DuracellEnergizer said:

xhonzi said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

xhonzi said:
What claims that the Empire was around for 40 years at the time of ANH?

I think Zahn implies such a date in the Thrawn trilogy. It's a wonky timeline, but I do think it can be made to work with what's stated in the OT if you assume the Republic and the Empire were actually seperate entities that co-existed at some point in the past.

Hmm... any clarification on this would be great.

I looked through Heir to the Empire, and it mentions on the first page that Pellaeon has spent fifty years up to that point in the Imperial fleet. Heir takes place nine years after SW, so that indicates the Empire's been around since 41 BBY at the latest according to the book.

Hmm... (again)

That seems to me to be an extremely odd thing. What are the chances that Zahn meant that Pellaeon had served the "empire" for 28 years and "the organization that wasn't the empire but all of the republic soldiers and sailors were told that it was the same Navy pre-empire and post-empire and so they were still enlisted and since it was the same Navy then as it is now and since it's now the Imperial Navy it must have been the Imperial Navy then as well even though no one ever called it that ever because what they used to call it was the Republic Navy because that's what it was and in fact it really was really different now that it's the Imperial Navy but no one says that because saying something like that in the Imperial Navy could get you killed even though you could have said something like that in the Republic Navy without worrying about it which is proof of the difference the difference that shall not be mentioned" for 22 years- therefore 50 years?