JO:R Galactic Timeline

# The JO:R Timeline

## **Media that is presumed canonical to JO:R**

Please note that the list of canonical material is to provide us with a foundation to tell stories of Jedi Order: Reforged, not a statement on the quality of published media that was not included.  All listed media is the most recently published version of those version (as of August 1st, 2020) unless stated otherwise:

* ***Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace***
* ***Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones***
* ***Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Feature Film)***
* ***Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Animated Series)***
* ***Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith***
* ***Rogue One: A Star Wars Story***
* ***Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope***
* ***Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back***
* ***Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi***
* ***Star Wars: Roleplaying Game rulebooks by Fantasy Flight Games***
	+ ***Most current publications take precedent in the event of contradictions.***

In General, your characters are assumed to be broadly familiar with the big galaxy-shaping events of these stories.  However, you may have wrong impressions or received some misinformation in the third hand retellings.  The knowledge that Luke and Leia are the descendants of Darth Vader has not been widely disseminated, the knowledge that Sheev Palpatine engineered the Clone Wars and the Rise of the Empire is public knowledge (you may still find deniers out there however!).

## Galactic Timeline

### **(4-6 ABY) The Aftermath of Endor**

* **4 ABY** - With the Dark Lords of the Sith destroyed, the Empire behaves like a rudderless ship. Unable to muster their defenses effectively and efficiently, Imperial forces flounder;  the undergunned and undermanned Rebel Alliance gains the strategic upper hand.
* **4 ABY** - **The Siege of Coruscant** begins, as Coruscant and other major planets in the heart of Imperial power explode with civil unrest and violent anti-Imperial action. At least one division of stormtroopers join the riots and parties. The Imperial forces retreat to orbit and initiate a blockade of the ecumenopolis, hoping for a strong Imperial successor to arise and quash the Rebellion.
* **5 ABY** - **The Great Coreward Offensive** begins in earnest, with the Rebel Alliance launching via the Rimma Trade Route from Sullust to Fondor, taking the Fondor Shipyards. Fondor is devastated in the battle, and to this date is yet to function at their former industrial output. The Imperial Core Fleet was shattered, retreating and fracturing as they withdrew from the Core - the way to Coruscant lay open for the Alliance.
* **5 ABY** - **The Mon Calamari Reprisal**, a date which will live in Galactic Infamy. An Imperial fleet led by Marshal Dessima Katrevius enters orbit over Mon Calamari and executes a savage, protracted orbital bombardment of the planet’s surface. Millions of Mon Calamari civilians are killed, and only the desperate intervention of the Rebel Alliance’s Rogue Squadron, with the help of General Lando Calrissian, prevents the entire planet from being rendered uninhabitable. Katrevius’ fleet retreats through the Mid Rim, carving a warpath as they escape into Wild Space.
* **5 ABY** - The massacre of millions of innocent civilians fans the already-lit flame of open rebellion, and thousands of systems throw off their yokes of Imperial oppression, destroy their Imperial garrisons, and flock to the Rebellion in force.
* **6 ABY** - **The Liberation of Coruscant** - The Rebel Alliance blitzes through hastily-erected, last-ditch Imperial defenses throughout the Core Worlds, desperate to relieve the beleaguered denizens of the galactic capital. When they arrive, the Imperial Navy offers only token resistance, and Coruscant is freed. That same day, Mon Mothma and the rest of the Alliance Council proclaim a **New Republic**.  Archives recovered from the Imperial Palace confirm to the Galaxy that the former Emperor Sheev Palpatine was not only the Sith Lord *Darth Sidious*, but he had also engineered every event that led up to the *Clone Wars* and controlled both sides of the war the entire time in order to secure his position of unlimited power.
* **6 ABY** - Hot off the heels of signing the Declaration of Restoration of the Republic,  Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan and General Han Solo (of no house) declare their marriage to a joyous galaxy.  Heroes of the Rebellion come from across the stars to send their kind words, and offer esoteric housewarming gifts (some anonymous prankster even tells Han he’s gifted him a planet!) as they settle into an apartment in the swanky upper levels of Coruscant that once belonged to Leia’s adoptive father, Senator Bail Organa.  Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, recently revealed to the galaxy as Leia’s brother, officiates the ceremony.
* **6 ABY** - After months of work establishing the new government, Mon Mothma commemorates the sacrifices and service of the Jedi by dedicating and bequeathing the Imperial Palace back to its rightful owner, the Jedi Order. Luke Skywalker, the Last Jedi, publicly declines the gesture, dedicating it as a Museum to the Heroes and Victims of the Galactic Civil War. Later that afternoon, he privately resigns his military commission and takes a hard-earned sabbatical.

### **(6-12 ABY) The Imperial Remnant States**

* **6 ABY** - The Empire fractures, with dozens of middle to high-ranking figures proclaiming themselves (with varying degrees of success and legitimacy) Leader of the Empire.  Most of these Warlord states quickly collapse or are cannibalized, with the most successful Warlords including: Admiral Rae Sloane, Moff Herodias Kinloss, Commodore Terrinald Screed, Marshal Dessima Katrevius (whereabouts unknown), and a mystery Imperial known only as the Hermit of Kuat. They form the **Imperial Remnant States (IRS)**.
* **6 ABY** - Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker and his earliest gathering of Jedi Initiates, at the behest of Chewbacca and Han Solo, race to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk to break the Imperial occupation. Details are vague, and Han certainly has a tendency towards embellishment, but the story goes: “Chewie captured the primary manufacturing center and turned it on the pillaging occupiers. The *Firestorm*, an Imperial Star Destroyer, entered the atmosphere to obliterate the rebellious Wookiees. In a dramatic turn of events, a horde of indigenous wildlife (alongside hundreds of warriors seizing a variety of Imperial weaponry) ascended from the trees and dragged the embattled warship to the jungle floor below. . . .”
* **8 ABY** - After a year and half of galactic traveling, meeting people with new perspectives on the Force, and uncovering what secrets he can with Artoo, Luke visits the severely-damaged Great Massassi Temple on Yavin IV, and decides to make it the home of his Jedi Order. Over the coming few years, he and his close-knit group of Jedi initiates train and travel, discovering much of the Force.
* **8 ABY** - The New Republic pushes the Empire fully out of the Core and the Colonies, with the chief exception being Kuat, which has become an impregnable Imperial Fortress World, lorded over by the Hermit of Kuat. It is still producing Star Destroyers, TIE Fighters, and other Imperial warships en masse, and is fed heartily by (smuggled) goods and materials from the industrial and economic might of the collective Imperial Remnant States.
* **10 ABY** - With the weight of decades of Imperial oppression lifted from their shoulders, systems by the thousands are experiencing a new renaissance of art, culture, and economic prosperity. This is in stark contrast with the current holdings of the IRS, which are buckling under the weight of the iron fist of the Empire.
* **11 ABY** - Citing her familial duty and a responsibility to honor the sacrifices of the Jedi, Leia Organa Solo abdicates her position as a leading Senator of the New Alderaan & The Alderaanian Diaspora to the Steward of New Alderaan, Cal Omas. She leaves Coruscant and her young triplets (Jacen, Jaina, and Ben) in the care of her husband, Han Solo, to join Luke on Yavin IV.

### **(12-14 ABY) The Cataclysm Of Scipio**

* **12 ABY** - As the IRS struggles to compete with the success of the New Republic, yet another setback befalls the shattered Empire. Scipio, a colony of Muunilinst, is struck by an oncoming geological disaster with a potentially catastrophic toll. Grand Admiral Rae Sloane calls for a total and complete ceasefire between the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant States as relief and evacuation efforts commence. The New Republic Senate, at the behest of Consul Mon Mothma, and in a narrow and contentious vote, agrees to the temporary ceasefire. Gial Ackbar, the other Consul of the New Republic, takes the New Republic Core Fleet and travels to the far Outer Rim to evacuate Scipio.
* **13 ABY** - Commodore Screed, in open defiance of Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, attempts to capitalize on the absence of the New Republic Core Fleet, in an attack that would be known as **The Corellian Deception**. Slipping out of Hyperspace in the Corellia System, Screed commandeers as many ships from the Corellian Engineering Corporation as possible and disables the Dockyards in his retreat. Garm Bel Iblis, First Citizen of Corellia and one of the founders of the Rebel Alliance, leads the planetary defense to the last ship. In the ensuing battle, Bel Iblis’s flagship, *Peregrine*, is lost, with all hands presumed dead.
* **13** **ABY** - With one of the founding members of the Rebellion slain, the New Republic Senate is in open revolt against any further relief to the denizens of Scipio specifically, and the Imperial Remnant States generally. There is a vote of No Confidence, and Mon Mothma is the leader of the New Republic no more. She is succeeded by the isolationist and populist Kinyen Senator, Kigheya Raad.
* **13 ABY** - Leia, after spending two years training with her brother, Luke, implores the Jedi Order and her network of allies to aid the Scipio relief effort in the New Republic’s absence. It is at this point Jedi Grandmaster Luke Skywalker recalls the disparate and scattered members of his nascent Order to assemble **The First Jedi Council**. After little debate but much preparing, the Jedi Order joins the relief effort like Jedi Generals of old.
* **13 ABY** In **The Evacuation of Scipio**, the vacuum left by the New Republic withdrawal and the *Imperial Remnant States’* disjointed relief effort results in disarray. The only sanctuary left to Scipio are the collective efforts of Han Solo, the surprising but welcome assistance of Talon Karrde’s Smugglers’ Cooperative, and Grandmaster Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Order. Combined, they manage to save millions of innocent Muuns (out of a world of billions) from the impending cataclysm.
* **13 ABY** - Scipio suffers its calamitous implosion, and all life remaining on the surface of the planet is vaporized. **The Scipio Cataclysm** is the single highest death toll in the galaxy since the destruction of Alderaan. For the Jedi, the price is heavy; an evacuee transport carrying two Jedi Knights and host to many civilians is swallowed in the cosmic conflagration.
* **14 ABY** - Leia Organa Solo leaves her Jedi training and returns to political prominence in the galaxy, preaching compassion, outreach, and an end to all hostilities. With her expert political acumen, Leia handily convinces the Republic Senate to offer the Scipio survivors their own planet, and an immediate membership to the New Republic. Luke Skywalker, acknowledging the dire need for more Jedi Knights, searches far and wide for new Initiates for he and his fellow Masters to nurture in the ways of the Force.

### **(14-18 ABY) Attack of the Loans**

* **14 ABY** - The loss of financial and historical records on Scipio leads to a steep downturn in the Galactic economy. Lenders, speculators, and money-changers have lost immense reserves of galactic capital, which leads to the collapse of the Intergalactic Banking Clans, jeopardizing the livelihood of trillions.
* **15 ABY** - Consul Kigheya Raad, leading the New Republic Senate, is unable and unwilling to build a coalition to instantiate a Republic-backed Galactic Reserve, despite public outcry and overwhelming popular support. The principle debate of the day is where to host the Galactic Reserve, with many wealthy systems vying for the incredible opportunity.
* **15 ABY** - Various criminal elements begin swallowing up the economic and logistical infrastructures of minor systems all over the Mid Rim, leading to fears that the New Republic would collapse under its own compounding debts and funding shortfalls. With the resources of the Galaxy dwindling, Crimson Dawn and the Hutt Cartels resort to more ruthless and desperate tactics to gain primacy over one another.
* **16 ABY** - Politically, it appears that no deal can be brokered and the Galaxy will simply sink into the depths of economic depression. That is until the representatives from Cato Neimoidia threaten to secede from the Republic unless swift action is taken, triggering fears of a **New** **Separatist Crisis**. The tensions boil over into a campaign to hand the Galactic Reserve to those who are campaigning the hardest, simply to end the disputes and alleviate the suffering. The **Republic Reserve** goes to Cato Neimoidia.
* **16 ABY** - Immediately after the Republic Reserve is open for business, the Imperial Remnant States, at the direction of Moff Herodias Kinloss, institute the **Imperial Exchequer**. This immediately creates a boom of currency and speculative competition. The economic competition between the two central banks creates an environment of normalcy and upward trends, leading to a new normal of prosperity. Skirmishes between the IRS and the New Republic are rare, and usually happenstance.

### **(18-20 ABY)** **The Galactic Armistice**

* **18 ABY** - At the behest of both Senator Leia Organa Solo and Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, Luke Skywalker and his most trusted Jedi Masters are requested to arbitrate and ensure the sanctity and safety of the proceedings for **The Galactic Armistice**. With Rae Sloane and the proxies of the 3 other Warlords representing the Imperial Remnant States, and Consuls Raad and Ackbar representing the New Republic, the armistice is signed. Thus begins a new era of Galactic Peace.
* **18 ABY** - Luke Skywalker Knights a group of trained Padawans and tasks them with collecting and preserving the lost Lore of the Jedi Order, finding and training the next generation of Jedi Knights, and seeking out the spectres of the Dark Side, wherever they may be found, so that the Galaxy may be safeguarded from its menace.
* **20 ABY** - In a disquieting turn of events, the generally prosperous galaxy is rocked with what appears to be the opening salvo of an all-out criminal Turf War. Grakkus the Hutt, a known purveyor of ancient and esoteric artifacts, is discovered dead in his Nar Shaddaa palace, slain in mysterious fashion.

### **(Within 20 ABY)** **JO:R Season One**

* **20.1 ABY** - The Hutt Cartels invite the Jedi to investigate the death of Grakkus and to investigate the nature of the artifacts stolen from his vast collection. Jedi and Hutts are strange bedfellows, and this is lost on no one.
* **20.1 ABY** - Moff Herodias Kinloss of the Imperial Corporate Sector starts to make friendly overtures to the New Republic.  The Jedi investigate the matter and incidentally uncover and ultimately stop a plot by the Guavian Death Gang to raid/destroy the riches of the Imperial Exchequer, the central financial apparatus of the IRS.
* **20.1 ABY** - On a spiritual visit to Mimban conducted by Master Marab and several initiates, the sole surviving Imperial Inquisitor Final Brother revealed himself, cut off from his former family he has resorted to any means he can to find companionship.
* **20.2 ABY** - Duro, home to the Duros people and one of the largest remaining shipyards in Republic space, is caught up in a major controversy when the Jedi discover that funding meant to aid in the restoration of the ecologically devastated world was being used for illegitimate purposes.  Public trust in the system fully collapses and a three way **Civil War** for control of the planet breaks out.
* **20.2 ABY** - Commodore Terrinald Screed and his pirate fleet strike the neutral world of Botajef to plunder their shipyards and other riches.  Only timely intervention by the Jedi prevents an unprecedented slaughter in the **Battle of Botajef**.  The rogue Imperial is forced to retreat, with both the New Republic and Sloane's Imperial Remnant in active pursuit.
* **20.2 ABY** - Force Sensitive Children from all over the Galaxy, and Serenno in particular, are kidnapped by agents of Crimson Dawn. The Jedi intervene and save who they can, but their efforts are hampered by lack of numbers and ubiquity.
* **20.2 ABY** - The IRS establishes a formal embassy on Yavin IV to facilitate further cooperation and goodwill with the Jedi Order.  Former Grand Admiral Rae Sloane declares the creation of a new civilian run Imperial Government in the Imperial Assembly on Bastion, with herself as the first Premier of this new body.  The Jedi are invited and prevent an attempt on the Premier's life.
* **20.3 ABY** - Perhaps the last unaccounted Jedi of the original Order, a survivor of Order 66, Misako reluctantly joins Luke's Order after Marab worked with her to rescue her youngling, Mok Vuhzel, and another Jedi Initiate, who were captured by Final Brother.
* **20.3 ABY** - The head of the sinister Crimson Dawn reveals herself: Aureen, self-proclaimed last Witch of Dathomir, convinced she is on a righteous crusade against the Jedi for destroying her home and her people.  She admitted to the murder of Grakkus the Hutt, as well as being behind the kidnapping of Force Sensitive children from across the galaxy.  She has begun shaping these children into Dark Acolytes to unleash upon the Jedi, weapons of her vengeance.
* **20.4 ABY** - A cunning snare laid by the Jedi and the New Republic, intentionally excluding the assistance of Sloane's fleets, draws out Commodore Screed from hiding.  A boarding team strikes the mad pirate down on his freshly built flagship.  The Hermit of Kuat has renewed the exporting of weapons for reasons as yet unknown.
* **20.4 ABY** - The Jedi uncover the lost world of Ilum, its riches plundered and its landscape ravaged.  All that remained was the torso and head of Jedi lightsaber archivist Professor Huyang.  His memory banks contained the path needed to recover the ancient starship known as the *Crucible*.
* **20.5 ABY** - The Jedi continue to battle Aureen's acolytes and Crimson Dawn agents across the galaxy.  The Crimson Dawn starts a grassroots riot against Hutt rule of Nar Shaddaa by funding an impassioned orator.  Elsewhere the Jedi capture two dark Acolytes as part of a trap sprung against the Jedi, and uncover financial records indicating that Crimson Dawn was gathering power and material sufficient for a large invasion.
* **20.5 ABY** - Moff Herodias Kinloss makes a formal move on Cantonica to join the New Republic, and to merge the Imperial Exchequer with the Republic Reserve in a play that would concentrate all the fiscal power in the Galaxy under one roof.  The Jedi are brought in as security for this clandestine meeting, ultimately stopping an attack from a mysterious group of Imperial Commandos known as *Sovereign Squad*.
* **20.6 ABY** - Several members of the Jedi Order are brought to Bastion for inquiry by the orders of Premier Rae Sloane, her primary concerns the repeated unlawful intervention by the Jedi in Imperial internal affairs, as well as the protection of a traitor to the Empire - Kinloss.  Luke Skywalker personally arrived on Bastion to save his students, and the Jedi are declared no longer welcome in Imperial space.  The Imperial Embassy on Yavin is shuttered.

### **JO:R Season Two**

* **20.7 ABY** - The Duros Civil War escalates in scope and scale as the Jedi are forced to pick sides between a group of factions. The New Republic and IRS dispatch agents that officially they fully disavow in order to prop up major factions in the war. Both galactic superpowers pretend to turn a blind eye as the Galaxy learns what a new modern war would look like. Coalition forces seize control of a massive experimental warship in order to press the attack later.
* **20.7** - Sloane's Imperial Remnant launches a full scale takeover of what used to be the Corporate Sector; Annexing the whole of that space in a few short weeks with a chain of referendums with record turnouts and landslide victories. The campaign rides on a message of Republic aggression, and accusing former Moff Kinloss of being a traitor.
* **20.8 ABY** - The Jedi discover that Crimson Dawn was preparing to launch a massive strike on the Yavin Praxeum the Jedi call home, using an enormous nearby civilian installation known simply as *The Wheel* as a staging ground. After confirming Aureen's presence and the weaponization of the station while infiltrating a pod-racing competition; the Jedi launched a decisive preemptive strike on the station in a three pronged assault.  One team flying starfighter/freighter/purrgil support to protect a team of infiltrators trying to dismantle the Crimson Dawn storehouses and a second team that made a beeline to the witch herself. Padawan Nebu Okuz sacrificed his life to save others from the Nightsister's wrath as she escaped once more to the shadows, her plans put on pause but not fully halted.
* **20.8** - The Jedi infiltrating the storehouse additionally discover that Aureen has used her technical prowess and mastery of Nightsister magiks to infuse off-the-shelf Bacta Tanks with Dathomiri waters of life to infuse her dark acolytes with a fast track to power, allowing her to potentially raise a new crop of sinister foes anywhere in the Galaxy. The use of readily available elements to make these wicked devices means the Jedi are on a new backfoot as their foes really could be anywhere.
* **20.8** - The Republic and Sloane's Imperial state begin a campaign of rapid expansion through the mid-rim and towards the other. Each move made by one is met in kind by their counterpart. Kashyyyk ends their streak of fierce independence as the Republic uses the world as its most forward naval staging grounds while the Jedi act as mediators of a trade dispute and act to protect the cultural identity of the Wookiees.
* **20.8** - Borsk Fey'lya, chronic backstabber and head of NR intelligence, observing the Jedi debate their place in the coming galactic power struggle, emerged from the shadows to offer the Jedi a break from the "burden" of neutrality in order to be part of the Republic once more, even promising to protect the Praxeum with an entire fleet. The offer is extremely controversial within the Order, and no action is taken immediately.
* **20.9** - The Jedi respond to a call for aid from the shipbuilding moons of Ciutric as they struggle with an influx of terrorists using old Alliance gear calling themselves *The Peregrine’s Talon*s. They nearly capture a frighteningly powerful *Resurgent-class* Star Destroyer that was commissioned for the Empire, planning to turn it on their Army corps of Engineer's in retaliation. Only by working together with the members of the elite Imperial *Sovereign Squad* are the Jedi able to avert disaster. When defusing the situation, the Jedi discover that the *Talons* are led by survivors of the Corellian Deception, trying to recover their lost leader Garm Bel Iblis, who they are convinced is still alive and in custody somewhere in Imperial space, though there is no evidence to support this claim. Ciutric ultimately aligns itself with the Imperial Remnant in the interest of protection.
* **20.9** - The belligerent *Red Trees* continue to fight the coalition over Duros, holding orbital cities hostage. The city of Faresh has gone fully silent, so the Jedi set out to investigate, discovering the extent of Red Tree cruelty as tens of thousands of civilians languish and a small coalition pocket is beaten into submission. Knight Calden Seaus refuses to let a humanitarian crisis like this linger, and stays behind on the floating city to protect as many people as she can and to save as many lives as her medical training allows. Calden dispatched her Padawan, former Imperial Army trooper Lavion Riid, to rally as many people from across the galaxy to help rescue the population.
* **20.10** - Desperate to try and unravel Aureen's plans, Knight Moosh Maroosh leads an expedition to the abandoned station where the Jedi first battled the witch to study anything left behind. Two Dark Acolytes ambush the Jedi, hoping for a quick kill, one even escaping their captivity and hiding aboard the Jedi's ship to do this. A third Acolyte known only as *The Oracle*, a master slicer, tampers with the station through technological means and nearly sends everyone to an early demise plummeting to the surface of the nearby Ord Mantell.  The Jedi are narrowly able to avert disaster, and even recover a collection of dossiers that The Oracle assembled. Using these profiles, the Jedi set out to dismantle the plans of Crimson Dawn.
* **20.11** - Lavion and the Jedi return to Fareesh, the beleaguered orbital city of Duro, with an armada of good samaritans to try and save everyone they can. The fleet includes every walk of life from extreme pacifist Ithorian Herdships to cutthroat Herglic mercenary gangs. The Coalition nearly obliterated itself against the Red Trees trying to make an opening for the evacuation effort. Every civilian in the city is rescued, at the price of an enormous toll of blood. The final battle for Duro will be grim.
* **20.11** - The Jedi help organize the many criminal and civilian elements of Ord Mantell into a coherent bargaining front, ready to face the Empire as they apply legal and economic pressure against the Bright Jewel. The Empire now owns the space, but the people hold their homeworld as a free state nestled within the growing reach of Remnant power.
* **20.11** - After uncovering evidence of wrongdoing by Borsk Fey'lya concerning a massive cover-up and stolen valor of many dead Rebellion-era Bothan heroes, Padawan Isen-Bar Vale opts to surrender a copy of the evidence to Borsk's political rival and current Consul of the Republic, Kigheya Raad. Borsk, at this point, is unaware that his plot to use dead Bothans for political gain has been uncovered and delivered to his opponent.
* **20.12** - Coalition forces, with critical assistance from the Jedi, are able to neutralize Red Tree leadership. The war is finally brought to a somber end, and the slow process of rebuilding can begin.
* **20.12** - Aureen herself plunders the treasury ships of Serenno, diverting the Jedi to save the noble houses instead as a coup threatens to replace the power structure with one fully in her pocket. Crimson Dawn assets grow substantially, but the ruling families of Serenno are saved.
* **21.1** - The Jedi ring in the new year with a somber reflection on all they have learned, suffered, and done. Knight Calden Seaus is promoted to Master in recognition of her continuous devotion to the sanctity of life and the wellbeing of others. Padawans Fennous and Shevra are promoted to Jedi Knight for their gallantry and mastery of self and of the Force.

* **21.1** - The great galactic breadbasket of Bandomeer is caught in the middle of the New Republic and resurgent Imperial Remnant as both sides attempt to court the world. The Jedi are invited as mediators, and ultimately encourage siding with the Empire, as their offer to the world better serves the needs of the native Bandomeeri.