If you could establish a new means of reckoning years in the SW EU, how would you go about it?
For a very long time, we've been adhering to the BBY/ABY standard--Before the Battle of Yavin and After the Battle of Yavin. A somewhat arbitrary selection IMO, but it's been the standard for so long that we're all used to it.
But increasingly in recent years there's been new calendars introduced in the SW universe. With the "thousand years of peace" goof in Episode II, EU writers were forced to write in the Ruusan Reformation and its own peculiar calendar a beginning a thousand years before the more accepted BBY system
Increasingly as the Clone Wars multimedia project goes on, Wookieepedia in particular has been embracing the so-called "ABG" calendar; After the Battle of Geonosis. This of course puts a lot of emphasis on the outbreak of the Clone Wars, and perhaps rightly so as their conclusion meant the end of the Republic.
And then there's the Great ReSynchronization calendar which has only appeared in a couple of places.
So I put it out there to you guys and gals, what do you think? Would you go with one of the existing calendars as the be-all-end-all of SW EU calendars? Would you be interested in seeing a dating calendar beginning with the foundation of the Republic c. 25,000 years ago? Or perhaps one pertaining to the first Jedi/Sith schism?
My inclination is actually to take a tack similar to the real-world BC/AD calendar, but to have Anakin Skywalker as the central figure. He's just such a key and important figure in the 'modern' context of the galactic struggle between Jedi and Sith, Republic and Empire.
For a very long time, we've been adhering to the BBY/ABY standard--Before the Battle of Yavin and After the Battle of Yavin. A somewhat arbitrary selection IMO, but it's been the standard for so long that we're all used to it.
But increasingly in recent years there's been new calendars introduced in the SW universe. With the "thousand years of peace" goof in Episode II, EU writers were forced to write in the Ruusan Reformation and its own peculiar calendar a beginning a thousand years before the more accepted BBY system
Increasingly as the Clone Wars multimedia project goes on, Wookieepedia in particular has been embracing the so-called "ABG" calendar; After the Battle of Geonosis. This of course puts a lot of emphasis on the outbreak of the Clone Wars, and perhaps rightly so as their conclusion meant the end of the Republic.
And then there's the Great ReSynchronization calendar which has only appeared in a couple of places.
So I put it out there to you guys and gals, what do you think? Would you go with one of the existing calendars as the be-all-end-all of SW EU calendars? Would you be interested in seeing a dating calendar beginning with the foundation of the Republic c. 25,000 years ago? Or perhaps one pertaining to the first Jedi/Sith schism?
My inclination is actually to take a tack similar to the real-world BC/AD calendar, but to have Anakin Skywalker as the central figure. He's just such a key and important figure in the 'modern' context of the galactic struggle between Jedi and Sith, Republic and Empire.
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