902 BBY 902 before the Battle of Yavin ( BBY ) was a year in the era known as the Great Peace of the Republic . The time period began nearly one hundred years earlier and featured the Galactic Republic ' s settlement into previously unexplored regions of the Outer Rim Territories . Around 902 BBY , the millennia - long Barabel War , a bloody conflict for hunting grounds , escalated to the entire Barabel population of the planet Barab I . The intervention of Jedi Knight Noga - ta brought an end to the dispute . Proem . Around 4500 BBY , stemming from a dispute over prime hunting grounds , a bloody civil conflict known as the Barabel War erupted on Barab I , homeworld of the Barabel species . The war continued for millennia , until a peace agreement was settled by passing Jedi , around 902 BBY . In 1000 BBY , the New Sith Wars , fought between the Jedi and the Sith , came to an end . Then - current Supreme Chancellor Tarsus Valorum reorganized the Galactic Senate through the Ruusan Reformation s , and the Jedi Order became a branch of the Republic Judicial Department . The galaxy in 902 BBY . The year 902 BBY was also known as 2 , 751 after the Treaty of Coruscant ( ATC ) , a peace agreement that brought an end to the Great Galactic War in 3653 BBY . 902 BBY was also the same as 98 after the Ruusan Reformation , and 867 before the Great ReSynchronization ( BrS ) , a year - notation system established in 35 BBY . By 902 BBY , the Great Peace of the Republic , the era that began with the Ruusan Reformation , was nearly one hundred years in the making . The Republic expanded further into the galactic Deep Core and unexplored Wild Space regions that were later reorganized into the Outer Rim Territories . Around 902 BBY , in the final stages of the Barabel War , the population of Barab I was divided into two opposing camps , supporting the hunters of two of the larger clans disputing the rights of access to certain choice hunting grounds . The disagreement threatened to erupt into full - scale butchery , as the entire species was destined to join the coming battle . The clans formed two armies that were each bent on the ultimate destruction of their enemies , but before the final battle , a group of passing Jedi Knights intervened . The Jedi , including the Ithorian Jedi explorer Noga - ta , listened to both sides and passed a fair judgment . In accordance the Jedi decree , clans always had to share hunting grounds , and a clan ' s largest kill of the night had to be given to the head of another clan . They settled a peace agreement that ended the Barabel War . Impact . The Republic continued its expansion , and the Great Peace of the Republic lasted for nearly nine hundred more years . Later in the era , economic forces began to shape the Republic , as companies bought Tingel Arm star systems to establish the Corporate Sector . The Jedi explorers did not record Barab I in the galactic registry , so the planet remained uncharted , until the scouts of Planetary Safaris Inc . , an Imperial corporation organizing exotic hunting expeditions , discovered the Barabels . The Barabels never forgot the Jedi decree and never again fought over hunting territory . They developed a rich mythology around the " great warriors from beyond the clouds , " although the different stories sometimes mentioned a band of Jedi , sometimes a single Jedi with companions . Noga - ta was immortalized on pots and wall carvings that were discovered by researchers hundreds of years later , although some Barabels — who believed that outsider ' s meddling into the sacred past would rouse the spirits of the dead — made their efforts much harder . When the first Imperial scouts arrived at the planet , the Barabels treated them with respect , believing the Jedi heroes of their legends had returned " from beyond the clouds . " During the reign of the Galactic Empire , even in face of persecution , many Barabels refused to denounce the Jedi or the Force . They referred to the legend of the Barabel War , when the Jedi stopped a thousand years of slaughter . From that event onward , the Barabels had a deep respect for the Jedi and accepted the judgment of a Jedi in any dispute great or small . Behind the scenes . The year 902 BBY was only indirectly mentioned in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , which stated that Noga - ta settled the dispute among the Barabels " about 900 years before the Galactic Civil War . " Since the Galactic Civil War began in 2 BBY , this article treats this description as the basis for the year . The end of the Barabel war had been mentioned in various earlier source materials describing the Barabels , but these sources provided no exact time frame for the event . In 2006 , " The New Essential Guide to Alien Species " was the first to provide a date for the event by stating that a civil war erupted on Barab I around 4500 BBY , and Jedi " mediated a truce that is never broken . " However , in 2008 , " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " placed the event around 902 BBY . In 2009 , the " Galaxy at War " roleplaying sourcebook solved the discrepancy by stating that the civil war lasted for millennia and was settled " centuries before the Empire . "