Earlier this 12 months at Star Wars Celebration, waiting for a new slate of Star Wars motion pictures, Lucasfilm formally unveiled a brand new chronological take a look at continuity, breaking down hundreds of years within the galaxy far, far-off into 9 distinct intervals. Now, the official web site has gone slightly deeper—and teased some very intriguing hints alongside the best way.
Now included as a part of StarWars.com’s databank, the “Eras” part of the location presents an up to date information to the first works of latest Star Wars canon—though sadly books and comics are largely left on the wayside save for The Excessive Republic in favor of movie, TV, and video video games, and the place precisely they match into the 9 eras revealed again at Celebration.
Unsurprisingly, quite a lot of what we’ve to date is the stuff centered across the Skywalker Saga’s principal eras—Fall of the Jedi, Reign of the Empire, and Age of Insurrection overlaying the prequel and unique trilogies, after which the New Republic and Rise of the First Order overlaying the sequels and post-Return of the Jedi TV—however there are a minimum of some new descriptions for every period past these too. Both the earliest and furthest eras of this timeline are left clean for now: Daybreak of the Jedi, the traditional setting of James Mangold’s deliberate origin story for the primary Jedi; and New Jedi Order, the post-Rise of Skywalker setting of the upcoming Rey standalone movie from Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. However one intriguingly as-yet-unexplored period does have a quick little bit of scene setting: the Previous Republic, the traditional period slotted between Daybreak of the Jedi and the Excessive Republic. Right here’s what the timeline now reads for this era:
The Republic is based among the many worlds of the Galactic Core, and the Jedi Order emerges to guard it. A schism throughout the Jedi results in the creation of the Sith on this epic period.
Is it loads? No, probably not. Is it one thing? Sure, and what does a Star Wars fan love greater than making a lot of nonsense over the tiniest of scraps? The Previous Republic, in fact, is essentially recognized to followers for the video games it’s named for, specifically the EU CRPG legends Knights of the Previous Republic and its sequel The Sith Lords, and their MMORPG continuation The Previous Republic, the uncommon piece of still-active Expanded Universe media within the present Lucasfilm period. And with a remake of the previous nonetheless deliberate sooner or later, maybe there’s hints that components of these tales may now develop into enshrined in present continuity right here.
However there’s additionally some very fascinating positioning of issues right here—the Jedi Order is an establishing establishment right here reasonably than throughout the Daybreak of the Jedi, for instance. Or the truth that it’s on this interval we’ve the schism that creates the Sith, and doubtlessly the Sith Empire or one thing akin to it from KOTOR. It’s two sentences, however hey! Two sentences is best than no sentences.
Time will inform how lengthy it’ll take earlier than we see extra of this timeline fleshed out—however for now, it’s enjoyable to suppose what might be.
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