Jedi Timeline-Part 5
59 BSW4 to 32 BSW4
BSW4=Before Star Wars 4: A New Hope
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57 BSW4
Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi is born on Tatooine.

Kharmeir Sarin -- the future Darth Maul -- is born on Iridonia.

Bruck is born.

56 BSW4
At the tender age of one, Obi-Wan begins his Jedi training at the Jedi Temple on
Coruscant, under Master Yoda.

50 BSW4
Qui-Gon Jinn takes Xanatos to be his Padawaan Learner.

47 BSW4
Qui-Gon is ready to accept Xanatos as a full Jedi Knight -- but Yoda isn’t so sure. He sends the
two to Telos. En route, the ship is attacked by pirates -- pirates apparently helped by Xanatos.
When Xanatos sees how powerful his father (now Governor) Crion has become in his absence,
the boy becomes resentful. When Crion tries to set up a war with a neighboring planet, civil
war breaks out instead. Xanatos leads his father’s army, but Qui-Gon personally murders Crion
in front of his son. Now completely in the Dark Side, Xanatos sears the mark of his father’s
white-hot ring into his face, and vanishes. Shattered, Qui-Gon vows never to take another
apprentice.

46 BSW4
Padme Naberrie Amidala, future wife of Anakin Skywalker (and mother of Luke and Leia) is
born on Naboo to a pair of humble villagers in a small mountain village.

45 BSW4
The Outbound Flight Project, a space voyage outside the galaxy, is launched. One of the six
Jedi Masters aboard is Jorus C'Baoth. 15 Republic vessels are sent under the secret orders of
Senator Palpatine to destroy the Outbound Flight-- and then are themselves destroyed by 12
Chiss vessels led by then-Commander Thrawn. Thrawn leaves only one ship intact, and
interrogates Palpatine's main adviser, Kinman Doriana. Doriana explains the situation to
Thrawn. Two weeks later, Thrawn destroys the Outbound Flight. Palpatine apparently has
genetic material of C'Baoth that is later cloned. Thrawn’s actions do not sit well with the Chiss
ruling families, and he is eventually exiled on an uninhabited planet on the edge of Imperial
space.

Senator Palpatine funds and promotes long range exploration into the Deep Core. He
commisions the launch of thousands of probots programmed to chart safe hyperspace routes
into and through the Deep Core.

Obi-Wan Kenobi accidentally causes fellow Jedi student Bruck to carry a grudge against him
by tripping him up in a temple corridor. Bruck takes to calling him “Oafy-Wan.”

44 BSW4
Jedi student Obi-Wan Kenobi is just four weeks away from his 13th birthday....and from losing
his last chance to become a Jedi Knight. His only hope is that Master Qui-Gon Jinn will take
him as a Padawan apprentice. But when a jealous student named Bruck provokes Obi-Wan
into a fight, the young man is forced off the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and shipped off to the
planet Bandomeer to become a farmer. Yet strangely enough, Qui-Gon is going there too on
orders of the Supreme Chancellor.
En route to Bandomeer, Obi-Wan is beaten senseless by a Hutt. He learns later about Offworld
Mining’s war with Arcona Harvest over the planet. When Arcona’s mining machines are
sabotaged, Obi-Wan sets out to find the saboteur. With the aid of an Arcona named Si
Treemba, he discovers that Offworld (in the form of Jemba and Grelb the Hutt) were the ones
at fault. The transport they are all on is attacked by Togorian pirates, the two Jedi join forces to
fight them off. The transport crash lands on a water planet, and Jemba tries to force the Arcona
to agree to serve him by stealing their life-essential dactyl. Obi-Wan wants very much to kill
Jemba, but Qui-Gon forces him to realize how anger is overwhelming him. Qui-Gon takes back
the dactyl, while Obi-Wan fights off an attack by draigons. Trying to kill the Jedi at the same
time, Jemba and Grelb are killed. The ship is repaired, and the trip to Bandomeer completed.

When they arrive, they receive a note: “I have been looking forward to this day.” It was written
by a Dark Jedi named Xanatos -- Qui-Gon’s first apprentice....

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan learn the letter from the Supreme Chancellor bringing Qui-Gon to
Bandomeer was faked -- probably by Xanatos. Qui-Gon bundles Obi-Wan off to the farms,
forbidding him to interfere in any way in his mission. Not long after, he learns that Xanatos
himself is Offworld’s representative in a business meeting. A mine explosion alarms the
people, but it turns out to be a natural disaster. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan discovers a secret
Offworld base at the farms, as well as the logo of a broken circle -- Xanatos’s facial scar.
Qui-Gon, refusing to place his trust in the boy, shuts him out. Xanatos tries to sway the
resentful Obi-Wan to his side, revealing his version of how Qui-Gon betrayed him.
The mine explosion reveals an unexpected bonus -- ionite, a valuable mineral that can save
Bandomeer from corporate takeover. Qui-Gon, on a hunch, infiltrates Offworld headquarters
and learns that Xanatos is the owner of Offworld. He informs Yoda, who urges caution -- and
also urges Qui-Gon to use Obi-Wan’s aid. But Obi-Wan has been captured by Xanatos and
bundled off to work in an Offworld deepsea mine. After a fight with the dark ex-pupil, Qui-Gon
goes after Obi-Wan. Freeing him from the mine, he finally reveals the truth about Xanatos to
Obi-Wan. They chase Xanatos into the ground mines, where they have to fight him in the dark.
Xanatos rigs the mine to blow (as he did last time) and leaves the Jedi to die. Working
together, they find the ion bomb Xanatos was going to use and defuses it. Qui-Gon finally
yields to the inevitable, and accepts Obi-Wan as his Padawaan Learner.

41 BSW4
Anakin Skywalker is born and raised by his mother, Shmi Skywalker, perhaps on Tatooine.

38 BSW4
Anakin and Shmi are sold under Gardulla the Hutt. Some time later, Gardulla loses a bet on
the Boonta pod races on Tatooine, and is forced to sell the slaves to the Toydarian junk
collector Watto.

37 BSW4
Danaan Kerr, a rumoured Dark Jedi is born, place unknown.

Kolor Delan (son of General Delan, leader of the Pendarran Warriors) is born on Pendarr III.
General Delan will become the leader of the Pendarran Warriors, an independent group that
fights with the Jedi Knights and the armies of the Old Republic during the Clone Wars. As
Emperor Palpatine eliminates the Jedi Knights, so will the Pendarran Warriors nearly face
destruction. Kolor Delan's crime of unauthorised military activity will earn him a 12,500 credit
reward for his capture.

36 BSW4
At the age of 10, Padme Amidala -- by sheer skill and earnestness -- becomes Governor of
Theed, capital city of Naboo. She moves from her country home to Theed, where she lives with
her grandmother Winama.

35 BSW4
Callista is trained by Jedi Master Djinn Altis on the Chu'unthor, a Jedi training platform hidden
in the clouds of Bespin.

The Clone Wars begin.

The Galactic Corporate Policy League is formed, a cabal of greedy industrialists who profit off
of the increasing corruption of the aging Republic. Senator Palpatine quietly allies himself
with the League and begins building an underground power base.

34 BSW4
The corrupt King Veruna of Naboo abdicates his throne, resulting in a general election for the
planet’s next leader. At the tender age of 12, and by an overwhelming majority vote, Padme
Amidala is crowned princess.

32 BSW4
Padme Amidala is coronated queen of Naboo.

When the neutral, anti-technological world of Cerea refuses to join the Republic, an
underhanded plot is implemented to force Cerea in -- by luring the planet's youth with the
promise of technological wonders. The Twi’lek Republic representative Silais arrives to make
an ill-fated presentation to the planet’s elders, but is shot down by Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi,
who compares their pristine world to the polluting citadels the Republic built on it.
Ki returns home to deal with his many wives, as well as his troubled daughter Sylvn, who’s
fallen in love with a “techrat.” He finds her at a pro-tech rally, where a mysterious “diplomat”
named Bron whips the youths into a frenzy. When Ki tries to calm them, Sylvn’s boyfriend Maj
leads an attack on him.

He takes Ki’s lightsaber -- and accidentally skewers a young man with it. An all-out riot begins,
as the crowd mistakenly thinks Ki killed the boy...
Silais produces evidence that exonerates Ki, but the Jedi is still untrusted by all, his lightsaber
kept away from him. He returns to his honor-wife Mawin’s home, to find Sylvn and four others
stealing food for Maj and running off in swoops. Ki deducts the reason, and searches out the
Ortolan snoop Ydde, who is too scared of whatever’s going on to talk to him. Ki is jumped
immediately thereafter by a gang. He beats them, only to find Ydde’s corpse nearby. He’s
pleasantly surprised to discover that Ydde slipped him a note beforehand.
Meanwhile, in the Outsider Citadel...

But Bron tells Ephant Mon to kill Maj when he says....
Two of Maj's buddies are killed in a swoop accident. Fed up with the runaround, Ki goes after
Ephant Mon himself. But Mon is already gone when he reaches the Citadel, along with the
others. As Ki tries to figure out what he's not seeing, a destroyer droid almost takes him out. It's
only with the aid of a messenger that he successfully destroys it, when the messenger gives
him back his lightsaber. As he convalsces later in a bacta tank, an Elder contacts the Jedi
Council, who gives Ki full permission to pursue Mon, Sylvn and Maj anywhere in the galaxy....

Ephant’s ship is detained in orbit by Tatooine militia when it is discovered to be loaded with
2,000 divvik pupae (snacks for Jabba) that have already hatched. With Bron claiming a
vendetta on the part of the Jedi, Ki takes a small ship and a trio of “prototype” droids
(including the supposedly reprogrammed destroyer droid) and rushes to Tatooine. When he
gets there, he senses Ephant -- and vice versa. Ephant reveals to the young passengers that Ki
is coming, and he’s going to use them as bait to make Ki get them through the pupae and off
the ship. As Ki hacks his way towards them, he receives a message from the Elder, who
informs him that the death of Maj’s two friends was no accident. He reaches the last door to the
group, where Ephant informs him that he will eject the escape pod the group is in, killing them
all unless Ki manually opens the outside hatch. He then cold-bloodedly blasts Maj. With no
other choice, Ki opens the hatch and lets them go. Ki tries to pursue them, only to held up by
a Trade Federation ship.
Ephant reaches Jabba’s palace, where he informs him that he was unable to buy the malium
he was going to buy with the pro-tech group’s money. With Jabba’s “customers”
empty-handed, and Ki pursuing him on the ground, Ephant decides on a distraction -- chaining
Sylvn and Twin up outside to die in an approaching ion storm.....
Fighting past atmospheric fighters, Ki drops some decoy debris as well as one of his droids. He
has his ship "limp" toward Jabba's, and just barely saves up the girls just as Jabba and Ephant
launch a shuttle. Ki's dropped off droid infiltrated the shuttle before launch, and reveals a ton
of illegal war-related items inside -- items intended for the Trade Federation. He returns home,
where Sylvn reveals the truth to Cerea's people. The hysteria dies down, but something else
seems to be afoot. Senators are going into seclusion, Silais and Bron are in hiding -- what's
going on?
For Ki, that's for the future to discover. For right now, he's spending badly needed time with his
reunited family, including Sylvn and his (finally) pregnant fifth wife Shea. He's also mulling an
offer to join the Jedi Council on Coruscant...

Another day of drudgery and slave work for Anakin Skywalker at Watto’s junkyard. But Watto
has a special job for him today -- go to a Jawa Sandcrawler and gather parts for a wrecked
pod Watto’s gotten a hold of. Taking the partially-built C3P0 with him, he travels to the
sandcrawler -- that he learns is badly damaged. In return for the pod parts, Anakin agrees to
repair the sandcrawler.

Not only does he get thrusters in return, but an entire pod engine! Anakin takes the rebuilt pod
to a Boonta pod race, but Sebulba cheats, leaving Anakin crashed in the sand. He’s ordered by
Watto to rebuild the pod. That night, he heads to the market, and meets a spacer who
encourages him to follow his dreams. Thing is, the things Anakin’s been dreaming about
haven’t come true....yet.....

A growing conflict between the Old Republic and the Trade Federation over taxation of
intergalactic trade routes and trade permits erupts into crisis when the bullying Federation
decides to make an example of Naboo, one of the oldest, most revered planets in the
Republic. The Federation sets up a blockade of the planet.