAST GLADIATOR
    STAR WARS #23: FLIGHT INTO FURY
    STAR WARS #28: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JABBA THE HUT? (Pages 5-7)
    -Han and Chewie escape the Wheel to an old hideout on Orleon, only to be cornered by Jabba the Hut Jabba the Hutt’s accountant Mosep. Mosep can’t get into their cavern hideaway, but Han can’t escape until repairs are complete. Mosep decides to bide his time in order to capture the Falcon.
    STAR WARS #25: SIEGE AT YAVIN
    -At Centares, Luke and Leia find that the Empire has blockaded the entire sector surrounding Yavin.
    STAR WARS #26: DOOM MISSION
    -Luke has not yet heard Leia's story about how she was trained in the use of weapons, meaning that the Star Wars Weekly story Weapons Master has not yet occured.
    -Luke is not yet a flight commander, which is why Dodonna sends him on the mission against the Tagge station. Dodonna will later (attempt to) promote Luke to Commander in Classic Star Wars #16.
    STAR WARS #27: RETURN OF THE HUNTER
    -Luke and Threepio are on a mission to probe the extent of the Yavin blockade, and obtain repair parts for Artoo, who was damaged in the last issue.
    -It's suggested here that Valence has been on Junction for five weeks, putting this story at least five weeks after #18. If we're counting days, we would be well past two months after Yavin at this point--this is where the whole "six months after Yavin" limitation starts to break down if you look at it too closely.
    -Luke says that Junction has the "first real city I've had a chance to see. That time we stopped on Centares we were too busy fleeing Darth Vader to play tourist!" One has to assume that he was too busy for sightseeing on Muunilust and Delaya as well, since those visits occurred within weeks of ANH.

    THE EARLY ADVENTURES #4: TATOOINE SOJOURN
    -The starwars.com feature Time Capsule: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1979 places this story after the incident at the Wheel. Since Luke clearly returns to the Mos Eisley cantina for the first time since ANH in this story, we can infer that it takes place before Star Wars #31, in which he also returns to the establishment for what is only implied to be his first time since ANH. (A trip to the cantina was handily avoided in Rebel Force #3.)
    -Luke is also targeted by one of Jabba's bounty hunters in a manner that is consistent with Rebel Force #3 having occurred before this story. (!)
    -This is the only break in Luke's Marvel storyline that allows this placement. Luke is on a recon mission at the beginning of this story; he was also on a recon mission to probe the extent of the Empire's blockade at the beginning of Marvel #27. It seems Luke returned to Yavin, had Artoo repaired, then headed out on the same mission in a different ship.
    -While the Mos Eisley Imperial base is new to Luke, it was under construction as early as ANH as seen in Inside the Worlds Of Star Wars Trilogy. (Retconned as a Tatooine militia base for the Canon reissue.)
    -Luke will apparently end up heading right back to Tatooine for Marvel #31 once he drops Anduvil off at Yavin, his stated destination at the end of the original comic strip version of this story.
    STAR WARS #28: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JABBA THE HUT? (Pages 1-5, 7-18)
    -After ending the siege and saving Jabba Jabba’s accountant’s life, Han finally has his debt cancelled and the bounty lifted, and even gets a bonus out of the deal. But Mosep vows revenge; and Han isn’t out of trouble yet...
    STAR WARS #29: DARK ENCOUNTER
    -Vader fails to discover Luke's identity again, thanks to Valence's interference.
    STAR WARS #30: A PRINCESS ALONE!
    STAR WARS #31: RETURN TO TATOOINE!
    -Dodonna has sent Luke back to Tatooine to keep him busy recruiting pilots to run the Imperial blockade while Leia is on her solo mission (not that Solo!) in #30.
    -Rebel Force #3 ignored Marvel #31 entirely, which causes some difficulty in reconciling the two. A key point is that Camie and Fixer are married in #31, but only engaged in Rebel Force #3. I’m going to roll with this. (On the other hand, Luke states that he hasn’t heard the nickname “Wormie” since ANH, but it was tossed around pretty freely in Rebel Force. *shrug*)
    -Luke visits the Lars homestead, but instead of finding it abandoned as he did in Rebel Force #3, he discovers that Fixer and Camie are making it operational for the new owners, TaggeCo.
    -Fixer explains that everyone assumed Luke had died along with the Larses “when the Tusken Raiders hit the place.” This is a piece of Imperial misinformation Luke doesn’t correct. Strangely, Rebel Force #3 doesn’t address the raid on the homestead at all, even though that book was set over a month after ANH too.
    -One could assume that the Empire kept the deaths of Owen and Beru a secret for well over a month, until after the events of Rebel Force #3, explaining why Fixer and Camie are surprised to find him alive here. (On the other hand, Fixer is surprised by Luke’s skill with a lightsaber, when in Rebel Force #3 he saw Luke take out Bossk with it. *sob*)
    -After Luke is outed as the Rebel who destroyed the Death Star, the Mos Eisley authorities will change the story again (probably also influenced by the Empire), stating that Luke was the one who killed his aunt and uncle. (As per the Movie Trilogy Sourcebook.)
    -In any case, Fixer says that Luke’s return could foul TaggeCo’s claim to the Lars farm, and Luke is clearly disturbed to find an Imperial-friendly corporation in control of his uncle’s land. He’ll later return to Tatooine to find a more suitable owner in 3-D #2.
    -Tatooine Sojourn is another story that takes place around this time, featuring Luke’s apparent first return to Tatooine (though it’s easier to reconcile with this issue than Rebel Force #3 is, and vice versa.) The two stories take place so close together that either one could come first; I ended up placing Tatooine Sojourn before this issue mostly because Luke seems like he hasn’t been in the cantina since ANH there, and because he argues against being sent back to his homeworld, whereas here he’s sent almost as an afterthought.
    -Han Solo and Chewie are still on Tatooine, having delivered Jabba safely home brought Mosep back to Jabba, randomly running into Luke again at the cantina.
    STAR WARS #32: JAWA EXPRESS
    STAR WARS #33: SABER CLASH
    -Han notes that Luke’s skill with the lightsaber is improving. He’s skilled enough to beat Baron Tagge in a lightsaber duel in the dark; Luke’s first successful lightsaber battle.
    STAR WARS #34: THUNDER IN THE STARS
    -It’s not stated, but this seems to be the earliest post-Yavin source showing an assembled Alliance fleet.
    -The Essential Atlas placed the space battle here in the Feswe Corridor, and established that the battle with the Executor in Classic Star Wars #14 will occur here as well.
    -After a continuous run from Star Wars #18, the Marvel storyline has a break here.


    STAR WARS #50: RAGE IN THE RED NEBULA (Pages 13-30)
    -The Imperial blockade established in Star Wars #25 is in effect, and Han is looking to get back into spice smuggling, suggesting that this takes place after Star Wars #34 but before Classic Star Wars The Early Adventures #6.
    -As the flashback story begins, Han and Chewie are dropping off Rebel spies as a favor to Luke and Leia, who are absent from this story. I’ve slotted in Jedi's Honor below to give Luke something to do while Han and Chewie are beyond the edge of the galaxy.
    JEDI’S HONOR
    -Running concurrently with the previous story, this Choose-Your-Own adventure style gamebook has Luke investigating the Sil’Lume asteroid field as a possible Rebel base site.
    -This is a companion book to Scoundrel's Luck, but picks up at least a month afterwards, as the Battle of Yavin is stated to be “a few” months ago. (In Scoundrel’s Luck, Luke and his wing were sent on a scouting mission for a new base, which is referenced here.) General Dodonna is alive and on Yavin, putting this before the final Yavin evacuation.
    -Another timeline hint: this story is explicitly the first time Luke sees Vader after the Battle of Yavin. (His earlier detection of Vader’s presence in Marvel #18 is unmentioned; of course.) This places the story before their in-person encounters in Vader's Quest, Star Wood, Marvel #37
    -An optional subplot involves a Calamarian aide to Mon Mothma named Oro being discovered by Luke. This is tangential to the main, successful storyline, and probably did not occur since Luke doesn’t know who the Mon Calamari are in Classic Star Wars #13, and in Star Wood #7 Luke is surprised at the possibility of a spy on Mon Mothma’s staff.
    -Luke has only seen Mon Mothma once before this story. While the successful version of the story doesn’t show Luke meeting Mon Mothma, he is introduced to her for the first time in the Oro storyline, suggesting that this takes place before their interactions in Allegiance and Star Wood.

    DEVILWORLDS #2: THE PANDORA EFFECT
    -Han is juggling spice smuggling with escorting Leia to a Rebel trade conference on Daalang in this story, suggesting that it takes place during his brief return to smuggling. Leia could be on Daalang during Early Adventures #6, below.
    THE EARLY ADVENTURES #6: THE SECOND KESSEL RUN
    -Han is running spice for Jabba again, putting this after the bounty is called off in Marvel #28.
    -The Essential Atlas retconned this version of Kessel into a seperate world called “Little Kessel”; suggesting that it was never identified as being distinct from Kessel in this story due to an old smuggler’s tradition.
    -Han ends up giving away his spice shipment on Rion, which is not likely to earn him any points with Jabba or Mosep.
    STAR WARS #37: IN MORTAL COMBAT (Pages 217-218)
    -Jabba Mosep discovers the wreck of Crimson Jack's pirate ship, which Jabba owned a share in. He reasons that because Han Solo was responsible for the destruction of the ship and any treasure it was carrying, Solo is now back in debt to the Hutt.
    -The treasure holds are said to have been destroyed. It's been suggested that Han might have recovered his reward, but I'm choosing to take the comic at face value in this instance.
    -This amount is stated to be equal to what Han originally owed, plus interest.
    -Ironically, Han now owes Jabba because Jabba couldn't get his share of the money that Han was going to use to pay Jabba. Han can't win!
    -Han learns from a bounty hunter that the bounty is back on. Jabba's lifting of the bounty after Marvel #28 is said to have happened "weeks" ago. Han sets out to rejoin the rebels, seeing it as the safest option.
    -This bounty hunter has been interpreted by some as the bounty Hunter on Ord Mantell, including Pablo Hidalgo in the Essential Reader's Companion, though the planet they're on is never mentioned.
    -This is the other major re-sequencing of events on the timeline. This scene was originally intended as an epilogue occuring after the main post-ANH stories in Marvel 7-37, setting the stage for Han to pay back Jabba in TESB. However, after nearly 40 years worth of additional stories, the main events of Marvel #35-37, such as Vader learning Luke's name and confronting Luke personally, don't make sense at this point on the timeline given what's to come. At the same time, having a long gap that can't accommodate any stories with Jabba's bounty hunters pursuing Han doesn't work either.
    -Therefore, I'm treating these epilogue scenes as something akin to the end credit sequences in Marvel movies; they don't always literally take place after the film's conclusion. I'm choosing to assume that the epilogue is now a flashback to events that occurred earlier.

    GALAXIES: AN EMPIRE DIVIDED
    -With the addition of the NGE and Legacy Quests, the revised Galaxies game opened with Han Solo being paid by the Rebel Alliance to free the player character from captivity, with the assistance of Artoo and Threepio. They are pursued by Darth Vader, but escape to Tansarii Point Station and then to Tatooine. I've placed this at the earliest point this could occur on the timeline to accommodate other Galaxies plot points involving Jan Dodonna and Yavin. This also happens to coincide with Han's brief return to his smuggler/mercenary activities.


    CLASSIC STAR WARS #2: THE BOUNTY HUNTER OF ORD MANTELL/DARTH VADER STRIKES (Pages 22-26)
    -Luke and the Rebels know that Vader is alive, putting this after Marvel #21 and Jedi’s Honor. The Classic Star Wars run is now continuous through the beginning of issue 10.
    -In the May 31st, 1981 Sunday strip, Vader states that the meeting with the admirals earlier in this issue took place “several weeks” before, which justifies breaking the story in a way the Classic Star Wars re-edit doesn't make clear.
    -Nevertheless, Luke is still grumpy about what went on between Han and Leia on Ord Mantell all those weeks ago.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #3: DARTH VADER STRIKES
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #4: DVS/THE SERPENT MASTERS
    -Vader realizes that Obi-Wan has a disciple among the Rebels, and alludes to previous incidents that have made him suspect this, presumably the near-misses in ANH, Marvel 18, 23, and Jedi’s Honor. It’s clear that he doesn’t know Luke’s name yet.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #5: THE SERPENT MASTERS
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #6: DEADLY REUNION
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #7: DEADLY REUNION/TRAITOR’S GAMBIT
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #8: TRAITOR’S GAMBIT/THE NIGHT BEAST
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #9: THE NIGHT BEAST
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #10: THE RETURN OF BEN KENOBI (Pages 1-5)
    -Vader orders Admiral Griff to refrain from assaulting Yavin until the Executor is complete, and “certain other events are in motion”. Since Vader knows Luke’s name in the remainder of the issue, this scene is the most logical point to break the Classic Star Wars storyline.
    STAR WARS COMIC #7.11: THE CORELLIAN KID
    -One of the Hutts in this story mentions the Imperial Senate in the present tense, indicating a near-ANH placement.
    -Han's troubles with Jabba and the bounty on his head are current and well known, placing this either before Marvel #28 or after the "epilogue" scene in Marvel #37, above.
    -I'm placing this here because Han's schedule is jam-packed before Marvel #28, but he has some free time during Vader's Quest #1, below.
    VADER’S QUEST #1
    -On Centares, Vader interrogates a Rebel pilot who had returned to his homeworld to spread the news of the Death Star’s destruction.
    -From him, Vader finally learns the name of the pilot who destroyed the Death Star: Skywalker.
    -Vader's Quest has been placed at “approximately two months after the Battle of Yavin in the Early Victories omnibus collection. The Essential Reader's Companion repeats this date. Luke hints in issue #2 that it’s only been one month since ANH, but I’m going with the date that allows more time for stories that take place before Vader learns Luke’s name. (And there are a lot of them!)
    -Luke has gained an enemy in Jal te Gniev, the Rebel pilot whose X-Wing was assigned to Luke during the Battle of Yavin. (The fact that he crashed it while joyriding the day after probably didn’t help either.)
    -While it appears that Dodonna is about to send Luke to Jazbina on a diplomatic mission, the events of Star Wood (where Vader knows Luke’s name, but Luke is unaware that his identity has been compromised) mean that Vader’s Quest #2-4 have to be moved up the timeline a bit.
    -Fortunately, Luke’s assignment isn’t given "on screen", and we can infer a reasonable amount of time for Mala to make her way to Coruscant and for Jal to settle in on Dubrava, spitefully keeping tabs on Luke’s whereabouts through Rebel gossip.
    STAR WARS #35: DARK LORD’S GAMBIT (Pages 1-8)
    -Vader interrogates a Rebel on a refueling station.
    -From him, Vader finally learns the name of the pilot who destroyed the Death Star: Luke Skywalker.
    -It’s often assumed that Vader’s Quest adapts this scene, but they seem to be two different events. In Vader’s Quest, the scene takes place in an abandoned museum, here it’s in a destroyed Rebel refueling station. Vader uses an Imperial Shuttle and Interdictor Cruiser in Vader’s Quest, but here it’s his TIE Fighter and a Star Destroyer.
    -Most telling, in Vader’s Quest, Vader only learns Luke’s last name, but here he learns his full name.
    -In any case, the two stories happen soon after each other anyway, since from here on out Vader either knows Luke’s full name or is in a position to find out easily.
    STAR WARS MANGA - SILVER: PERFECT EVIL, PART 2 (Pages 6-16)
    -One of Vader’s officers meets with him aboard a Star Destroyer.
    -From him, Vader receives a data disc with the identity of the pilot who destroyed the Death Star: Luke Skywalker.
    -This is another alternate depiction of Vader’s discovery, but it can be interpreted as Vader’s agents being able to provide information on Luke now that his identity is known.
    -Vader sees a holo of Luke for the first time, and recalls seeing the boy aboard the Death Star.


    THE MANDALORIAN ARMOR (Pages 42-83, 103-171, 205-322)
    -Takes place “just after the events of Star Wars: A New Hope”, according to the flashback introductions.
    -The Boba Fett entry in the New Essential Guide to Characters places this at "several months after" the Battle of Yavin.
    -Vader is still in command of the Devastator, placing this after his return in Star Wars Missions #17 but before Star Wood.
    -Boba Fett joins the Bounty Hunters Guild, and must work with Bossk. It’s later indicated by Bossk in Slave Ship that this is their first and only such partnership. For the purposes of this timeline I’m taking this at face value; Bossk either doesn’t remember or isn’t willing to consider his dealings with Fett as a child before and during the Clone Wars in Star Wars Adventures and The Clone Wars as partnerships.
    -Boba Fett, Zuckuss, IG-88 and D’harhan team up for a Guild job on Circumtore.
    -Fett is successful in shattering the Bounty Hunters Guild into warring factions.
    -Kud’ar Mub’at is aware of an old man living out on the Dune Sea who knows secrets of the Force, and believes the Emperor is still unaware of him. He has not learned that Obi-Wan died on the Death Star.


    CLASSIC STAR WARS #10: THE RETURN OF BEN KENOBI (Pages 5-31)
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #11: THE RETURN OF BEN KENOBI
    -While Vader is fully aware of Luke’s identity here, Luke remains unsure about whether or not Vader knows who and what he is at this point, since they never meet face-to-face, and remains so even years later (as per the Life and Legend of Luke Skywalker.) This allows Luke to believe his identity remains unknown in Star Wood.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #11: THE POWER GEM
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #12: THE POWER GEM/ICE WORLD (Pages 1-16)
    STAR WARS MANGA - SILVER: PERFECT EVIL, PART 2 (Pages 17-19)
    -Vader is back on Coruscant, as he will be in Shadow Stalker, below.
    -Vader releases Tao from his apprenticeship. (I’m assuming there’s a break in time before the Executor launch scenes on this page.)
    SHADOW STALKER
    -This is often listed mistakenly on official timelines as occurring almost three years after the Battle of Yavin.
    -In fact, this is both a sequel to the Classic Star Wars: The Return of Ben Kenobi (Jix is said to have rescued Vader from Aridus) and a prequel to Classic Star Wars: Ice World (Jix sends the human replica droids in that story on their way), and makes the most sense if it is read between those two stories.
    -Vader mentions that the Aridus incident was “months ago”. This was a mistake even when the comic was written, as the Return of Ben Kenobi storyline led right into the events of Ice World from Luke’s perspective.
    -The Life and Legend of Luke Skywalker also makes it clear that Luke's Aridus mission was immediately followed by his crash landing on Hoth. This book was also by Ryder Windham, who also wrote Shadow Stalker, so I'm more inclined to treat the "months" reference as an error than to break up the CSW storyline as I have elsewhere on the timeline.
    -It's possible that Vader was lying to avoid giving the impression that his incapacitation was a recent event and that he might still be vulnerable.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #12: THE POWER GEM/ICE WORLD (Pages 17-28)
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #13: ICE WORLD/REVENGE OF THE JEDI (Pages 1-15)
    -Han mentions that he’s never heard of Hoth before.
    A NEW HOPE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF LUKE SKYWALKER (Pages 96-112)
    -An adaptation of "Ice World".
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #13: ICE WORLD/REVENGE OF THE JEDI (Pages 15-31)
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #14: DOOM MISSION (Pages 1-18)
    --The Executor has now been christened and launched, and is active in the galaxy.
    -In the original daily comic version of the story (January 24-31), the Executor was attacked by two different Rebel ships on the way to Yavin, a Nebulon-B Frigate and a Corellian Corvette. The re-edit for Classic Star Wars combines the two attacks. According to the Essential Atlas, this battle took place at Skorrupon. I’m assuming there is a break in time after the Nebulon-B assault but before the battle with the Corvette, in order to account for sources such as Allegiance and Star Wood, which show the Executor at large in the galaxy before the final attack on Yavin. Call it the Skorrupon Interruption.
    STAR WARS #17: CRUCIBLE
    --Another flashback issue this brief framing story takes place during a trip with at least Luke and Han on the Falcon.
    -The Luke Skywalker: Last Hope for the Galaxy collection places this after Classic Star Wars #10-11 “Return of Ben Kenobi storyline.
    -I've slipped this in during the Falcon's return from their mission to rescue Ackbar in Classic Star Wars #14, the earliest free period after Classic Star Wars #11 while Luke and Han are traveling together on the Falcon.
    REBEL FORCE #4: FIREFIGHT
    --As this book opens, Leia is about to head out on a week-long mission to Mon Calamari, putting this after the rescue of Admiral Ackbar. (Luke knows about the mission here, but hadn’t heard of the Mon Calamari prior to Classic Star Wars #13.)
    REBEL FORCE #5: TRAPPED
    -Vader reveals that he knows Luke Skywalker’s name to Soresh, placing this after Vader’s Quest.
    -Ferus has spent two months tracking Vader’s movements, placing this at least two months after Rebel Force #2.
    -The Essential Reader’s Companion places this book at two months after Yavin, just before Allegiance.
    -The Rebels learn from Ferus that Vader is tracking down the pilot who destroyed the Death Star. Ferus already knows that Vader has learned Luke’s identity, but does not reveal this fact to Luke and the Rebels.


    STAR WARS 3-D #1: LOOSE ENDS
    -The 3-D comics don’t take the Classic Star Wars storyline into account, so this issue would be an awkward fit anywhere on the timeline. Luke and Han return to Tatooine, where Luke has decided to gift the deed of the Lars Moisture Farm to an alien smuggler named Throgg. (As suggested in Marvel #31, Luke’s return from the dead and the failure of the Tagge’s Omega Frost weapons project has allowed him to challenge the Empire’s claim on the land.) Throgg’s ownership later was referenced in X-Wing: Rogue Squadron and the old starwars.com databank.
    -Meanwhile, Leia and Dodonna continue preparations to evacuate the base.
    ROGUE SQUADRON II: ROGUE LEADER
    Revenge on Yavin
    -This level was intended to be an alternate universe account of Vader attacking the Rebels on Yavin after ANH, but it could work here as Vader seems to be leading the attack on Yavin in Star Wars 3-D #2. The level of destruction shown here, with Vader destroying multiple transports inside the Great Temple, is unlikely to have occurred as portrayed. It does match Wedge’s statement “We barely made it off Yavin” in Star Wood #1.
    STAR WARS 3-D #2: HAVOC ON HOTH
    -Following directly on from 3-D #1, Luke and Han return to the Yavin system to find Vader’s Star Destroyers in orbit and the base completely abandoned in their absence. They rendezvous with the Alliance fleet, and are sent on a scouting expedition to Hoth, where they encounter the pirate Salmakk. In this version of events, Han has been to Hoth once before, but Luke has not, providing an alternate explanation for Hoth’s discovery from Classic Star Wars. Nevertheless, this scouting expedition and Salmakk were later referenced in the online RPG Planet Hoppers feature and other sources. One could interpret Han’s recommendation of Hoth as a semi-sarcastic support of Luke’s discovery, which is the more commonly accepted explanation for how the Rebels came to learn of Hoth, as well as the one most compatible with TESB’s opening scroll.
    -An unofficial complete evacuation of Yavin prior to the “official” evacuation in Classic Star Wars at six months after the Battle of Yavin has long been a staple of fan timelines, in order to reconcile the contradictions between multiple stories offering different takes on the evacuation. Ultimately, this version of the story, where Dodonna remains alive and Han and Luke aren’t present for the evacuation at all, has proved to be the least compatible with other versions of the tale. Star Wood has the Rebels completely gone from Yavin as early as two months after ANH, but before important events such as Luke learning that Vader knows his identity and the formation of Rogue Squadron. Thus, the first two 3-D stories fit here as well as they’ll fit anywhere on the timeline.
    -I'm assuming that Vader remained behind on Admiral Quist's Star Destroyer while the Executor hunts the Rebel fleet. He'll be back on the Executor by the end of Allegiance, below.
    -Salmakk tries to collect on Han’s bounty, putting this after it was reinstated in Star Wars #37.
    -Salmakk’s caverns, once re-excavated, will become part of Echo Base, according to Galactic Gazetteer: Hoth and the Greater Javin.


    SMUGGLER SERIES CHAPTER I: SMUGGLER’S GAMBIT (00:00-10:36)
    -While it is semi-official and uses several elements from the EU, this live Celebration audio drama series was never intended to be or included in Legends continuity.
    -Still, I’m including it to be absolutely complete, along with the Canon novel Heir to the Jedi (below) as an optional pseudo-continuity tangent. Both take place after the Rebels have fled Yavin.
    -It’s been “several” months since the Battle of Yavin, but I’m placing it here at around 2 months since I’m including Heir to the Jedi anyway, in which Han and Chewie have also left the Alliance temporarily.
    HEIR TO THE JEDI
    -I’m including this Canon Star Wars novel in the spirit of completeness, since it was originally announced as part of a trilogy with the Legends novels Honor and Thieves and Razor’s Edge. Had the EU continued, this book would certainly have been part of it, and would probably have been much the same if it had been released as part of the Legends continuity.
    -Han and Chewie are said to have lost their credits from the Battle of Yavin, consistent with Marvel #7.
    -They’re currently off trying to earn enough credits to pay off Jabba. Since this was one of the things Han mentioned as a reason to leave the Alliance in the equally-apocryphal Smuggler’s Gambit (above) I’m putting these at the same time.
    -The Rebels have evacuated Yavin IV, Luke is given a mission by Admiral Ackbar, but he hasn’t heard from Ben yet. Using Legends points of reference, this would put the story after he meets Admiral Ackbar in Classic Star Wars #13, after the evacuation of Yavin in Star Wars 3-D #2, and before Allegiance, in which Luke is in regular contact with Ben. (Luke can chalk his encounter in Marvel #18 up to a dream, since he’s not heard from Ben in Rebel Force either.)
    -Luke is aware of meetings that have taken place between Mon Mothma, Admiral Ackbar, and the Alliance Leadership, but it’s unclear if he’s met Mon Mothma yet. He had seen her once as of Jedi’s Honor, but they hadn’t yet met. They appear to have their first interaction in Allegiance, below.
    -On Rodia, Luke hears the first story about his father’s exploits during the Clone Wars. This seems to be consistent with the EU events to date, as while he’s met people who have told him they knew his father (Obi-Wan, Garven Dreis, Erling and Dena Tredway), he hasn’t been told any specific stories. (Dodonna and Ackbar also knew Anakin during the Clone Wars, but don’t seem to have mentioned it.)
    -Luke knows the basics of lightsaber construction, though it's not clear how.
    -Luke has not yet disassembled his own lightsaber, but he acquires a Rodian Jedi's lightsaber and takes it apart. Reassembling it is beyond his current abilities.
    -Luke will be able to disassemble and reassemble his own lightsaber by Star Wood #7.
    -Luke hasn't been to the Deep Core yet, which I'm fairly sure isn't contradicted elsewhere.
    -Luke attempts a Jedi mind trick on Rodia. He doesn't entirely recall Obi-Wan's technique, and is not successful, putting this before Star Wars Missions #5, in which he succeeds in mind tricking several of Jabba's minions.
    -Luke is concerned about being able to deflect three stormtrooper laser blasts simultaneously.
    -Luke takes out an Interdictor cruiser singlehandedly, something he's never heard of and he and Wedge had only theorized about.
    -He'll later witness Jal te Gniev single handedly take out another Interdictor in a suicide run to help save Luke from Vader in Vader's Quest #4. Something tells me ol' Jal te wouldn't be too happy to learn that Luke beat him to the punch again.
    -Several days have passed since the beginning of the story.
    -It was suggested in the previous section of the book that preparations for Luke's mission to contact the Givin agent would take a couple of weeks, though they may be leaving earlier than that here.
    -Leia teaches Luke some Givin mathematical greeting equations she had memorized. Years later, Luke will reciprocate by improvising a mathematical response for her during negotiations with the Givin as documented in The Essential Guide to Alien Species.
    -Luke identifies himself as “Lieutenant” here; I believe this is the first chronological mention of him holding any rank in the Alliance. (Splinter of the Mind’s Eye states that he refused any rank after the Battle of Yavin, but several other sources show his progression in rank to Commander, as seen in The Empire Strikes Back. Luke seems to have had a change of heart.
    -Luke has the rank of Flight Officer in Star Wood #3, and Mon Mothma later promotes Luke to “full” Lieutenant in Star Wood #6. If taken as part of Legends continuity this would indicate a provisional or Second Lieutenant’s rank here, since Heir cannot take place before Allegiance and Star Wood #1-6.
    -The book ends with Luke having learned to manipulate noodles with the Force. I don't think this contradicts anything else.
    SMUGGLER SERIES CHAPTER I: SMUGGLER’S GAMBIT (10:36-30:56)
    -Takes place "several days later," after Han and Chewie have left the Alliance. They’ve spent the last three days on Windos.
    -Prince Xizor has begun pursuing Luke Skywalker. While he knows the boy who destroyed the Death Star has been hanging around with Han Solo, it’s possible he doesn’t know his identity yet.
    -Jabba’s opening bid for Han Solo and Chewbacca is 250,000 credits.
    -Xizor counters with 400,000 credits.
    -Bib Fortuna counterbids with 450,000 each.
    -Han indicates that the last time the Millennium Falcon was caught in a tractor beam was in ANH.
    STAR WARS COMIC #7.12: LEIA'S TRUST
    -Leia is on the frigate Redemption, which serves as a home base for her throughout both Heir to the Jedi and the first Star Wood arc. This may also have been the frigate she met Han and Luke on in Star Wars 3-D #2.
    -Leia is on the Imperial most wanted lists, putting this after The Force Unleashed II and most likely ANH.
    -Vader is still on an unnamed Imperial-class Star Destroyer in this story, as he was in Star Wars 3-D #2.
    -Wookieepedia seems to think that the bearded Alliance officer here is General Dodonna, however, he is unnamed and Leia simply refers to him as "Commander". This placement does allow for his presence, but I don’t think this is Dodonna.
    SMUGGLER SERIES CHAPTER I: SMUGGLER’S GAMBIT (30:56-34:33)
    -Han and Chewie return to the Rebel fleet.
    -Luke has rejoined the Rebel fleet, indicating that the events of Heir to the Jedi have wrapped up at this point.
    -Han suggests Ord Mantell as a possible location for the Rebel base and Luke says he’s never heard of it. This was an obvious joke and meant to lead-in to TESB, but the series ended up continuing for two more pre-TESB installments instead.
    -At this point, I’m inclined to interpret “Never heard of it” as an in-joke between Han and Luke when it comes to possible Rebel Base sites. (See Classic Star Wars #13 and Star Wars 3-D #2, as well as Smuggler's Bounty.) Luke's been to Ord Mantell twice at this point (Classic Star Wars #1 and Scoundrel's Luck.)
    -This may have been intended to lead into the Legends audio drama Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell, but is not actually compatible with that story.
    -None of the existing Ord Mantell stories fit with this timeframe, however, Luke and Han are running a mission to Teardrop in the opening of Allegiance (below), which is relatively close to Ord Mantell, galactically speaking.

    ALLEGIANCE (Pages 1-324)
    -While there are indications that this novel was intended to take place shortly after ANH (Imperial Center’s response to the Death Star’s destruction is only days old, and it’s implied that Luke hasn’t encountered stormtroopers since the film), Vader knows Luke’s name, placing it after Vader’s Quest #1.
    -The Executor also appears, placing it after that ship’s launch in Classic Star Wars #14.
    -Sue Rostini indicated that this novel was set six months after Yavin on the old starwars.com forums.
    -The later novel Choices of One is explicitly set at eight months after Yavin, according to the dust jacket, and refers back to the events of this novel as having occurred three months before, suggesting a placement of five months ABY.
    -In the Essential Reader’s Companion, it has been moved back to around two to three months after Yavin, explicitly between Rebel Force #5 and #6.
    -The Rebels are still on Yavin in Rebel Force #6, so this must take place before the final Yavin evacuation.
    -Han balks at taking orders from Mon Mothma here, suggesting that it takes place before his missions for her in Star Wood #1. (He’s already had bad experiences working for her before Yavin as an independent mercenary in Galaxy at War.)
    -Luke regains contact with Ben's spirit, seemingly for the first time since the Battle of Yavin. This is largely consistent with Rebel Force and Heir to the Jedi; Luke's encounter with Ben in Marvel #21 can be handwaved as Luke assuming it was a dream and Ben allowing him to do so.
    SLAVE SHIP (Pages 74-152, 167-245, 304-321)
    -Vader has only recently taken possession of the Executor, putting this sometime after Classic Star Wars #14.
    -Bossk has not seen Boba Fett in the flesh since the break-up of the Guild in The Mandalorian Armor.
    -Bossk attempts to double-cross Fett, but Zuckuss intervenes. Still, Fett leaves them both adrift in an escape pod.
    -The New Essential Guide to Characters acknowledges this event, but states that the chance to capture Han Solo will lead Bossk and Fett to team up again. This is in reference to later events in Classic Star Wars, but I’m assuming this also applies to Star Wood #5 as an earlier attempt.
    HARD MERCHANDISE (Pages 60-139)
    -Xizor attempts to have Boba Fett killed, but Fett ends up limping away in a damaged Slave I.

    REBEL FORCE #6: UPRISING (Pages 1-5)
    -27 days have passed since Rebel Force #5, allowing for the events of Allegiance, Classic Star Wars, and Star Wars 3-D. It will be at least another month before the main events of Rebel Force #6, allowing Star Wood to take place in the interim.
    THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL: THE FAITHFUL WOOKIEE
    -The title for this cartoon is now all over the internet; apparently this was George Lucas’ title for the segment. It does not appear anywhere in the special itself but it’s better than just calling it “That cartoon from the Holiday Special”.
    -Boba Fett meets Luke for the first time here.
    -Given that this was originally presented as an in-universe cartoon, it would be tempting to assume that it’s an entirely fictional narrative within the EU, especially since Classic Star Wars #9 presents an alternate version of Luke’s first encounter with Boba Fett.
    -However, both editions of the Essential Guide to Characters, the old starwars.com databank, and several other sources not only reference this cartoon, but many details from it.
    -We’re left to assume that this is not only an in-universe cartoon, but one closely based on real events.
    -Perhaps Artoo and Threepio provided the audio files from their own memory. This would speed the apparently quick production time on this story. (See below.)
    -Yes, this would mean that you technically need to watch it twice if you’re being a completist, but you could probably close your eyes during this viewing.
    -The original Essential Guide to Characters puts both this cartoon and the Holiday Special proper "Shortly after the Battle of Yavin." Obviously the cartoon has to occur first.
    -The New Essential Guide to Characters puts this story "Following the Rebel Alliance's evacuation from Yavin." Technically this is correct on this timeline with the early evacuation in Star Wars 3-D #2, but probably not what the Guide intended. (See the Holiday Special entry below for notes on why I placed it this early.)
    -The Vader Time Capsule: 1980 feature on starwars.com put the events of the cartoon after Marvel #37, but a few minor details from Star Wood have led me to move the Holiday Special back.
    -The Time Capsule article also clarifies that the talisman in this story is a fake, part of Vader's plan to insert Fett into the Rebel Alliance.
    -Fett has been hired by Vader to befriend the Rebels in order to learn the location of their base in this story. (Possibly his success in breaking up the bounty Hunter's guild led Vader to use him in this manner.) The New Essential Guide to Characters also adds that Boba was intending to capture Luke specifically for Vader, so this story must take place after Vader's Quest #1.
    -This doesn’t seem to leave a lot of time for both the events of this cartoon to take place and for someone to make a cartoon out of it. This cartoon took three to four months to make in real life; on the other hand, nowadays something like an episode of South Park can be made in four days. I'm assuming the advanced technology in the GFFA leans more toward the latter timeframe.
    -The asteroid base the Alliance is using here has never been placed. There appears to be an off-screen hyperspace jump between the Falcon firing at Luke and their arrival in the Panna system, since Luke has to check his location.
    -I’d like to think that this base is in the Sil’Lume asteroid field that Luke scouted back in Jedi’s Honor, though the Essential Atlas places the Sil’Lume system in the Outer Rim near Mustafar, way across the galaxy from Panna, in the Tion Cluster.
    -Another possibility may be the Kashyyyk system itself; Renegade Squadron establishes an asteroid base used by the Alliance here, and it would explain Vader's presence in The Holiday Special.
    -After being ordered to let the Rebels take him to their new base, Fett says to Vader "This time we'll get them all!" I like to think this is a reference to the unseen events following The Force Unleashed II, where it was implied that Boba Fett rescued Darth Vader from the Alliance (while the main Alliance leaders obviously escaped unharmed,) and/or Star Tours II, where Boba Fett loses a vital Rebel spy near Geonosis.
    -Han Solo doesn't appear to recognize Fett in this story, since he appears here as a new character. The Essential Guide to Characters reconciles this odd behavior with Fett’s established notoriety as a bounty hunter (and previous chronological encounters with Han) by stating that Han was still groggy from the sleeping virus.
    -Han does indeed appear to be under the influence right up until the end of the cartoon. They never should have let him fly.
    -Presumably Chewie put heavy Wookiee air quotes around the word "friend" when describing Boba Fett.

    SWW #104-106: WEAPONS MASTER
    -This story, in which Leia reveals the tale behind her weapons training, must take place after Star Wars #26, in which Luke remarks that she's never told him the story.
    -I’m placing this adventure between the two Holiday Special storylines to give the Rebels/Wookiees/Nelvaanians/Paxi Sylo time to finish the cartoon we see in the Holiday Special.

    THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL
    -According to the Sunday comic strip The Kashyyyk Depths, the Wookiee holiday Life Day, seen for the first time here, only occurs once every three years.
    -The original Essential Guide to Characters accordingly placed the events of The Holiday Special and The Kashyyyk Depths, two distinctly different adventures both taking place on a Life Day, three years apart.
    -The Holiday Special was placed just after the Battle of Yavin, and The Kashyyyk Depths just before the Battle of Hoth.
    -The Essential Atlas placed the events of ANH at 35:3:3, and TESB at 38:6:6.
    -The events of the cartoon (see notes above) must take place after Vader’s Quest at around two months after Yavin, so the Holiday Special must take place around three months after Yavin to allow for the three years, three month window between 35:3 and 38:6.
    -I think this should actually be consistent with Rebel Dawn, which mentioned a previous Life Day occuring 1 year before the book’s 2 BBY setting.
    -Leland Chee put the Holiday Special around 1.5 ABY in answer to a question posed by Lit’s own expert timeliner Mavrick889, which Wookieepedia has adopted. (The starwars.com blog entry “The Star Wars Holiday Special Cantina: Who’s Who” also assumes ANH and the Special take place 1 year apart.)
    -The original exchange: ”Tasty, officially, how often does Life Day occur? I've always thought it was every three years, and there's a reference in Rebel Dawn (near the beginning -- set, according to the Essential Chronology, 2.5 years BBY) that the last Life Day had occurred [sic] "about a standard year earlier." If this is so, does that mean the only Life Day to occur while Han was with the Rebel Alliance occurred 2.5 years ABY?”
    “Wookiee Life Day occurs every 3 years, one of which fell at ~1.5 ABY.”
    “So -- Tasty, would this mean that Rebel Dawn starts 3.5 years BBY? Where do you have it starting on your timeline?”
    “I've got RD at 2 BBY”
    -I’m having a hard time following this. If Rebel Dawn takes place in 2 BBY, one would assume that the previous life day was in 3 BBY and the next Life Day would be in the same year as ANH. Possibly the confusion stems from the fact that the Life Day referenced doesn’t actually occur in Rebel Dawn, or that someone is assuming that ANH takes place in 1 ABY. Possibly I’m just crazy from watching the Holiday Special more than four times in my life.
    -Stir, whip, stir, whip, whip, whip stir.
    -In any case, given the more recent Essential Atlas dates for the films and a closer reading of the Kashyyyk Depths Sunday comic arc, I’m inclined to place it earlier.
    -Luke and Leia are already familiar with Chewbacca’s family here. According to TF.N’s dearly-missed Timetales chronology, the “Behind the Magic” CD-ROM contained a statement by George Lucas from 1978 that the Rebels held a special ceremony on Kashyyyk to honor Chewbacca for his actions in the Battle of Yavin. This was where Luke and Leia met Chewie’s family. The most convenient time for this event to take place in this reading order would be between Marvel #15 and #16, when Jimm the Starkiller Kid is getting married. (Leia may have already been acquainted with Chewie’s family during her time on Kashyyyk in The Force Unleashed II; she’ll call Attichitcuk an “old friend” in her Galactic Battlegrounds campaign set several months later.)
    -Chewie and Han appear to be leaving Tatooine (through the magic of stock footage) as the story opens. It’s very likely that this is meant to be another planet (Yavin stands in for Kashyyyyk later in the program), but this could be related to Han’s activities there in Galaxies or the Rebellion’s interest in Tatooine in Rogue Squadron and The Mystery of the Rebellious Robot.
    -The Empire institutes similar lockdowns and curfews on both Kashyyyk and Tatooine during the course of the special.
    -That being said, Saun Dann seems to say through code to Malla that Chewbacca is “four planets away”, so this may be intended to be somewhere in the Kashyyyk system--one of the moons of Shurr?
    -Han loses control of the “remote cannons” during a dogfight with TIE Fighters and has to man the turret himself. This system will be replaced with a fully automated turret system in Star Wars #19.

    STAR WARS #1-6: IN THE SHADOW OF YAVIN
    -The introductory narration in #1 puts this issue at two months after Yavin. I’m interpreting this as the absolute tail end of the month in order to fit in all the stories that logically precede Star Wood. (It’s still a major stretch, but every little bit helps.)
    -Mon Mothma is in touch with Incom corporation and has new prototype X-Wings. It would be nice to place this after X-Wing Marks the Spot, but this doesn’t seem feasible.
    - Vader has been sent to Kuat by Palpatine to intimidate local officials. It is implied that it has been “weeks” since he has contacted the Emperor, time in which he was instructed to meditate on his failure at the Battle of Yavin.
    -Vader is aware of the name “Skywalker”, placing this after Vader’s Quest #1.
    -Vader seems to have been removed from command of the Executor, as it is finished but spends most of its time near Endor. (Perhaps this was due to the Rebels being able to evacuate Yavin IV in Star Wars 3-D #2, negating the reason the Executor was rushed to completion in the first place.)
    -Command of the Devastator is also taken from Vader, placing this after his conference with the Emperor and Xizor in The Mandalorian Armor. The Emperor seems to be embarrassing Vader by degrees.
    -Leia mentions that she, Luke, and Wedge have been scouting new bases but are being ambushed by the Empire constantly. This sort of aligns with their missions in Marvel, Jedi’s Honor, and Classic Star Wars taking place before Star Wood.
    -Han indicates that it's been awhile since he and Chewie have been in Coruscant's sector, placing this before Star Wars Comic UK "My Spaceship, My Enemy" and Star Wars Missions #13, in which he visits Coruscant.
    -Ben talks to Luke about Leia in Star Wood #4.
    -Bossk is working with Boba Fett. The New Essential Guide to Characters explained that the two overcame their previous conflict in order to capture Han Solo. This is in reference to later events in Classic Star Wars, but I’m assuming this also applies to Star Wood #5 as an earlier attempt.
    -The Death Star II is in the Endor system, as is the apparently completed Executor, placing this after Classic Star Wars #14.
    -Construction on the Death Star II has progressed more quickly than might be expected, given that the construction of the shield generator has yet to take place (as per Choices of One, later in the timeline.) However, if the construction site was originally intended to be Kef Bir in Legends as it is in Canon, this might explain why the garrison and generator aren’t on the forest moon yet.
    -Ben speaks to Luke in Star Wood #3, putting this after the period in which he is avoiding Luke in Rebel Force #1-5.
    -Mon Mothma and Luke have met, placing this after Jedi's Honor. Luke is promoted to "full" Lieutenant, and Wedge to Commander.
     
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    STAR WARS #7-12: FROM THE RUINS OF ALDERAAN
    -Leia has recovered from her injuries in Star Wood #6, suggesting a possible break in time between arcs.
    -Luke and Leia return again to Tatooine, this time building a memorial to the Larses.
    -Luke feels like his connection to his home and youth are gone. Throgg isn't present or mentioned, but it's possible he's around somewhere.
    -Nevertheless, he wants Tatooine to be a place where the fight against the Empire begins to turn in the Rebellion’s favor. Luke and Rogue Squadron will later spend some of their early training on Tatooine in the Rogue Squadron computer game, and he and Leia will attempt to provide aid during a drought in The Mystery of the Rebellious Robot.
    -Luke is surprised that there might be a spy on Mon Mothma's staff, suggesting that the ending of Jedi's Honor where Luke exposes a spy on her staff did not happen.
    -Luke says that he's completely unknown to the Empire, and that no one knows he's the pilot who destroyed the Death Star, suggesting that this takes place before the Jazbina mission in Vader's Quest #2-4.
    -Han is still on Coruscant. The bounty on his head still appears to be in the half-million range, as per Scoundrels.
    -Vader has returned to the Executor in the Endor system.
    -Luke is capable of disassembling and reassembling his lightsaber.
    -In Star Wood #10, Wedge mentions Rogue Squadron for the first time. He wants the Alliance to retire the Red Squad designation, and replace it with Leia’s Stealth Squadron, renamed Rogue Squadron. This is the first time Luke has heard the name.
    -This and subsequent issues give Rogue Squadron a full origin story, which is why any stories featuring the Rogues, such as Star Wars Missions #9-12 and parts of #17-20 take place after this issue.
    -Vader receives a full report on Luke Skywalker from Tatooine records. These may be the same ones mentioned in The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader.
    -In Star Wood #11, Leia mentions that it's been "several weeks" since Kell Bircher started hunting the rebels, presumably since he took command of the Devastator.
    -Leia scouted the Arrochar system and possibly others while she was in her solo mission, pointing at another break in time.
    -Vader is aware that Obi-Wan still exists; they speak. Vader executes the command staff of the Devastator and views it as tainted, making it unlikely that he would retake command after this. Presumably Wermis was transferred to another Star Destroyer (perhaps the Conqueror, which Vader also used in Star Wars 3-D) back when Vader was removed from command.
    STAR WARS #13-14: FIVE DAYS OF SITH
    STAR WARS #15-18: REBEL GIRL
    -Han has been offered a rank and position in the alliance by Mon Mothma.
    -Having received approval for the Rogue designation, Wedge Antilles officially begins operating Rogue Squadron as Rogue Leader. Luke retains his callsign number from Red Squadron as Rogue Five. (While this is at odds with Luke’s leadership of the Rogues in the Rogue Squadron game, it does make sense as Wedge is the senior officer in terms of experience.)
    -The Essential Guide to Warfare states that following the Battle of Yavin, Red Squadron was reconstituted as a pair of flights under Commander Narra, Renegade and Rogue, with Rogue Flight being put under Luke’s command with Wedge as his second in command. The Rogues wouldn’t be a fully fledged squadron until after the Battle of Derra IV. (All this is consistent with the Empire Strikes Back Radio Drama.)
    -Presumably this early incarnation of Rogue Squadron is before Narra (previously seen commanding Red Squadron in Rebel Force #4) takes charge and reverses Luke and Wedge’s roles.
    -Still, most sources in this era (such as Star Wars Missions and, y’know, the Rogue Squadron video game) call the Rogues a squadron rather than a flight.
    -In any case, it does help to explain why the Rogues and Reds operate at the same time and are often used interchangeably within this era, since we see Luke flying with Red Squadron Star Wars Kids: Imperial Spy and in Empire #26, set 7 months ABY.
    -Given that Rogue Squadron here is an evolution of the top-secret Stealth Squadron, we can assume that the classified nature of their early missions left the Rogue’s early days unclear for future historians.
    -The Rebels have been on Arrochar for about a week.
    -In Star Wars #18, the fleet goes into hiding for a few weeks.
    VADER’S QUEST #2-4
    -Star Wars #19 seems to indicate that the Falcon has been grounded for two weeks, so I’m putting the rest of Vader’s Quest here to fill time.
    -On viewing a holo of the Princess Syayna, Luke says “I’ve seen more hologram Princesses in the last month than ever before!” This was probably intended to place the story no more than one month after the Battle of Yavin, but this was changed to two months after Yavin in the Early Victories omnibus. The events of Star Wood necessitate these issues being moved even further up the timeline.
    -This works since it’s not out of the question that Jal has been on Dubrava for a month, and that it took Mala a month to reach Coruscant.
    -Vader and Palpatine have yet another meeting that is intended to be their first after the Battle of Yavin. Palpatine’s line “I thought you were lost…” could be reinterpreted to refer to Vader’s rogue actions in Star Wood #13-14.
    -Vader's reference to the Death Star report can also be interpreted as a summary of his failures, which Palpatine had ordered him to meditate on in the weeks before Star Wood #1.
    -Vader and Luke come face-to-face for the first time since Vader learned about Luke’s identity.
    -Vader demands that the Jazbinains hand over Skywalker while Luke is present, and Luke offers himself up to save them. Luke is now aware that Vader knows who he is (even though he is blinded at this time.) This is the main impetus for moving these issues this far down the timeline.
    -Palpatine is preparing to meet Vader again as the story concludes. He says that Vader will “offer another bit of his flesh”, referencing the assertion by Mara Jade in the Thrawn trilogy that Vader’s hand was cut off by Palpatine in punishment for his failure at the Death Star. Given Attack of the Clones, we’d probably assume Palpatine made a somewhat higher cut.
    -Palpatine is now aware that Luke Skywalker is the pilot who destroyed the Death Star, though he will feign ignorance of this fact.
    -Palpatine’s monologue pretty much admits that he’s toying with Vader, which is one of the reasons why I’m okay with moving their previous meeting this far down the timeline.

    STAR WARS #19-20: A SHATTERED HOPE
    -IG-88 is on Lotho Minor in pursuit of Serena Song. Luke has not encountered IG-88 before.
    -Han grumbles that the Millennium Falcon’s repair requisition “has been on hold for weeks”, possibly indicating that the Falcon has been grounded for that long. Luke later says he has Leia to thank for getting her flying again, putting this story weeks after Star Wars #18.
    -Han also mentions that he and Leia haven’t been on good terms since Arrochar, in Star Wars #18.
    -He hints that the last rescue mission they went on was to the Death Star detention area in ANH. There have probably been lots of other rescue missions in the preceding stories, such as the events of Scoundrel’s Luck. (Possibly Han means rescue missions they all went on together.)
    -Leia authorizes Han to pull supplies for a ten day mission, though it’s possible the events of this story don’t take that long.
    -It occurs to Leia for the first time in this story that she won’t have many opportunities to reconnect with childhood friends, possibly putting this before her reunion with Darlen in Star Wars Kids: Imperial Spy.
    -Mon Mothma has upgraded the Falcon with a fully automated turret system, slaved to the navigational array.
    -The entire comic run of Star Wood is more-or-less continuous and takes about 22-25 days. If we were counting days (which again, one has to assume isn’t completely accurate), this would account for the bulk of the third month after Yavin.

    TALES FROM JABBA’S PALACE: A BOY AND HIS MONSTER (Pages 12-18)
    -It’s been a “few months” since Jabba was given the rancor, an event that took place around ANH.

    SWW #107-115: WORLD OF FIRE
    -Jan Dodonna contacts Luke and Leia from Yavin, putting this after the Rebels' theoretical return to the base.
    -Rebel Headquarters is said to be on the "third moon of Yavin" in SWW #107 and on Yavin IV in SWW #110.
    -This is obviously a mistake, but suppose Dodonna and his staff have been hiding on the lifeless Yavin III all this time. It would explain why the Yavin base is completely abandoned in Star Wars 3-D #2, where Dodonna is during Star Wood, and why the Rebels return to the Yavin system in this and later stories.
    -The spirit of Obi-Wan helps Luke land the Staraker on Alashan, putting this after Obi-Wan has reestablished contact with Luke in Allegiance.
    -Luke is recognized as the destroyer of the Death Star by Imperial Ensign Kyril Lopaki in this story, putting this in the period after Star Wood and Vader's Quest, when Luke's name and involvement in the Battle of Yavin are becoming better known.
    -After another near-death escape, Leia muses "If Luke and Han Solo keep 'rescuing' me like this, I don't think I'll live out the year," indicating that less than a year has passed since the Battle of Yavin and/or that the year in which the Battle of Yavin occurred has not yet ended. (Both are already consistent with this timeline, but it’s worth noting.)
    -Han and Chewie are absent during this story, making this a good time for Han to hire Col Serra to form Renegade Squadron to defend the newly reoccupied Yavin base, as described in the backstory for the Battlefront: Renegade Squadron game.
    DEVILWORLDS #1: DARK LORD'S CONSCIENCE
    -Placement from Joe Bongiorno’s timeline. I have this story but I don’t think there are any discernible timeline indicators here. It gives Vader something to do while Luke and Leia are on Alashan in World of Fire, above. (Both stories were originally published in Star Wars Weekly/Empire Strikes Back Monthly.)
     
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    REBEL FORCE #6: UPRISING (Pages 5-138)
    -Han Solo mentions encountering a Farghul bounty hunter on Iridonia; I like to think this occured during his unseen mission to retrieve the talisman in The Faithful Wookiee. This also could have occured during Luke and Leia's mission in World of Fire.
    -X-7 has been dead for "months", putting this section of the story at least two months after his death in Rebel Force #5, and at least a month and several days after the opening chapter.
    -Ferus and Lune are back on Yavin with Dodonna, and Leia and the gang have left from the base there at least three days before the story begins. Presumably the Rebels returned to Yavin sometime after the evacuation in Star Wars 3-D #2.
    -This is, I'll admit, a little silly, and is supported mainly by the existence of so many different evacuation stories, plus the very late insertion of the Star Wood storyline, which claims the Rebels had evacuated Yavin by two months ABY. And yet, here we are, back on Yavin four months after ANH, with two months still to go before the evacuation date long established by the Essential Chronology and used consistently for 12 years.
    -Galaxies established that the Rebels have also reoccupied their Dantooine base around this time, so perhaps this is part of a larger effort to temporarily reuse old bases.
    -The Rebels are planning to evacuate Yavin (again) soon.
    -Dodonna says here that he's grown fond of the base and hopes they won't have to evacuate. Perhaps Dodonna's attachment to the place influenced the Alliance's decision to return.
    -The Essential Guide to Warfare explains that Dodonna convinced Mon Mothma to keep the base in place as a statement of defiance and a recruiting tool after realizing that most of the base's equipment and personnel could be evacuated quickly.
    -While it's reading against the text, if we assume that Dodonna first realized this during the Star Wars 3-D evac and he and his staff only got as far as Yavin III before returning to the base, it's possible to handwave the first evacuation while still keeping Star Wood's period of Rebel flight from Yavin. Maybe.
    -"A few weeks" pass between the beginning and end of this section of the book.
    -Luke's attitude toward Vader has varied a bit, from calm acceptance of a confrontation (Vader's Quest) to curiosity rather than anger (Heir to the Jedi). The events of this book leave Luke angry and determined to confront Vader, an attitude that matches with the events of Marvel #35, below.

    ADVENTURE JOURNAL #11: THE MOST DANGEROUS FOE

    -Deen Voorson is on board the Alliance vessel Republic’s Return, which is evacuating command and technical personnel from Yavin.
    -It’s implied that Luke Skywalker is also on board, and takes the opportunity to thank Deen for repairing Artoo, presumably after the Battle of Yavin. (I’m assuming that Deen wasn’t responsible for the faulty repairs that caused Artoo to go haywire back during the Akuria mission.)
    -The Essential Reader’s Companion places this after Rebel Force #6 but before Galaxy of Fear #1. Since it’s not specified that this occurs during the final moments of the evacuation in Classic Star Wars (below), this could just be part of the ongoing evacuation that was being prepared in Rebel Force #6. Given that the final evacuation is so crowded, I’m inclined to keep the Reader’s Companion placement even though Galaxy of Fear #1 has been moved back a bit.

    TALES FROM THE MOS EISLEY CANTINA: DOCTOR DEATH: THE TALE OF DR. EVAZAN AND PONDA BADA
    -Evazan references the falling out he had with Ponda Baba after ANH, as described in Galaxy Guides #1 and #7. They have put aside their differences for now.
    -The old starwars.com databank placed this story after Evazan’s appearance in Galaxy of Fear #2 (below) explaining that Evazan survived his (second) death in that story.
    -The Essential Reader’s Companion appears to have reversed this order to maintain narrative consistency between the two stories.
    -The Essential Reader’s Companion also places this story after “The Most Dangerous Foe” but before “The Great Herdship Heist”.
    -While it's implied that Evazan's mind transfer procedure only worked in reverse, the databank also implied that Baba's mind was indeed transferred to the Aqualish senator seen here, allowing Baba to live on past the Battle of Endor.

    ADVENTURE JOURNAL #15: THE GREAT HERDSHIP HEIST
    -Placement per the Essential Reader’s Companion, after “Doctor Death” but before Galaxy of Fear #1

    DEVILWORLDS #2: TILOTNY THROWS A SHAPE
    -Leia twists her ankle badly in the opening panels of this story.
    -At the conclusion of this story, Splendid Ap restores Leia and some stormtroopers to life and attempts to place them at the correct points in time, but is not entirely successful.
    -It would be nice if we could attribute all of this era’s timeline revisions to Ap messing around in space and time.
    -Need a Star Wars timeline fix? There’s an Ap for that!
    -Most timelines place this story immediately before Marvel #35, since Leia’s lower leg (try saying that five times fast) was injured in a then-untold story at the beginning of the issue. I’m not sure if this connection was intentional (given the advanced state of medicine in the GFFA it seems odd that a mere twisted ankle would still be troubling Leia) but it’s too good a connection to pass up.
    STAR WARS #35: DARK LORD’S GAMBIT (from page 8)
    -Luke is flying as Blue Leader for Blue Flight. There seem to be two schools of thought at play in the EU, with Luke being either a fantastic pilot and natural leader who moved quickly up the ranks in a vacuum of pilots left by the Battle of Yavin, or with Luke being a talented but inexperienced rookie who still needs a lot of instruction and guidance from veteran pilots like Wedge and Narra. The latter interpretation seemed especially prevalent in the later EU, with Star Wood and Honor Among Thieves casting Luke as Wedge's subordinate with varying levels of acceptance and respect on Luke's part.
    -All this is to say that when we see Luke in command roles here and later in the timeline, it's probably best to assume that he's still being groomed for command by Wedge and Narra within the previously discussed Reds/Rogues/Renegades hierarchy.
    STAR WARS #36: RED QUEEN RISING!
    -Han has had the Alliance install false bottoms in his smuggling compartments after he had to use them in infiltrating the Death Star.
    -Leia disables Vader's cruiser, rescues Han and Chewie, and escapes single handedly, saying "I had that escape you and Luke improvised from the Death Star to remind me what it would be like if I didn't!" Her concern over surviving Han and Luke's rescue attempts had come to a head in World of Fire, above.
    -We learn that Vader has been visiting Monastery regularly since he recruited Ulric Tagge to his cause back in the opening scenes of #35, so some time has passed since then.
    -Other sources identified the Star Destroyer Wermis commanded for much of the Marvel run as the Devastator, Vader's ship from ANH. Because the events of Star Wood must take place between the opening scenes of Marvel #35 and these last few issues (since Vader has learned Luke's identity, but Luke remains unaware of this) it seems likely that Wermis was transferred off the Devastator when Vader was removed from command, taking the comatose Tagges with him. Given Vader's attitude toward the Devastator by the end of Star Wood, this is likely a different vessel, possibly the Conqueror from Star Wars 3-D or the Immortal, Vader's flagship from the X-Wing game.
    STAR WARS #37: IN MORTAL COMBAT (Pages 1-18)
    -Vader has now fully tested Luke and his abilities with the Force.

    GAMER #1: FAIR PREY
    -Placed before Galaxy of Fear #1 by The Essential Reader’s Companion.
    -A direct sequel to The Great Herdship Heist, this story picks up “weeks” later.
    -The Imperial attack on Kabal from Classic Star Wars #6 is mentioned as having occurred “less than a year ago.” (Three months ago on this timeline.)

    GALAXY OF FEAR #1: EATEN ALIVE
    -Zak and Tash came to live with their Uncle Hoole "six months" ago, after the destruction of Alderaan. I'm interpreting this as very close to the end of month 5 in order to get Galaxy of Fear #4 in before the evacuation of Yavin (see below)
    -Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie, and the droids show up on D'vouran posing as "researchers". Reading between the lines, it seems they're evaluating the newly discovered planet for a Rebel base. As we'll see later in the timeline, while construction on Hoth base was proceeding, the site grew less popular as a potential base.
     
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    GALAXY OF FEAR #2: CITY OF THE DEAD
    -Like Galaxy of Fear #1, set "six months" after Yavin. I'm putting this early in the sixth month to allow for Galaxy of Fear #4 to take place almost a month later.
    -Picks up only "days" after the end of Galaxy of Fear #1.
    -Luke, Han, Leia, Chewie and the droids drop off the Arrandas and Hoole at Necropolis.
    -Boba Fett arrives, having previously killed a criminal who was later spotted alive.
    -Fett pursues Evazan, kills him, and collects the bounty.
    -Evazan is resurrected, thanks to his own reanimation serum. (He seems to be continuing his research into immortality, but he’s progressed from body swapping to reanimation.)
    -Evazan appears to die for good here, as his reanimation serum is neutralized.
    -The old starwars.com databank stated that Evazan survived this death, and went on to return to Mos Eisley and run body-swapping experiments on Ando. (References to Galaxy Guide #7 and “Doctor Death”, above.)
    -The Essential Reader’s Companion retconned this order of events, making this story Evazan’s final appearance in the literature. Whether this is in fact his final death is up for debate.
    CHEWBACCA AND THE SLAVERS OF THE SHADOWLANDS
    -The framing story is set “approximately six months after the battle of Yavin”.
    -Leia mentions getting supplies back to the Rebel base, indicating that Yavin hasn’t been evacuated yet.
    -This is also a good fit as our heroes don’t have much to do during this month while they catch up to the events of Galaxy of Fear #2-4.
    GALAXY OF FEAR #3: PLANET PLAGUE
    -Picks up “days” after Galaxy of Fear #2.
    -Wedge Antillies has been on Gobindi for at least three weeks, as the Empire has blockaded the world for that long.
    -We actually haven’t seen Wedge since Star Wood #18, two to three months back, so sidelining him for several weeks works on this timeline.
    GALAXY OF FEAR #4: THE NIGHTMARE MACHINE
    -Dengar and Lando make appearances at Hologram Fun World.
    -Lando is investigating the theme park as an investment opportunity and will later be running the place in Queen of the Empire.
    -Lando's battle at Tanaab from Return of the Jedi is mentioned. This was covered in the Holonews feature of Adventure Journal #5, though the date there is given as 36.2.17. As usual, the now-defunct Adventure Journal dates are assumed to be the date that particular story ran.) It has since been retconned to five months ABY in The New Essential Guide to Characters, which is consistent with this timeline.
    -At then end of the book, Lando states that he is headed to investigate another opportunity on a Tibanna gas mining planet, so this takes place directly before Lando shows up in Cloud City and is given the title of Baron Administrator in Tales #3: Lady Luck.
    -References in this book indicate that Alderaan was destroyed seven months ago, and that the events of the previous three books took place over the course of a month.
    -As with the first book, I'm assuming that this story takes place in the final weeks of this month to fit in Lando's appointment as Cloud City Baron Administrator so that the sequence of events in A Bad Feeling and Missions #9-12 is possible (below).
    GALAXIES: AN EMPIRE DIVIDED
    Rebel Theme Park
    -During this quest, C-3PO, Leia, and Wedge are on Corellia. Nien Numb and Han Solo are on Lok, Ackbar and Mon Mothma are on Dantooine, and Luke and Dodonna are on Yavin IV.
    -This is a period of time that allows for all these characters to be active and spread across the galaxy.
    -Yavin IV has not been evacuated and Dodonna hasn’t been captured by the Empire.
    -Ackbar and Dodonna are in communication with each other.
    -Wedge is no longer stuck on Gobindi.
    -Any player interactions with Dodonna and Luke on Yavin probably would have taken place around this time as well.
    TALES #3: LADY LUCK
    -The introduction to this story places it one year after Yavin.
    -The Galaxywide Newsnets in Adventure Journal #14 suggests that Lando spent several months becoming a regular in the casinos before winning the title of Baron Administrator of Cloud City as seen here. (Though that particular article is uncertain of many of the details in-universe.) This would have been consistent with Lando leaving for Bespin at the end of Galaxy of Fear #4, set at 7 months ABY.
    -Alternatively, Shadow Games suggests that Lando (or at least someone with the last name Calrissian) became Baron Administrator at some point before 1 BBY.
    -Still, I’m placing it here because the story of EV-9D9 and Wuntoo Forcee Forwun (below) begins when Lando is already the Baron Administrator, and continues into Missions #9, which has scenes including General Dodonna on Yavin IV, which would not be possible after the Yavin evacuation set at 6 months ABY.
    -For what it’s worth, the Essential Chronology came out only a month after Tales #3, so the date was contradicted pretty quickly.
    -Lando was still known on Cloud City before this, having lost the Millennium Falcon to Han Solo here in Rebel Dawn.
    A BAD FEELING: THE TALE OF EV-9D9 (Pages 268-274)
    -Lando is preparing to make his pre-scheduled annual payment to the Mining Guild in this story to keep them from organizing in Cloud City, suggesting that the original intent was that it’s been more than a year since he became Baron Administrator. (It’s easy to retcon that Calrissian was simply preparing to make an annual payment that preceded his appointment.)
    -Again, this has been moved back to accommodate Star Wars Missions #9 (below).
    -The Hyperspace short story Lando Calrissian: Idiot’s Array puts this encounter with EV-9D9 within the first two months of his arrival on Cloud City, which is consistent with this timeline.
    -EV-9D9 massacres the droid population on Cloud City and escapes, leaving behind a vengeful Wuntoo Forcee Forwun, who saw three of his fellow Wuntoo units from his own manufacturing lot dismantled.
    -The Essential Guide to Droids explains that EV-9D9 next took a position as a supervisor at a GoCorp repulsor plant, and brought her to Jabba the Hutt. In the meantime, Forwun went to work for Boonda the Hutt on one of the moons of Kleeva, where he eventually learned about EV-9D9’s new position.
    -All of this must have taken place in a very short period of time indeed, since everything in this section of the timeline has to have occurred late in the sixth month ABY.
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #9: REVOLT OF THE BATTLE DROIDS
    -Wuntoo continues his quest for vengeance by taking over Boonda the Hutt’s droid factory, recruiting Boonda’s droids to his own cause, and creating an army of battle droids.
    -Boonda the Hutt and his second in command, Oleg Greck (who appears to be killed here) first appeared in Dark Horse’s Droids comics.
    -He then takes control of the Empire’s Victory class Star Destroyer Decimator.
    -Wuntoo sets course for Tatooine.
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #10: SHOWDOWN IN MOS EISLEY
    -Wuntoo diverts his crew of droids from their intended mission of capturing the planet Vactooine to Tatooine in order to take out EV-9D9.
    -He states that his position on Cloud City was “years ago”, which would be impossible given the current timeline. A retconned reading would probably be that EV-9D9’s slaughter of his fellow 1-2 units began years before she was ousted from Cloud City, changing his normal life forever. (I believe this may have been a contradiction even when Missions was being written, as information established in Rebel Dawn would make it unlikely that Lando was in charge of Cloud City before 1 BBY.)
    -Meanwhile, Jabba’s swoop gang has broken into Ben Kenobi’s hut. Jabba has learned that Han took Kenobi off the planet, so he thinks there might be a clue to Solo’s whereabouts here.
    -This is one of several indications that these books were originally intended to take place soon after ANH, but they must be moved this far up the timeline to accommodate the Wuntoo/EV-9D9 storyline, which is itself dependant on Lando’s Cloud City history, which is tied to Galaxy of Fear, etc.
    -In any case, Ben’s hut seemed intact back when Luke took refuge there in Tatooine Sojourn.
    -Forwun manages to run afoul of Jabba’s biker gang in Mos Eisley, and they defeat him before he reaches the palace. He decides to continue on to Vactooine, promising to return to Tatooine for EV-9D9 later.
    -The gang tells Jabba that the droids were after him, causing him to pull his bounty hunters off the search for Solo to hunt down the droids. EV-9D9 remains unaware of Wuntoo and the entire affair, ensuring consistency with A Bad Feeling.
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #11: BOUNTY HUNTERS VS. BATTLE DROIDS
    -IG-88, Boba Fett, Dengar, and Bossk arrive on Dennogra, having heard that Han had met with Sprool the Trader here back in Rebel Thief.
    -Jabba even mentions that Sprool is still on Tatooine, having journeyed there in Rebel Thief. (But then, Fett would know this already, since he was there.)
    -Star Wars Kids Magazine and Star Wars Missions were both part of the same subscription package, and the comics would sometimes reference the books and vice versa.
    -Again, this would seem to indicate that the books should be set much closer to ANH. IG-88 (Star Wood), Bossk (Star Wood), and Boba Fett (Scoundrels, Star Wood, and The Faithful Wookiee) have run across Han after his dealings with Sprool, but as with Jabba’s gang combing the old Kenobi place for clues, this may be an example of Jabba grasping at straws after Han disappeared. (Perhaps he’s busy training Renegade Squadron on Yavin.)
    -Bossk’s entry in the New Essential Guide to Characters also indicated that this hunt for the droids occurred before he and Fett got involved in the Bounty Hunter Wars.
    -Still, it’s easier to move these game books a few months up the timeline than create a convoluted explanation for Wuntoo/EV-9D9/Lando’s backstory to occur out of its intended order.
    -An unnamed bounty hunter invades the Decimator at Vactooine and escapes with the droid’s barge. The New Essential Guide to Characters states that this is not Bossk and is most likely Boba Fett.
    -On returning to Tatooine, the bounty hunter is attacked by 4-LOM and Zuckuss, but delivers the barge to Jabba. Jabba decides not to tell EV-9D9 that Wuntoo attempted to attack her, an omission that will lead to her death four years later in A Bad Feeling.
    -On Yavin IV, Luke is concerned that the Rebels have yet to receive a shipment from Vactooine.
    -General Dodonna is looking at charts of other possible base sites, again demonstrating that Hoth isn’t the Rebel’s first choice for a base site.
    -He orders Luke to take the Millennium Falcon and three pilots from Rogue Squadron to investigate Vactooine. The existence of Rogue Squadron means these books must take place after Star Wood #10, while Yavin and Dodonna prevent them from being placed any later than six months ABY.
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #12: THE VACTOOINE DISASTER
    -Jabba discovers the droid barge belongs to Boonda the Hutt. He informs Boonda that the Decimator is in the Vactooine system, causing Boonda to journey there with the Decimator’s stranded command crew.
    -We learn that while Forwun’s vendetta against EV-9D9 is his own, Oleg Greck is alive and behind all Forwun’s insurrection.
    -Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewbacca arrive at Vactooine, along with Wedge and three other X-Wings from Rogue Squadron.
    -One of the Rebels manages to free Wuntoo of Oleg’s programming, which causes the other droids to surrender.
    -In gratitude, the liberated miners give the Rebellion the Decimator.
    -It’s probably unintentional, but the Rebels have a Victory Class Star Destroyer in Star Wars Missions #8 (set after #12 on this timeline); so this is a possible explanation for that ship.
    STAR WARS MANGA- SILVER: PERFECT EVIL, PART 2 (Pages 19-21)
    -While on Coruscant, the Executor is formally presented to Vader by the Emperor. (I’m interpreting this as the ship being returned to Vader after it was sidelined to Endor in Star Wood.)
    STAR WARS KIDS #6-10: X-WING MARKS THE SPOT
    -The Rebels are using the credits Han provided in Star Wars Kids: Rebel Thief, but it’s not necessary for this story to directly follow the previous tale.
    -The Alliance is still hurting for X-Wings following the Battle of Yavin, with its supply nearly exhausted.
    -Separating the two stories this much is a little odd, since it means the Rebels have held on to the treasure Han got them way back in Rebel Thief for six months and through a previous evacuation.
    -Still, perhaps with Leia securing funding for the Alliance from the accounts on Muunilist back in Rebel Force #1, the treasure wasn’t needed until now.
    -The events of X-Wing Marks the Spot are too closely intertwined with Imperial Spy, the following story, to have another break in time, unfortunately. (I’d particularly like to place this before Star Wood, where Mon Mothma has gotten another batch of X-Wings from Incom, including new prototypes, but the evacuation shown in Imperial Spy is more compatible with Classic Star Wars than Star Wars 3-D.
    -Q7-N is on Yavin in this story and nearly all of the next, which is a violation of Star Wars Missions/Kids own continuity, since he will sacrifice himself during the events of Star Wars Missions #20, when the Rebels are still on Yavin. (See below.)
    -The other thing that indicates a later placement is that Luke performs some pretty spectacular feats with the Force, taking out a TIE fighter with nothing but his lightsaber and some acrobatics--this is more believable after he receives training from Lune Divinian in Rebel Force #5, assistance from Obi-Wan in Allegiance, and battles Vader’s illusions in Marvel #38 than if he was just fresh out of ANH.
    -I’m assuming that the Falcon crew stopped to repair the derelict freighter (possibly at Mon Calamari?), allowing Vors to take the freighter back to Yavin himself.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #14: DOOM MISSION (Pages 17-34)
    -With the Executor returned to him, Vader makes another attempt to attack Yavin.
    -The Rebels attempt to attack the Executor with a Corellian Corvette (we later find out that Vrad Dodonna participated in this attack), prompting an admiral to remark “This is their second failure, Lord Vader! Why do they persist?”
    -The first attack was with a Nebulon-B Frigate during what is now the Executor’s first attempt on Yavin, giving a slightly different meaning to the Admiral’s statement.
    -The Falcon passes through the aftermath of the battle, and Luke thinks he spots Vrad’s ship.
    -I assume that Leia receives good news from the Mon Calamari on their way back to Yavin after X-Wing Marks the Spot. They will aid the Alliance in the Yavin evacuation, a result of the Ackbar mission in Classic Star Wars #13 and the meeting on Mon Calamari in Rebel Force #5. Leia informs Dodonna of this upon their return to Yavin.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #15: DOOM MISSION (Pages 1-24)
    -The Rebels use the power gem Han obtained back in Classic Star Wars #, another item they must have kept with them through the temporary evacuation.
    -The Executor is disabled at the Feswe Corridor (identified in the Essential Atlas), again delaying the attack on Yavin.
    -Vader states in the April 17, 1983 strip that he has other options to halt the Rebel exodus. This is referring to Admiral Griff, but I’m assuming that he first contacts Rogor, his spy among the Rebels, in Star Wars Kids: Imperial Spy below.
    -Han rescues Luke and the two head back to Yavin.
    STAR WARS KIDS #11: IMPERIAL SPY
    -I’m assuming Vors made it back to Yavin while Luke, Vrad, and Han were disabling the Executor in Classic Star Wars #15.
    -Luke, again flying with Red Squadron, shuttles X-Wings down to Yavin.
    -Leia is still reviewing potential sites for a Rebel base, indicating that even though Hoth is the fleet’s destination after evacuation, the Rebels are leaving their options open. (Per Mon Mothma, according to The Essential Chronology.)
    -Han remarks that Leia is having her first rest in weeks, putting this at least two weeks after they’ve met. (Much later than that on this timeline, of course.)
    -Rogor “discovers” that their possible base site charts have been broken into.
    -Rogor contacts Vader. It seems his goal is to delay the evacuation by making Rebels second-guess themselves about how much the Empire knows about their possible destinations. He recommends massing a strike force (presumably from Admiral Griff’s blockade) to take the Rebels by surprise.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #15: DOOM MISSION (Pages 24-29)
    -Vader contacts Griff and orders him to strike at the Rebels on Yavin.
    -Vader is told that the Executor is only hours away from being repaired. The Essential Atlas states that the Executor retreated to Toprawa to make repairs. I’m assuming that the Executor takes much longer to repair than originally estimated, and that it’s forced to put back to the Fondor system to do so.
    -STAR WARS KIDS #12-14: IMPERIAL SPY
    -The next day, Leia is furious that she was allowed to sleep through the break-in.
    -Luke, Han, and Leia stage a scene the following evening to make Rogor think that Han has been identified as the Rebel spy. Their attempt is unsuccessful, and Leia has Rogor give the order to evacuate early the next morning.
    -Luke has a plan to unmask the spy for good.
    -Rogor contacts Vader, recommending an attack as soon as possible. Vader agrees, saying that the regrouped fleet (presumably Griff’s forces) will arrive within hours.
    STAR WARS KIDS #15: IMPERIAL SPY (Page 1-3)
    Hours after their early-morning attempt to unmask the spy, Luke tricks Rogor into revealing himself. Rogor steals an X-Wing in an attempt to escape, but crashes it in the jungle.
    X-WING: IMPERIAL PURSUIT
    Op. 1: Escort Corvettes Fleeing Yavin
    -Keyan Farlander travels to the cruiser Defiance, which has been asked to provide support for the evacuation.
    -The pre-op briefing takes place before the Imperial fleet arrives at Yavin, but they are expected at any moment.
    -Keyan escorts corvettes to a jump point in the Yavin system.
    -The Empire arrives in the form of TIE Bombers, and at this point the rest of the level overlaps with the other levels and comics below.
    -This is said to be the last group to leave Yavin, so Luke and the Rogues are presumably bringing up the rear (below.)
    BATTLEFRONT: ELITE SQUADRON (PSP)
    Evacuation from Yavin IV
    -Shara declares “We did it!” referring to the destruction of the Death Star at the beginning of this level, but the main action does appear more consistent with this evacuation than the previous ones. I suppose “We did it! (Six months ago!)” just isn’t as triumphant.
    -Col Serra from Han Solo’s Renegade Squadron makes an appearance, ruling out at least the earliest evacuation.
    -The Empire begins attacking the Rebel base.
    -The Empire takes out Yavin’s comm tower, preventing the evacuation order from sounding.
    -X2 repairs the comm tower and takes out several bombers, allowing Shara to sound the evacuation order.
    -There’s probably some overlap here with CSW and Rebel Strike, below.
    -X2 rendezvous with Col Serra in space.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #15: DOOM MISSION (Pages 24-28)
    -Luke is waiting with General Dodonna at the last transport.
    -Dodonna refers to “Luke’s flight” escorting the last transport. (We know this to be Rogue Flight from the Essential Guide to Warfare.)
    -Luke lets him know that Wedge has sent the other transports into orbit.
    -The General gives Luke a battlefield promotion to Commander to replace Vrad. (This may indicate that Vrad was part of Red/Renegade/Rogue Flight/Squadron when he was killed.
    -Griff informs Vader that he’s sent a strike force to raze the base.
    ROGUE SQUADRON III: REBEL STRIKE
    Luke Skywalker #2: Revenge of the Empire
    -Imperial Forces (presumably Griff’s strike force) arrive and begin bombardment of the planet’s surface.
    -The temple is still intact.
    -The last of the command staff is being evacuated. Luke takes to the skies with Rogue Squadron, including Wedge and Sarkli, as Dodonna orders them to defend against an Imperial ground assault.
    -Dodonna addresses Luke as Commander over the comm, consistent with his promotion in Classic Star Wars #15.
    -Rogue Squadron takes out the Imperial troop transports, stalling the invasion.
    -The Rogues also assist the transport Luminous (presumably the “last transport” mentioned in Classic Star Wars #15) in taking off from a nearby island.
    -Dodonna retreats deeper into the temple. Luke orders Sarkli to protect the evacuating transports while he and Wedge land to rescue the general.
    -Luke and Wedge rescue General Dodonna, but are cornered in a hanger by some AT-STs.
    -Sarkli returns, blowing up the AT-STs from his X-Wing and allowing a transport (presumably the Luminous) to land.
    -Dodonna (apparently) boards the transport, giving Luke all the credit for the rescue.
    BATTLEFRONT: RENEGADE SQUADRON
    Mission 1: Yavin 4
    -The intro cutscene seems to take place after Dodonna has blown up the temple in Classic Star Wars #15 and Galactic Battlegrounds, as we see a large temple in flames.
    -Col Serra’s VO puts this level just as the rest of the Rebels are escaping, however, so I think the main action is better suited to this part of the timeline.
    -Col Serra comes in over the comm, he is probably in an X-Wing flying with X2, as seen in the Elite Squadron level.
    -The main temple door’s mechanism has been fried, forcing the Renegade Squadron trooper to leave via jetpack.
    -Renegade Squadron defends the base against Imperial ground troops, and recovers a stolen set of Alliance communications logs.
    BATTLEFRONT II
    Yavin 4: Revenge of the Empire
    -The 501st fights their way to the Temple base.
    -This seems to take place during the Rebel Strike mission, as the main hanger seems to be in better shape when the 501st is fighting their way in than when Luke and Wedge are fighting their way out.
    -The main hanger door that was closed in Renegade Squadron also proves an obstacle for the 501st, who blast their way inside.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #15: DOOM MISSION (Pages 28-29)
    -Luke and Wedge escort the last transport off of Yavin, believing they’ve only left an empty base behind.
    -The transport contacts Luke, letting him know that Dodonna slipped off before the ramp closed.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #16: RACE FOR SURVIVAL (Pages 1-4)
    -Dodonna orders Luke to escort the last transport to the rendezvous, while he delays the Empire.
    -In this order, Luke's VO to Wedge about Dodonna's retirement doesn't occur at the same time as the explosion in the last panel. Dodonna has a few more things to do…
    -Dodonna continues to send Rogue Squadron on missions. (Rebel Strike and Missions #18)
    -Dodonna coordinates a raid on Fara with Ackbar. (The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook)
    -Dodonna will be joined in his last stand by additional Rebels, and these forces wil battle Darth Vader when he arrives on Yavin IV. (Galactic Battlegrounds Strategy Guide)
    BATTLEFRONT: ELITE SQUADRON (PSP)
    Evacuation from Yavin IV (continued)
    -Col Serra and X2 board a Star Destroyer and cause it to explode. Col Serra will next team up with Han Solo, below.
    STAR WARS KIDS #16-20/TALES #8: DEATH STAR PIRATES
    -Luke, in his X-Wing, brings the last of the evacuating freighters to a group of Rebel ships waiting elsewhere in the Yavin system, including the Millennium Falcon, with Han, Leia, Chewie, and Threepio aboard.
    -The rest of the Rebel ships escape into hyperspace, with only Luke’s X-Wing and the Falcon left behind. They promise to meet up in the Hoth system.
    -Han scans a ship in the Death Star wreckage. Leia asks “More spies?”, referring to the events of Imperial Spy.
    -It turns out to be the pirate Redkihl Rokk, who disables the Falcon.
    -Darlen and Tolok, Alderaanian refugees seen on board the Falcon at the end of Imperial Spy, are presumably on board the Falcon somewhere but do not appear throughout this entire story.
    -Luke doubles back to help, but his X-Wing crashes into Rokk’s ship.
    -Han, Leia, and Chewbacca deal with Rokk and rescue Luke, leaving in the Millennium Falcon.
    STAR WARS KIDS #15: IMPERIAL SPY (Page 3-4)
    -Luke is on board the Millennium Falcon along with Leia, Han, Darlen, and Tolok.
    -The Falcon has caught up with the Rebels seen in Death Star Pirates in hyperspace.
    -This scene seems to be set after Classic Star Wars, Revenge of the Empire, and Death Star Pirates, since Luke was in his X-Wing for the entire evacuation until he crashed on Rokk’s ship in Death Star Pirates and was rescued by the Falcon.
    -Luke and Han discuss Rogor, but the final panel underneath their conversation probably takes place a little later, during Vader’s assault on Yavin in Galactic Battlegrounds. (See below.)
    -Apparently, the escaped Rebel fleet is stalled in their evacuation while new bases and escape routes continue to be sought, possibly thanks to Rogor's interference. The Yavin IV command post assists in this search. (Missions #17-18).
    X-WING: IMPERIAL PURSUIT
    Op. 2: Provide Area Protection
    -Keyan Farlander with Red Squadron provides protection to supply freighters along the escape route from Yavin.
    ROGUE SQUADRON III: REBEL STRIKE
    Luke Skywalker #3: Defiance on Dantooine
    -Luke and Rogue Squadron are assigned to retrieve the Imperial defector Tycho Celchu from Dantooine, where he is being detained as a spy by the Empire.
    -Tycho’s defection was previously mentioned by Wedge as having occurred after the evacuation of Yavin in Wedge’s Gamble.
    -Luke is addressed as "Lieutenant Commander Skywalker." His promotion to full Commander in Classic Star Wars #15 was retconned in The New Essential Guide to Characters as a battlefield promotion that wasn't logged and didn't stick. (Luke was also promoted to Commander just before the Battle of Hoth in the ESB Radio Drama.)
    -Luke and Sarkli rescue Tycho.
    -Luke encounters Storm Commandos for the first time.
    -Tycho tells Luke about a plot to capture scientists from Ralltiir, who are holding out under a new, powerful planetary shield.
    -Palpatine is unconcerned when Vader reports these events, as the Empire has already blockaded Rallltiir. (Vader himself established the blockade back in the Star Wars Radio Drama.)
    EMPIRE #20: A LITTLE PIECE OF HOME, PART I
    -The comic introduction places this six months after Yavin.
    -Leia is in search of a new base, which is a commonality among the stories that follow, though Hoth had been the agreed-upon destination earlier. The Essential Chronology states that Mothma wanted to keep her options open, and it’s easy to believe that the security of a base on Hoth would be called into question after Rogor and Sarkli were revealed as traitors.
    -Han says “It’s just a matter of time before the Empire finds the fleet since we’ve slipped through their fingers at Yavin,” possibly indicating that this takes place after the evacuation in Classic Star Wars #16 but before their escape at Feswe.
    -Since both Han and Luke have missions during this time anyway, I’ve placed this story here.
    -Luke and Han are both with the fleet, but in this placement, they are about to head out to Ralltiir and Alderaan’s Graveyard, respectively.
    EMPIRE #19: TARGET: VADER
    -The title page places this issue “Approximately five months after the events in Star Wars: A New Hope”, but Vader mentions that the Rebels have managed to escape the blockade at Yavin and vanish.
    -The Omnibus reprint amends the date to six months after the Battle of Yavin.
    -The Omnibus also places this after Empire #20-21: A Little Piece of Home. I’m assuming they take place at roughly the same time.
    -However, given that Galactic Battlegrounds and Star Wars 3-D #3 indicates that Vader didn’t sit idle on the Executor while it was being repaired, I’m going to go ahead and place this a little earlier on the timeline and assume that Vader is referring to the system/planetary blockade of Yavin rather than the upcoming escape from the sector blockade.
    -Vader travels to Void Station in search of information regarding the whereabouts of the Rebels who just escaped Yavin.
    -Vader gives Jib Kopatha, a Bothan crimelord, one week to come up with the information before he returns. This suggest that less than a week passes between this issue and #24, below.
    BATTLEFRONT: RENEGADE SQUADRON
    Mission 2: Space Alderaan
    -Col Serra says that Solo told him about a phrik-encased holocron that Bail Organa recorded, containing information about alternative Rebel base sites. This conversation seems to have occured while the Rebels were leaving the system just before Death Star Pirates, above.
    -The holocron is believed to have survived the destruction of Alderaan. It's possible that Solo found out about this from the Alderaanian survivors who found their way to Yavin in Imperial Spy. This would explain why Leia didn't retrieve it from the Graveyard while she was there in Star Wood #8.
    -I'm assuming this mission takes place at the same time as Luke's Rebel Strike mission, below, since Han isn't involved in Luke's activities and vice versa.
    -Han, Chewie, and Renegade Squadron retrieve the holocron, but Boba Fett arrives in pursuit of both the holocron and Han. (It is not explained how Fett knew about the holocron.) It seems the hunt is back on after Jabba called it off temporarily in Missions #10.
    -Col Serra transmits the holocron data to Commander Ackbar, who is investigating the base locations from Bail Organa’s holocron. (Renegade Squadron)
    -Ackbar leaves a survey team at a promising site on Boz Pity (Bail Organa had been present for a battle there during the Clone Wars in Obsession) and continues to Selucami. His GR-75 transport is targeted by Boba Fett, and he and his crew are captured. (Renegade Squadron) We might do well to assume this is the Luminous, from Rebel Strike/Classic Star Wars, which recently escaped from Yavin IV. (See below.)
    ROGUE SQUADRON III: REBEL STRIKE
    Luke Skywalker #4: Defenders of Ralltiir
    -Dodonna apparently reappears over the comm to give the Ralltiir briefing, so this may be before his death. (Rebel Strike didn’t incorporate his departure from the transport at the last minute from Classic Star Wars #15.) It’s also possible this is Major Derlin (both characters are portrayed by the same voice actor) or another character entirely.
    -Luke and the Rogues fly T-47 airspeeders into battle on Ralltiir and deploy the tow cable assault from TESB against AT-ATs, possibly for the first time. (Luke, Beryl Chiffonage, Risiev Credal, and Davin Felth have been jointly credited with this idea, so Luke has probably collaborated with them at some point before this mission.)
    Luke Skywalker #5: Extraction from Ralltiir
    -Sarkli defects to the Empire.
    -Luke rescues the scientists, fending off an Imperial boarding party on a Ralltiiri blockade runner during the escape.
    -Presumably the Ralltiiri scientists will make the DSS-02 shield generator used on Hoth invulnerable to any bombardment, as seen in TESB.
    BATTLEFRONT: RENEGADE SQUADRON
    Mission 3: Ord Mantell
    -The Falcon puts into Ord Mantell for repairs following the battle with Fett and the Empire at Alderaan. Renegade Squadron catches up with them a little later.
    -It’s time for, you guessed it, another bounty hunter encounter, as IG-88 shows up to battle the Renegades.
    -Han even says “What is it with this place and bounty hunters?”
    -It's possible that Han also ran into Czethros (from Young Jedi Knights: Return to Ord Mantell) here before Renegade Squadron arrives, since both stories have Han and Chewie making repairs to the Falcon on Ord Mantell. There are other references to undocumented Ord Mantell trips, but this is the only one to have Han and Chewie putting in for unexpected repairs on Ord Mantell on their own.
    BATTLEFRONT: RENEGADE SQUADRON
    Mission 4: Space Kessel
    -Right after leaving Ord Mantell, Renegade Squadron learns that Commander Ackbar has been captured and is being sent to Kessel.
    -The squadron rescues Ackbar from a Star Destroyer en route.
    EMPIRE #21: A LITTLE PIECE OF HOME, PART II
    -Leia’s mission to the Ryloth system concludes, unsuccessfully.
    -In this placement, Luke and Han have returned before Leia (from Ralltiir and Kessel).
    BATTLEFRONT: RENEGADE SQUADRON
    Mission 5: Tatooine
    -Han Solo rejoins Renegade Squadron to rescue Ackbar’s crew, who are being sold into slavery on Tatooine.
    -Boba Fett has placed a tracker on one of the rescued droids, which allows the Empire to follow Renegade Squadron to Boz Pity.
    Mission 6: Boz Pity
    -Boz Pity has been selected as the new Rebel Base. (Since Hoth might have been known to Rogor, the change in plans makes sense.) The fleet doesn’t appear to have had the chance to make it here before the Empire attacked.
    -Only hours after the Renegades return from Tatooine, the Empire follow’s Fett’s tracker to the base.
    -Ackbar is wounded in the battle, but Renegade Squadron gets him offplanet. His promotion to Admiral of the Alliance fleet has either already happened or is about to.
    -It’s implied that these events are what lead the Alliance to settle on Hoth, already discovered by Luke Skywalker (a Classic Star Wars reference) which we know was already planned as a destination for the Rebel Fleet.

    STAR WARS MISSIONS #17: DARTH VADER’S RETURN (Pages 70-72)
    -Finally, we get back to Missions #17.
    -The droids on Q-7N’s home planet send a distress signal to the tiny droid.
    -Q-7N is back on Yavin IV along with Luke, Leia, and the droids. Han and Chewie are there as well. The Rebels are going over star charts, again looking for possible base sites and escape routes. (Possibly using Ackbar’s data from Bail Organa’s holocron?)
    -Luke mentions that Rogue Squadron is on its way to Space Station Kwenn. This includes Wedge Antilles, and, as we’ll discover in the next book, the recently defected Tycho Celchu.
    -It doesn’t make a great deal of sense for our whole Rebel crew to have returned to Yavin at this point, but the last time we saw Q-7N was during the evacuation from Yavin in Imperial Spy, and Tycho only defected after that evacuation in Rebel Strike, so we’re left with little choice.
    -We could justify this by assuming that the Alliance is still unsure about which routes and planets have been compromised by Rogor.
    -Leia is concerned that the Empire will discover them on Yavin, which I suppose works with the fact that they’ve doubled back after escaping, even though that wasn’t the original intent.
    -After Q-7N receives the distress signal, Luke and the others decide to help him save his homeworld.
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #18: ROGUE SQUADRON TO THE RESCUE (Pages 8-72, 74-75)
    -Jan Dodonna has sent Rogue Squadron to Space Station Kwenn to find new base sites.
    -Wedge also had hoped to discover new safe routes through the Outer Rim for the Rebel Fleet.
    -Instead, it seems that the Empire has begun changing trade routes.
    -The Rogues include Tycho Celchu and Wes Janson.
    -Wedge discovers that the Empire has seized a fighter and imprisoned the crew. He asks Leia and company for assistance.
    -Leia and company have just landed on Q-7N’s homeworld in the Unknown Regions, but then immediately turn around and leave to help Wedge.
    -One of the Rogues rescues the freighter’s captain and discovers that the now-Imperial controlled freighter is destined for Bonadan by order of Darth Vader.
    -This plan has been in place for several months, since Vader returned to Coruscant. (The later scenes with Vader were moved earlier in the timeline to accommodate references to both Classic Star Wars and Rogue Squadron.)
    -The Rebels prevent the freighter from leaving, and decide to impersonate the crew and take the ship to Bonadan to uncover Vader’s plot.
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #19: BOUNTY ON BONADAN
    -Under orders of the Emperor, Mordak and Tix are on the way to Bonadan to rendezvous with the stolen freighter.
    -Leia apparently sees Luke practicing with his lightsaber and a practice remote with a blast shield for the first time. (I can’t recall if this was actually shown in a previous source, but it does seem likely.)
    -Tix and Mordak meet with Frap Radicon, an Imperial engineer, and the disguised Rebels. Frap recognizes Leia, but Han manages to get him arrested as the Rebels escape.
    -Tix and Mordak contact Darth Vader, who is at the starship yards of Fondor.
    -The original intention was that the Executor hadn’t launched yet, and Vader was still overseeing the construction. In this order of events, Vader is overseeing repairs after the Executor was disabled in Classic Star Wars #15.
    -Vader sends in a bounty hunter to free Frap.
    -This bounty hunter was already in the Corporate Sector, working a job for Jabba the Hutt on Roonadan.
    -According to the text, this bounty hunter could be IG-88 or Boba Fett. (Probably not IG-88, since the hunter orders a drink at the end of the book.)
    -The hunter is successful in freeing Frap, and sends him on his way in the recaptured disguised freighter with the other Imperials.
    -Unfortunately, the Millennium Falcon was still on the ship when it took off.
    -The Rebels will have to pursue the freighter all the way back to Q-7N's homeworld in the Unknown Regions.
    STAR WARS MISSIONS #20: TOTAL DESTRUCTION
    -The Rebels steal a spaceship to follow the freighter.
    -On Q-7N's homeworld, Frap remarks that he waited "weeks" for Vader to scout a new location for Tarkin's gravity well project after the Delrakkin operation was exposed. This indicates a longer passage of time than the books themselves otherwise indicate (though not nearly as long as this version of the timeline is forced to assume), since Vader was unaware of the project before Palpatine told him about it in Missions #17.
    -Tix says that he's been thinking about defecting to the Rebellion for "months", which is more in line with this timeline.
    -Q-7N sacrifices himself to keep his planet and the gravity well projector weapon out of the Empire's hands by destroying his homeworld, Malagarr.
    -This paradoxically places these Missions books after Q-7N's appearance in Imperial Spy, but since Tycho Celchu's involvement presents a similar problem, I'm comfortable with the weirdness of this placement.
    -Luke says that the only person he's seen make a similar sacrifice was Obi-Wan, so this works better before Dodonna's death.
    -Luke and the Rebels are intending to return to Yavin IV. We're assuming that Dodonna is still there, fighting the Empire.
    -This would be the last opportunity Galaxies players have to encounter Luke and Dodonna on Yavin.
    -Vader has left Fondor and meets Palatine on Coruscant to discuss the destruction of the gravity well generator. Palpatine decides to focus the Empire's efforts on building a new Death Star. (We know from Star Wood that the battlestation is already under construction.)
    -This won't be the last time an ancient civilization provides the key for the Empire to control hyperspace. (See Honor Among Thieves, below.)

    SMUGGLER SERIES: CHAPTER II: SMUGGLER'S BOUNTY (00:00-13:43)
    -Han and Luke launch a raid on an Imperial munitions vessel, supported by Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron.
    -The Rebels are again attempting to rebuild their arms and supplies, a common theme in this part of the timeline.
    -Wedge holds the rank of Commander, putting this after his promotion in Star Wood #6.
    -It’s implied that Luke hasn’t used his lightsaber to cut through a blast door before. (I doubt this is possible, but this is about as early as this story can go.)
    -The Rebels are still based on the fleet, which changes location during the story.
    -Ackbar is reconning possible base sites, (presumably from Bail Organa’s datacron, since Boz Pity didn’t work out) which was also his mission in Renegade Squadron, but hasn’t turned up any new leads.
    -Leia refers to the “the last time Han was put in charge”, and Horan Cha Croix mentions “a couple of amateur bounty hunters,” referring to the events of Smuggler’s Gambit. One could interpret Leia’s statement as also referring to Han leading the Empire to the Boz Pity base.
    -Han, Chewie, and Threepio are sent to Zeltros to assist in meeting a local resistance leader.
    -With Ackbar’s recon mission unsuccessful and General Dodonna about to sacrifice himself on Yavin IV, a number of events have to happen in rapid succession.
    -Mon Mothma orders an attack on Milvayne. Bel Iblis objects and leaves the Alliance. (“Differences of Opinion” in the Last Command Sourcebook.)
    -The blockade at Shantipole is broken with the new B-Wing fighters, making them a feared vessel among Imperial forces. Commander Ackbar rejoins the Rebel fleet. (Strikeforce: Shantipole.)
    -Dodonna orders a raid on Fara’s Belt with the new B-Wings, but the raid is a disaster, tarnishing the reputation of the B-Wing among the Imperial Navy that had been built after the Shantipole affair. (Rebel Alliance sourcebook)
    -Since Ackbar is promoted from Commander to Admiral two days after the end of the Shantipole adventure (according to Strikeforce: Shantipole), this must take place shortly after Renegade Squadron but before Dodonna’s death. (The Essential Guide to Characters explains that Ackbar was already an Admiral in the Mon Calamari fleet, explaining any prior references to “Admiral” Ackbar. The Characters Guide also explains that this was after Bel Iblis left, though it’s possible the Milvayne attack hasn’t actually taken place yet.)
    GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS: THE DARTH VADER CAMPAIGN
    Mission 1: Incursion on Yavin 4
    -Here we see that Vader has arrived in his TIE Advanced to lead the ground assault, something that wasn’t shown in Classic Star Wars. (As far as we knew in the comic, Vader was on the Executor the entire time. His last known stop in this timeline was Coruscant in Star Wars Missions #20.)
    -The Strategy Guide explains that other Rebels have joined Dodonna since he started hiding out in the Massassi ruins, which explains the large force here after the rest of the Rebels evacuated.
    -Vader’s men recover Dodonna’s body, and discover evidence of a Rebel operation geared against Reytha.
    -Vader’s forces pack up, and he states his intention to leave orbit within 30 minutes.
    -This puts Star Wars 3-D #3 at least partially in that 30 minute window, but he delays his departure in that comic.
    STAR WARS KIDS #15: IMPERIAL SPY (Page 4)
    -Vader encounters Rogor on the surface of Yavin and punishes him for having allowed the Rebels to escape. (Presumably Rogor is among the many Alliance soldiers Vader defeats in the above Galactic Battlegrounds level.)
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #16: RACE FOR SURVIVAL (Pages 4-5)
    -Dodonna blows up a Massassi temple, wiping out Griff’s bombers, which was also incorporated into the above Galactic Battlegrounds level.
    -While Dodonna appears to destroy the Great Temple here, it will of course be used again in the Jedi Prince and Jedi Academy series. The Essential Guide to Characters states that Dodonna moved into one of the nearby temples to make his last stand (which might explain why he wasn’t around in Missions #17.) The old databank dealt with this issue by saying that Dodonna intended to destroy the base, but the blast did little damage to the temple’s structure. Luke later says in Classic Star Wars that Dodonna placed charges on multiple buildings, so both sources may be correct.
    -Griff is informed of the explosion and vows that the Rebels won’t escape the [sector] blockade.
    STAR WARS 3-D #3: THE DARK SIDE OF DANTOOINE
    -Luke and Leia are seeking supplies for the base on Hoth. A supply shortage was given as one of the reasons the Alliance didn’t immediately establish a base on Hoth in the Essential Chronology.
    -Han isn’t present, but seems to have supplied the contact Leia uses here. One could assume he’s on Zeltros with Threepio as per Smuggler’s Bounty.
    -Leia is hoping the Empire will ignore Dantooine since she’s already used it as a decoy. (Presumably this is the same logic that led the Rebels to reoccupy the base for a time in Galaxies.)
    -Luke isn’t so sure, perhaps reflecting his recent encounter with Storm Commandos here in Rebel Strike.
    -Luke ends up in a mental trap laid by Vader to catch Jedi. (Presumably the proximity of the Jedi ruins is what led Vader to place a trap here.
    -Vader himself is still on the Star Destroyer Conqueror in orbit of Yavin IV, reading reports from the now-abandoned base. This puts this comic within thirty minutes of the end f the Incursion on Yavin IV level of Galactic Battlegrounds.
    -Vader’s duel with Luke in the mental trap appears to delay his scheduled rendezvous with the Imperial fleet.
    -This comic is placed after Star Wars 3-D #2 since the rushed evacuation in that issue is being used as part of the background for Star Wood in this timeline, and Luke still believes that Vader doesn’t know who he is as of Star Wood #7.
    -During this adventure, Luke discovers he can use the Force to lift heavy objects and his lightsaber, placing this after Heir to the Jedi if one chooses to acknowledge that story.
    -Among the supplies Leia obtains is a 1.4 FD P-Tower, which was used in the defense of Hoth in TESB.
    -According to Joe Bongiorno’s Lost Star Wars Comics page, Star Wars 3-D #4 was completed. I'd love to see it turn up one of these days.
    SMUGGLER SERIES: CHAPTER II: SMUGGLER'S BOUNTY (13:43-50:17)
    -Luke, Wedge, and Rogue Squadron rescue Han from Star Destroyers after they are betrayed on Zeltros.
    -Mon Mothma gives orders for the fleet to move to the Hoth system.
    -Leia, Han, and Luke claim not to have heard of the Hoth system. I’m interpreting this as a running joke. (See also Smuggler’s Gambit and Star Wars 3-D.)
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #16: RACE FOR SURVIVAL (Pages 5-27)
    -”Luke’s flight” arrives at the Rebel rendezvous with the last transport and news of Dodonna’s death.
    -Just to tie everything together, we might assume that Rogue Squadron/flight went to pick up the Luminous on the way back from Zeltros after it was disabled by Boba Fett during Renegade Squadron, and received news about Dodonna on the way.
    -Vader returns to the Executor, where repairs are still underway. An officer tells him that the Rebels have successfully abandoned Yavin. (Vader would already be aware of this, given the events of Battlefront and Star Wars 3-D #3.) Vader is content to wait on Griff to pursue the Rebel fleet, hoping that the desperate situation will force Luke to make his whereabouts known.
    -The Rebels prepare to make an attempt to break through the Imperial sector blockade, with the Mon Calamari taking the lead.
    -The Mon Calamari, led by Admiral Ackbar, hit the blockade at Vallusk Cluster, Kli’aar, and Pinoora to divert the Imperial fleet from the Tertiary Feswe hyperlane. (The Essential Atlas)
    -This breaks the Mon Calamari’s “neutrality”, though Mon Calamari personnel and ships had been an essential part of the Rebellion for years.
    -Luke goes ahead to scout the Rebel’s escape route, while Leia sends Han, Threepio, and Chewbacca to find alternate routes as a backup. (But mostly to get Han out of her hair.
    -Griff doesn’t take the bait, and cuts off the Alliance’s intended escape route.
    -Luke’s scout ship is destroyed, but he is rescued (for the third time during the evacuation) by Han.
    -The Executor is repaired at last, but Vader orders his men to hold position until he can divine Luke’s location.
    -Luke uses the Force to time the Rebels escape through the unstable solar flares of Feswe Prime.
    -Vader senses Luke, but Griff orders his fleet into hyperspace.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #17: RACE FOR SURVIVAL (Pages 1-29)
    -Vader orders full speed ahead to the Feswe system. (From Fondor, I’m assuming, to match the pre-Star Wood Chronology accounts of the Executor coming out of the Fondor shipyards six months after Yavin.)
    -The Executor arrives on the other side of Feswe Prime, the Rebel fleet in her sights
    -Griff’s three Star Destroyers come out of hyperspace, smashing themselves on the Executor’s invincible shields.
    -The explosion allows the Rebels to escape once again, this time to Hoth.
    -It seems this puts the Executor out of action for a while longer, since Vader isn’t using it in the Empire and Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures stories to come.
    -The fleet escapes to the Hoth system, where General Rieekan has begun construction of the Hoth base. The Essential Atlas established that this is one of many such bases under construction at the time, since Mon Mothma wants to keep her options open.
    -Luke and Han didn’t arrive at Hoth with the fleet, as the Falcon’s hyperdrive failed, forcing them to put down on Seidhkona. (The planet is unnamed here.)
    -Here Luke is almost killed by the mind witch S’ybll.
    CLASSIC STAR WARS #18: A NEW BEGINNING (Pages 1-30)
    -Luke continues to face S’ybll’s illusions, including the Night Beast and Darth Vader. (This is the fourth time Luke has fought an illusionary Vader and we’re not even to TESB yet.)
    -After defeating S’byll, Luke and Han depart Seidhkona.
    A NEW HOPE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF LUKE SKYWALKER (Pages 113-133)
    -This is a retelling of Luke’s adventure on Seidhkona in Classic Star Wars #17-18. (Still unnamed, “Seidhkona” didn’t appear until this book’s entry in the Essential Reader’s Companion.
    -With the Essential Chronology pinning the evacuation of Yavin at 6 months ABY, the Classic Star Wars storyline has to be split sometime after that event. There isn’t an obvious break since all of the adventures from the evacuation forward follow directly on each other, very nearly leading into TESB.
    -Ryder Windham’s The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader puts much of the Classic Star Wars #18-20 issues after Splinter of the Mind’s Eye in 2 BBY, while Luke’s detour here is said to have occurred shortly after the Night Beast storyline in 0 BBY in Windham’s “The Life and Legend of Luke Skywalker”, which is about as clean and official a break as we’re likely to get.
    -Therefore, while Han and Luke returned to Hoth, attracting the attention of Raskar in the original version of this storyline, in the retconned version Luke joins up with the Rogues to aid Rebel ships traversing the Ison Corridor to Hoth, while Han rejoins the Rebel fleet.
    GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS: THE DARTH VADER CAMPAIGN
    Mission 2: Breaking Bread
    -Vader interrogates Jan Dodonna, who reveals that the Rebels are preparing to take the planet Reytha. (The Essential Guide to Warfare explains that Mon Mothma authorized an atypically large strike force to distract the Empire from the base on Yavin, so it makes sense that it would be on Dodonna’s mind.)
    -Reytha is a major food supplier to the Empire, so this is part of a larger effort for the Alliance to resupply before they concentrate on establishing a new base.
    -Mara Jade seems to believe that Dodonna is dead here, but it makes sense that she would have no knowledge of the top-secret Lusankya facility that Dodonna is actually sent to, as revealed in the X-Wing series.
    -Vader travels to Reytha to drive the Rebels out.
    ROGUE SQUADRON II: ROGUE LEADER
    Mission #3: Ison Corridor Ambush
    -Luke (now flying as Rogue Leader) and Wedge escort the frigate Redemption down the Ison Corridor toward Hoth.
    EMPIRE #22: ALONE TOGETHER
    -Set approximately six months after Yavin, according to the title page.
    -Deena Shan has been with the Alliance for three months “ever since word spread about the victory at Yavin.” This aligns with the time Luke’s involvement in the battle became known, so this makes sense.
    -Luke, Han, and Leia are all on Kalla’s Stanchion, a ship in the Rebel fleet.
    -Luke says that Red Squadron is keeping him busy. The Reds and Rogues still appear to coexist at this point.
    -Leia hasn’t seen Luke for “days”, so probably not since he left to scout the Feswe system back in Classic Star Wars #17.
    -Leia is preparing to visit the leaders of Aguarl III. She will be visiting the Rebel Base there in River of Chaos #1. It’s not necessarily the same trip, but given how close the two stories are, I’m assuming that it is.
    -Her preparations are cut short when the fleet apparently makes contact with an Imperial vessel, triggering a scramble warning, sending the Falcon away from the Stanchion. (It seems the fleet is no longer in the Hoth system.)
    -Deena wonders why they don’t go to Corellia, Han says that works for some of the others but Leia is too well known for that. Leia has already been on Corellia for the Rebel Themepark quest in Galaxies and will be there again for Ruins of Dantooine.
    -After an adventure on a wild planet, the Falcon departs, apparently returning to the fleet.
    GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS: THE DARTH VADER CAMPAIGN
    Mission 3: Fire, Water, Air, and Wind
    -Vader discovers that the Reythans have been won over to the Alliance cause, and that the local governor allowed the situation to get out of hand.
    -The following mission takes place on Zaloriis, in a neighboring sector of the Expansion Region, according to the Essential Atlas. The game briefing suggests that the proximity of the two planets is what led Vader there, but the events of that level lead directly to TESB, so it must take place later in the timeline.
    EMPIRE #23: THE BRAVERY OF BEING OUT OF RANGE
    -Set approximately six months after Yavin, according to the title page.
    -BoShek has been on Stoga for “the past few months”. The last we saw of him was on Tatooine in “At the Crossroads: The Spacer’s Tale” during ANH, so this checks out.
    -The Rebels on Stoga report to General Bel Iblis, but there’s nothing to contradict him having left the Alliance by this point. (That event was essentially narrowed down to no later than three days after Dodonna’s death thanks to the Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, Strikeforce: Shantipole, and The Essential Guide to Characters.)
    EMPIRE #24: IDIOT’S ARRAY, PART I
    -Set approximately six months after Yavin, according to the title page.
    -The Rebel fleet is on the move while the Hoth base is under construction.
    -The supply difficulties the Rebels are experiencing are also referenced on the title page.
    -Han barges in on a meeting Leia is having with Mon Mothma and Admiral Ackbar. I’m assuming this is directly after their return from their adventures in Empire #23, and that Leia hasn’t left yet for her interrupted mission to Arguarl III.
    -A Rebel who looks like Dodonna is also present, but it’s unlikely this was intended to be him.
    -Han volunteers for a supply run to Void Station, where he is betrayed to Jib Kopatha. Vader has yet to return, indicating that this takes place less than a week after the end of Empire #19. (It’s possible that Vader’s campaigns on Reytha delayed his return, however.)
    RIVER OF CHAOS #1 (Pages 4-7)
    -The Empire knows the Mon Calamari are allied with the Rebel Alliance, placing these scenes after Classic Star Wars #17
    -Leia has made it to Aguarl III, but an attack by TIE bombers destroys the Rebel base there, and she barely escapes.
    -Imperial pilot Ranulf Trommer is gravely wounded during the attack.
    -River of Chaos is set approximately six months after Yavin, according to the Early Victories omnibus, but there are two different time periods to consider here.
    -Most of the story is set “months” after these scenes, when Ranulf Trommer has recuperated from his injuries, but given the Imperial reference to “Mon Calamari allies” and the Arguarl III reference in Empire #22, it makes the most sense to have the story begin here at six months ABY, with the rest of the story continuing months later.
    EMPIRE #25: IDIOT’S ARRAY, Part II
    -Han loses the Falcon’s rectanna during a battle with TIEs while fleeing Void Station.
    -Vader returns to Void Station, putting this issue a week after Empire #19 (give or take however long the Reytha campaign lasted.)
    -Jib Kopatha assures Vader that Han Solo can’t be far away, but Vader executes him anyway.
    SHINY AS A DROID
    -The Rogue Squadron video game establishes a Rebel presence with Luke Skywalker and X-Wings stationed on Tatooine as of six months ABY.
    -There are several random adventures featuring Luke, the droids, and Jawas on Tatooine (or what we can assume to be Tatooine), so grouping them all together makes sense.
    -This is a prelude of sorts to the Tatooine adventures. Threepio and Artoo must find space crystals on an unknown planet so they can get to Tatooine.
    -Stylistically, this is a part of the Droids cartoon series and was released in 1986 with an Ewoks companion book.
    -The Droids adventures are usually placed around 15 BBY, but there's no particular reason for them to go to Tatooine after ROTS and before ANH.
    -The Droids Marvel series adapted ANH, so it's not too much of a stretch to have a Droids book in this era.
    -It's a shame that the spaceship in this book was never retconned into a Delta-series Aethersprite; the resemblance to the Clone Wars era Delta-7b is uncanny.
    -The Droids find the crystals and blast off for Tatooine.
    TALES #4: SPARE PARTS
    -The Droids have arrived on what appears to be Tatooine, but haven't met up with Luke yet.
    -Threepio mentions both Vader and Luke by name, placing this after ANH.
    -They are captured by Jawas, and observe many droids being disassembled for parts.
    -Threepio believes this to be the source of a flood of untraceable droid parts that have flooded the market.
    -The Droids attempt to escape, disguised as Jawas.
    DROIDS: APPLE JACKS COMIC
    -This one page comic also appears to take place in Tatooine.
    -Luke, Threepio, and Artoo pick up a load of droid parts and other junk in a landspeeder.
    -This could have taken place during any of Luke's previous returns to Tatooine, but this is really the first time the three of them would have had time and cause to casually pick up a junk shipment there.
    THE MYSTERY OF THE REBELLIOUS ROBOT
    -Tatooine is suffering from a severe drought.
    -Luke is leading a crew of Tatooine scientists and engineers to build a super-vaporator to help.
    -This may seem like a stretch for the resource-poor Alliance, but it’s possible they managed to salvage components from the failed Omega Frost project in Marvel #31.
    -The Falcon had previously left Tatooine with Artoo aboard, leaving Luke, Leia, and Threepio behind in the Rebel headquarters. (This may be the Anchorhead Base seen in Rebel Assault, but my money is on the Mos Eisley Rebel encampment from Tales #6, below.)
    -The Falcon returns, but falls victim to sabotage and Luke has to come to the rescue.
    -The entire project is plagued by missing parts and malfunctioning robots.
    -Chewbacca discovers that the Jawas are behind it all, stealing parts to sell to moisture farmers.
    -Presumably this too is related to the black market droid parts mentioned in Tales #4.
    -Chewbacca receives a medal in the atypically green Tatooine base. (Perhaps Momaw Nadon provided the plants?
    -There aren’t many stories where Luke returns to Tatooine with a sizable military force, so it makes sense to tie the super-vaporator project to the Rogue Squadron level, below.
    TALES #6: JUNKHEAP HERO (Pages 34-40)
    -Threepio and Artoo are in Mos Eisley, once again on the trail of black market droid parts.
    -Vader is on Tatooine, meeting with Mos Eisley officials who are aware of the Rebel encampment and have sent an infiltrator to locate their central command.
    -Threepio is certain that these officials are members of the Trade Federation, and are behind the droid black market. (It’s unclear whether this is actually the case, since the Federation ceased to exist after its nationalisation under the Empire.)
    -Vader is already aware of the two droids serving the Rebels, and suggests droidnapping the smaller unit and reprogramming him to serve as an Imperial mole.
    -Vader leaves the planet.
    -Artoo is captured, and Threepio asks Luke to rescue him.
    -Two X-Wings are seen in the Rebel camp; one of them is presumably Wedge Antiles’s.
    -Luke creates a decoy Artoo out of droid parts and switches it with the real Artoo.
    ROGUE SQUADRON
    Chapter 1: Ambush at Mos Eisley
    -Set six months after Yavin, according to the opening scroll.
    -Luke is now in charge of Rogue Squadron, with Wedge as his second in command. (Again, the larger context seems to be that Luke is being trained as a leader by Antilles, and is still subordinate to Narra, since Red Squadron continues to operate with Narra as leader in future issues of Empire and Rebellion.)
    -Luke and Wedge decide to take an early-morning pass through Beggar's Canyon in their X-Wings.
    -According to the official Game Guide, an “unsavory bounty hunter” tips off the Empire about Rogue Squadron’s presence.
    -Perhaps this bounty hunter is the infiltrator sent by the Mos Eisley officials in Tales #6.
    -The Empire begins sending probe droids to harass the moisture farmers, hoping to drive Luke Skywalker out into the open.
    -This would seem to place this level after Vader’s visit in Tales #6, since it’s unlikely he would have left Tatooine had he known that Luke was there.
    -The Empire also attacks Mos Eisley. Luke and Wedge drive off the TIE fighters.
    -This Imperial retaliation seems the likely result of the Rebellion’s attempt to aid the inhabitants of Tatooine in Mystery of the Rebellious Robot.
    TALES #6: JUNKHEAP HERO (Page 40-41)
    -Luke has to depart Tatooine with Artoo in his X-Wing for a mission that will take “several months”.
    -He’s unable to contact Threepio, who assumes that the discarded Artoo decoy is his friend. He decides to rebuild him out of droid parts, though it may take months.
    -Several of the stories that follow don’t feature Threepio, so it’s possible he’ll be at it for awhile. Poor Threepio...
     
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  14. Chrissonofpear2

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    I actually outlined a lot of this period for an old fanfiction I did several years ago, expanding on the siege and evacuation. I put the Sixela battle at four months ABY, I was vague about any earlier evacuation, but I did work in the skirmish from Battlefront 2, with the Bothans changing their negotiators at the last minute to a more junior team (who the 501st took out) and the Imperials assuming they did more damage to the local Rebel forces than they thought. That was around 3 months ABY, as I recall. I also assumed the mission to Monastery was WAY earlier in the timeline, but it only got a one line mention, anyway.
    For the final section, I assumed the forces attacking the Executor did so in a larger force, including at least Mon Cal cruiser. The corvettes and the one frigate were all at the same event though, as I recall? And I took Imperial Spy, X-Wing and Doom Mission all as the same event. Rogue Squadron III's connection I kept vaguer, as I recall.
    I did not include any of Brian Wood's work, as it was not out at the time.
    Are we also using Coruscant weeks of five days here, or (Corellian/Alderaanian?) weeks of seven? And as Galactic Battlegrounds showed a circular structure blown up, I seem to recall referring to it as the Solar Temple.
     
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    Great job, @TalonCard! Are you eventually going all the way up to Hoth? I don't see The Maverick Moon on this update so I'm curious if you worked out a better placement for it.

    The Essential Reader's Companion puts the short story "Small Favors" between "To Fight Another Day" and "Sandbound on Tatooine." Did you miss that one or does it not fit in that placement? Also is there any indication where the Scoundrels tie-ins "Heist" and "Winner Lose All" should take place? I just have them slotted in immediately before Scoundrels by default.

    I'm also looking forward to that Ewoks timeline. :p
     
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    Curious note about Heir to the Jedi- they moved its place in the timeline when it was changed from Legends to canon. I don't recall specifically, but if you dig through its thread here I recall at least one person figured out how it was moved, since I remember there was at least one minor timeline discrepancy.

    But yeah great work!
     
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    Thank you, that's a load off my mind! I think that was the reasoning behind putting them there too.

    That sounds cool, I think a lot of connecting the dots in this era would definitely work best as a fan-fiction narrative. I'd like to do a character-based piece set during that month-long hunt for Vader, looking at how the big three bonded in that period of time and what exactly happened to Vader when he went back to Vaal for his TIE.

    Monastery and (to a lesser degree) the Sixela mission have had a lot of different placements on my timeline over the years too. Monastery ended up needing to be far ahead of the other Marvel comics because of (you guessed it,) Star Wood, where Luke is sure the Empire doesn't know who he is. Since he meets Vader face-to-face on Monastery, that had to be moved.

    Thanks! "Shadows of Endor" actually made an Ewoks timeline feasible, so I hope to get around to that one day and we can combine the two. [face_laugh] I'm probably going to put the Maverick Moon sometime around 1-2 ABY. I held out on keeping it close to ANH for the longest time based on my own personal preference, but I think that later is objectively a better fit. Luke mentions in Marvel that he's never had the chance to explore a city on his own, and that seemed a little at odds with him cruising around a cityscape in a landspeeder in Maverick Moon. He also gets in touch with Obi-Wan, which doesn't really line up with Rebel Force's insistence that Obi-Wan is avoiding Luke during this time. (Toss in Heir to the Jedi, and you have a pretty good case for minimizing their contact prior to Allegiance.) I could have continued to justify it, but later just seems better for this story. The later years are sparse enough that Luke could have enough time to actually take some classes at the New Academy and enter a kind of Force training dry spell where he forgets some of Obi-Wan's lessons.

    Similarly, I've also given up insisting on Missions #5-8 taking place before the Yavin evacuation; that was another case when my own pet preferences got in the way of a sensible placement, lol.

    Small Favors was a weird one because even the notes in the Reader's Companion didn't seem to indicate that it was meant to be placed where it was. My notes on that story:
    -Darth Vader appears to be taking command of the Executor at Kuat at the beginning of this story, putting it after the vessel’s launch in Classic Star Wars #17.
    -The Essential Reader’s Companion notes the presence of the Executor, stating that since the Executor is just entering Imperial service in this story, it must take place within the six month period when the Rebels were blockaded on Yavin.
    -Nevertheless, this story was placed between ANH and Scoundrels in that book’s timeline, which seems a little early considering that the Executor was still under construction in stories following Scoundrels.
    -However, it seems that this story was intended to take place around the same time as the commissioning ceremony of the Executor, rather than its launch. An in-universe Imperial Defense Daily article also included in Adventure Journal #12 covers the public unveiling of the Executor at the Kuat Imperial Transfer post, which Darth Vader is attending. This story opens with Vader and the Executor at the Imperial Transfer post.
    -The same article states that the Executor has completed a six-month shakedown cruise five weeks before, so that would place this story around seven months after the Executor’s launch in Classic Star Wars #17, rather than sometime in the six month period after Yavin.
    -As related in the X-Wing series, the Executor’s ceremonial launch here at Kuat may have been a cover for the Lusankya’s construction anyway.
    -Complicating matters are the fact that the Adventure Journal’s in-universe dates (37:10:23 in this case) aren’t compatible with the revised six month Yavin evacuation in The Essential Chronology.
    -As usual, I’m going to assume that the in-universe date is a result of the news story being reported late, but that the commissioning of the Executor and this related story take place around seven months after the Executor’s launch in Classic Star Wars #17 as originally intended.

    It's definitely my plan to take this all the way to Hoth; though if the first six months is any indication, it may take longer than I originally thought.

    Thank you! I saw that reference to "Luke of two years ago" too. I think it probably would have ended up closer to ANH in an internally consistent reading order regardless of being canon or legends; the fact that Obi-Wan has been absent from Luke's life since ANH is a pretty big plot point, and Allegiance already had Obi-Wan give Luke instructions. (That being said, Rebel Force kind of implies that Obi-Wan didn't contact Luke until TESB--this isn't exactly an era known for its consistency.) I could definitely see this being dropped at 2 ABY on the timeline without any thought as to how it fit in with Allegiance. (It's possible that the theoretical Legends version might have mentioned Obi-Wan's direct communications in Allegiance, but I kind of doubt it.)

    TC
     
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  18. Chrissonofpear2

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    Yes, good observations there. My actual fanfic story didn't even focus on the main characters that much, so much as other members of the Rebellion, including the Dodonna family at some points. Also, considering Allegiance, is it definitely set at five, or is it at six months, post Yavin? And I seem to recall Mara remembering it being some three months prior, in Choices of One.
     
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    That's cool; Dodonna's family was definitely underutilized in the EU. (I kept expecting Vrad Dodonna's backstory to be expanded upon, since Classic Star Wars established that he had been involved in several other important battles, but nothing ever came of it.)

    Allegiance is tricky because its placement kept changing. The novel seemed to indicate an immediate post-ANH setting (save for the appearance of the Executor), then Sue Rostini put it at six months (probably because of the Executor), Zahn adjusted it back to five with Choices of One, then the Essential Reader's Companion put it at 2-3 months after Yavin.

    I think the book works best before Star Wood, since Luke and Han appear to be in an earlier stage of their relationship with Mon Mothma than in the comic, in addition to the hints in the text itself that ANH occurred recently. So the Reader's Companion's placement ended up making the most sense for this reading order/timeline, in addition to being the most recent.

    I'm not sure if Pablo knew about Star Wood's storyline and that influenced his placement, or if he just overlooked the references in Choices of One to Allegiance being three months before. (It's anyone's guess as to how Star Wood's reinterpretation of events would have influenced stories going forward.)

    I haven't gotten far enough into Choices of One yet to see if it makes more sense to try and move it back to early-sevenish months on the timeline for the sake of the internal references, or just leave it at eight months ABY.

    If we weren't considering the omniscient narration of Star Wood or the out-of-universe placements of the Reader's Companion at all, it'd probably make just as much sense to consider everything that happens in 2 months ABY on this timeline to have happened between 2-5 months ABY based just on the amount of time that passes in each story, so I'm not focusing as much on what happened in what month as I am in what order of events is the most internally consistent.
     
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    Chrissonofpear2 Jedi Knight star 3

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    I will settle for around 3 to 5 months ABY for now, then. Still see Star Wood as fairly optional, though.
     
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    Heir to the Jedi, p. 215 (paperback):

    Thinking of the aftermath of Yavin, I sighed, dinner forgotten. "If I'm honest, though, I probably did let it [blowing up the Death Star] go to my head for a while."
    "Ah, so I just caught you at a good time?"
    "Kind of. I mean, have you ever looked back at who you were two years ago or even six months ago and shook your head at how stupid you were back then?"
    Her expression brightened in recognition. "Yeah! I know that feeling. And you want to go back in time, armed with what you know now, and tell her how it is."
    "Exactly! Two years ago I thought I'd never escape Tatooine and I complained about everything."


    It's not quite clear that Luke has any particular event(s) in mind that happened two years or six months ago, instead of just a general span of time over which people mature. So we don't have to date it at 2 ABY, in Canon or Legends.

    The Rebels are hiding in "an Outer Rim orbit" (of the galaxy?), and looking for "a more permanent base." (1) It is not entirely clear at this point whether they only have temporary bases like Thilia, or whether they still have a presence on Yavin 4 but can't stay there permanently anymore because of the blockade, or the Executor, etc. Luke knows Ackbar is a Mon Calamari (44), but we don't have to take his exclamation "The who...?" in Classic Star Wars (11/22/82) as an expression of ignorance about the Mon Calamari. Leia had already mentioned them on Hoth and seemed to assume he would know who they were. It could just as well be surprise that they are finally helping Dodonna and Yavin Base out. In the course of the CSW story, there are no introductions, though it does seem to be Han's first meeting with Ackbar.

    Kevin Hearne pointed out that Luke hasn't heard from Obi-Wan's ghost since ANH, which in Canon places this before the Canon Marvel comics, and at least current canon makes that earlier than 1 ABY. (Ultimate SW compresses the first 50 issues of the new Marvel series into a year, and the last 25 stretched out over two years. As the book makes a number of other mistakes, probably best to treat as an error that will someday be corrected, but at least shows what the Story Group's current thinking is.)

    If not for fitting it in with the Smuggler's Gambit audio drama, Heir to the Jedi could probably go between old Marvel SW # 27 Return of the Hunter, and # 28 Whatever Happened to Jabba the Hut?, another of Han's absences while trying to pay off Jabba, or Mosep Binneed, or Heater, or Declan Mulholland. ;)
     
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    TalonCard •Author: Slave Pits of Lorrd •TFN EU Staff star 5 VIP

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    Thanks for posting those notes! I was thinking along similar lines in interpreting Luke's "two years ago" line, and it helps to know that Heir to the Jedi is likely pre-1 ABY even in the new canon.

    I haven't always been dead set on using Luke's apparent ignorance about the Mon Calamari in Classic Star Wars as a timeline indicator (especially since that story has been heavily retconned to accommodate the X-Wing games) but I was surprised to find that it all works out pretty well, after taking the timeline changes from Star Wood into account. And I do prefer to keep the original intent intact whenever possible; I think Luke is being used as the reader's proxy here in introducing a then-new race to the Star Wars literature of the time.

    I actually placed Heir to the Jedi first based on the Ackbar/Obi-Wan/Star Wood/Allegiance factors, then patched in Smuggler's Gambit when I realized that both stories had Han leaving the Rebel fleet to pay back Jabba the Hutt. (Han and Chewie didn't mean to get separated from the Rebels while they were gone in #28, so this would be a slightly more awkward fit.) Heir seems to fit better in the fleet-based period shown in Star Wood than when Luke and the gang seem to be based out of Yavin during #27/28.

    (That being said, I kind of suspect that in the Legends version of Heir, the reference to Han and Chewie having lost their reward was a reference to Marvel by way of Scoundrels, so a theoretical New New Essential Chronology might have had them in the same place...but that's a timeline tangle we don't have to deal with, thank goodness. ;) )
     
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    Chrissonofpear2 Jedi Knight star 3

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    Was it Han or Luke who said 'the who?!' in that comic? I have it, so I suppose I could check.
    Their being on Yavin so long did make sense originally that they would know less about the wider rebel groups.
     
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    Sinrebirth Mod-Emperor of the EUC, Lit, RPF and SWC star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    @TalonCard - still in love with you for this thread.

    Just so you know.
     
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