490 BBY

The following events took place in 490 BBY.
==Events==
*The Corporate Sector is established, encompassing dozens of unexplored worlds in several hundred star systems, none of them reported to contain sentient life. The Essential Atlas, p. 163
*The Arkanians increase the intelligence of the simple-minded Yaka by performing brain-enhancement surgery on them.
==Sources==
*The Essential Guide to Alien Species
*The New Essential Guide to Characters
*Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide
*The New Essential Chronology
*The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
==Notes and references==
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Category:Years in the Great Peace of the Republic era