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FruityWho50 said:
The Same Rule applies to Dr Who's Relatively Scrambled Timeline as the TV series overwrites what the events of Audio Dramas all the time because it's easier for the audience just watching the show on it's own
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Actually Who is a pretty different situation. Who's writers and showrunners specifically reject the idea of "canon" - there is no story group, you can believe in whatever you want, the show occasionally contradicts itself, and generally any conflicts can be explained away by the effects of time travel.

When Star Wars was acquired by Disney back in 2013, they rebooted the expanded universe, declaring all existing material as "Legends" and not canon. From then on, the policy was that all content, regardless of medium, was equally canon, and for the following few years were extremely successful at making books connect to comics connect to shows connect to films, with everything fitting together into one big story. It's a really interesting storytelling experiment and quite unlike any other franchise I can think of. Dr Who was actually inspired by this approach to create the Time Lord Victorious crossover event.

In any case, I for one have really enjoyed Star Wars' interconnected expanded universe - it's why I made this timeline - and hope they continue to support it. It's not just a case of "only films and shows are canon", it supports everything and is really rewarding for those of us who try to keep up with it. I can live with these occasional slips, there are only a few after all, and it's still way more consistent than anything else in pop culture right now!
 
So is the final scene of Andor season one supposed to be a time jump to 4 BBY? Or does the entire season take place in 5 BBY?
 
I know as of episode 8 of Andor we are still in 5 BBY as on the official Star Wars website under episode 8's trivia gallery it talks about saw garrareas appearances in chronological order
(Sorry for Butchering Saw's last name lol)
 
FruityWho50 said:
I know as of episode 8 of Andor we are still in 5 BBY as on the official Star Wars website under episode 8's trivia gallery it talks about saw garrareas appearances in chronological order
(Sorry for Butchering Saw's last name lol)
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You mean Saw Gerrera
 
Updated with all the latest stuff. Andor S1 is all set in 5 BBY, after Rebels S1 E2. I'm sure it should interweave with Rebels S1 rather than all being in one lump as I've currently placed it, but I'll have to examine the time gaps in Rebels and Andor to make a "best guess" as to the order of events. Hopefully S2 might contain more clues!
 
Treacleman said:
Updated with all the latest stuff. Andor S1 is all set in 5 BBY, after Rebels S1 E2. I'm sure it should interweave with Rebels S1 rather than all being in one lump as I've currently placed it, but I'll have to examine the time gaps in Rebels and Andor to make a "best guess" as to the order of events. Hopefully S2 might contain more clues!
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Andor should be all before Rebels because Maarva's brick marks her death date as 7972.216.4 which is the CRC calendar before the BBY/ABY one is utilized. A New Hope is 7977, so the 7972 date lines up. The ".216.4" after it should signify how long into the year according to the subreddit r/StarWarsReference. Going off how they've calculated other released dates from the Scum and Villainy reference book, Maarva passed late March or around March 20th. Going back in the season from there, Andor starts in January which still covers the 5 BBY date at the beginning of the show.

So Andor is the beginning of 5 BBY and Rebels starts at the end of 5 BBY since the Empire Day episode has to land in the middle of the following year according to some past Pablo Hidalgo tweets. The Kessel incident they mention would then be referring to Solo years prior instead of the Rebels premiere, and works a little better since I'm sure news of a Jedi on Kessel would've came up in those Coruscant scenes.
 
Lesser said:
Andor should be all before Rebels because Maarva's brick marks her death date as 7972.216.4 which is the CRC calendar before the BBY/ABY one is utilized. A New Hope is 7977, so the 7972 date lines up. The ".216.4" after it should signify how long into the year according to the subreddit r/StarWarsReference. Going off how they've calculated other released dates from the Scum and Villainy reference book, Maarva passed late March or around March 20th. Going back in the season from there, Andor starts in January which still covers the 5 BBY date at the beginning of the show.

So Andor is the beginning of 5 BBY and Rebels starts at the end of 5 BBY since the Empire Day episode has to land in the middle of the following year according to some past Pablo Hidalgo tweets. The Kessel incident they mention would then be referring to Solo years prior instead of the Rebels premiere, and works a little better since I'm sure news of a Jedi on Kessel would've came up in those Coruscant scenes.
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100% agree.
 
Lesser said:
Andor should be all before Rebels because Maarva's brick marks her death date as 7972.216.4 which is the CRC calendar before the BBY/ABY one is utilized. A New Hope is 7977, so the 7972 date lines up. The ".216.4" after it should signify how long into the year according to the subreddit r/StarWarsReference. Going off how they've calculated other released dates from the Scum and Villainy reference book, Maarva passed late March or around March 20th. Going back in the season from there, Andor starts in January which still covers the 5 BBY date at the beginning of the show.

So Andor is the beginning of 5 BBY and Rebels starts at the end of 5 BBY since the Empire Day episode has to land in the middle of the following year according to some past Pablo Hidalgo tweets. The Kessel incident they mention would then be referring to Solo years prior instead of the Rebels premiere, and works a little better since I'm sure news of a Jedi on Kessel would've came up in those Coruscant scenes.
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That all sounds very reasonable! I wouldn't stick rigidly to any calendar placements like that if anything else comes up to suggest otherwise, but since it fits for now I'll move it there! Thanks for the info :)
 

But this tweet from DiscussingFilm says that it's "under 2 years"?


There's also this. So confusing o_O
 
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Pro Bot said:
So... is this canon now?
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No Semi Canon (They took Characters from Legends/QuasiCanon (E.g. Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens DLC,Lego Star Wars Disney+ Specials,Freemaker Adventures) material and repurposed them for the Canon
 
uhm, I originally wanted to make a timeline for the 3 big continuities of star wars, but if you want I can leave out canon and do only Legends and infinities, becouse your timeline is really well done, and it will be really bad to not have it completed.
 
Treacleman said:
Just checking in - is anyone still using this timeline? Will update it if so but know there are other Star Wars timelines on the site so wouldn't want to take the time if no one's fussed!
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I used to use dirishb timeline but since he passed away I use yours now
 
Treacleman said:
Just checking in - is anyone still using this timeline? Will update it if so but know there are other Star Wars timelines on the site so wouldn't want to take the time if no one's fussed!
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Finally made an account so I could say please continue! I've been using your timeline for a while now and it's really helpful. The changes you make compared to the Wookieepedia timeline make it way easier to avoid spoilers. Thank you for all the work you've put into it so far!
 
So Young Jedi Adventures already has a continuity error. The first short must take place after at least the first episode because the kids travel from Coruscant to Tenoo in the pilot, but are already there in the shorts. Kai gets his green lightsaber at the end of episode 1 and already has it in the first short. The issue here is Nash meets Yoda for the first time TWICE on different occasions! Once in the pilot and once in the first short! How can we square this circle?
 
Dallas Kinard said:
So Young Jedi Adventures already has a continuity error. The first short must take place after at least the first episode because the kids travel from Coruscant to Tenoo in the pilot, but are already there in the shorts. Kai gets his green lightsaber at the end of episode 1 and already has it in the first short. The issue here is Nash meets Yoda for the first time TWICE on different occasions! Once in the pilot and once in the first short! How can we square this circle?
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Just Keep watching! It'll make sense!
 

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