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The Great ReSynchronization
I hate it when good epics are marred when they can't get their timelines right - and I'm not even talking about stuff like Sliders or Star Trek which has funky time-travel screwing up dates and stuff. No, regular stuff like Nancy Drew - look, she solves 124,395,999 crimes a year? How else could you account for the number of cases she's solved while she was "an 18 year old strawberry blonde"? This timeline thing is not an uncommon problem.
Which is why I love it when fans try to get it right, and they DO get it right:
When the Prequel trilogy was released, beginning with The Phantom Menace in 1999, Lucasfilm made it clear that the film took place 32 years before the events of A New Hope, thus invalidating the idea that their dates were counting from Palpatine's rise to power (although coincidentally, the origin of the calendar was only 3 years before when he was elected Supreme Chancellor of the Republic). The Great Resynchronization was created as an explanation within the Star Wars setting to account for the earlier calendar references, without discounting them. The calendar created by the Great Resynchronization would last only 60 years (out of the roughly 25,000 years of recorded Galactic history), before the New Republic again reset the calendar in Galactic Year 60, this time placing the "Year 0" mark at the Battle of Yavin, which is the point in Star Wars history when fandom and Lucasfilm generally counts dates in real life, thus bringing the Dates in Star Wars used in the fiction and real life into the same scale. (I know, geeky.)
[The Great ReSynchronization]
Sngs Alumni @ 26.10.05 { 0 comments }
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