1980s

### August

* T'Challa is born to Prince T'Chaka of Wakanda and his wife Ramonda. As T'Chaka's firstborn, he becomes next in line to be King of Wakanda after his father.

### October

* *Another One Bites the Dust* by Queen is released.

#### 26th

* *Pac-Man* is released in the United States of America. Peter Quill became a fan of the game later in his life.

#### 27th

* Peter Quill, son of Meredith Quill and Ego, is born.

## 1981

### January

#### 20th

* Ronald Reagan becomes President of the United States.

### December

* Minerva McGonagall begins teaching at Hogwarts.

## 1982

### June

#### 4th

* *Poltergeist* is released in the United States of America.

#### 11th

* Joyce visits Will in *Castle Byers* and surprises him with tickets to *Poltergeist*.

#### 16th

* Jonathan introduces Will to his mix of rock music and they listen to "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by The Clash.

#### 18th

* Joyce and Lonnie divorce leaving Lonnie to move to Indianapolis, Indiana.

### September

#### 30th

* *Cheers* airs its first episode in the United States of America.

### November

* Eleven breaks a Coca Cola can with telekinetic powers under the supervision of Dr. Brenner in Hawkins National Laboratory. Eleven is forced to kill a cat, but can‘t do it. As she is about to get locked up, she kills two guards with her powers.
* Eleven is made to repeat words a man in another room is saying, and manages to broadcast them on speakers.

#### 20th

* After he was experimented on and held in prison for thirty years, a nurse takes pity on Isaiah Bradley. She falsifies documents which say that he is dead and gives him a box of the letters that Bradley's wife tried to send him until she was told that he was dead. Bradley breaks out of the facility where he was being held.

### December

#### 4th

* The pilot episode of *Inspector Gadget* airs.

## 1983

### January

#### 13th

* Gordon undergoes Terrigenesis. The transformation deprives him of his eyes, but grants him teleportation and force field projecting abilities.

#### 25th

* The film *Return of the Jedi* is released in the United States of America,.

### September

#### 5th

* *He-Man and the Masters of the Universe* airs its first episode.

### November

#### 6th

* Eleven goes on a mission to make contact with the monster, and a gate to the Upside Down unexpectedly opens in Hawkins Lab, allowing the monster to pass through. Eleven escapes from Hawkins National Laboratory.
* The monster escapes Hawkins Lab and kills a scientist.

* Will Byers is abducted by the monster.

#### 7th

* Joyce Byers goes to the police station to report her son as missing. Police Chief Hopper was initially reluctant to investigate but later agrees.
* An area of Hawkins National Laboratory is quarantined. Dr. Brenner and other scientists investigate the area and find that the gate is spreading into the lab.

* Eleven walks into Benny's Burgers. Benny Hammond feeds her, charges Emmett Baxter to watch her, and calls social services.
* Hopper and his team search the woods and find Will‘s bike. They go to the Byers home to investigate further, and Hopper experiences strange noises in the shed.
* Agents arrive to capture Eleven and Connie Frazier kills Benny. Eleven and Emmett escape, killing two agents in the process.

* Joyce receives a phone call where she hears only breathing and growling, and is electrocuted by the phone.
* Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair and Dustin Henderson search for Will in the woods, but stumble upon Eleven and Emmett.

* Mike brings Eleven to his home and lets her sleep in the basement for the night, nicknaming her "El". Emmett heads back to Benny's Burgers, and sleeps there.

#### 8th

* After searching for Will the entire night, the police and volunteers still have no clues, but continue their search throughout the day.
* Mike stays home from school with Eleven and she recognizes Will in a photo. Emmett arrives and says she might be the key to everything going on.
* Eleven demonstrates her telekinetic abilities in front of Mike, Dustin, Emmett, and Lucas.

* Agents from Hawkins Lab, covering as Hawkins Power and Light, investigate the shed at the Byers' residence and find material from The Upside Down.
* Jonathan Byers hangs missing posters at Hawkins High School and travels to his father to search for Will.
* There is an assembly on the football field of Hawkins High School for the disappearance of Will.
* Benny Hammond is found dead in his diner and it's been staged to look like a suicide.

* Eleven says Will is hiding, flips the *Dungeons & Dragons* board upside down and places the Demogorgon game piece on the board to demonstrate that he's hiding in The Upside Down and the monster is after him.
* Nancy Wheeler and Barbara Holland go to Steve Harrington‘s party, where Barbara, sitting alone by the pool, is dragged into The Upside Down. Jonathan Byers takes pictures from the forest.
* Joyce receives another phone call with strange noises. The lights intensify and the song "Should I Stay or Should I Go" plays from Will‘s room. The monster stretches through the wallpaper and Joyce runs out of the house.

* Barbara finds herself in The Upside Down where she is chased by the Monster.

#### 9th

* Nancy discovers that Barb is missing. She goes to investigate around Steve's house and is scared by something she sees in the forest.
* Jonathan is revealed to have taken pictures of Nancy and Steve, who breaks his camera.
* Chief Hopper and officers Powell and Callahan investigate at the Hawkins National Laboratory and discover that the employees are lying to them. They go to the library, where they discover that Dr. Brenner was involved in Project MKUltra.

* Joyce hangs Christmas lights all over her house and paints the alphabet on the wall so Will can communicate with her. He tells her to R-U-N, and the monster breaks through the wallpaper.
* Eleven leads Mike, Lucas and Dustin to Will‘s house and claims he‘s hiding there. Emmett senses him, but doesn't say anything.
* A body claimed to be Will Byers is found in the quarry by state trooper David O'Bannon. Emmett is the only one not mad at Eleven.

#### 10th

* Mike is hurt to learn that Will is dead. But Eleven convinces Mike that he is alive as she makes contact with Will through the walkie-talkie. The boys give her a makeover and go to school.
* Nancy and Jonathan look at the photos he took, and Nancy recognizes the monster in a picture of Barb.
* Shepard, a worker at Hawkins National Laboratory, enters The Upside Down attached to a security line, but is taken by the Monster.
* Hopper talks to state trooper David O'Bannon, who found "Will's body" and discovers he's lying. He breaks into the coroner's, where he finds that the body is a fake, stuffed with cotton.
* As the Party, plus Eleven and Emmett, hear Will on the radio, Joyce sees Will through an opening to The Upside Down in her wall.
* Will's father Lonnie returns to Hawkins, intending to make money from his death through a lawsuit.
* Hopper breaks into Hawkins National Laboratory where he sees the gate.

#### 11th

* Will's funeral is held. The crew, minus Eleven and Emmett, ask Mr. Clarke about travel between dimensions.
* Hopper finds a bug in his place and teams up with Joyce, admitting her that she was right about Will from the beginning.
* Mike, Dustin and Lucas try to locate the gate with their compasses, but Eleven distorts the compasses to lead them in the wrong direction to protect them. A fight breaks out, and Eleven knocks Lucas unconscious before escaping.
* Nancy and Jonathan go searching for the Monster, and Nancy enters The Upside Down, but escapes.
* Jonathan sleeps over at Nancy's place, which Steve sees when looking in her window.

#### 12th

* Joyce and Hopper track down Terry Ives. Her sister tells them about Terry's involvement in Project MKUltra, and her belief that she had a daughter.
* Eleven steals Eggos from a store.
* Nancy and Jonathan purchase weapons to kill the monster.
* A fight breaks out between Jonathan and Steve, resulting in Jonathan getting arrested.
* Agent Connie Frazier visits Mr. Clarke at his residence and finds out about Mike, Dustin, and Lucas.
* Lucas goes out on his own to locate the gate, and follows the false magnetic north indication to Hawkins National Laboratory.
* Mike, Emmett, and Dustin are cornered by Troy and James and Mike is told to jump off a cliff. As Mike jumped, he is levitated to safety by Eleven in the nick of time, and she breaks Troy's arm. El falls to the ground and apologizes. Mike comforts & calms her and says she is not the monster as she saved him. Mike, Emmett, Eleven and Dustin then reconcile.

* Mike, Dustin, Emmett, and Eleven flee from the agents that come to Mike's home.
* While hiding at a Junkyard, Hopper finds the kids, and takes them to Joyce's house, with her, Jonathan, and Nancy there.
* Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Eleven, Joyce, Hopper, Nancy and Jonathan break into Hawkins Middle School and make a sensory deprivation tank for Eleven to use. She finds Barbara dead and Will weakened in The Upside Down, and he disappears as the monster approaches.

* Joyce and Hopper are caught breaking into Hawkins National Laboratory, but Hopper reveals Eleven's location and promises to never reveal anything about the agents, and they are allowed to go.
* Nancy and Jonathan set traps for the monster in the Byers' home. Steve arrives and they assault the monster with a bat and set it on fire, but it disappears.
* Mike invites Eleven to the Snow Ball and kisses her, revealing that he likes her. The agents come to Hawkins Middle School to capture Eleven, but she kills them. The Demogorgon arrives, kills Brenner, and attacks the kids. Before it could harm the boys, Eleven pins it to the wall. Eleven bids farewell to Mike and then disintegrates the monster, but in the process disappears herself.

* Joyce and Hopper enter the Upside Down and find Will as a host to a long tendril which Hopper pulls out of his throat and through his mouth. Hopper and Joyce perform CPR on him and he begins to breath. Joyce puts her oxygen apparatus on him and he is brought to Hawkins General Hospital. He wakes up later in the night to rejoin with his friends. He meets Emmett, who Mike says is part of their party now.
* Hopper is picked up by a government car.

* After defeating the Demogorgon, Eleven awakes in the Upside Down version of Hawkins Middle. She finds her way out via one of the Demogorgon's temporary portals and briefly appears to Mike's house. Realizing that the agents are looking for her, she hides out in the local woods.

#### 13th

* Mike begins his attempts to contact Eleven via his radio.
* Sam Owens becomes the new Director of Operations at Hawkins Lab.

### December

#### 11th

* Mike, Will, Dustin and Lucas play *Dungeons & Dragons* in Mike's basement again, but Mike misses Eleven and keeps the pillow fort intact in regards to her memory.
* Nancy and Steve give Jonathan a new camera for Christmas.
* Hopper places Eggo waffles in a box in the forest.
* Will coughs up a slug-like creature and momentarily phases into the Upside Down.

#### 12th

* While Hopper is again leaving food for Eleven, she reveals herself to him. He takes her to his grandfather's cabin and she begins living with him.

## 1984

* Natasha Romanoff is born to Ivan Romanoff.
* Kanan is killed.
* Lothal is freed.

### May

#### 2nd

* After graduating from the Imperial Academy on Coruscant, Ciena Ree is assigned to Vader's flagship, the Devastator. Thane Kyrell is assigned to the Death Star.

#### 12th

* **Assassination of Sarah Connor:**
	+ A T-800 Terminator arrived from 2029 in Griffith Park in Los Angeles at 1:52 AM with a mission to kill Sarah Connor.
	+ Kyle Reese of the Resistance arrives from 2029 to protect Sarah Connor.

#### 13th

* While Sarah was at work, the Terminator killed the other two Sarah Connors listed in the phone book while Reese was looking for Sarah J. Connor.
* Sarah was stood up for her Friday night date by Stan Morsky and went out alone.
* Reese saved Sarah from the Terminator at Tech Noir after she found out about the killings on the eleven o'clock news.

#### 14th

* Early AM, the Terminator attacked at the police department. Sarah and Kyle escaped in a car, eventually running out of gas at 4:36 AM.
* The Terminator killed Sarah Connor's mother.
* Afternoon, Sarah and Kyle got a room at the Tiki Motel and later made pipe-bombs.
* After dark, Sarah and Kyle conceived John Connor. This put her 9-month due date in mid-February 1985.

#### 15th

* Early AM, Sarah and Kyle fled from the Terminator, ending up at a Cyberdyne Systems factory. Kyle Reese was killed during the fight, while the Terminator was destroyed by Sarah Connor.

### June

#### 9th

* Jyn Erso, under the alias of Liana Halik, wakes up in a Detention center on Wobani, having had a nightmare about losing her parents. She stares out her cell door.
* **Mission to the Ring of Kafrene:**
	+ On the Ring of Kafrene trading outpost in section nine, the Rebel Intelligence officer Captain Cassian Andor meets with a contact, a man named Tivik, who reveals that an Imperial cargo pilot defected from the Galactic Empire the day before and is telling people that they are making a weapon with the Kyber crystals from Jedha. After persuasion from Andor, Tivik reveals that the weapon is a "planet killer" and that Rook is telling people that Galen Erso, an old friend of Saw Gerrera's, sent him. Andor escapes before he can be caught by Imperial Stormtroopers, killing Tivik.
* Having defected, Imperial pilot Bodhi Rook seeks out Saw, carrying an important message from Galen concerning the Empire's construction of an ultimate weapon. He finds Gerrera's hideout on Jedha but Gerrera's Partisan soldiers, including Benthic, are distrustful of Rook's intentions and capture him.
* Rook is brought before Saw, and although he pleads his case to the Partisan leader, Gerrera does not trust him either, fearing that he is being lured into a trap. To discover if Rook is being truthful or not, Gerrera subjects him to the torturous creature Bor Gullet, an experience which leads to a temporary loss of Bodhi's sanity.
* **Rescue of Jyn Erso:** On a transport with other inmates, Jyn Erso is freed from prison. Despite her attempts to escape, K-2SO catches Erso, and she is brought to Yavin 4.

#### 10th

* Jyn is brought before Rebel leaders including Mon Mothma, Jan Dodonna, Bail Organa, Davits Draven, and Andor. They convince her to help get them an audience with Saw, whom Jyn has not seen since he abandoned her years prior. They promise her freedom if she succeeds.
* Draven covertly orders Cassian to kill Galen so as to prevent the weapon from being completed. Jyn, along with Cassian and his reprogrammed Imperial droid K-2SO, set off for the moon Jedha in a Rebel U-wing.
* On the bridge of the *Executrix*, Governor Wilhuff Tarkin monitors construction of the Death Star. As he looks on, the superlaser is being installed. Krennic comes aboard the Star Destroyer and approaches Tarkin on the bridge. Tarkin expresses his concern over the defected cargo pilot, who is spreading rumors on Jedha about the Death Star's existence. He tells Krennic that his time is up as far as completing the battle station goes and that the Emperor would not tolerate any more delays on the project. Suggesting that both problems should be solved together with a test of the weapon, Tarkin makes it clear to Krennic that failure will not be tolerated.

#### 11th

* Cassian, Jyn and K-2SO arrive on Jedha where Cassian expects to meet up with a Partisan contact. The droid stays on the ship while Jyn and Cassian set out to find his contact. Jyn meets Chirrut Îmwe, and Cassian discovers the town is about to become a battlefield.
* **Battle on Jedha:**
	+ As a convoy passed by Tythoni Square, a grenade is tossed from a balcony in front of the tank. Its detonation halts the vehicle's progress, and the Partisans reveal themselves, opening fire on the stormtroopers, both from ground level and with snipers atop the nearby buildings.
	+ Jyn Erso enters the street to save a child and return it to her mother, as Cassian is forced to help her to safety, shooting the tank's weapon operator who had just destroyed a nearby tower with a missile. As Jyn hides in front of the stopped vehicle, Cassian sees a Partisan atop a nearby elevated bridge preparing grenades and shoots him to create a distraction, his grenades detonating when he falls, to the sight of Partisan troop leader Benthic.
	+ As Jyn and Cassian ran to safety, another bomb is tossed at the stormtroopers' feet, and after being detonated, the Partisans raid the vehicle to collect the Kyber crystals. They finish just as Imperial reinforcements, which include an All Terrain Scout Transport, arrive.
	+ As Jyn and Cassian fight their way through more troopers, K-2SO arrives and detonates a grenade upon a squad of charging troopers. The trio returns to the square, where the reinforcements check the damages suffered by the tank, and are mistaken for an actual Imperial droid directing prisoners. Jyn and Cassian are saved by the intervention of Chirrut Îmwe and Baze Malbus. As K-2SO returns to Cassian's ship, the Partisans take over the square and capture the rebels and Guardians, as Benthic thinks they are hostile due to Cassian's attack on one of their members.
	+ Once Jyn reveals she has businesses with Saw Gerrera for being the daughter of Galen Erso, the Partisans put bags on their heads and take them to their headquarters in the Catacombs of Cadera.
* While Cassian, Chirrut, and Baze are locked in cells, Jyn is brought before Saw.
* The calm captive Chirrut "prays" to the Force with his mantra "I am one with the Force and the Force is with me" while Baze mocks his partner's mystical ways. Cassian becomes impatient with Chirrut and begins to try and pick the cell lock himself.
* Gerrera is surprised to see Jyn, having parted ways with her years before. He is still wary that the pilot's message and Jyn's return is simply a trap, but when Jyn explains her intentions of finding Galen, he becomes more comfortable. He questions what Jyn wants to obtain from this to which Jyn answers that she wants no part of it and that her role is finished. Refusing to believe that Jyn no longer cares about the Rebel cause, Gerrera offers to show her something that he feels will change her mind.
* Meanwhile, on the Death Star, Tarkin and Krennic prepare to test the weapon on Jedha City, having evacuated all Imperial forces from the moon via Protocol 13. Krennic goes to order the complete destruction of the moon, but Tarkin overrules him and orders that the test-firing be conducted at minimum power.
* With imminent danger approaching, unbeknownst to those on the moon, Cassian, Chirrut, and Baze linger in their cells. They notice that in the cell next to them is an Imperial pilot, Bodhi Rook, and Cassian begins to question him, curious if he is the cargo pilot that brought the message. Bor Gullet's effects on Bodhi are clear and he does not seem to understand what Cassian is talking about until he mentions Galen's name and Rook's memory is jogged.
* As the Death Star's superweapon commences primary ignition above the moon, Gerrera begins to show Jyn the message that Bodhi brought. The message is a hologram, in which Jyn's father expresses his love for her and discloses his coerced help on the Death Star project. Galen also reveals that he covertly compromised the Death Star's design by including a subtle vulnerability in its reactor that can be used to destroy it. He tells her that the structural plans are at an Imperial high-security data bank on the planet Scarif. However, before the hologram can finish, the Death Star fires on the moon and chaos ensues.
* As the imminent destruction of Jedha City begins, the Partisans in the Catacombs begin to flee. Cassian quickly hot-wires the cell door and he, Chirrut and Baze escape captivity. Cassian hurries to the convoy's possessions that were seized when the Partisans kidnapped them and frantically uses his comlink to call K-2SO who describes the destruction ensuing outside. Cassian informs him to locate their position so they can escape. Before they can flee, Cassian goes to find Jyn, telling Chirrut and Baze to flee the pilot, which Baze does by blasting the cell door with his MWC-35c "Staccato Lightning" repeating cannon.
* Cassian locates Jyn and informs her that Bodhi has told him where her father is. Gerrera urges her to go with Cassian, but when Jyn suggests he comes with them he refuses, electing to remain there and die with the city.
* The mass exodus of the catacombs begins, and those who exit look on in horror as they see Jedha's surface beginning to peel back destroy everything in its path. As the Catacombs begin to collapse along with everything else, K-2SO pilots the U-wing through the destruction to pick up the convoy. Cassian, Jyn, Chirrut, Baze, and Bodhi hurriedly board the U-wing and the ship begins its escape through the destruction. Gerrera watches from the collapsing Catacombs as the U-wing takes off and the blast wave overtakes the area. Shortly before his impending death, Gerrera tears off his breath mask and accepts his fate. Jyn watches from the U-wing as the wave consumes the Catacombs and kills Gerrera.
* The convoy looks on in horror at the destruction outside as K-2SO and Cassian pilot the U-wing, fleeing the destruction that threatens to overtake them. Barely escaping the blast wave, Cassian hurriedly punches in the calculations and the U-wing blasts into hyperspace, narrowly escaping Jedha.
* As the Death Star's demonstration is carried out, Krennic, Tarkin, and many other Imperials look on. Krennic expresses the "beauty" of the destruction. With the demonstration complete, Tarkin congratulates Krennic but promptly uses Rook's defection from Galen Erso's Imperial facility on Eadu and the security leak on Jedha under Krennic's command as a pretext to take control over the project. Enraged, Krennic openly challenges Tarkin's decision and decides to deal with the defector and the potential Rebel sympathizer on Eadu personally.
* In the aftermath of the incident on Jedha, Cassian sends a coded message back to the Alliance base to inform them that Jedha has been destroyed and that he has learned that Galen is on Eadu. Receiving the message, General Draven is dumbfounded by the destruction of Jedha City but advises Andor to keep to the plan of killing Galen. Already in hyperspace, Cassian receives Draven's instructions and informs K-2SO to set their course for Eadu.
* The entire convoy is in shock concerning Jedha's destruction, and a troubled Chirrut begs Baze to describe the extent of the destruction. Baze reluctantly consents. Knowing now that her father is on Eadu, Jyn explains to Bodhi — who mistakenly believes that his message was too late — that Galen has laid a trap in the Death Star. However, with the message having been destroyed in the chaos on Jedha, she has no way of backing up her claims and the group is wary to believe her. With Cassian refusing to send word of Jyn's claim to the Alliance, she resolves to get her father on Eadu and bring him back to the Alliance so that he can tell them himself.
* With Tarkin having seized control of the Death Star project, Krennic departs the Death Star in his ST 149 shuttle en route for Eadu, where he plans to expose the Rebel sympathizer in Galen Erso's team. Meanwhile, the Rebel convoy, also seeking out Galen Erso on Eadu, approaches the planet in their U-wing. The planet's stormy conditions hinder their approach, and as Bodhi guides them towards the Imperial installation, they crash whilst attempting to avoid Imperial detection.
* Draven launches Blue Squadron, having had it kept ready as a backup plan. However, Draven does not realize that the group, although unable to communicate, is in the strike zone.
* Meanwhile, Andor takes Bodhi Rook on a supposed "look around" to complete his mission undisturbed by Jyn, who he believes would try to stop him from killing her father. However, Jyn deduces Andor's true intentions due to K-2SO off-handedly noting he brought a weapon with him in the sniper configuration and Chirrut Îmwe sensing the dark side influencing his actions, and goes after him, soon followed by Îmwe and Baze Malbus.
* Just as Andor arrives at a vantage point with a view of the landing pad, Krennic arrives at the planet to investigate the leak. He orders for the scientists to be brought out and asks for the mole responsible for leaking the Death Star plans to Rook, threatening to execute the entire staff if the one responsible fails to comply. Galen ultimately admits he was responsible, although Krennic nonetheless decides to have the science staff, save for Galen, murdered anyway.
* Krennic taunts Erso, revealing the events of the Destruction of Jedha City, bragging about how he had been responsible.
* **Mission to Eadu:**
	+ Before Andor can fire at Galen, he notices Jyn on the landing platform, and a signal from K-2SO, who had contacted the Alliance, alerting him that the Alliance had sent a squadron. Andor replies that Jyn is in the strike zone was there, and to call off the attack, but it is too late: the squadron, consisting of X-wings and Y-wings have already entered the planet's atmosphere. Although the base dispatches its fighter screen to defend the base, it ultimately is unable to stop the Rebels from launching a salvo at the main base that resulted in its destruction, as well as Galen being mortally wounded from the resulting bombing
	+ Jyn reunites with her dying father, who tells him to find the plans, which she promises to do. Cassian grabs her, telling her to go, and the group escapes Eadu.
* On the ship, Erso confronts Andor about his lies regarding the mission. Andor initially denies her claims, but eventually says he didn't kill Galen, which going against his orders. He tells Jyn he has been fighting since he was 6 years old. She tells him he can't talk out of it, and he replies that he doesn't have to. He asks if anyone else has an issue, to which no one responds.
* Krennic travels to Mustafar to speak with the mysterious Dark Lord, Darth Vader at his castle. Upon Krennic's arrival, the Dark Lord's servant, Vaneé alerts Vader, who is meditating in a rejuvenation chamber that the Director has arrived. Vader exits his meditation to confront Krennic on a platform overlooking the volcanic landscape of the planet.
* The Dark Lord expresses his concern that the Death Star has become more of a problem than the solution it was intended to be, citing Krennic's inability to keep the project a secret as the main catalyst for the change in approach. Krennic defends himself and his creation, claiming that he has delivered a remarkable weapon to the Emperor.
* Because of his self proclaimed success, he petitions that Vader grant him an opportunity to personally meet with the Emperor and advise him of the Death Star's unprecedented potential. Vader, however, is far more concerned about the rumors that had reached the higher levels of the Empire of the destruction of Jedha City and the attack on the Eadu facility by the Rebellion and what these revelations mean as far as the secrecy surrounding the Death Star project. Krennic attempts to shift blame onto Tarkin for ordering the demonstration on Jedha, but Vader is not impressed by this futile effort and criticizes Krennic's groveling, reminding the Director that the secrecy behind the Death Star project was instituted in order to prevent open defiance from the Senate. Vader suggests that the Jedha incident be disguised as a mining disaster, but seems to imply that Galen Erso's betrayal might have been a bitter blow to the Empire's secrecy. Vader instructs Krennic to ensure that no other leaks occur so that the Emperor would be satisfied that the project had not been compromised.
* As Vader swiftly departs, Krennic makes a last plea for his continued control over the project, hoping to remain in command of the battle station rather than Tarkin. However, Vader's patience has run thin, and when Krennic requests that Vader speak to the Emperor on his behalf, the Dark Lord chokes the Director using the Force. As Krennic falls to his knees, Vader warns him to temper his aspirations, lest they cause his downfall. He releases Krennic and the conversation is ended.

#### 12th

* Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor participate in an Alliance Council meeting, where they tell the gathered beings what they learned about the Death Star, and that they need to get the plans held at Scarif. Most are skeptical that such a weapon existed, and those that believe it does are unconvinced that it has a deliberate weakness on account of the fact that the news came from a criminal who is the daughter of an Imperial engineer-and thinks that it would be better to hide or surrender.
* Disheartened, Erso walks away from the meeting, only to find that Andor and many others—including Chirrut Îmwe, Baze Malbus, and Bodhi Rook—are still willing to go with her and fight. Together, they call themselves "Rogue One" and undertake an unsanctioned mission to Scarif using the Imperial cargo shuttle that had been stolen earlier, and headed to the planet.
* Arriving at Eadu, Rook transmits the shuttle's clearance codes, which gets them through the planetary shield and onto the surface. Around the same time, Director Krennic also returns to Scarif in order to have the command staff scour through any and all Death Star–related project files made by Galen Erso, to see if there are any irregularities.
* Jyn and Captain Andor participated in an Alliance Council meeting, where they told the gathered beings what they had learned about the Death Star, and that they needed to get the plans held at Scarif. Most were skeptical that such a weapon existed, and those that believed it did were unconvinced that it had a deliberate weakness on account of the fact that the news came from a criminal who was the daughter of an Imperial engineer-and thought that it would be better to hide or surrender. Disheartened, Erso walked away from the meeting, only to find that Andor and many others—including Chirrut Îmwe, Baze Malbus, and Bodhi Rook—were still willing to go with her and fight. Together, they called themselves "Rogue One" and undertook an unsanctioned mission to Scarif using the Imperial cargo shuttle that had been stolen earlier, and heads to the planet.
* Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor send teams to set up a distraction to allow them to infiltrate the Citadel Tower and locate the plans. K-2SO finds the path and warns them that three squads of stormtroopers stand in their way. Andor then orders the Marines to detonate the explosives.
* **Battle of Scarif:**
	+ Rebel Commandos set off multiple explosives on the landing pads around the Scarif complex. This attracts many of the troopers at the base, providing Erso, Andor, and K-2SO the distraction they need to get further inside the Citadel and search for the Death Star plans while the rest of Rogue One deals with the complex garrison.
	+ As the rest of Rogue One holds down the line, Chirrut Îmwe alerts the Rebels to the presence of AT-ACTs. Now outmatched due to the presence of the walkers, the Rebels are forced to fall back to the beach, with a number of them being cut down by fire from stormtroopers and the pursuing walkers. As the Rebels reach a beach and dig in, Baze fires a smart rocket at a pursuing AT-ACT, to no effect. However, right before it can obliterate their position, the walker is fired on and destroyed by Blue Squadron's X-wings, which arrive to provide support. Another walker is brought down by a U-wing, while its door-mounted ion cannon disables its legs and a third explodes when an X-wing fired on its open cargo bed.
	+ With Blue Squadron having made it through the shield gate, the Imperial air defenses are scrambled in order to defend the Citadel Tower from the rebel incursion. Rebel X-wings engage the numerous TIE strikers stationed on Scarif, with both sides suffering substantial casualties. As the air battle rages on, Merrick orders a U-wing gunship to reinforce the overwhelmed troops on the beach while the rest of the squadron defends them from Imperial fire.
	+ Director Krennic orders the deployment of his death trooper guard squadron via TIE/rp Reaper attack lander. The transport is escorted by TIE strikers, which prove too much for General Merrick and result in his the crashing of his X-Wing, while he is saved by a nearby Laurel Baxter, and transported to her ship.
	+ Back on Yavin, Rebel signals intelligence officer Tenzigo Weems intercepts an Imperial transmission of the presence of Rogue One on Scarif and informs Mon Mothma. Raddus has already left for his ship, and Rebel command mobilizes the rest of their fighter aircraft.
	+ Following the arrival of the Alliance's fleet, Raddus orders Red and Gold Squadrons to defend the fleet, while Blue Squadron is ordered to get to the surface to reinforce those battling on the beaches.
	+ Twelve X-wings, including Blue Leader Antoc Merrick, and a single U-wing make it through the opening before Shield Gate control orders the gate closed. Seven other X-wings attempted to get through with the rest of their squadron, but none of them make it.
	+ After Blue Squadron makes it through the shield gate, Red Squadron attempts a diversionary attack on the gate. The squadron sends 10 of its X-wings to destroy the gate's defense turrets, losing a number of their ships in the process to enemy fire but disabling many turrets. This tactic draws the attention of several defense turrets, creating an opening for Gold Squadron to begin their attack run on the shield gate.
	+ Using ten of their Y-wings, Gold Leader Captain Jon Vander instructs his pilots to begin their initial bombardment, warning his pilots to use caution around the defense towers. Gold Squadron conducts several bombing runs on the shield gate, utilizing proton bombs in the process. Three Y-wings are lost on the first run. The battle intensifies as the Imperial forces launch TIE fighters from both Star Destroyers and the shield gate itself, which batters the Rebel cruisers with laser fire and shoots down many starfighters. After seeing that there is no progress on that front, Admiral Raddus orders the fleet to engage the Star Destroyers.
	+ Andor, K-2SO, and Jyn made their way to the data vault. After disabling the technician, K-2SO began searching for the files as Andor and Erso enter the vault.
	+ After the shield gate is closed, K-2SO suggested they transmit the plans to the fleet instead. However, due to the size of the datafiles, the planetary shield has to be taken down for them to be transmitted. Cassian tasks Bodhi with telling the Rebel fleet they have to destroy the shield gate to receive the plans.
	+ After noticing the dead technician, a multitude of stormtroopers besiege the main archive room, while K-2SO held many of them off with a single blaster pistol. After withstanding heavy blaster fire, K-2SO locates the Death Star plans and marks the canister. He then locks Erso and Andor in the vault to allow them enough time to retrieve the plans, and is subsequently destroyed fending off stormtroopers, taking down the archive room console in the process. Laurel takes out all the troopers and takes the essential tech out of K-2SO to bring him back.
	+ In order to tell the Rebel fleet to destroy the shield gate, Bodhi directs Chirrut Îmwe and Baze Malbus to the master power switch for communications on Scarif. The two turn off the signal disruptor, but Laurel has to save both from dying doing so, though not before they kill the entire complement of death troopers sent against them.
	+ Although the above rebel fleet scrambles its ships and defense cannons, endless waves of TIE fighters batters the rebel ships. Gold Leader orders his squadron to form on his wing, informing them that a path had been cleared. Along with four of his squadron mates, Vander launches multiple ion torpedoes at at one of the two Star Destroyers, the *Persecutor*, disabling it.
	+ Rook contacts the Alliance flagship and tells them they have to destroy the shield gate to allow the Death Star plans to be transmitted to them. Shortly thereafter, a thermal imploder is thrown into his ship, destroying the shuttle, though not before Laurel saves him. After receiving Rook's transmission, Admiral Raddus contacted a *Sphyrna*-class Hammerhead corvette and explained his plan to break open the shield.
	+ Inside the Scarif Citadel Tower, Orson Krennic, along with two death troopers, opens a security door to the archive vault and began to shoot at Andor and Jyn. Andor kills the two troopers, but is hit by Krennic, rendering him unconscious. Jyn continues her ascent to the escape hatch at the top of the vault and exits onto the roof of the Citadel Tower.
	+ On top of the base is the communications dish. After reorienting it, Jyn prepares to send the plans to the Rebel fleet when Krennic appeared. Whilst Krennic confronts her, declaring the Empire's inevitable victory, Andor regains consciousness and made his way to the roof of the station. Right before Krennic is about to kill Jyn, Andor shoots the director.
	+ On Raddus' orders, a Hammerhead corvette ramms the disabled Destroyer. *Lightmaker* then activates its sublight engines, sending *Persecutor* on a collision course for the other Star Destroyer, the *Intimidator*. Admiral Gorin, seeing the incoming hazard, orders full reverse thrust to avoid the collision, but too late. As the two Star Destroyers collide, they break apart and fall towards Scarif, crashing into the orbital docking station that controls the deflector shield, and disables it.
	+ With the shield down, Jyn and Andor are able to transmit the Death Star plans to the *Profundity*.
	+ Immediately after the transmission of the plans, the Death Star exits hyperspace. Tarkin, aware of Darth Vader's impending arrival aboard the *Devastator*, chooses to ignore the rebel ships and instead ordered a single-reactor ignition aimed at the Citadel base on Scarif.
	+ Regaining consciousness on top of the Citadel Tower, Krennic looked into the sky to see the Death Star looming over the base. Watched by the horrified Rebel fleet, the superlaser fires upon the surface. The beam vaporizes the top third of the Citadel Tower, which was in its direct path, and impacts the surface far away. Soon after, everyone at the base (except Erso and Andor, who are saved by Laurel), along with the Imperial security complex, are vaporized and destroyed by the monumental aftereffects of the impact.

* Once the Alliance forces receive the Death Star schematics, they attempt to escape to hyperspace. Many ships made the jump in time, but the others are intercepted by the *Devastator* as it suddenly emerges from hyperspace. Vader's flagship immediately turns its guns on the *Profundity* while the rest of the ships are scattered. The flagship's already weakened shields gave way, and the ship is crippled by further barrages.
* After disabling the *Profundity*, Vader, along with a contingent of stormtroopers, boards the ship in an attempt to regain the Death Star plans. The Rebels meanwhile download a complete set of the plans, and prepare to evacuate them on the *Tantive IV*, which has been damaged in a previous mission and therefore was unable to take part in the Battle of Scarif. However, the *Profundity* experiences a sudden power loss as the troopers attempt to board the corvette, jamming an automatic door in the path of the Rebels. As they attempt to pull the door open, Vader catches up with them and slaughters the entire group.
* One man manages to escape with the plans, which are brought to Leia Organa as the Tantive IV escapes.
* After escaping into hyperspace, Organa's corvette is pursued by the Star Destroyer *Devastator* to the planet Tatooine. Ciena Ree is onboard, as a lieutenant.
* **Chase of the Tantive IV:** A fierce battle erupts in orbit between the *Tantive IV* and the *Devastator*. The corvette is no match for the immense *Devastator* and is captured and boarded by Imperial troops, led by Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith. Organa herself is stunned and captured, but not before she uploads the plans to the astromech droid R2-D2 who, along with his protocol droid companion C-3PO, escape to Tatooine aboard an escape pod.
* Eventually, both R2-D2 and C-3PO are captured by Jawas.

#### 13th

* After reuniting, R2-D2 and C-3PO are sold to moisture farmer Owen Lars and his nephew, Luke Skywalker. While cleaning up Artoo, Luke discovers his hologram of Leia. At the mention of Obi Wan, he wonders if she means Old Ben, his neighbor.
* The Empire learns that the droids are likely in possession of the stolen plans and begin searching the planet for them.
* Artoo flees from the Lars moisture farm in search of Kenobi. Luke realizes he's left, and plans to search for him in the morning.

#### 14th

* Early in the morning, Luke and C-3PO go looking for R2-D2, with Beru thinking he's gone to town, which she tells Owen.
* Luke and C-3PO find Artoo just before they are attacked by Sand people. Luke and his droids are rescued by Obi-Wan Kenobi or, as Luke knows him, Ben Kenobi. Obi-Wan takes Luke to his home. Luke receives his father's lightsaber, as Obi-Wan recalls his own friendship with Luke's father. Luke is told that a Jedi named Darth Vader betrayed and murdered his father. After discovering Princess Leia's message carried by R2-D2, Obi-Wan attempts to persuade Luke to accompany him to Alderaan. Luke refuses to go.
* Luke discovers that the traders who found the droids were killed by what they think to be the sand people (though it was really by stormtroopers searching for the droids). Realizing this, Luke hurries home only to find his aunt and uncle were brutally murdered by same stormtroopers.
* Luke returns upset, but Obi-Wan tells him if he was there, he would have been killed and the droids would be in possession of the Empire. With nothing keeping him here, Luke, Obi Wan and the two droids travel to Mos Eisley to find passage to Alderaan, Princess Leia's home planet. For 17,000 credits, 2,000 in advance and 15,000 upon arrival, smuggler Han Solo and his First Mate, a Wookiee named Chewbacca, agree to take the four of them to Alderaan aboard their ship, the *Millennium Falcon*. After brief scuffles with the Empire and henchmen sent by Jabba the Hutt, the *Falcon* escapes the Imperial Blockade at Mos Eisley and Han sets a course for Alderaan.

#### 15th

* Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader meet with Leia Organa to tell her they will destroy Alderaan unless she gives them the loation of the Rebel Base. She lies, telling them Dantooine, but Tarkin destroys Alderaan. Imperials, including Thane Kyrell, Ciena Ree, Nash Windrider, and Jude Edivon, are forced to watch the destruction. The Organa Royal Family manages to evacuate some civilians, but most on-planet are killed.
* A crew investigates Leia's claim of a base, but finds she lied. Thane Kyrell is a part of the search, and is impressed with the Rebellion, and dismayed by the Empire.
* **Rescue of Princess Leia:**
	+ Arriving at Alderaan, the crew on the *Millennium Falcon* finds what seems to be an asteroid field. While chasing a TIE Fighter, The *Millennium Falcon* is pulled aboard the Death Star by its powerful tractor beam.
	+ From hidden smuggling compartments, Solo ambushes two stormtroopers of the Imperial scanning crew. With Han and Luke now disguised as the two stormtroopers, the group begins to figure out how to escape.
	+ Obi-Wan separates from the group to disable the tractor beam, leaving the others alone.
	+ While connected to the Imperial Network, R2-D2 discovers Princess Leia is aboard the station. Luke convinces Han and Chewbacca to rescue her with the vague promise of a grand reward. Han and Chewbacca reluctantly agree. Luke plans to march into Detention Block AA-23, claiming that Chewbacca is part of a prisoner transfer. C-3PO and R2-D2 are instructed to remain behind, and the trio sets off on their rescue attempt.
	+ Luke's plan works flawlessly in that they are quick to subdue the officers and guards in the princess's cell block. Unfortunately, no one thought to plan for their escape, and Leia takes charge, blasting a hole in a nearby grate and jumping through while Han and Luke hold off a squad of stormtroopers. Chewbacca, Luke and Han all dive after the princess into the unknown.
	+ Unfortunately, the grate covers a chute that leads to a garbage compactor that is also home to a resident dianoga. Soon after landing, the creature pulls Luke under the surface, but releases him and is scared away when the Imperials realize where the heroes escaped to and activate the compactor. As the walls close in on the foursome, Luke desperately calls to C-3PO over his comlink asking for the compactor to be shut down. Leia struggles to get to the top and Chewbacca tries to unlock the door. R2-D2 manages to shut down the compactor just in time, although, amidst the muffled cries of joy over the comlink, C-3PO is briefly convinced that his master and friends have been crushed.
	+ After escaping from the trash compactor, the group hurries back to the *Millennium Falcon,* hoping that Obi-Wan has successfully shut down the tractor beam. They encounter stormtroopers on their way to the ship, evading and blasting their way past them.
	+ Obi-Wan, on the other hand, meets with Darth Vader. After a short duel with his former Padawan, Obi-Wan sacrifices himself, thus becoming one with the Force and allowing Luke and the others to escape. Horrified and angered having witnessed Obi-Wan's demise at the hands of Vader, Luke takes his final blasts at the stormtroopers and dashes onto the *Millennium Falcon*.
* Luke and Han shoot down 4 TIE's and escape to Yavin 4. Vader and Tarkin, however, are tracking them.

#### 16th

* The *Millennium Falcon* arrives at the Rebel Alliance on Yavin 4, and the information in R2-D2 is turned over. General Dodonna plans the attack on the Death Star, an attack so audacious as to receive an unenthusiastic reaction from the pilots. To add to Luke's dismay, Han leaves after receiving his reward.
* **Battle of Yavin:**
	+ The Rebel strike force begins its attack on the Death Star, as the space station approaches the Rebel base on Yavin 4. A group of starfighters assaults a trench on the Death Star's surface to hit the station's vulnerable spot before it can destroy the Alliance's base. During this, most of the Rebel craft, including Luke's friend Biggs Darklighter, are picked off by Imperial fighters led by Darth Vader. Just as Vader opens fire on Luke from his personal TIE Advanced fighter, Han returns in the *Millennium Falcon* and attacks the Imperials, resulting in Vader's ship getting knocked out of the trench. Luke, aided by the voice of Kenobi and guided by the Force, accurately fires two proton torpedoes into a small exhaust port leading to the Death Star's reactor, and the battle station explodes.
* After realizing the fate of her friends onboard the Death Star, Ciena is sent to retrieve Darth Vader, whom she is disturbed by.

#### 17th

* The Rebellion holds a medal ceremony for Luke, Han, and Chewbacca.

#### 20th

* Thane Kyrell and Cienna Ree reunite for the first time since before the Battle of Yavin. The two share a kiss. Thane is sent to Kerev Doi.

#### 21st

* After witnessing the cruelty of the Empire on Kerev Doi, Thane decides to desert the Empire. He chats with Cienna, and believes she will, too.

#### 22nd

* Thane flees to Jelucan. Cienna, not knowing this and believing he has committed to the Empire, is excited to see him.

#### 23rd

* Cienna discovers Thane has deserted, and sets off to find him.

#### 24th

* Cienna finds Thane, and the two discuss his disillusionment. She says she'll report him in a week.

#### 31st

* Cienna tells Ronnadam that Thane is dead, and promises herself to never cover for him again.

#### 8th

* *Ghostbusters* is released in the United States of America.

#### 27th

* *Rainbow Brite* airs its first episode.

#### 28th

* The Russians try to open the Gate to The Upside Down with their own research program similar to the one in Hawkins National Laboratory. However, their efforts are futile. The scientists are given one year.

### October

#### 26th

* *The Terminator* is released in the United States of America.

#### 29th

* In Pittsburgh, Kali and her gang are pursued by local police.
* Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will, and Emmett go and play at the Palace Arcade. While there, Will has yet another vision of the Upside Down, including the Mind Flayer.

#### 30th

* Max and Billy arrive at Hawkins Middle & High. Emmett and Max are wary of each other.
* Will has another check-up appointment at Hawkins Lab.
* Hopper investigates the mysterious degradation of Hawkins's crops.
* Nancy and Steve have dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Holland and learn they have hired Murray Bauman to track down Barb. Nancy feels guilty.
* Mike tries to contact Eleven for the 352nd day in a row since her disappearance, but in vain.
* That night, Will has a vision of the Upside Down and sees a spider-like creature in the clouds.

#### 31st

* Hopper continues to investigate the quickly spreading crop degradation.
* Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will, Emmett, and Max go trick-or-treating. Will has another vision of the Upside Down, seeing the Mind Flayer. Mike takes Will back to Wheeler's basement where he reveals to him about his vision, but requests him not to reveal it to anyone.
* Max and Emmett bond over their family issues.
* Steve and Nancy have a falling-out at Tina's Halloween party, sparking the breakdown of their relationship.
* Eleven waits for Hopper to return to the cabin so they can celebrate Halloween together, but he loses track of time. She shuts herself in her bedroom and visits Mike telepathically, who was simultaneously trying to contact her.
* When Dustin arrives home after trick-or-treating, he discovers a creature in the trashcan outside his house.

* Dustin takes the creature inside and names him D'Artagnan, or Dart for short.

### November

#### 1st

* Hopper realizes that the blight affecting the local crops is positioned in such a way that it forms a series of concentric circles, centered at Hawkins Lab. Hopper demands that Owens and the lab investigate.
* Dustin brings Dart to school hoping to impress his friends, and especially Max. However, after Dart escapes, the kids spend the rest of the day searching the school for him.
* Eleven, having grown impatient, decides to leave the cabin to see Mike. She spots him from afar, but does not directly interact with him. Emmett sees her, but doesn't say anything.
* Nancy and Jonathan arrange to meet Barb's parents over the phone. Hawkins Lab intercepts the call.
* Will has yet another vision of the Upside Down, in which the Mind Flayer traps him and latches onto his body.

* Joyce arrives at Hawkins Middle and takes Will home. She takes note of Will's increasingly strange behavior.
* When Eleven returns to the cabin, she has a heated argument with Hopper.

#### 2nd

* Nancy and Jonathan are forcibly taken to Hawkins Lab while waiting to meet Barb's parents. Owens warns them about the possible consequences of revealing what really happened to Barb in November 1983. Unbeknownst to Owens, the teens are recording his speech.
* Will attempts to explain the Mind Flayer to Joyce and Hopper. He makes a series of drawings, which Joyce and Hopper join together to form a larger image. Mike goes to the house to see Will.
* Eleven finds a box at the cabin containing info on Hawkins Lab. She finds Terry Ives' file, and decides to contact her via the Void.
* Dustin returns home to discover a much grown Dart, feeding on the lifeless body of Mews.
* Hopper theorizes that the drawings depict the vines and tendrils as seen in the Upside Down. He goes to one of the pumpkin patches and digs, until he finds himself in one of the underground tunnels.

* Hopper is sprayed with spore-like particles in the underground tunnels and loses consciousness.
* Will explains his connection to the shadow monster to Mike and tells the possibility that the monster might spy them. But Mike assures that they won't let it and he will be safe.
* Jonathan and Nancy check in to a motel, where Nancy questions why nothing ever came of their relationship last year.

#### 3rd

* Will tells Joyce that he saw Hopper in the tunnels, and points out where he saw Hopper on his drawings, marking an X on the spot.
* Hopper regains consciousness and continues his attempts to escape the tunnels, realizing the vines dislike fire. While resting a moment, vines entangle and trap him.
* Lucas tells Max the truth about what happened last year, but she does not believe him.
* Dustin traps Dart in the cellar and attempts to get help, but cannot reach anyone. He eventually reaches Emmett, who helps him trap Dart. They encounter Steve and enlist his help to kill Dart.
* The lab discovers the soil samples from the infected pumpkin patches react adversely to heat, and do so with a hive mind.
* Eleven hitches a ride to Terry Ives's home where she meets Aunt Becky and discovers her unresponsive mother. She is able to connect with her through the Void, but can only see the memories replaying inside Terry's mind of Eleven's capture and her subsequent failed attempt to retrieve her.
* Jonathan and Nancy meet up with Murray Bauman and tell him the truth about Barb's disappearance. He decides the best way to take down Hawkins Lab is to publicize a "watered down" version of the story.
* Bob arrives at the Byers' home and Joyce asks him to help to "find the X." Bob correctly realizes the drawings are a map of Hawkins and locates the X. Bob, Joyce, Mike and Will leave and find Hopper in the tunnels, where they are able to help cut him free. Just then, workers from the lab arrive in the tunnels to begin torching it, but as soon as they do Will experiences extreme pain and began convulsing on the ground.

* Will is rushed to Hawkins lab where he is sedated.
* Dustin, Emmett, and Steve find that Dart has molted again and escaped the cellar through a tunnel.
* Nancy, Jonathan, and Murray Bauman send out the evidence against Hawkins lab to national newspapers. After prodding from Murray, Nancy and Jonathan give in to their feelings for each other and spend the night together.

* Eleven tells Becky what she saw in Terry's mind, and that she believes Terry wants her to find the girl who was with Eleven at Hawkins Lab as a child. Becky helps her find a picture of her, and Eleven is able to locate her psychically. Eleven steals money from Becky and leaves to find the girl.
* Eleven arrives in Chicago and finds the girl, Kali, and her gang. Kali accepts her as her sister and the two swap stories about their lives and powers.

#### 4th

* Will regains consciousness, but is found to be losing his memory as the shadow monster continues to take control of him, recognizing only Joyce and Mike but doesn't recall Dr. Owens, Bob or Hopper. Dr. Owens explains to Joyce and Hopper that Will has been infected with a kind of virus, and he is now connected to the hive mind.
* Jonathan and Nancy leave Murray Bauman's and discover Will's drawings at the Byers home, with evidence that someone else has been there.
* Lucas makes contact with Dustin and he and Max go to help him, Emmett, and Steve trap and kill Dart. Several Demodogs show up at the Junkyard (causing Max to realize that everything Lucas told her was true), but are called away by the Mind Flayer before they do any serious damage.
* Acting through Will, the shadow monster tricks the Hawkins lab employees to go to a certain part of the tunnels. Mike attempts to warn them but he is too late. They are attacked and killed by Demodogs, who then turn to the lab itself.

* Kali trains Eleven in using anger to focus her powers.
* That night, they arrive at Ray Carroll's house. Kali and Eleven remind Ray of his crimes at Hawkins Lab, and Eleven psychically chokes him. But, seeing a photo of Ray with his children, Eleven changes her mind and lets him live, and also prevents Kali from shooting him.
* Back at their hideout, the gang is ambushed by the police. They narrowly escape, but Eleven, after seeing visions of Hopper and Mike in danger, abandons the group to return to Hawkins and save her friends.

* The Demodogs begin their invasion on Hawkins lab. Upon Mike's advice, Joyce drugs Will so that he loses consciousness and the shadow monster cannot use him to spy on them. Dr. Owens, Hopper, Joyce, Bob, Will, and Mike take shelter in the security surveillance room as the Demodogs pursue them and the lab loses power.
* Neil and Susan arrive home and notice that Max is missing. Neil sends Billy out to find her.
* Steve, Emmett, Max, Dustin, Lucas, Nancy, and Jonathan all arrive at the lab and realize Will, Mike, and Joyce are likely trapped inside the lab with the Demodogs.
* Bob leaves the surveillance room to reset the breakers, and he succeeds in clearing a path for everyone to escape, but is killed by Demodogs in the process.
* Back at the Byers house, everyone discusses options and realizes the shadow monster is similar to the Mind Flayer from Dungeons & Dragons. If they can kill the Mind Flayer, they will also destroy its army.
* They reason that Will is the only one who knows how to defeat the shadow monster, so they form a plan to disguise their surroundings so they can question him without the shadow monster spying on their location.
* After camouflaging the shed at the Byers home, they wake Will up and attempt to reach him. Will manages to communicate through tapping Morse code and delivers the message, "CLOSE GATE."

#### 5th

* The Byers' phone rings, alerting the shadow monster to Will's location. Joyce again drugs Will, but not before the shadow monster has dispatched Demodogs.
* Everyone arms themselves and hears the Demodogs arrive, but none attack. After a dead Demodog flies through the window, the door is opened telekinetically, and Eleven walks in. Mike becomes astonished to see her.

* After Eleven's reunion with everyone, the group decides that Eleven will close the gate, believing this will kill the Mind Flayer and his army. Before doing so, they realize they must force the Mind Flayer out of Will or else it will kill him, and decide they will do so by heating Hopper's cabin until Will's body is unbearably hot for the Mind Flayer. Hopper and Eleven leave for Hawkins Lab while Joyce, Jonathan, and Nancy take Will to Hopper's cabin. Before leaving, Eleven promises Mike that he will not lose her again.
* Billy stops by the Wheelers' house looking for Max, and flirts with Karen Wheeler before being sent to the Byers'.
* Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Emmett, and Max hatch a plan to go to the tunnels and set them on fire, thus drawing the Demodogs away from Eleven and Hopper. Steve refuses this plan.
* Billy arrives and Steve is knocked unconscious. Max finally ends the fight by sedating Billy.
* Mike, Dustin, Emmett, Lucas, and Max take the unconscious Steve and Billy's car and leave for the tunnels.
* The Mind Flayer is successfully expelled from Will.
* Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Max, Emmett, and Steve set fire to the tunnels and escape after a few close calls with the vines and Demodogs.
* While Hopper defends Eleven from Demodogs, she channels her strength and closes the gate, killing the remaining Demodogs.

#### 6th

* Murray Bauman's report succeeds in closing Hawkins Lab.

### December

#### 14th

* Dr. Owens gives Hopper a forged birth certificate for Eleven which states she is now officially Hopper's daughter, Jane Hopper. While Owens advises to stay low for a year as precaution, Hopper convinces him to give Eleven a night out to reunite with her friends.

#### 15th

* The kids, including Eleven, attend the Hawkins Middle Snow Ball for the first time and dance together. Emmett tries to skip the dance, but Jonathan catches him and convinces him to stay.

### June

#### 28th

* Mike and Eleven share romantic moments in Eleven's bedroom before Hopper intervenes.
* Mike, Will, Lucas and Max go to Starcourt Mall and watch the preview of George Romero's *Day of the Dead*.
* A power outage sweeps through Hawkins, affecting all the locations including Starcourt Mall.

#### 29th

* Dustin comes back after a month from "Camp Know Where". Mike, Emmett, Eleven, Will, Lucas and Max surprise Dustin with a welcoming. Emmett uses his reflexes to stop Dustin from spraying Lucas.
* Rats scurry from across Hawkins in broad daylight to Brimborn, unbeknownst to the kids who are going to the hill to set up Cerebro.
* Hopper discusses with Joyce over how to handle the situation regarding Eleven and Mike's burgeoning relationship.
* At night, Billy drives to meet Mrs. Wheeler. However, something hits his car. He gets out and the Mind Flayer drags him to Brimborn Steel Works and possesses him.
* Nancy works late at The Hawkins Post. She gets a call from Mrs. Driscoll who complain about the unusual behavior of rats in her house.
* After Will, Lucas and Max leave Dustin and Emmett behind, who are still waiting for Suzie's response on the hill, they intercept a Russian communication via the Cerebro machine.

#### 30th

* Joyce notices strange behavior of the magnets in Melvald's General Store. She reaches out to Scott Clarke to learn more about them.
* Nancy and Jonathan visit Mrs. Driscoll who tells them she thinks the rats wanted to eat her fertilizer. She also shows Nancy and Jonathan one of the rats she caught and it's acting erratically.
* Dustin and Emmett visit Steve at Scoops Ahoy and tell him about the Russian message. Robin overhears their conversation and offers to help. She eventually manages to crack the code by the end of their shift.
* Billy goes to work at the Hawkins Community Pool, only to find himself disoriented.
* Hopper goes to Town Hall to talk to Mayor Kline about the Starcourt Mall protesters on the town hall lawn. While there, Hopper notices a strange man leaving Kline's office.
* Eleven spend a day with Max together at the mall after Mike is forced to lie to her, straining their relationship.
* While leaving the mall, Steve deduces a connection that bit of music heard on the Russian message is the same as a kid's ride in the mall. This leads Dustin, Robin, Emmett, and Steve to conclude the message was recorded inside the mall.
* At night, Billy kidnaps Heather, taking her to the Mind Flayer in Brimborn for possession.

### July

#### 1st

* Eleven and Max have a sleepover. While spying through the Void, Eleven witnesses Billy along with a frightened Heather. Eleven and Max decide to investigate it in the morning.
* Joyce informs Hopper about the magnets. She theorizes Hawkins Lab has something to do with it and convinces Hopper to investigate the lab.
* Max and Eleven check out the Hargrove house, only to find a lifeguard fanny pack and a blood soaked whistle stashed under the sink. After learning about Heather at the community pool, Eleven goes into the Void to check her, but sees that she is in trouble.
* Robin deduces that the Russian code refers to different locations within the Starcourt Mall.
* At night, Joyce and Hopper breaks into the Hawkins Lab but find nothing. Hopper later gets ambushed by Grigori who escapes the lab. Joyce takes Hopper back to his cabin.
* Max and Eleven visit the Holloway house. They find Heather alive, but she and Billy are acting peculiarly. Heather helps Billy drug her parents, Tom and her mom. They take them to the Mind Flayer at Brimborn Steel Works to turn them into his drones.
* Nancy and Jonathan go back to Driscoll's house. They find Mrs. Driscoll eating fertilizer. She is later rushed to the hospital.

#### 2nd

* Hopper wakes up at the cabin. Joyce tells him about the hitman who escaped after attacking him. Her description jogs Hopper's memory about the man he saw at Town Hall.
* Hopper and Joyce visits the Town Hall. After confronting Kline, Hopper learns the hitman is Grigori who works for the Russians to help them acquire Starcourt Mall and several farms near the Hawkins power plant. At night, Hopper and Joyce resolve to check out the farms.
* Mike manages to get Eleven and Max over to his house. Will reveals to the group about the Mind Flayer's presence who may still be alive in the real world. They assume Billy to be the new host of the Mind Flayer.
* Nancy and Jonathan are fired from the Post by Tom.
* Mike, Eleven, Max, Lucas and Will perform the sauna test to surmise if Billy is possessed by the Mind Flayer. The group lures Billy into the sauna at the pool to trap and heat him. Billy shows signs he is possessed. Eleven fights Billy but is overpowered. As she is about to get asphyxiated, Mike intervenes. An exhausted Eleven unleashes her powers to telekinetically throw Billy out of the pool house. However, Billy escapes to Brimborn.
* Nancy visits Mrs. Driscoll at the hospital. As the kids perform the sauna test, Nancy observes Driscoll behaving abnormally.
* At Scoops Ahoy, Robin notifies Steve, Emmett, and Dustin that the air ducts will help them get into the loading bay, letting them see what the Russians are up to. They recruit Erica who goes through the ducts to open the door. The five find an unusual substance in one of the boxes. However, they become trapped in the room which turns into an elevator and descends.

#### 3rd

* *Back to the Future* is released in the United States of America.

* Dustin, Erica, Robin, and Steve reach the Russian HQ. They witness the scientists trying to open the Gate to the Upside Down. Emmett, Dustin, and Erica manage to escape the base, but Steve and Robin are captured.
* In the Wheeler's basement, Eleven tracks Hopper and Joyce going to Illinois by the Void. The kids plan over what to do to stop the Mind Flayer.
* Hopper and Joyce find Alexei working in the basement of the Hess farmhouse. Grigori tracks them and a brief fight ensues between them. Hopper and Joyce take Alexei hostage and flee. On the road to Illinois, Hopper's vehicle breaks down, forcing the two to walk through the forest taking Alexei with them.
* Hopper borrows a man's car at 7 Eleven gas station and leaves for Murray's warehouse along with Joyce and Alexei. Murray reluctantly lets them in.
* Grigori arrives at the gas station where he interrogates a clerk about Hopper.
* Nancy and Jonathan meet the kids in the basement. The kids reveal that their sauna test confirms Billy's possession by the Mind Flayer, similar to how Will previously was. Realizing that Mrs. Driscoll also reacted similarly to Billy during the sauna test, they assume there are even more flayed, including Heather. They visit the Holloway house, but can't find anyone. They decide to visit the Hawkins Memorial Hospital to release Driscoll so that she could show them the source.
* At the hospital, Nancy and Jonathan go to visit Mrs. Driscoll while the kids sit in the waiting room. However, instead of her, they find Tom and Bruce, flayed by the Mind Flayer. They attempt to kill Nancy and Jonathan. Jonathan and Nancy manage to kill Tom and Bruce. Despite that, their bodies melt and congeal together into a bigger monster. The monster chases Nancy until she is cornered in a room. The kids arrive and Eleven telekinetically tosses the monster out of the hospital, saving Nancy. However, the remains of the monster seep back to Brimborn through the sewers.

#### 4th

* Robin and Steve are taken in as prisoners and interrogated by the Russians.
* Grigori meets Kline at the Hawkins Fairgrounds in the morning and demands him to lure Hopper and Joyce to the Fun Fair.
* Alexei reveals the Russians are trying to open the Gate and the scientists believe the one in Hawkins is the most vulnerable.
* After Alexei reveals why the Russians are in Hawkins, Hopper requests the FBI to inform Dr. Owens about the Russians' plan to open the Gate and asks to bring back-up.
* Nancy, Jonathan and the kids go back to the Hopper cabin. Eleven goes into the Void. She sees Billy, who tells Eleven the Upside Down creatures are going to conquer Hawkins. Billy also tells Eleven he will be tracking her, as will every other Upside Down creature.
* The Mind Flayer grows larger by absorbing dozens of his hosts and burst out of Brimborn Steel Works to leave for Hopper cabin to confront Eleven.

* The group arm themselves at the Hopper cabin against the Mind Flayer. After a brief fight that leaves Eleven wounded, the group escapes the cabin and takes refuge at Bradley's Big Buy.
* Dustin, Emmett and Erica save Robin and Steve and they all make it back to Starcourt Mall. They hide from the Russians in the food court after the mall shuts down.
* At Bradley's Big Buy, Lucas and Will take explosives as back-up against the Mind Flayer. While tending to Eleven's wounds, Mike apologizes to her. Dustin radios Mike for help but low battery interrupts their communication. After El learns that Dustin is at Starcourt through the Void, the group head back to the mall.
* Following Alexei's assassination, Hopper, Joyce, and Murray manage to evade Grigori and escape the Fun Fair. They pick up Dustin's distress signal and head to Starcourt.
* The Russians corner Dustin, Steve, Robin, Emmett, and Erica, but Eleven arrives with the group and save them by flinging a car at the Russians. The group reunite with each other. Eleven collapses on the floor due to the pulsating wound in her leg.

* Eleven uses her powers to fling out the Mind Flayer's strange growth from her leg. However, this results in her becoming too weakened to evoke her powers anymore.
* Hopper and Joyce arrive at Starcourt with Murray. They plan to close the Gate in the Russian lab under Starcourt while Erica and Dustin help guide them down.
* The kids depart to take Eleven to Murray's warehouse, but take refuge back at the mall after being cornered by Billy. The Mind Flayer arrives at the mall, breaking through the roof and searches for them. As the monster closes in on Mike, Eleven and Max, it is distracted by Lucas's slingshot, giving the group time to evade it. But Billy confronts them and seizes Eleven to take her to the Mind Flayer. Yet, before it could possess her, Steve along with Robin, Emmett, Nancy, Jonathan, Lucas and Will intervene the monster by throwing explosives.
* Suzie, after a duet with Dustin, provides the Plank Constant with which Hopper and Joyce retrieves the Key.
* Eleven gets through to Billy and frees him of the Mind Flayer's control. Billy stands up to the monster, sacrificing himself to protect Eleven.
* Hopper and Joyce reach the lab. Grigori intervenes and fights Hopper. Though Hopper triumphs, he ends up close to the Keys. Joyce is forced to shut the machine off and risk Hopper's life. The machine explodes, killing the Mind Flayer. The shock-wave from the machine presumably disintegrates Hopper.
* Dr. Owens and the U.S. military arrive at Starcourt and immediately takes over the Russian base.
* Eleven realizes Hopper didn't make it back and gets devastated.

### October

#### 13th

* Steve and Robin get new jobs at Hawkins Family Video.
* Nancy and Jonathan reconcile and share a kiss.
* Eleven still doesn't have her powers back, but Mike is optimistic that they will return. They plan to see each other at Thanksgiving. Eleven reveals she heard Mike talk about his feelings for her and kisses him, telling that she also loves him.
* Joyce gives Eleven Hopper's letter for the "heart to heart" speech. Upon reading it, she gets emotional.
* Mike, Nancy, Max, Lucas and Dustin help Eleven and the Byers pack up their house. They share a tearful farewell with each other, before the Byers, along with Eleven and Emmett, move out of Hawkins.

#### 25th

* Marty arrives at Doc's house, with the clocks saying 7:50. He plugs in his guitar. Doc calls Marty and tells him that he and Einstein are away.
* Jennifer and Marty are given slips for tardiness. Marty fails the Battle of the Bands.
* Marty witnesses Biff bully his father and is told the car is damaged. He is told by his sister that Jennifer tried to call him three times, with Lorraine, his mother, explaining that she never did what he was doing with George.

#### 26th

* Early in the morning, Doc calls Marty, who arrives at the Twin Pines Mall with his camera. Einstein arrives in the DeLorean. Marty and Doc put plutonium in the time machine. Before the two can do anything else, Doc is shot by Libyan terrorists. Marty arrives at November 5th, 1955 after accidentally going to 88 mph.
* Marty arrives and learns that Doc faked his death with a bulletproof vest after reading Marty's letter after November 12th, 1955.
* That morning, Marty wakes up from his previous day, and sees Jennifer who he hasn't seen for 9 days. Doc arrives and brings them back to the future.

#### 27th

* Marty arrives back in 1985 at 11 a.m. from 1885 and the DeLorean is destroyed after being hit by a locomotive. The ravine that the railroad bridge travels over is now called Eastwood Ravine instead of Clayton Ravine due to time-changing events that took place in 1885.
* Marty, originally racing Douglas J. Needles and crashing into a Rolls-Royce and negatively affecting his future, ultimately avoids the race, thus changing the future. As a result, he never gets stuck in a dead-end job, and the future is drastically changed from the one Marty witnessed.
* Doc, Clara and their sons arrive in the Jules Verne Train to visit Marty and Jennifer, before departing for times unknown.
* Late at night, Emmett steals the technology of the DeLorean, and takes it to his base.

### December

#### 22nd

* Thane Kyrell is recruited by Wedge Antilles into the Rebellion.

## 1986

### May

#### 14th

* S.H.I.E.L.D. investigates the Bermuda Triangle and the mysteries that lurked in the region. Unbeknownst to them, the triangle is actually part of the Sea of Monsters.

#### 16th

* *Top Gun* is released in the United States of America.

### June

#### 11th

* *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* is released in the United States of America.

## 1987

### February

#### 16th

* An Imperial Star Destroyer, dispatched by the Sith Lord Darth Vader, continuing his quest for Luke Skywalker, launches thousands of probe droids across the galaxy, one of which lands on Hoth and begins its survey of the planet.
* Luke Skywalker, on patrol astride his tauntaun, discovers the probe, which he mistakes for a meteorite. After reporting to comrade Han Solo that he'll investigate the site, Luke is knocked unconscious by a deadly wampa.
* Han Solo, having decided to leave and pay his debts to Jabba, says goodbye to Leia, resulting in the two arguing. When Luke fails to report in at Echo Base, Han goes out on his tauntaun to search for him in an encroaching storm.
* Upon waking up, Luke finds himself hanging upside down in a cave; his eyes opening to the sight of a wampa eating his tauntaun. Using the power of the Force, Luke is able to pull his lightsaber out of the snow and towards himself. After he ignites it, he cuts himself free and cuts off the attacking wampa's arm just in time, running out of the cave and escaping into the cold night of Hoth.
* Luke tries to make his way to Echo Base on foot, but he finds himself lost in the blizzard and collapses in the snow. He sees the Force spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi appear before him. Kenobi's spirit ghost instructs Luke to go to Dagobah to undergo training under Yoda, a Jedi Grand Master.
* After the spirit ghost disappears, Han arrives to find an almost unconscious Luke, who is mumbling indistinctly about Obi-Wan, Yoda and Dagobah. At this point, the tauntaun that Han was riding on collapses in the extreme cold. To keep Luke from freezing to death during the blizzard, Han uses Luke's lightsaber to cut open the dead tauntaun and places Luke in it. Han then sets about erecting a shelter that he and Luke will stay in during the night.

#### 17th

* Rebel Pilots flying the snowspeeders set out from Echo Base to search for the missing men. Zev Senesca, one of the pilots in Rogue Group, makes contact with Han over comlink and the pair are rescued.
* When they are taken back to base, Luke is put in a bacta tank for healing under the care of medical droid, 2-1B.

#### 18th

* As Luke recovers in his medical bed, his friends come to talk to him. Han and Leia argue, with the latter kissing Luke. When the probe droid breaches the base, Han and Chewbacca shoot it, alerting the Empire to their presence. Rieekan orders an evacuation of Echo Base.
* Darth Vader and the Imperial forces set course for the Hoth system to set up the attack.
* The rebels load whatever equipment they can onto transports and plan a rear-guard action to secure their escape.
* Luke, now fully recovered from the Wampa attack and subsequent exposure, says farewell to Chewbacca and Solo. As the Imperial forces enter the Hoth system, General Rieekan orders full power to the energy shield that is protecting the base from orbital bombardment.
* Aboard the *Executor*, General Maximilian Veers notifies Vader that Admiral Ozzel has emerged from lightspeed too close to Hoth, intending to catch the Rebels unaware before they could set up their defenses. However, Vader realizes that the Rebels have been alerted to the fleet's arrival. Via video communication, Vader Force chokes Ozzel to death for his incompetence, then appoints Captain Firmus Piett the new Admiral on the spot.

* **Battle of Hoth:**
	+ As Vader previously ordered, the Imperial ground forces, commanded by General Veers, land outside the Rebels' shield and march overland to destroy the power generator.
	+ Princess Leia gives the Rebel fighters instructions on the evacuation to leave Hoth two to three ships at a time past the energy shield to a rendezvous point, which is beyond the outer rim. Rieekan lowers the shields to fire the Ion cannon at one of the Imperial Star Destroyers allowing the first transports to escape. The Rebel pilots assigned to hold off the Imperial ground assault depart the Hoth base for the oncoming battle against heavily equipped Imperial forces, who are armed with agile AT-STs (All Terrain Scout Transports) and monstrous AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport) walkers, led by General Veers.
	+ The Rogue Squadron snowspeeder group led by Luke commences the attack. Luke quickly realizes the AT-AT's armor is far too strong for blasters and decides to use attached harpoons and tow cables to tangle the walker's legs. Luke's gunner Dak Ralter is hit and killed during the first approach. This leaves Wedge Antilles and his gunner Wes Janson to make the first pass. They manage to topple one of the AT-ATs, which is destroyed as Rebel troops storm it. The main AT-AT, commanded by General Veers, prepares to take their aim at the Rebel base's main power generator. Luke's speeder is shot down by the Imperials, and crash-lands in the snow. Luke escapes before an AT-AT can step on and crush his ship.
	+ The Rebel base is now under direct attack and Imperial snowtroopers have entered the base, forcing Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO to escape. Leia gives the evacuation command for the base as they leave.
	+ Luke, meanwhile, manages to destroy another AT-AT by using his hoist cable and lightsaber to get into the belly of the transport, tossing in a thermal detonator, and then detaching himself from the cable as a series of explosions neutralize the AT-AT. The Rebels suffer major casualties as the result of the battle. The main AT-AT, being driven by General Veers, gets within firing range of the power generator, then successfully blasts and destroys it.
	+ Han, Leia, and company, now realizing they are being followed by Vader (who has arrived personally on Hoth), make their way to the *Millennium Falcon* in time to escape. As the *Falcon* flies off, Luke reaches R2-D2 and his X-wing starfighter and finally departs Hoth. Changing course from the rendezvous point, he sets his coordinates for Dagobah.

* Han and company are pursued by Imperial TIE fighters. Flipping the switch to take them to lightspeed, Han realizes (with reluctant help from 3PO) that the hyperdrive has been damaged. While trying to fix the hyperdrive system, Han enters an asteroid field to hamper pursuit. He manages to land his ship inside a cavern on one of the larger asteroids to rest and find a way to fix the ship.
* While reviewing footage of the battle, Ciena realizes Thane has joined the Rebellion.

#### 19th

* Luke lands on the marshy planet Dagobah, swamping his X-wing in the process. There, he discovers a diminutive and eccentric figure who fiddles around with Luke's gear. After Luke tells him that he is looking for a Jedi Master, the being offers to take Luke to Yoda.
* On the *Falcon*, while Leia tries to make repairs, Han makes his move on the Princess, drawing himself closer to her before both end up in a kiss. When Threepio arrives, Leia withdraws and walks away.
* Vader orders the entirety of Death Squadron to begin sweeping the asteroid field to find the *Millennium Falcon* As the search continues, the dangers of the field begin to take their toll: an asteroid smashes into the bridge tower of a Star Destroyer, presumably killing all aboard. On the *Executor*, Vader communicates with the captains of the other ships (the captain of the demolished star destroyer throws his arms up in horror, and the transmission fades). One officer, Captain Lorth Needa, tells Vader that they should consider their damage. Vader firmly replies that they will continue the search. Shortly afterward, Admiral Piett informs Vader that Emperor Sheev Palpatine commands he make contact immediately. Vader orders his ship out of the asteroid field for a clear transmission.
* In his private quarters, Vader receives a holographic message from Palpatine, who alerts the Dark Lord to a "new enemy who could destroy" the Empire - Luke Skywalker. Vader suggests that if Luke could be turned, he would be a "powerful ally". Lord Sidious agrees, saying that Luke would be a "great asset" and asks his apprentice if it could be done. Vader declares Luke will join the Empire "or die".
* Instead of going straight to Yoda, Luke is brought to the creature's hut. Luke insists on going to find Yoda immediately, but the small creature only responds with "Not far. Yoda not far." The diminutive figure then declares the boy lacks patience, but the voice of Kenobi tells the figure that the boy will learn patience if he is to be trained. Only then does Luke realize that the small green figure *is* Yoda. Yoda asks Kenobi if he will finish whatever training he begins, then suspects that Luke will someday succumb to fear.

#### 20th

* The next day, while cleaning parasitic creatures called Mynocks off the *Falcon*, Solo and his companions are forced to escape what turns out to be a titanic space slug, which resided in the asteroid the *Falcon* landed on.
* Luke begins a rigorous training regime from Yoda which includes moral lessons about the dangers of the dark side of the Force. That particular lesson is driven home when he is told to enter a cave that is strong with the Dark Side's power. Ignoring Yoda's counsel to leave his weapons, Luke enters the cavern armed. Once inside, he has a vision of himself angrily confronting Darth Vader and beheading him. However, the severed head's mask bursts apart and reveals Luke's face with a scared look underneath; it is a warning that if Luke battles Vader with no emotional control, he will become Vader himself, seduced by the Dark Side.

#### 21st

* Back on the Star Destroyer, Vader enlists the bounty hunters, Boba Fett, Dengar, IG-88, Bossk, 4-LOM and Zuckuss to find the *Millennium Falcon* for a "substantial reward".
* One of the Imperial commanders finally spots the *Falcon*, leading to another pursuit which results in the Falcon eluding the Empire by making the insanely counter intuitive move of attacking the lead Star Destroyer. However, at the last moment, the ship veers off and secretly attaches itself to the rear of the cruiser's command tower, which is not extensively covered by sensors, making it appear to have vanished from the Destroyer's point of view.

### March

#### 6th

* *Lethal Weapon* is released in the United States of America.
* While training, Luke becomes distracted when he finds that his X-wing fighter has almost completely submerged into the swamp. Luke declares he will never be able to get the ship out, seeing that it is too big for him to extract from the water. Yoda says it is "no different, only different in your mind." Luke says he'll "try" to lift the ship, but Yoda says "No! Do or do not, there is no try." Luke tries to use the Force, but to no avail. Yoda reminds him that "size matters not" and gives him wisdom about the Force. Luke denies all of this, and Yoda decides to use the Force to lift the ship out himself. Luke is dumbfounded and incredulous. Yoda senses the youngster's failures within his mind.

#### 7th

* When the fleet disperses to search for the *Falcon*, the Rebels wait for the ship to do its standard dump of refuse before jumping, then detach to float away with it. The *Falcon*'s hyperdrive needs repairs, so Han decides to make their way to Cloud City, a gas-mining colony run by his "old friend" Lando Calrissian. Unfortunately, the bounty hunter Boba Fett had deduced the *Falcon*'s escape method and had his ship jettisoned with the waste to stealthily follow the fugitives.

#### 8th

* The next day, Yoda reminds Luke of the things the young Jedi will see in his mind, the future, the past, and of friends he recognizes. Luke loses concentration again and has a vision of his friends in danger. He wants to leave Dagobah to rescue them, but Yoda reminds him that if he leaves now, everything his friends fought and suffered for will be destroyed.
* Darth Vader and a multitude of stormtroopers arrive in Cloud City, and Lando Calrissian agrees to help them.

#### 9th

* Upon arrival at Cloud City, Han's party is welcomed by Lando. Unbeknownst to the rebels, C-3PO is deactivated, dismembered, and almost recycled by stormtroopers.
* Luke and R2-D2 prepare themselves to leave Dagobah, but are warned by both Yoda and the spirit form of Kenobi not to end training so soon for a fight Luke is not ready for. Ben declares that should Luke decide to face Vader, he will have to face him alone without interference. Luke understands this, and his ship takes off from Dagobah. Yoda is disappointed, declaring Luke is reckless. Ben tells Yoda "That boy is our last hope", however, Yoda answers back, "No... there is another..."

#### 10th

* After discovering C-3PO in pieces, Han, Leia, and Chewbacca are betrayed by Lando.

#### 11th

* In order to lure Luke, Darth Vader proceeds to torture Han and Leia to create a disturbance in the Force for Luke to detect.
* Chewbacca makes an attempt to rebuild C-3PO only to accidentally put the latter's head on backwards.
* After being tortured, the rebels are informed by Lando that Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO would be confined to Cloud City and Han would be given to Boba Fett. Leia believes Vader wants them all dead, but Lando tells her and the rebels otherwise and that he is after Skywalker. The rebels immediately realize that Vader wants Luke and has set a trap for him, using them as bait. After Lando announces that Luke is on his way, Han attacks his "friend," only to be restrained by Calrissian's security detail.
* Vader enters a carbon-freezing chamber intending to freeze Luke Skywalker once he arrives. The Dark Lord uses the opportunity for Boba Fett to deliver Solo to Jabba the Hutt (to whom Han owed a debt) by testing the device on Solo himself. Han and company enter the chamber for the experiment. At first, Chewbacca resists the stormtroopers, but Han restrains him, saving his strength for another time. Han says goodbye to Leia with a passionate kiss before he is escalated into the carbon freezing chamber. When he is successfully entombed in carbonite in a state of suspended animation, Vader hands over Han to bounty hunter Boba Fett for transportation to Tatooine to receive a bounty from Jabba.
* One of the Imperial commanders informs Vader that Luke's starfighter has arrived on Bespin. The Dark Lord orders Lando to take Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO to his Star Destroyer, reneging on a deal he made with Calrissian.
* Luke makes his way to Bespin safely. He quietly walks down the corridors of Cloud City. He spots Boba Fett who is taking the now-frozen Solo back to his ship. He attempts to follow but is thwarted when the bounty hunter notices and opens fire. Luke narrowly escapes and runs down farther into the corridor. He finally meets up with Leia, Chewie, and Lando, who have been captured by stormtroopers. Luke tries to ambush the group of Imperials, but is unsuccessful. Leia yells at him and tells him that "it's a trap!"
* **Duel on Cloud City:**
	+ Luke runs after his captured friends, hoping to save them, but wanders into the carbon-freezing chamber. There, he meets with Vader and the two fight in an epic lightsaber duel, where Luke's undeveloped Jedi skills are no match for Vader's experience.
	+ The Imperials (escorting the Rebel prisoners out of Bespin) are overpowered by Cloud City security, setting Lando and company free. Chewbacca turns against Lando for betraying Han and chokes him, but he manages to tell the Wookiee there's still a chance to rescue Han at the East Platform. C-3PO is reunited with his companion R2-D2. Lando and company arrive too late as Fett's ship takes off, then engage in a fierce battle with stormtroopers.
	+ Luke and Vader continue the duel in the darkened rooms of the Cloud City. Luke manages to jump out of it with the help of the Force a moment before Vader activates the freezing system. The fight continues, as Vader uses the Dark Side of the Force, hurling everything that comes to hand at Luke: equipment, construction elements and furniture. One of the items breaks the window, creating a vacuum. Luke is quickly pulled out and the fight moves to the emergency platform.
	+ As the gunfight continues, Lando orders an evacuation of Cloud City before the arrival of the main forces of the Empire, then the rebel company manages to find their last hope of escape, the *Millennium Falcon*.
	+ On the emergency platform of the Cloud City, Luke and Vader continue the duel. Vader knocks Luke off his feet and invites him to surrender so that he won't let himself be killed, like Obi-Wan. However, the young man is not yet defeated and continues to fight. During the duel over the abyss, Luke beats Vader with his saber in his right shoulder, slightly damaging his dark armor. Vader is furious and cuts Luke's right hand holding a lightsaber,and the hand and saber fall into the abyss. Vader reveals to Luke that he is his father, shocking and devastating the latter. Vader invites the young man to reunite with him in order to destroy the Emperor together and rule the galaxy as a father and son. However, Luke chooses death over being corrupted and throws himself down a deep shaft.
* Luke is sucked into an air vent, exits the underbelly of the city and catches an antenna beneath Cloud City. Facing clear death, Luke calls out to Ben Kenobi in vain, as Kenobi had warned Luke that he would not be able to help Luke once he faced Vader. Then, he calls out to the only other one who could help, Leia.
* Leia senses Luke's distress. The Falcon turns around and comes back to Cloud City. Using an escape hatch, Lando manages to catch Luke and rescue him before the wounded Jedi falls helplessly to the planet as TIE Fighters race toward them. The Falcon finally leaves Bespin's gravitational field and is about to escape into hyperspace when the hyperdrive system again fails, the work of the imperial specialists, as reported by the city computer R2-D2 accessed. Vader asks for confirmation that the *Millennium Falcon*'s hyperdrive system was deactivated to prevent their escape, then orders weapons be set to stun.
* As the Imperials pursue the *Falcon*, the injured Luke telepathically hears the voice of Vader calling to him. He answers, "Father...", while Vader telepathically calls, "Son, come with me". Luke senses it is Vader, then cries, "Ben, why didn't you tell me?"
* C-3PO commands that R2-D2 finish reconstructing him after his ordeal in Cloud City. However, with quick ingenuity, R2 manages to re-activate the *Falcon*'s hyperdrive system just in time for the ship to flee to hyperspace. Vader is disappointed and retreats to his secret quarters in his Star Destroyer, ignoring Piett's failure.

#### 13th

* On a EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate at the Rebel fleet's rendezvous point, Luke is under the care of 2-1B again, which includes the implantation of a prosthetic hand.
* Lando and Chewbacca begin their parts of a most dangerous mission, rescuing Han. Lando promises to Leia they'll bring Solo back. Luke, Leia, and the droids look on as the Falcon departs for unknown territories.

### May

* Ciena's mother is accused of embezzling money from the mine at which she is a supervisor. Ciena knows this is impossible and requests leave to stand with her mother in the tradition of her people. She arrives to find no one standing in support of her mother except Thane. From his perspective, he returns to support her, but also in an effort to get over her. He feels meeting her again will prove to him the Empire has destroyed the good person she was. This turns out not to be the case, though their reunion is strained.
* Thane convinces Ciena to go flying with her like they used to. They do and realize nothing has changed between them, except they are on opposite sides of a war. They return to the fortress, their secret childhood hangout near Thane's parents hangar. There they have a heated exchange and then kiss again.
* Thane tries to recruit her into the Rebellion and fails. Ciena believes that if all the good people leave the Empire then they will be worse off. Thane leaves Jelucan while he can. Ciena's mother is found guilty and sentenced to hard labour. Ciena returns to the fleet after realizing that she could not defend her mother without giving up her career in the Imperial Navy.

### July

* Hank Pym, using his Ant-Man Suit and Janet van Dyne in her Wasp Suit, try to stop a Soviet ICBM from hitting the United States. After finding no way to disarm the missile, Janet turns her suit's regulator off to make herself small enough to enter the missile. Janet managed to turn the missile off, at the cost of shrinking indefinitely into the Quantum Realm, supposedly leading to her death. Due to the loss of Janet, Pym stored his suit in his basement vault in the Pym Residence, and sends his daughter Hope off to boarding school. This causes a strain in their relationship.

## 1988

### April

#### 29th

* Luke Skywalker and company arrive on Tatooine in an attempt to rescue their friend Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt's desert palace.
* R2-D2 and C-3PO arrive with a holographic message from Skywalker asking Jabba to release Solo. In exchange, the two droids are presented as gifts to the crime lord; Luke promises that both are hardworking and that they will serve him well, which Jabba agrees to silently. However, when the message finishes, he states that there will be no bargain and that he won't give up his favorite decoration. The two droids are then sent to their quarters, where EV-9D9 harshly barks at the two when they explain what they can do. 3PO is ordered to be Jabba's interpreter, while R2 is tasked with working on the *Khetanna*.
* That evening, the Max Rebo Band, led by Sy Snootles, entertains the Hutt's guests. Jabba, engaged by the graceful gyrations of his collared slave girl Oola, starts tugging on her chain and commanding her to come to him on his throne. Oola fearfully resists him, and in annoyance, Jabba pushes a button on his throne, and Oola is dropped through a hidden trapdoor at the foot of his throne, into the pit of the Rancor monster, which immediately devours her.

#### 30th

* Later, Princess Leia Organa, in the guise of bounty hunter Boushh, arrives with Chewbacca as her "prisoner" to collect part of the bounty Jabba sought years earlier when he put a price on Solo's head. After much bargaining (including Leia threatening Jabba with a thermal detonator), Jabba settles on a deal, and has Chewbacca imprisoned.
* **Rescue of Han Solo:** That night, Leia releases Han Solo from his carbonite coffin, and after revealing her identity to him, she kisses him. As they prepare to escape, they are caught by Jabba and his thugs. Ignoring Han's pleas, Jabba has the captain thrown in prison with Chewbacca. Although Lando Calrissian (disguised as one of Jabba's prison guards) tries to sneak off with Leia, Jabba stops them and orders a Gamorrean guard to bring Leia to him. Leia warns the Hutt that he will regret capturing the Rebels, but Jabba ignores the threat and licks her face. Leia is forced to become Jabba's newest slave girl, being made to wear a dancing costume and chained to the throne as a trophy.

### May

#### 1st

* Luke arrives at the palace. Jabba and most of his court are asleep, but are awoken by Bib Fortuna who, in trying to impede the Jedi's entrance, is Force-tricked into welcoming him. Leia remains silent beside the Hutt, despite her rising hope at seeing Luke. Luke demands that Jabba release Han and his other friends, but Jabba refuses the young Jedi's offer. Luke uses the Force to pull a nearby blaster and attempts to shoot Jabba, but the Hutt activates the trapdoor to protect himself, dropping the Jedi and an unfortunate guard into the Rancor pit.
* After a battle with the Rancor, Luke ultimately kills the monster by crushing it under the gate of its compound, piercing its neck with the spikes at the bottom of the gate. He is then recaptured and brought up by Jabba's minions. Jabba, furious, chokes Leia until she falls back on his stomach, and orders the prisoners to be brought before him. Luke, Han, and Chewbacca are brought before Jabba, exchanging relief at each other's safety as Leia struggles with Jabba to sit upright before him.
* Using C-3PO as a translator, Jabba sentences Luke and his friends to be taken to the Dune Sea for termination by the man-eating Sarlacc at the Great Pit of Carkoon. Leia is spared from execution since she is Jabba's favorite slave. As Jabba orders the prisoners to be taken away, Luke warns him that he's made his last mistake, at which the Hutt laughs in amusement.
* Jabba, accompanied by Leia and several of his minions, travels to the Pit of Carkoon via his sail barge, while the prisoners are taken on a smaller skiff. En route, R2-D2 is tasked with serving drinks to Jabba's guests, and the Max Rebo band plays music in the background. Jabba allows Leia to climb off his throne and watch her friends from a window. After a while, he gives a tug on her chain, playfully commanding her to come to him. Leia glares back at him and returns to watching, and Jabba chuckles. He later pulls her chain again, this time forcing her to run to him on his throne. Jabba then informs Leia that she will soon learn to appreciate him and makes her drink from his goblet.
* Outside, Luke and his companions (with Lando, still in disguise) discuss their situation. Han, still half-blinded from the side-effects of carbonization, is sure that they are all going to die, and Luke tries to reassure him of their ultimate safety, but Han is not easily convinced. Elsewhere in the Sail Barge, C-3PO literally runs into R2-D2 and knocks over the shorter droid's drink tray. C-3PO laments their friends' imminent deaths, but R2-D2 shows a kind of confidence, which C-3PO doesn't see any reason for.
* When the vehicles ultimately reach the Pit, Jabba has C-3PO announce the group's deaths, but that he is willing to now listen to their pleas. Han calls Jabba names and tells him that he'll not get any pleasure from their pleading, much to the Hutt's amusement, and Luke offers a final chance for Jabba to free him and his friends or die. Jabba and his guests laugh off this last threat and order the execution to commence.

* **Skirmish at the Great Pit of Carkoon:**
	+ Luke gets ushered off of a plank and into the Sarlacc, only to Force-flip up through the air and onto the skiff. Meanwhile, R2-D2 launches Luke's recently built lightsaber from a hidden panel in his housing, and Luke catches it and begins to kill his captors. As Jabba furiously orders his bustling guards and thugs to intervene, C-3PO gets knocked over. Leia looks around, ready to use her false submission to the Hutt to her advantage.
	+ Boba Fett uses his jetpack to fly off of the Barge and land on the skiff as Luke is in the act of freeing Han and Chewbacca. Luke uses his lightsaber to cut Fett's blaster in half, and Chewbacca pushes the bounty hunter onto the deck. Luke then jumps onto another of the accompanying skiffs to fight off the guards and thugs there.
	+ While fighting a guard, Lando accidentally falls off the side of the skiff, and although he manages to hold onto a wire, one of the Sarlacc's tentacles begins to pull him to his death, and Han and Chewbacca have to carefully rescue him. Han accidentally activates Fett's backpack when he turns around and smashes the butt of an axe against it. Fett subsequently flies out of control from the skiff, crashing against the hull of the Barge before falling into the Sarlacc's open mouth, making it belch.
	+ Aboard the Sail Barge, Leia smashes the controls for the Sail Barge's interior lights, throwing it into darkness, and proceeds to strangle Jabba with her chain, killing him, Leia jumps off of the throne and has R2-D2 help break her chain, then heads for the stairs to the top surface of the Sail Barge. Meanwhile, Salacious B. Crumb attacks the fallen C-3PO, and R2-D2 uses the same device he'd freed Leia with to chase the lizard-monkey away. Reaching the surface, the droids jump off the edge of the Sail Barge and land in the Tatooinian sand.
	+ Luke and Leia defeat the remaining guards on the Sail Barge, then Luke has Leia point the guns toward the heart of the vehicle. They prepare to swing from a loose cable on the Barge's sails, and Luke discharges the guns, beginning to destroy the Barge. They swing to their rescue on the land skiff with Han, Lando, and Chewbacca, then use magnets to pick up the two droids from the sand. They all drive off just as the Sail Barge explodes.
* Later, all of the crew (except for Luke and R2-D2) depart Tatooine for the rendezvous point near Sullust, where the Rebel Alliance is assembling, while Luke and R2-D2 head for Dagobah to fulfill a promise to Yoda made some time earlier.
* **Dogfight in the Hudalla system:**
	+ The Galactic Empire suspect a rebel presence surveying them, and send four TIE/IN interceptors to root them out. Admiral Firmus Piett gives Ciena Ree secret orders to let at least one of the Rebels escape. The Rebel pilots notice the approaching starfighters, and begin preparations to jump to hyperspace.
	+ Thane reveals to Nash Windrider that he is alive, enraging the latter, who breaks protocol to kill him.
	+ The TIEs get into range and fire on the X-wings, starting a short dogfight in which one TIE and one X-wing are destroyed. At one point, Ciena has to put herself in front of Commander Nash Windrider in order to fulfill her orders.
* Upon return, Nash is still angry at this reveal,but comforts Cienna, believing she didn't know about his survival. They are both congratulated by Piett, as the dogfight has allowed the Rebels to be drawn into a trap soon after at Endor.
* Ciena sees the second Death Star, and is appalled that a second was made.
* On the Death Star 2, Emperor Palpatine arrives and praises Darth Vader on his efforts in the construction of the Death Star. He also senses that Vader craves the continuation of his search for his son, Luke. The old Sith Lord assures his apprentice that Luke will seek Vader out, that only together would the Sith be able to turn Luke to the dark side of the Force, and that everything was proceeding as Palpatine has foreseen.
* Ciena, having watched this exchange, begins to see the evil of the Empire.

#### 2nd

* Luke and R2-D2 arrive on Dagobah to find a terminally ill Yoda. Luke has returned to complete his Jedi training, but Yoda declares no further training is required. All that remains for Luke is to confront Vader. Yoda then reveals that Vader is indeed his father. The Jedi Master gives one last mention of wisdom to the young Jedi before he dies, disappearing in the way Ben Kenobi did, thereby becoming one with the Force.
* As Luke approaches his X-wing, the spirit form of Obi-Wan confirms that Vader was once Anakin Skywalker, a former Jedi Knight who turned to the dark side of the Force. Kenobi also reveals that Luke has a twin sister, hidden from Luke at birth as protection from the Emperor. Luke senses that his sister is Leia. Kenobi warns Luke to bury his feelings, for they could in time "serve the Emperor."

#### 3rd

* At the rendezvous point near Sullust, the Rebel Alliance gathers to reveal plans to attack the Death Star. As part of the plans, Luke, Leia, Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, and a strike team must penetrate the deflector shield generator on the forest moon of Endor in order to deactivate the shield if the Rebel fleet is to attack the Death Star.
* However, upon their approach, Vader can sense that his son is with them, and allows them to land on the planet. Luke senses his father as well and begins to believe that he would endanger the mission by coming.
* The strike team lands on Endor only to be discovered by Imperial scout troopers. A speeder bike chase ensues, only for Leia to be thrown off her speeder and knocked unconscious. Luke and Han discover Leia's helmet, then they, with Chewbacca and the droids, try to find her. Leia is awakened by one of Endor's forest creatures, an Ewok named Wicket W. Warrick. Suddenly, another scout trooper discovers Leia, but Wicket does away with the trooper before rescuing Leia.
* Luke, Han, Chewbacca, and the droids, meanwhile, fall into a trap set by the Ewoks. R2-D2 cuts open the net setting them free, but the Ewok tribe discovers C-3PO and proclaims him to be their god. The droid's Human and Wookiee friends are taken prisoner, and the Ewoks proclaim Han to be the main course in a banquet in C-3PO's honor. Discovered by Leia, Luke then uses the Force to levitate C-3PO to show off his "great magic." Convinced of the Rebels' good intentions, the Ewoks set them free and later that evening make them "part of the tribe," thereby agreeing to join the fight against the Empire.
* Luke decides the time has come to leave Endor and face Darth Vader. Leia follows Luke out of the tribal gathering, whereupon he tells her that Vader is his father and she is his sister. Leia is rendered utterly shocked, but accepts the truth. She is comforted by Han Solo.
* Vader arrives in his shuttle on a docking bay, and Luke, having already surrendered to the Empire, talks with Vader in an attempt to bring the Sith Lord out of the dark side of the Force, but to no avail. The Empire takes Luke into custody for transportation to the Death Star.

#### 4th

the Rebels attempt to locate the shield generator, and the Rebel fleet enters hyperspace from Sullust to prepare for the final attack. Luke and Vader finally enter the Death Star and confront the Emperor, who looks forward to completing Luke's training and believes that while Vader would never turn from the dark side, neither would Luke. He also reveals that it was he who coordinated the Rebels finding the secret plans and locating the shield generator so that the Alliance can fall into a trap of Palpatine's devising.

### **The Battle of Endor begins**

The Rebels enter the heart of the shield generator, only to be taken prisoner by the Imperial forces. The fleet emerges from hyperspace for the battle, but discovers the shield is still up. As they contemplate their options, the Imperial fleet, which they were led to believe was away, appears and an intense battle begins. Han and the strike team are led out of the bunker by the stormtroopers, but the droids and the Ewoks have already orchestrated the attack on the Empire, and another intense battle commences with the Rebels and Ewoks on one side, the Empire on another. The Emperor shows Luke the full power of the Death Star as the station, now fully operational, destroys one of the Alliance's ships. Meanwhile, on Endor, the battle continues, with casualties (Rebel, stormtrooper, and Ewok) already mounting. Eventually, Han, Leia, and Chewbacca gain access to the bunker.

### **Duel between father and son**

Back on the Death Star, Luke, with the encouragement of Darth Sidious, lashes out at him with his lightsaber, only to be deflected by Vader, and the final duel between father and son begins. As Luke climbs onto a balcony, Vader throws his lightsaber at his son. It misses Luke and knocks the balcony down, taking Luke with it. Vader stalks for a hidden Luke to let down his guard, while quietly sensing within his son's mind that Luke has a sister. Vader threatens to turn her to the dark side if Luke will not, prompting Luke to respond viciously in intense saber fighting, up to the point where Luke strikes off Vader's right mechanical hand. Sidious betrays Vader by encouraging Luke to take his father's place at his side (similar to how Sidious betrayed his former apprentice, Count Dooku, and had him killed by Anakin 23 years ago), but Luke controls his anger and throws his lightsaber aside. He declares himself to be a Jedi Knight like his father Anakin had been before he turned over to the dark side into Darth Vader.

### **Anakin's choice**

Han, Leia, and Chewbacca escape from the bunker just in time for its destruction, thus bringing down the shield. The Alliance is now free to attack the half-completed Death Star. On the Death Star, the enraged Emperor declares that if Luke will not turn to the dark side, he will be destroyed, and uses Force lightning against the young Jedi. He revels in torturing Luke by slowly increasing the intensity of the lightning. Luke then cries out to his father to help him. As the Emperor prepares to deliver the killing bolts, Vader prepares to make a choice; he looks at Luke and then the Emperor, conflicted whether to save his son or to continue serving his master.

Moved by his son's cries for help and unwilling to see him die, Vader turns back into the light side as Anakin and lifts the Emperor into the air, carries him over and throws him into the Death Star's reactor shaft, killing him. However, in the process, Anakin is struck by the Emperor's force lightning, which enters his organic remains, striking his life support system and his respirator, mortally wounding him. The *Millennium Falcon* and its remaining Rebel fighters enter the bowels of the Death Star, and some fighters engage in a point-blank attack on the Super Star Destroyer, causing the Imperial flagship's destruction.

### **Anakin Skywalker's Death**

"*No, you're coming with me. I'll not leave you here. I've got to save you"."* *"*You already have, Luke. You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister you were right.*"*
―Luke and Anakin, in the moments before Anakin's death**[src]**
* On the Death Star, in the middle of the evacuation, Luke carries his father's ravaged body to the foot of an Imperial shuttle's ramp. Anakin stops Luke and asks him to remove his mask so that he can look upon the face of his son, just for once, with his "own eyes".
* Luke removes the mask and sees the face of his father for the first time. Anakin's face is revealed to have turned pale white and scaly, and his head retains some vicious scars after 23 years from his duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi in Episode III: *Revenge of the Sith*.
* Anakin tells Luke that his son was right—he did have good left in him, and asks him to tell his sister the same. With that, Anakin Skywalker, the redeemed Jedi Knight, smiles at his son and dies peacefully. Luke bows his head in sadness.
* The *Millennium Falcon* and its strike force (in the last Rebel fighter inside) reach the Death Star's main reactor and fire concussion missiles and proton torpedoes at it, causing it to collapse. Luke escapes the Death Star with his father's body and flies out through the flames, as do Wedge Antilles and the *Millennium Falcon* before the Death Star explodes.
* Seeing the destruction from above, Han senses Leia's love for Luke. He offers to step aside when Luke arrives, but she tells Han that Luke is her brother. After a moment of speechless surprise, Han and Leia engage in a kiss.
* That evening in Endor, Luke sets a funeral pyre ablaze to cremate the body of his father, still encased in Darth Vader's outfit, as per the Jedi funeral rite. His father's organic body becomes one with the Force. Through the midst of the rising flames and fireworks, Rebel fighters streak across the sky in celebration of one of the greatest Rebel victories in the Galactic Civil War.
* The planets Bespin, Tatooine, Naboo, Utapau and Coruscant also celebrate. Luke is reunited with his companions Han, Lando, the droids, Chewbacca, the surviving Rebel fleet, the Ewoks, and his sister Leia. Luke then catches sight of the Force ghosts of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and a redeemed Anakin Skywalker. Luke is pleased: not only is he now a Jedi, but his father is once again on the light side of the Force. Leia takes Luke by the hand, and they rejoin their friends and colleagues as the spirit ghosts of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin look on with pride.

### July

#### 2nd

* Daisy Johnson is born to Calvin Johnson and Jiaying in a small Chinese village in the Hunan Province.

#### 20th

* *Die Hard* is released in the United States of America.

### November

* **Kidnapping of Peter Quill**: Meredith Quill dies from terminal illness. Her son, Peter Quill, flees from the hospital in sadness only to be abducted by the Ravagers.

## 1989

### January

* Twins Pietro and Wanda Maximoff are born in Sokovia.

#### 20th

* Ronald Reagan leaves the office of President of the United States as George H W. Bush is sworn in.

### March

* After serving 44 years of his life sentence in the Rat, Werner Reinhardt is set free by Alexander Pierce and is brought to his old base in Austria by a group of HYDRA Operatives. After noticing Jiaying had not aged in all these years, he experiments on her body, trying to discover what made her special. Reinhardt changes his name to Daniel Whitehall and loses his German accent. Calvin Johnson finds Jaiying in a forest. Johnson refuses to allow his beloved wife to die and puts her body back together by using his medical skills.

### April

#### 24th

* **Attack on Wakanda**: Using information provided by N'Jobu, who has become radicalized during his time on a War Dogs assignment in Oakland, California, black market arms dealer Ulysses Klaue enters the hidden kingdom of Wakanda in East Africa and steals a large amount of vibranium. He causes damage to their protective dome and becomes the first person in the country's history to escape.

### June

#### 13th

* Hank Pym resigns from S.H.I.E.L.D., after discovering that the organization attempted to replicate his technology.

#### 19th

* Nick Fury takes a desk job as the Cold War draws to a close, after fighting in Belfast, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Budapest. He starts working to try to figure out where future enemies might come from.

#### 22nd

* Yon-Rogg crashes Wendy Lawson and Carol Danvers' jets. Wendy reveals her secret to Danvers before dying, who destroys the jet engine housing energy from the Tesseract, initially meant for the Skrulls.

#### 23rd

* Yon-Rogg gives Carol Danvers a blood transfusion using his Kree blood. Knowing Danvers does not remember her past, the Kree put a Photon Inhibitor in her neck and decide to claim the device in her neck is a gift they have given her that in fact provides her with the powers, unique among Kree. They choose to train her for Starforce as "Vers", and utilize her powers in their war against the Skrulls.

### November

#### 22nd

* *Back to the Future Part II* is released