Timeline

Timeline of the Galactic History

More recent events pertinent to players (that they would have knowledge of)

40 BBY

* Republic Futures Program on Brentaal IV begins.
* Battle of Malastare Narrows.
* Obi-Wan Kenobi meets Satine Kryze.
* Finis Valorum replaces Kalpana as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic.
* Lor San Tekka is born.
* Asajj Ventress is born.

38 BBY

* Ma'Tala Carto is born on Ryloth

37 BBY

* Domda Stig is born

36 BBY

* Ahsoka Tano is born on Shili.

35 BBY

* Kaeden Larte is born.
* Lauren Mel Coelho is born on Tangenine.
* Gozen Ichi attains rank of Jedi Master, leaving Master Jocasta Nu's service in the Jedi Archives.

33 BBY

* Ahsoka Tano is accepted into the Jedi Order after Plo Koon discovers her on Shili.

32 BBY

* Invasion of Naboo.
* The capture of Theed occurs.
* Battle of Naboo. Queen Padmé Amidala returns to Naboo and forms an alliance between the Naboo and Gungans. The Gungans engage the droid army while the Queen and her security force capture the leaders of the Trade Federation.
* Senator Sheev Palpatine is elected Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, replacing Finis Valorum.

31 BBY

* Political protests turn violent on Ryloth, 39 protestors are killed in a crack down, including Ma'Tala's mother, Masalili.
* Fearing the onset of further unrest, Luj'tari Carto moves his family from Ryloth to Takodana.

30 BBY

* Kh'aris Fenn attempts a coup on the Twi'lek Clan Council.
* Jek Atin is born on Dorin.

29 BBY

* Luj'tari Carto leaves Takodana to begin smuggling career, leaving daughter behind.

28 BBY

* The Colicoids take over spice processing on Nar Shaddaa.
* Chancery election; Palpatine is re-elected Supreme Chancellor.
* Jek Atin is brought to the Jedi Temple for training by Plo Kloon.

27 BBY

* Radnor is struck by a bioplague; the nearby Avoni attempt to conquer it.
* The Sepan Civil War begins.
* Reija Momen becomes administrator of the Intergalactic Communications Center.
* Master Yarael Poof is slain by Ashaar Khorda while protecting Coruscant from the Infant of Shaa.
* Mon Mothma is elected Senator of Chandrila.

25 BBY

* The Jedi begin a campaign against the Pirates of Iridium.

24 BBY

* Count Dooku reappears on Raxus Prime and alleges that the Republic has become too corrupt and pushes for citizens to break from the Republic and form a new government of their own.
* Granta Omega plots two assassination attempts on Palpatine and though they are averted by the Jedi, 21 Senators are killed.
* Palpatine reaches the end of his second term as Supreme Chancellor ; the passage of the Emergency Powers Act allows him to stay in office until the crisis is dealt with.
* Amidala, after serving two terms as Queen, is appointed by her successor Jamillia to be Naboo's Senator.
* Start of the Virgillian Civil War.
* The Commerce Guild takes control of Korriban.
* Ister Paddie assumes Lanus Wrede's former seat in the Galactic Senate.

23 BBY

* B-3N is activated off the assembly line of Baktoid Combat Automata
* Jek Atin becomes Master Gozen Ichi's padawan learner.

22 BBY

* Zorba Desilijic Tiure is tried and convicted for illegal gemstone mining and is sentenced to prison on Kip. His brother, Jiliac Desilijic Tiron, takes control of the Desilijic clan.
* Battle of Antar 4.
* The Summertime War ends.
* The **Military Creation Act** and the **First Battle of Geonosis**
* Palpatine is given emergency powers by the Senate and authorized the creation of the Grand Army of the Republic to "counter the increasing threats of the separatists."
* The Clone Wars begins with the First Battle of Geonosis.

22-19 BBY

* **The Clone Wars**
	+ First Battle of Geonosis
		- B3-N is deployed to fight Republic forces.
	+ Battle of Krant
	+ Battle of Thule
	+ First Battle of Kamino
		- B3-N is assigned to General Grievous' army for this mission.
	+ Battle of Muunilinst
	+ Battle of Hypori
	+ Battle of Jabiim
	+ Battle of Christophsis
	+ Battle of Ryloth - 22 BBY
		- Luj'tari Carto begins smuggling supplies to Ryloth past the CIS blockade. His ship, the *Astral Princess* is reported destroyed trying to outrun several CIS cruisers.
		- Graxol Kelvyyn begins "smuggling" Twi'leks off Ryloth only to sell them into slavery. His operation is stopped by Republic forces on Ryloth.
	+ Battle of Malastare
	+ Second Battle of Geonosis
	+ Battle of Umbara
	+ Operation Durge's Lance
	+ Battle of Duro
	+ Battle of Anaxes
	+ Battle of Rendili
	+ Battle of Boz Pity
	+ Battle of Mygeeto
	+ Siege of Saleucami
	+ Battle of Coruscant
	+ Battle of Utapau
	+ Battle of Kashyyyk
	+ Mission to Mustafar

19 BBY

* **Birth of the Galactic Empire**
* Count Dooku is killed during the Battle of Coruscant and General Grievous is killed on Utapau. Chancellor Palpatine is severely disfigured by a failed Jedi coup attempt.
* Per the Supreme Chancellor's command, Order 66 is executed by clones throughout the galaxy, spelling the end of nearly all Jedi.
* The funeral of Padmé Amidala is held on Naboo.
* Governor Tarkin arrives in Tipoca City to assess the viability of using clones in the New Order.
* The mission to Mustafar occurs; Darth Vader wipes out the Separatist leaders on Mustafar and orders the deactivation of the droid armies at the orders of the Emperor, thus ending the Clone Wars
* Clone Force 99 is dispatched to end an insurgency on Onderon. However, the clones let go of the insurgents, who were mainly refugees led by Saw Gerrera, and decide to desert the new Empire.
* Clone Force 99 returns to Kamino
* Seeing that the most effective of clone troopers were disloyal to the Empire, Vice Admiral Rampart's proposes a new army of loyal, enlisted soldiers, to the dismay of Kaminoan Prime Minister Lama Su.
* The Batch extract Senator Avi Singh from the Imperial-occupied Raxus Secundus, the former Separatist capital.
* On Imperial-occupied Ryloth, Admiral Rampart pursues freedom fighter Cham Syndulla for attempting to assassinate Senator Orn Free Taa, and sends Captain Howzer to pursue Syndulla's daughter, Hera. Together with Howzer and the Bad Batch, Hera and the Ryloth freedom fighters rescue Cham and Eleni Syndulla.
* The Empire cancels all its contracts with the Kaminoans and mobilizes its clone forces for departure from Kamino. Fearing their own doom, the Kaminoans attempt to evacuate Kamino with some of their clones as well, but are caught by Rampart's forces. Rampart thus takes away Nala Se for her expertise and deposes Lama Su.
* As per Tarkin's command, Rampart's forces destroy Tipoca City's cloning facilities and other Kaminoan cities.
* Kashyyyk's Wookiees face persecution by Trandoshan hunters who are aided by Imperial clones.
* Rampart is exposed for the ruin of Kamino in the Imperial Senate and is arrested, but senators nevertheless approve his Imperial Defense Recruitment Bill at the Emperor's persuasion, formalizing the transition from a clone military into one made up of stormtrooper recruits.
* The celebration of the Jedi Order's eradication occurs.
* Vader's attack on *Brighthome* occurs.
* Vader's mission to Al'doleem occurs.
* The hunt for Jocasta Nu occurs
* Shortly after the rise of the Empire, entire populations of one species or planet are enslaved as manufacturing worlds such as Riosa of the Inner Rim are annexed and pushed to produce components for Imperial military projects. Meanwhile, dissent and resistance emerges with the beginning of the Ryloth Insurgency.

18 BBY

* The Ghorman Massacre occurs.
* The Antar Atrocity.
* The campaign at Salient occurs.
* By this point, the first Empire Day had occurred, marking exactly one year after the initiation of the Jedi Purge, the end of the Clone Wars, and the founding of the Galactic Empire.
* At this point, the Empire continues to deploy Clone Wars-era prefab buildings and walkers of the Republic's military.
* The uprising on Raada occurs.
* Bail Organa and Ahsoka Tano organize a rebel network.
* The Western Reaches pacification operations begin in response to rebellion from remaining Separatist holdouts.

17 BBY

* Rodia experienced an internal coup when Navik the Red of the Chattza Clan conquered his rivals. Under its new leadership, the planet would become a free trading port and an emerging economic power.
* The bombing at the Kuat shipyards occurs.

15 BBY

* The Justice Action Network is founded.
* The Talz are enslaved by the Galactic Empire.
* The Rego Mineral Company contacts Altor 14.
* The Western Reaches pacification operations are brought to a close.
* As orchestrated by the Emperor himself, Gallius Rax joins the Imperial Starfleet with the rank of commander

14 BBY

* Barab I joins the Galactic Empire.
* Darth Sidious and Darth Vader undertake a mission to Ryloth.
* The Free Ryloth movement led by Cham Syndulla attempts to assassinate the two Sith Lords.
* The Berch Teller campaign.
* Moff Wilhuff Tarkin enunciates the Tarkin Doctrine.
* A major shift in the Imperial bureaucracy occurs as a result of the Berch Teller campaign; the Deputy Director position of Imperial Intelligence's Naval Intelligence Agency is filled by Colonel Wullf Yularen of the Imperial Security Bureau whilst ISB Deputy Director Harus Ison is reassigned to the Ubiqtorate. Additionally, Admiral Nils Tenant is promoted to the Joint Chiefs, Wilhuff Tarkin is appointed to the newly-created position of Grand Moff as well as Governor of the Outer Rim Territories, and the Imperial Ruling Council members Conan Antonio Motti and Cassio Tagge are also promoted.
* Berch Teller fails in attempting to assassinate Wilhuff Tarkin on Eriadu's Tarkin family–owned Carrion Plateau.
* Tarkin's tightening of the Empire's grip on the Outer Rim, including his homeworld Eriadu, ensures a safer environment for Imperial citizens on Eriadu.

13 BBY

* The relief mission to Ryloth occurs.

12 BBY

* A joint Imperial/Centrality invasion force conquers the Renatasia system after a brutal conflict.
* The *Electra Chronis* is stolen by its crew, along with two Twi'lek dancing girls, and over a million in stolen credits from a Black Sun crime lord. Flees to the Outer Rim.
* Gozen Ichi is slain on Coruscant by Darth Vader trying to access a secret vault in the Jedi Temple. Jek escapes into the lower levels of Coruscant's undercity. .

11 BBY

* Maridun is discovered by the Galactic Empire ; slaving and mining operations are quickly established.
* Ruusan is rediscovered by the smuggler Jerg.
* Battle of Gamor - several clans join forces to defeat the Muksjug Clan from conquering the planet. Link Jugsmuk is mistakenly reported KIA after losing an eye and leg.
* Gorse conflict.
* The Crime Lord Tan'ka Desilijiac Aa'Kaa is reported killed by bomb attack on Gran Derio. While the attack is believed to be part of an ongoing gang war in the Sa Xet Sector, no rival faction lays claim to the attack.

10 BBY

* The Second Great Droid Revolution occurs.
* The Galactic Empire establishes the Imperial security complex on Scarif's surface
* Vader’s Many Prosthetic Parts, a song, written by Nakari Kelen's mother and performed by the group Hakko Drazlip and the Tootle Froots, that mocked Darth Vader, is published. Just days after its release, the Empire sent the entire membership of the group to the Spice mines of Kessel.
* The Mimban campaign occurs.
* The Skirmish on Savareen occurs.
* The raid on Kessel occurs. Slaves, organics and droids alike, are liberated from the Spice Mines of Kessel

9 BBY

* Admiral Jyrom Ottdell of the Imperial Navy is murdered with poisonous zolall extract.
* The kidnapping of Leia Organa occurs.
* Attack on Jabiim occurs; the assault is led by Darth Vader and the Third Sister on the base of the Hidden Path on the planet Jabiim
* Leia Organa is rescued and returned safely to Bail and Breha Organa.
* Terrorist attacks continue in Sa Xet sector. The attacks specifically target Imperial facilities and are believed to be the work of separatists.
* Orran Tane, a Jedi terrorist, is captured by bounty hunters on Osa'Pel.
* An illegal slave camp is discovered with corrupt Imperial officers being arrested for siphoning Imperial prisoners to the Black Sun Syndicate for slave labor.
* Orran Tane is killed by Imperial Forces.
* Terrorist attack on Las Dal Station is blamed on separatist hold-outs.
* The Sa Xet sector detects an outbreak of what could be the Blue Shadow Virus. Imperial Navy puts sector under quarantine, putting a blockade in place in key systems to restrict travel into or out of the sector.

8 BBY

* Boss Tan'aka re-emerges to take control of operations in Sa Xet, sparking a low intensity gang war over smuggling routes and black markets.
* The Artet Mafia forms and begins to challenge the Black Sun Syndicate, the Hutts, and Crimson Dawn for territory.
* Pirate activity increases around border with Corporate Sector. CSA ships begin patrolling border and conducting "pre-emptive anti-piracy operations" inside Sa Xet.