18 BSW4
Dewlanna, a Wookiee, is recruited into the Shrike clan as cook, along with her exiled mate
Isshaddik (killed just over a year later during a run to Nar Hekka). Meeting young Han Solo, she reveals to
him his last name, which she learned from a drunk Shrike. The young man secretly begins to
educate himself, with Dewlanna's help.
"SW: The Paradise Snare."
Mara Jade is born.
Conjecture.
Imperial Senator Garm Bel Iblis visits a convocation at the school on Corellia that 11 year old
Han Solo is attending. Solo asks Iblis several pointed questions about anti-alien bias and
corruption in the Imperial Senate. Iblis begins covertly following the boy's career from this
point on.
"SW: Dark Force Rising."
Baron Orman Tagge proposes a new administration, the Corporate Sector Authority, to control
the Corporate Sector and make it into an economic center for the Empire. After a week-long
conference on Aargau with the League, the Corporate Sector Charter is presented to Emperor
Palpatine -- who to the surprise of the Imperial court approves it in return for 20% of all profits
going into his pocket and Imperial military buildup.
"SW RPG Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook."
Padme Skywalker dies, either dying from a genetic flaw or possibly murdered by Darth Vader or Emperor Palpatine. Upon her death, Emperor Palpatine orders all mentions of her, her planet, and her now extinct race (and thus almost all mentions of his pre-Emperor past) be erased from all galactic records and libraries.
SW VI. Leia said she had died when Leia was young. Leia was old enough to remember that she
was "beautiful, kind...but sad," so I conjecture she was two at the time.
17 BSW4
Mora, the newborn Princess of M'Haeli, is the sole surviving member of the royal family after an
attack on her world by the Empire. Unbeknowest to the planet's new Imperial rulers, the child is
found and raised by the H'drachi Ch'no.
"SW: River of Chaos."
A mob hired by the Empire storms the royal palace of Velmor and murders the King and Queen.
The youngest son, Anod, was an Imperial sympathizer and thus not harmed. The older son,
Prince Denid, flees Velmor with his fiance Loren and an alien protector named Jedidiah to an
unnamed jungle planet. The crash landing kills Loren and leaves Jedidiah brain damaged.
Denid sets an automatic distress beacon and learns to survive on the jungle planet.
The Marvel Series, Issue #49.
Akanah Pell's mother Talsava abandons her on Carratos.
"SW: Shield of Lies."
Cray Mingla is born.
"SW: Children of the Jedi."
16 BSW4
The father of Bothan Koth Melan is executed on trumped-up charges of espionage. This ironically turns his son into an anti-Imperial spy, who delivers information to various rebel cells.
"SW: Shadows of the Empire" and "The SW Encyclopedia."
(future murderer, pirate, and slaver) Faarl the Conqueror, AKA "The Child Conqueror" is born on Korlings.
"SW RPG: Wanted by Cracken."
As a member of the Organa family's entourage, C3P0 attends the annual Emperor's Ball on
Coruscant. There, he meets and talks with Darth Vader, mistaking him for a new type of
Guraddroid. Thanks to that mistake, he then spends the next year as a preschool teacher.
Conjecture from "SW RPG Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook," with thanks to Michael Potts.
15 BSW4
As the Empire's true nature becomes more apparent, several splinter groups begin to rebel
against the New Order. One cell is led by Imperial Senator Garm Bel Iblis, another by fellow
Clone Wars veteran Jan Dodonna, another by Senior Senator Mon Mothma. Others, such as "Freedom's Sons" and a freelancer named Cody Sunn-Childe, begins attacking the Imperials outright. Sunn-Childe's exploits inspire many, including a young Lando Calrissian. He mysteriously vanishes after one adventure.
Conjecture and The Marvel Series, Issue #46.
Zorba the Hutt is arrested and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on the prison world Kip.
"The SW Encyclopedia."
Thrawn graduates from the Imperial Academy of Carida.
Conjecture from "SW: Specter of the Past," assuming a 4-year curriculum for Academy students.
Darth Vader kills the Jedi Knight Aidan Bok on the space station Nespis VIII and destroys the
library of Jedi lore Bok was protecting.
"Galaxy of Fear: Ghost of the Jedi."
Vuffi Raa and his archaeologist master (The one before Lando) lands on Renatasia, a planet
long cut off from the rest of the galaxy. Disguised as a human, Vuffi joins the master as
representatives of the Empire. They spend the next 700 days gradually updating Renatasian
civilization. On the 701'st day, the Imperial fleet arrives -- and the people rebel against the
sudden crackdown on freedoms and rights. The resultant "pacification" wipes out 2/3'rds of the
planet. The whole "incident" is covered up, and the Fleet abandons Renatasia as hopeless.
"SW: Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon."
After four years of self-imposed exile, Mammon Hoole asks Jabba the Hutt to erase all records
of him. He starts life again as an anthropologist.
"Galaxy of Fear: Army of Terror."
Several worlds declare rebellion openly. The revolts are brutally stopped, but serve to
galvanize other would-be Rebels.
The SW Roleplaying Game.
Qwi Xux is born on Omwat.
"SW: Jedi Search" and "SW Jedi Academy Sourcebook."
14 BSW4
Bail Organa takes six-year-old Leia to the Time of Meeting on Ithor, a holiday where the
herd-ships of the Ithorian race gather for a brief time.
"SW: Children of the Jedi."
Young Luke Skywalker unconsciously uses the Force for the first time, to find Aunt Beru's
stitching mender-fixing screwdriver. He later recalls Uncle Owen's reaction as "The worst
yelling-at I ever got in my life."
"SW: Children of the Jedi."
(future) Imperial Corporal Terkuss is born on Plesstil.
"SW RPG Dark Force Rising Sourcebook."
The future Duchess Mistal is born on Dargul.
"SW RPG Jedi Academy Sourcebook."
The Empire takes over the Dushkan League in the Koornacht Cluster. They build a shipyard at
N'Zoth and uses the Yevethans as slave labor.
"SW: Before the Storm."
Tendra Risant, (future wife of Lando Calrissian?), is born on Secorria.
"SW: Ambush on Corellia."
Teroenza establishes the first Ylesian colony, a spice slave camp disguised as a religious
retreat.
"SW: The Paradise Snare." He said it had been in place "nearly five years."
13 BSW4
Tash Arranda is born on Alderaan.
"Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders."
Zeth Durron is born on Deyer.
"SW: Dark Apprentice."
After several years of secret construction, Emperor Palpatine opens his private resort world of Byss, near the center of the galaxy. Luring unsuspecting people (19.7 billion as of 10 ASW4) with promises of a 'paradise,' he begins to ruthlessly feed upon those people's life-energies to help power his own Dark Side power.
A nice little bit of conjecture from MP, based on "SW RPG Dark Empire Sourcebook."
Jem Brogan is born on Ossus.
"Dark Empire II."
12 BSW4
Zak Arranda is born on Alderaan.
"Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders."
Escaping briefly from Shrike, Han Solo meets his aunt Tiion and cousin Thracken. After six
weeks of being jerked around, Han finally forces some information on his family out of
Thracken -- which amounts to next to nothing. The vindictive young Thracken locks his cousin
up for days, then sells him right back to Shrike.
"SW: The Paradise Snare." This happened one year before the swoop race.
Teneniel Djo, future heir to the throne of Hapes (and mother of Tenel Ka) is born on Dathomir.
"SW: The Courtship of Princess Leia."
Leonia Tavira is born. She will later become the youngest Moff (at 16) in history.
"SW: I, Jedi."
After getting caught cheating at cards on Jubilar, 17-year old Han Solo is forced to participate
at the Gladitorial All-Human Free-For-All. Boba Fett (on assignment to Jabba to kill Hallolar Voors) is in the crowd when Solo narrowly defeats three men. The injured young man is promptly beaten to the brink of death by the enraged Garris Shrike. Han starts looking for a way -- any way -- out of the Shrike gang.
"SW: The Paradise Snare" and "SW: Tales of the Bounty Hunters."
The second Ylesian colony is built.
"SW: The Paradise Snare."
11 BSW4
Bria Tharen joins the Ylesian colony.
"SW: The Paradise Snare."
Ghent, future associate of Talon Karrde (and slicer expert) is born on Baroli.
"SW RPG Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook," mentioned by Michael Potts.
A teenage Han Solo and Dengar participate in a swoop race through the crystal swamps of
Agrilat (on Corellia). Solo wins, greviously wounding Dengar in the process. Imperial doctors wire Dengar
with cybernetic parts and begin training him to be an assassin. Han goes on to win the swoop racing championship of the entire Corellian system.
"SW: The Paradise Snare" and "Tales of the Bounty Hunters."
Dev Sibwarra is born on Chandrila.
"SW: The Truce at Bakura."
18 year old Soontir Fel, shortly after helping send his employers' children to jail, is forced into
the Imperial Academy of Carida by them.
"X-Wing Rogue Squadron: The Making of Baron Fel."
10 BSW4
"The Paradise Snare."
Nineteen year old Han Solo finally escapes Garris Shrike's ship the Trader Luck, but
unfortunately at the cost of Dewlanna's life. Stowing away aboard the drone ship Ylesian Dream, he passes
himself off as a pilot when he reaches Ylesia, a so-called religious retreat/glitterstim spice mine run by Teroenza and Zavval the Hutt (who takes his orders from Aruk). Under the alias Vykk Draygo, Han befriends Muuurgh, a Togorian, and Bria Tharen, a young woman working in the mines. Practicing his
piloting, Han starts hauling glitterstim spce for Teroenza, learning how to fight off pirates at the
same time. (During this, he travels to Alderaan for the first time, where he learns first hand you CAN'T sell spice on Alderaan. He also meets Aryn Dro and Bornan Thul.)
Han gradually catches on to the fact that the colony is a concentration camp, handing out
"Exultations" like drugs. He manages to pull Bria from the mines, and begins to fall in love with
her. Revealing the truth about the colony to Muuurgh and Bria, and rescuing Muuurgh's love
Mrrov from the mines, Han escapes Ylesia, killing Zavval, stealing Teroenza's art collection and blowing up the glitterstim factory. They travel to Togoria for Muuurgh and Mrrov's wedding. They continue on to Corellia and Bria's family, with Bria suffering from Exultation withdrawl. Needless to say, the family doesn't welcome Bria's new lover with open arms. Then on to Coruscant, where Han begins preparations to join the Imperial Academy. Thanks to the Hutts, Han barely avoids arrest at the Imperial bank. But far worse than this, Bria leaves him, unable to deal with her addiction and her love for him both. She does leave Han a sizable loan from her father to go on with.Torn apart by this, Han continues on to the Academy. Just as he's accepted and about to begin classes -- Garris Shrike catches up to him at last, seeking a bounty from the Hutts. Shrike is killed by another bounty hunter who has also come for Solo. In a desperate fight, Han kills the bounty hunter. He officially becomes a cadet in the Imperial Navy.
(NOVEL -- Bantam Books -- Ann Crispin -- July 1997)
Gavin Darklighter (cousin of Biggs) is born on Tatooine.
"SW: X-Wing Rogue Squadron."
A small, independant smuggling group led by a Captain Hoffner accidently stumbles onto the
Katana fleet. Amongst it's crew is navigator\sensor specialist Talon Karrde, who immediately
recognizes the find.
"SW: Dark Force Rising."
Chewbacca is captured and made a slave of the Empire.
"The SW Encyclopedia."
Syal Antilles abandons her family and becomes the actress "Wyssna Starflare."
"X-Wing Rogue Squadron: Masquerade."
Daala, a female Imperial tactician chafing under the Empire's prejudice towards women,
creates a computer network alter ego to transmit her ideas and tactics through the Imperial
fleet. Her work attracts the attention of Moff Willhuf Tarkin, who meets her on Carida. She is
reassigned to Tarkin's personal staff and begins to rise in the ranks. She also becomes Tarkin's
mistress.
"SW RPG Jedi Academy Sourcebook."
9 BSW4
Botanist Klorr Vilia and Ithorian botanist Zorneth invent savorium, an herb that causes profound, and permanent, euphoria. After Vilia is rendered insensible by the herb, Zorneth sets out to experiment with savorium, and finds it works on almost all aliens. But the herb-takers -- "Smilers" -- prove too accomodating, and are used as slave labor by others. An assistant steals some savorium and puts it on the black market, and Smilers start showing up everywhere. He starts experimenting with savorium-laced Thookan meat to try and promote galactic peace.
"Droids: Season of Revolt."
8 BSW4
Emperor Palpatine becomes terminally ill, as age and the effects of the Dark Side catch up with
him. But the killing of Jedi Master Ashka Boda reveals a Holocron, and a way for Palpatine to
cheat death by transferring his consciousness into a clone of his former self. Palpatine does this
for the first time (on Korriban?).
Conjecture from "SW: Dark Empire," assuming a clone body lasts about 4 years before decaying.
It would also explain the Emperor's different appearance in "The Empire Strikes Back."
The rapid decay of Palpatine's clones could also be attributed to the genetic flaw of his race, as
rumored in Episode One.
An unknown man (possibly Ben Kenobi) leaves a newborn orphan within The Lost City of the Jedi, an underground city on Yavin IV. The young Jedi Prince, Ken, is brought up entirely by droids. Or maybe not. Depends whether you consider the Davids' young adult novels to be canon or not.
7 BSW4
Darth Vader develops a biological weapon which accidently gets out and infects the Falleen
populace. To protect the Empire from the virus, Darth Vader orders a bombardment of the
planet. Over 200,000 Falleen die, including the entire family of Prince Xizor (except for his
niece), who was away on Black Sun (a criminal syndicate) business at the time. Xizor vows
revenge against the Dark Lord.
"Shadows of the Empire" and "Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook."
Soontir Fel graduates from the Imperial Academy of Carida. He is assigned to the Dreadnaught
Abrogator.
"X-Wing Rogue Squadron: In the Empire's Service" and "X-Wing Rogue Squadron: The Making of
Baron Fel."
Wrenga Jixton, an agent involved in the Falleen disaster, is court-martialed and sent to the
spice mines of Kessel. Eventually he escapes, and hides out on Aridus.
"Shadow Stalker."
Kyp Durron is born on the Deyer colony of the Anoat system.
"SW RPG Jedi Academy Sourcebook."
Under circumstances as yet unknown, Cadet Han Solo gains a rare honor -- a Corellian
Bloodstripe.
Conjecture from "SW: The Hutt Gambit."
Also at the Academy, Han Solo's friend and fellow cadet, Mako Spince, is expelled after a
prank results in the destruction of the Academy's mascot moon.
"SW: Dark Empire."
Belindi Kalenda is born.
"SW: Ambush at Corellia."
6 BSW4
Han Solo graduates from the Imperial Academy of Carida and enters the Imperial Navy.
"SW: The Hutt Gambit."
Lola Hask, a student at the Imperial Academy of Carida, is expelled for grifting. He returns to
his homeworld in time to see his criminal father executed in front of the people. Hask buys a
small freighter with his father's ill-gotten money and becomes a pirate.
"X-Wing Rogue Squadron Handbook."
Moff Kentor Sarne is assigned to the Kathol sector.
"SW RPG: The DarkStryder Campaign."
Incom Corp. is nationalized by the Empire. At the time, it's newest starfighter, the X-Wing, is in prototype stage. A rebel group helps Incom's entire senior staff escape the Empire, along with the blueprints and prototypes of the X-Wing. Development of the vessel continues.
Conjecture from "SW RPG Sourcebook." The E-Wing, shown in the "X-Wing Rogue Squadron" comic book, was not made operational for another six years, so this seems a reasonable amount of time.
Guri, a Human Replica Droid, is designed and constructed to serve as the personal aide of
Prince Xizor.
"SW: Shadows of the Empire."
