Star Wars' Official Timeline Guide Offers Intriguing Hints at the Past and Future

James Whitbrook
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Damn, they really do be making a lot of stuff in this part, particularly.
Damn, they really do be making a lot of stuff in this part, particularly.


Damn, they really do be making a lot of stuff in this part, particularly.

Earlier this year at Star Wars Celebration, looking ahead to a new slate of Star Wars movies, Lucasfilm officially unveiled a new chronological look at continuity, breaking down thousands of years in the galaxy far, far away into nine distinct periods. Now, the official website has gone a little deeper—and teased some very intriguing hints along the way.

Now included as part of StarWars.com’s databank, the “Eras” section of the site offers an updated guide to the primary works of contemporary Star Wars canon—although sadly books and comics are largely left on the wayside save for The High Republic in favor of film, TV, and video games, and where exactly they fit into the nine eras revealed back at Celebration.

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But there’s also some very interesting positioning of things here—the Jedi Order is an establishing institution here rather than during the Dawn of the Jedi, for example. Or the fact that it’s in this period we have the schism that creates the Sith, and potentially the Sith Empire or something akin to it from KOTOR. It’s two sentences, but hey! Two sentences is better than no sentences.

Time will tell how long it’ll take before we see more of this timeline fleshed out—but for now, it’s fun to think what could be.


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