Jedi Timeline-Part 6
31 BSW4 to 13 BSW4
BSW4=Before Star Wars 4: A New Hope
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32 BSW4
STAR WARS: EPISODE I -- THE PHANTOM MENACE

Supreme Chancellor Palpatine orders all battle droids and assassin droids outlawed.

COMPNOR, the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order, is formed. Initially little
more than a social group, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine aids it covertly, building it into a
major political movement to help in the transition of the Republic into a Empire.

31 BSW4
Lando Calrissian is born (on Corellia?).

29 BSW4
Han Solo, grandson of the 'false' King of Corellia Dalla Solo, is born on the planet
Corellia. He has three known relatives; his father Jonash Solo, aunt Tiion Sal-Solo, and
her son Thracken Sal-Solo. Due to as-yet unknown circumstances, the young Solo is
orphaned, and spends his early years as a street urchin.

27 BSW4
Seti Ashgad the First, a political opponent of Senator Palpatine, is kidnapped and
stranded on the prison world Nam Chorios by Palpatine's agents. He overthrows the
planet's Jedi leader, Beldorion the Hutt.

26 BSW4
Near the end of the Clone Wars, a series of Dark Jedi attack the area of space that
includes the Bpfassh system and the planet Dagobah. The last of these Dark Jedi steals
smuggler Jorj Car’das’s ship and flees to Dagobah. He attacks and is killed by Yoda, who
nurses Car’das back to life and decides to live near the cave where he was killed, as his
dark aura cloaked Yoda's own.

25 BSW4
General Obi-Wan Kenobi is a passenger on a pleasure cruiser to Alderaan. Droid 68-RKO,
on his way to serve Prince Bail Organa, befriends Kenobi. A criminal named Augustus
Tryll tries unsuccessfully to hire Kenobi on a venture.
As the liner nears the Merson asteroid belt, Captain Quasar asks for Kenobi's help to
defend the cruiser against Merson slaver pirates. As he defends the ship against attack, he
learns that a signal from the cruiser is guiding the pirates to them. He has to defend Tryll
from the angry passengers who think he sold them out. He finds and destroys the signal --
a fermenter machine. The ship goes on to Alderaan in peace.

23 BSW4
The Jedi Knights destroy the Iridium space pirates, raiders who were using “power gems”
to disrupt Republic convoys’ shields. One, Laskar, goes into hiding with the last power
gem.

The former Jaster Mereel (an exiled Journeyman Protector from Concord
Dawn/disgruntled Imperial stormtrooper) goes AWOL, either joins the Mandalorians or
finds Mandalorian battle armor, and becomes the bounty hunter Boba Fett.

22 BSW4
STAR WARS: EPISODE II -- THE CLONE WARS .
The Clone Wars continue, as cloning technology is stolen and used by Mandalorian warriors,
under the secret orders of the Sith and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. The Jedi Knights use all
of their resources to defeat the Mandalorians, several of whom (including Boba Fett?) escape
justice. The Jedi are left badly weakened and depleted. Mon Mothma becomes the last Senior
Senator, and with Bail Organa attempts to stabilise the Republic. Palpatine, who has managed
to eliminate almost all of his political enemies, begins to corrupt Anakin Skywalker, who
marries Queen Padme. It becomes far easier for him to do so when Anakin leads a rescue
mission to Tatooine to free his mother Shmi -- a mission that goes catastrophically wrong and
gives Anakin a murderous grudge against all Jedi. Fighting alongside future Viceroy of Alderaan
Bail Prestor Organa, General Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are instrumental in the
successful victory for the Old Republic in the Clone Wars.

Citing the increasingly unstable situation of the Republic, Palpatine (who was in fact the
mysterious Sith Lord "Darth Sideous" all along) declares himself Emperor. The Republic is
renamed the Galactic Empire, the Senate is scaled down in power, and Palpatine begins a
massive build-up of the military. He also orders that all Jedi be exterminated for a Clone
Wars-related atrocity they did not commit (he did). He also orders that all mention of the Jedi
in galactic records be erased, as well as Jedi relics. He officially renames Coruscant “Imperial
Center.”

Kyle Katarn, future Rebel agent (and Jedi Knight), is born on Sulon.

21 BSW4
Jedi Master Nejaa Halcyon is killed in the Clone Wars. His wife remarries, (and his son is
adopted by) Corellian Security officer Rostek Horn. The son becomes known as Hal Horn,
and all references to his Jedi past are erased.

20 (to 18?) BSW4
STAR WARS: EPISODE III -- FALL OF THE JEDI
Now entirely corrupted, Anakin Skywalker renounces his name and renames himself Darth Vader,
becoming Palpatine's Sith apprentice and put in charge of killing the Jedi. Obi-Wan Kenobi battles
him to attempt to win him back (on Horuz?), only succeeding in hideously injuring Vader by
throwing him into either a lava pit or vat of molten liquid. Encased in body armor and an artificial
respiration system, Vader redoubles his evil efforts.
Unbeknownest to him, his twin children, Luke and Leia, are born. Kenobi and Padme act to hide
the children from Vader and Palpatine. Leia is taken by Padme to Alderaan, where she is adopted
by Viceroy Bail Organa and raised as his daughter. Luke is taken by Kenobi to Tatooine (with a
brief stop-over at Dagobah), where Luke is raised by Kenobi's brother Owen Lars. Kenobi himself
goes into hiding in the Jundland Wastes of Tatooine.

Emperor Palpatine shuts down large portions of the Holonet and nationalizes the rest to
prevent news of his more evil activities from spreading throughout the Galaxy. He
officially renames Coruscant “Imperial Center.”

When the Emperor overthrew the Old Republic and declared the Empire, he removed a
number of nobles from power. Instead of killing them and creating a whole new
pantheon of martyrs, he made a bargain with them. If they agreed to permanent exile,
he would allow them to keep much of their wealth. Though many chose to flee or chose
death, a large number of the families accepted. In a mass exodus of around 300,000
nobles, they were relocated to Eliad, and to other planets like it in the Minos Cluster.

Wedge Antilles is born on Gus Treta spaceport in the Corellian system to Jagged and
Xena Antilles.

Sate Pestage is made Grand Vizier of the Empire by Emperor Palpatine. He is put in
charge of the Imperial Personal Archives, the preparation and testing of the Emperor’s
meals, holder of the Imperial Seal, and scheduling of official functions.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Emperor Palpatine authorizes the construction of the "Eye of
Palpatine," an asteroid-shaped ship that is the largest of it's time, and completely
automated. The ship is built to help exterminate the Jedi. The Jedi Knights Callista Ming
and Geith board the asteroid and disable it, giving their lives in the process. Callista's
spirit takes over the ship to keep it from launching. An angry Palpatine sentences the Eye
of Palpatine’s designers to the sand mines of Neelgalmon.

19 BSW4
Greedo is born on Rodia.

Darth Vader arrives at the struggling planet of Honoghr and offers to aid the Noghri
people. In return for Imperial detoxification of the land, the Noghri must serve him and
the Empire as commandos and assassins. The Noghri gratefully accept.
Unbeknownest to them, the Empire uses chemically treated kholm-grass to leave Honoghr
contaminated, leaving the Noghri permanent slaves of the Emperor.

Taj Junak, a Jedi Knight, surrenders to the Empire so that they will not attack Mrlsst
Academy to get to him. The Empire responds to his nonviolent surrender by incinerating
him in front of the school. For years afterward, rumors persist that Junak's ghost haunts
the Academy.

Darth Vader slaughters the colonists of Talasea for harboring a single fugitive Jedi.

18 BSW4
Emperor Palpatine, firmly in power, uses his minions to act quickly and bring the
annoying planet Adarlon of the Minos Cluster to heel. A series of crackdowns and
black-listings, ostensibly to curb licentiousness and obscenity in the entertainment
industry, effectively destroyed free speech, and all holos became subject to Imperial
censorship. The purge was brilliantly conducted by Babel Torsch, at the time
Consular-General on Adarlon. His name is still hated and feared today. Holos about Jedi
or depicting any sort of the Empire are strictly forbidden, but are still produced and
distributed on the black market.

Padme Skywalker dies, either dying from a genetic flaw or possibly murdered by Darth Vader or
Emperor Palpatine. Upon her death, Emperor Palpatine orders all mentions of her, her planet, and
her now extinct race (and thus, nearly all references to his pre-Emperor past) be erased from all
galactic records and libraries. Darth Vader eagerly participates, in part to bury the last shreds of
his own past. By the time of the Galactic Civil War, nobody remembers who Luke and Leia’s
mother was.

15 BSW4
Darth Vader kills the Jedi Knight Aidan Bok on the space station Nespis VIII and destroys
the library of Jedi lore Bok was protecting.

14 BSW4
Young Luke Skywalker unconsciously uses the Force for the first time, to find Aunt Beru's
stitching mender-fixing screwdriver. He later recalls Uncle Owen's reaction as "The worst
yelling-at I ever got in my life."

13 BSW4
After several years of secret construction, Emperor Palpatine opens his private resort
world of Byss, near the center of the galaxy. Luring unsuspecting people (19.7 billion as of
10 ASW4) with promises of a ‘paradise,’ he begins to ruthlessly feed upon those people’s
life-energies to help power his own Dark Side power.