I haven't yet come up with a cohesive storyline for my new PT rewrite yet, but I do have a timeline for my personal Star Wars universe written up that - I hope - provides a clear picture of where I plan to go with my rewrite. If, after reading the timeline, you're still unclear as to what I'm driving towards, go ahead and ask for me for clarification, and I'll try my best to make things make sense.
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7,500,000,000+ BBY
The universe is created via the Big Bang.
The Galaxy is formed.
7,500,000,000 BBY
The Yavin System is formed.
2,000,000 BBY
Wookiees begin to evolve on Kashyyyk.
1,000,000+ BBY
Humans settle on Coruscant.
1,000,000 BBY
The Hutts evolve on Varl.
200,000 BBY
After a climactic battle, the near-human Taungs take over the planet Coruscant.
100,000 BBY
The Sith species begins to develop on Korriban.
36,500 BBY
Around this time, the energy field created by all living things, the Force, is "discovered" on the planet Tython.
28,300 BBY
Around this time, the future Sith ruler Adas is born.
28,000 BBY
The Sith warlord Adas becomes the first (and only) monarch of the entire Sith species when he uses his military prowess and Force-based sorcery to unite the various Sith nations on Korriban into one society.
27,700 BBY
During the reign of King Adas, the delegates of an offworld empire come to Korriban. The aliens try to gain King Adas' favour by teaching him how to record information in a pyramid-shaped device called a "holocron", but they soon reveal their true colours and try to conquer the Sith society. King Adas leads the Sith against the invaders, defeating them, but he dies in the process. His holocron passes into the hands of his second-in-command, but without King Adas' personal influence, Sith society again breaks down, reverting to its previous disunited state.
27,500 BBY
Humans colonize Alderaan.
The Magi, a priesthood of Sith sorcerers in league with evil deities known as the Immortal Gods, rise to power on Korriban, establishing a brutal theocracy over the Sith species. Their reign on Korriban will last several millennia, coming to an end only with the arrival of the Jedi exiles from the Second Great Schism.
25,793 BBY
Around this time, Force-users on Tython who have learned to harness a positive energy (the light side of the Force) that they call "Ashla" engage in the Force Wars against those who would use a negative energy (the dark side of the Force) called "Bogan" to attain personal power. In the wake of the Force Wars on Tython, the followers of the light side will form the monastic warrior society known as the Jedi Order. Its warriors, as they spread throughout the galaxy to aid other cultures, will become known as Jedi Knights.
25,100 BBY
According to some accounts, a heretofore unknown alien race, the original inventors of hyperdrive technology, enters the Corellian system and sells the hyperdrive technology to the Corellians.
25,000 BBY
The Old Republic is formed.
Basic becomes the galactic standard language.
Alderaan becomes an early member of the Old Republic.
The Taung relocate from Coruscant to the planet Roon.
25,000-24,000 BBY
The Jedi begin receiving funds from the Republic Senate in return for their rather autonomous services.
24,500 BBY
A single Jedi, Xendor, falls to the dark side. He gathers like-minded Jedi, followers of the dark side of the Force, and creates the Legions of Lettow. The Lettow legions wage war against the Jedi Order in a conflict that will come to be called the First Great Schism.
15,000 BBY
The Hutts take over Evocar and rename it Nal Hutta. This move takes place after their original homeworld, Varl, is devastated.
7,003 BBY
A group of fallen Jedi (Dark Jedi) declare themselves free of the Jedi Creed and break away from the Jedi Order. They will spend the next three years in hiding, studying the dark side. This event comes to be known as the Second Great Schism.
7,000 BBY
The Taung who relocated from Coruscant to the planet Roon now relocate again to the planet Mandalore, which they name as such in honour of their first great leader, Mandalore the First. This culture will come to be known as the Mandalorian culture, and all future leaders will bear the title of "Mandalore" or "Lord Mandalore".
The group of Dark Jedi, who have been hiding their delving into the dark side and studying in secret since the Second Great Schism three years earlier, discover that the Force can be used to bend and manipulate life itself in twisted ways. This pioneers the science of Sith alchemy. They finally dare to emerge en masse. This erupts into a conflict between the light side Jedi and the dark side Jedi that comes to be known as the Hundred-Year Darkness.
6,913 BBY
The first archaic lightsabers are created.
6,900 BBY
The Hundred-Year Darkness ends with a climactic battle on Cobros, where the Dark Jedi are nearly wiped out, along with most of the life on the planet. Those who survive are exiled from the Republic. Many of the Dark Jedi who were exiled after the Second Great Schism discover the primitive Sith species ruled over by the Sith Magi on Korriban. According to Sith lore, the Immortal Gods, seeing the new arrivals as more worthy of their favour, choose to abandon the Magi for these invaders. The exiles triumph over the Magi and come to rule the species as the "Lords of the Sith", and create the vast Sith Empire far from the Republic.
6,000 BBY
Having expanded as far as it can without venturing close enough to Republic space to be noticed and repelled, the Sith Empire stops expanding, and power struggles begin amongst the Sith Lords and their followers. This cycle will continue for one thousand years, as the Sith Lords drive the Sith Empire toward internal collapse.
5,689 BBY
The lightsaber replaces Force-augmented swords as the weapon of choice among the Jedi.
5,100 BBY
Marka Ragnos is declared Dark Lord of the Sith.
5,020 BBY
Gav and Jori Daragon are born on Cinnagar.
5,002 BBY
Gav and Jori Daragon decline Jedi training, preferring instead to continue working with their parents as hyperspace navigators.
5,000 BBY
Marka Ragnos dies.
Gav and Jori Daragon make first contact with the Sith Empire.
Naga Sadow is crowned the new Dark Lord of the Sith.
The Great Hyperspace War occurs.
Naga Sadow is exiled from the Sith Empire, and escapes to Yavin 4 with his Massassi followers.
In the wake of the Great Hyperspace War, the Sith Empire quickly begins to collapse, fragmenting into several warring factions.
The Jedi Order is given land on Coruscant. They are expected to create a fortress there in case invaders ever reach Coruscant again. A simple training centre which will one day grow into the great Jedi Temple is constructed over a Force nexus.
The planet Tatooine is discovered by the Republic.
4,988-4,954 BBY
Fugitive Dark Jedi and other darksiders flee to Sith space, establishing themselves as warlords and lieutenants within the various Sith factions.
4,904 BBY
The fragmented Sith Empire, compromised by struggles with the Republic, infighting, and the invasion of outside criminal enterprises, completely collapses. The few Sith Lords who survive the collapse escape to remote worlds. There they store their tomes and talismans of dark power in hidden caches, hoping that a future generation of dark side devotees will one day uncover the artifacts and use them to resurrect the Sith Empire.
The Jedi begin combing the fallen Sith Empire for Sith artifacts and temples. Most of those the Jedi uncover are destroyed, but a small few are preserved in the hopes that insights into the mysteries of Sith magic can be made, that weaknesses can found, so that if the Sith ever return to resurrect their fallen Empire, they can be soundly resisted and defeated.
4,800 BBY
Lightsaber technology is refined; external power packs and cords are replaced with small internal power cells.
4,674 BBY
The entire Sith species, inexplicably and without warning, disappears from the galaxy. The Jedi quickly launch an investigation, but no trace or clue as to their fate is ever uncovered. Some individuals come to believe that the Immortal Gods of the Sith, upset that their worshippers had all but abandoned them following the fall of the Sith Empire, decided to exact retribution, and consumed their old followers. The mystery is never conclusively solved, though, and the disappearance of the Sith becomes one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the history of the Republic.
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4,470 BBY
Freedon Nadd, a Jedi apprentice of unequalled enthusiasm and dedication, approaches what he believes to be the end of his apprenticeship and promotion to Jedi Knight. But when the time comes, the Jedi Masters refuse to grant him the title. Stunned at this action, he seeks the advice of Master Matta Tremayne, who refuses to tell him what’s keeping him from Knighthood. Enraged, he murders Tremayne, steals a ship, and flies toward the worlds of the former Sith Empire.
4,400 BBY
Freedon Nadd, now a Dark Jedi bearing Sith magic, goes to Yavin 4, where he battles the Massassi and forces them to remember their heritage of service under Naga Sadow. The Massassi then lead Nadd to Sadow’s resting place, where Sadow’s spirit awakens and teaches Nadd the ways of the Sith. After learning an amazing amount of Sith magic, Nadd destroys Sadow and then goes to Onderon, where he comes to rule through his Sith powers as the new Dark Lord of the Sith.
4,200 BBY
Miners come to Tatooine, establishing Anchorhead. The mining operations only last a few years, with very few people remaining on the world. Within a few hundred years, humans are once again absent from the world.
4,000-3,996 BBY
The Great Sith War occurs.
3,976-3,960 BBY
The Mandalorian Wars occur.
1,989 BBY
The planet of Bespin is first colonized.
1,980 BBY
Lord Ecclessis Figg builds Cloud City on Bespin.
1,100 BBY
Tatooine is rediscovered by the Galactic Republic.
1,000-500 BBY
The largest Jedi denomination goes through a series of reformations. The Jedi Council is formed, and leadership of the Jedi Order is centralized in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. In time, the Order becomes a branch of the Judicial Department of the Republic, thus becoming answerable to the Senate. Furthermore, the age of eligibility for Jedi apprenticeship is reduced to a maximum of five years of age, and fellowship with non-Jedi family members is eventually discouraged and marriage to non-Jedi prohibited.
896 BBY
Yoda is born on an unknown planet.
800 BBY
Yoda begins to train Jedi in the ways of the Force.
796 BBY
Yoda is granted the title of Jedi Master.
700 BBY
B’omarr Monks construct the monastery on Tatooine that will eventually become Jabba’s Palace.
600 BBY
Jabba Desilijic Tiure is born on Nal Hutta.
500 BBY
The Jedi start using synthetic crystals over natural ones in the construction of their lightsabers. Within a few hundred years more than 50% of all Jedi would utilize these types of crystals.
200 BBY
Chewbacca is born on Kashyyyk to Attichitcuk and his mate.
144 BBY
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The future Count Doku is born to an aristocratic family on Serenno. He is discovered by the Jedi, and begins his training in infancy.
131 BBY
Doku is apprenticed to Yoda.
124 BBY
Doku passes the trials and is made a Jedi Knight.
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112 BBY
The 3PO-series protocol droid line begins production by Cybot Galactica.
102 BBY
Jard Doku is born to Doku and an unidentified Jedi Knight.
100+ BBY
Yoda, disillusioned with the state of the Jedi Order, gives up his seat on the Jedi Council and goes into self-imposed exile on the swamp world of Dagobah.
100 BBY
The Dowager Queen crashes on Tatooine, which is subsequently colonized by miners and farmers.
98 BBY
Obi-Wan Kenobi's father is born on Tatooine.
96 BBY
Fort Tusken is founded on Tatooine.
95 BBY
Fort Tusken on Tatooine is attacked by Sand People, earning them the name Tusken Raiders.
93 BBY
A second group of colonists re-establish Anchorhead on Tatooine.
85 BBY
Mos Eisley is founded around the wreck of the Dowager Queen.
Chlorian Vader is born on Andowyne.
82 BBY
Cliegg Lars is born on Ator
80 BBY
Obi-Wan Kenobi's mother is born on Tatooine.
Mace Windu is born on Haruun Kal.
Ranah Teh Naast, the mentally unstable clone/daughter of Mandalorian Uvhen Chal, rises to power and becomes Mandalore the Destroyer.
78-35 BBY
The Clone Wars occur
78 BBY
Mandalore the Destroyer declares war on the Republic, and with the Invasion of Sullust, the New Mandalorian War - later known as the First Clone War - begins.
75 BBY
Mandalore the Destroyer is assassinated by Mandalorian dissidents.
The First Clone War ends.
73 BBY
As a result of the Senate's use of Jedi as tools of their will, Doku leaves the Jedi Order and goes into seclusion.
68 BBY
Bail Organa of Alderaan is born.
67 BBY
Obi-Wan Kenobi's parents are married.
66 BBY
Shmi Warka is born.
A large number of systems, dissatisfied and disenchanted with the Republic following the Clone War, begin crying for reform within the Senate. Former Jedi Count Doku emerges from seclusion to lead the dissidents, and together they form the cohesive secessionist faction known as the Confederacy of Independent Systems, or Separatists.
65 BBY
The Hutts take control of Tatooine.
64 BBY
Wilhuff Tarkin is born on Eriadu.
When questioned by the press about the Separatists, President Finis Valorum makes the following, controversial, statement: "We do not recognize the Separatists. They are an illegitimate body, little removed from terrorists or rebels. If we were to cow to their demands, to allow secession, this war-weakened Republic - which has stood for a thousand generations - would surely collapse. And make no mistake; they, too, would collapse with us, as they would be no more capable of self-sufficiency following such division than we would. No, we will not allow separation. Any system, any world, that attempts such action will be met with swift, sure, fierce resistance."
63 BBY
Republic spies are captured and imprisoned on the Separatist world of Geonosis. A rescue party led by the Jedi are sent to extract the spies, leading to the Battle of Geonosis.
Following the Battle of Geonosis, the Confederacy ends all negotiations with the Republic and officially declares its sovereignty. The Republic promptly declares war on the Separatists, officially sparking off the Second Clone War.
With the Republic Army and Jedi lacking the manpower to properly combat the Separatist droid army, the Republic contracts Spaarti Creations with growing a series of clone battalions to augment the forces in their military in service against the Separatists. This will be the first time in recorded history that clones are grown en masse to serve as soldiers in a full scale war.
60 BBY
Obi-Wan Kenobi is born on Tatooine.
The YT-1300 freighter series is launched.
Tosche Station is constructed on Tatooine.
59-55 BBY
The Atha Prime - or head clonemaster - of Spaarti Creations begins to accrue more-and-more personal power within his company. In a few short years, he becomes president of Spaarti Creations.
58 BBY
Jabba the Hutt takes control of the B’omarr temple on Tatooine.
Cliegg Lars marries Aika Lars.
57 BBY
Under threat of annihilation, the Wookiees of Kashyyyk allow the Separatists to establish several munitions factories on their world.
Owen Lars is born on Ator to Cliegg and Aika Lars.
55 BBY
Anakin Skywalker is born to Nellith Skywalker and the mysterious Kane on Taris.
Kane, pursued by a mysterious figure clad in black, flees to Tatooine with Nellith Skywalker and their son Anakin. As Kane engages the black figure in a lightsaber duel, Nellith escapes into the desert with their child.
Atha Prime cunningly replaces important figures in the Cartao government with subservient clone replicas. In a few short weeks, without attracting the slightest bit of negative attention, Atha Prime becomes the silent ruler over the entire planet.
54 BBY
Count Doku is slain in a duel with his own son Jard Doku aboard the warship Invisible Hand during the Battle of Coruscant.
The Second Clone War ends.
The Galactic Republic is reformed as the Galactic Empire.
Cos Dashit becomes the first Emperor of the Galactic Empire.
Aika Lars dies.
The Separatist forces on Kashyyyk are driven from the planet by the newly formed Empire. Rather than freeing the Wookiees and allowing them control of Kashyyyk again, the Imperials place the world under martial law and enslave the Wookiees. This act, officially classified as an unfortunate but completely necessary disarmament procedure, serves to become the first of many cruel acts committed by the Galactic Empire.
53 BBY
Obi-Wan Kenobi's father suffers a massive heart attack and dies.
Nellith Skywalker meets and falls in love with an unidentified man from the Whitesun family.
The Third Clone War begins.
52 BBY
Cliegg and Owen Lars relocate to Tatooine, settling on the outskirts of the Jundland Wastes, where they purchase a small moisture farm from the old farmer Sago Milius.
Beru Whitesun is born to Nellith Skywalker and her husband.
51 BBY
While on a visit to Mos Espa, Cliegg Lars meets Obi-Wan Kenobi's mother and the two soon fall in love.
According to falsified documents, the future Emperor Palpatine is born to Cosinga Palpatine and his wife on Nabu.
49 BBY
Cliegg Lars marries Obi-Wan Kenobi's mother.
Breha Organa is born on Alderaan.
48 BBY
Mon Mothma is born on Chandrila.
Obi-Wan Kenobi learns of the Jedi Order from the old spacer and alleged ex-Jedi apprentice Nebar Foxis.
47 BBY
Obi-Wan Kenobi goes to Dagobah, where he begins his Jedi training under Master Yoda.
44 BBY
Ackbar is born on Dac.
41 BBY
Obi-Wan completes his training under Yoda and is granted the title of Jedi Knight.
Owen Lars meets Beru Whitesun. Soon they fall in love and begin dating.
40 BBY
Obi-Wan Kenobi meets Anakin Skywalker and, in defiance of the Jedi Council and Yoda's own advice, takes him on as his Jedi apprentice.
36 BBY
Shmi Warka is raped by Chlorian Vader, resulting in the conception of future Jedi apprentice Darth Vader.
35 BBY
Darth Vader is born on Geonosis to Shmi Warka and Chlorian Vader.
While stranded on an old Sith world with Obi-Wan, Anakin awakens and encounters the enraged spirit of a long-dead Sith sorceress, who attacks the mind of the young apprentice, showing him visions of the past and the future. She takes him back in time to the golden age of the ancient Sith Empire, where Anakin is shown the power and grandeur of the old Sith, of the peace and security they had brought to their subjects prior to their fall. Following that, she takes him forward to an unspecified time in the future, where a powerful dark side sorcerer aided by an army of Dark Jedi has risen to power and driven the Empire to ruin. Before fading into nothingness, the Sith laments the passing of the Sith, bemoaning the future that is to come without their firm hand to guide the universe. Anakin survives the encounter, but the hideous knowledge the Sith spirit left him with remains, eating away at him until he eventually snaps. Desperate for the power needed to stop the envisioned darksider from rising to power, Anakin travels to the Valley of the Dark Lords on Korriban, where he entreats the spirits of the long-dead Dark Lords for their aid, vowing that he will do all in his power to resurrect the Sith in exchange for the arcane knowledge needed to save the Empire. After subjecting Anakin to a strenuous test of strength and character, the ancient Dark Lords agree to the bargain, and give him their blessing; Anakin is crowned the Dark Lord of the Sith, filling the throne long held vacant since the end of the Great Sith War.
The Battle of Condawn occurs on Geonosis.
Chlorian Vader and Shmi Warka are killed in the Battle of Condawn, leaving their infant child Darth Vader an orphan. Obi-Wan, taking pity on the child, decides to place Darth in the care of the Jedi on Coruscant.
The Third Clone War ends.
35-19 BBY
Anakin, under instruction from the Dark Lords on Korriban, searches the galaxy for remnants of the Sith to aid in the restoration of the Sith Brotherhood.
For reasons known only to them, the spirits of the Sith refrain from passing most of their arcane knowledge down to Anakin. As the years go by, Anakin grows impatient with the ghosts, fearing his vision of the dark future will come to pass before he has attained the power to resist it.
33 BBY
Son Hhat succeeds Cos Dashit as Emperor.
A motion making cloning illegal is passed by the Senate. All cloning facilities are subsequently dismantled and shut down.
31 BBY
Lando Calrissian is born.
30-25 BBY
A dark period of corruption and social injustice sweeps through the Empire, paving the way for Palpatine’s rise to power.
29 BBY
Han Solo is born on Corellia.
Palpatine is elected to the Galactic Senate as Senator of Nabu and the Chommell Sector.
27 BBY
Mon Mothma is elected Senator of Chandrila.
25 BBY
Senator Palpatine becomes President of the Empire.
22 BBY
Obi-Wan Kenobi takes Darth Vader on as his apprentice.
19 BBY
Anakin Skywalker, recognizing Darth Vader's innate power and potential to be a powerful Sith acolyte, begins seducing the Jedi apprentice to the dark side.
The ancient Dark Lords of the Sith reveal to Anakin that the Brotherhood of the Sith's rebirth is at hand, and very soon they will grant Anakin all the knowledge and power he has been seeking since his inception into their Brotherhood. Yet, before that can be done, they must deal with one power who threatens to step in and undo everything they have done together, a powerful dark side sorcerer with the opportunity to gain enough power to rival that of the Dark Lords of old: Dantius Palpatine, the President of the Empire himself. The Dark Lords charge the duty of assassinating Palpatine to Anakin, declaring that they will stand with him and aid him in defeating the President when the time comes; Anakin accepts, eagre to finally face the demonic figure who has haunted him for years. Anakin journeys to Coruscant, penetrating the President's inner sanctum to find him guarded by a retinue of Jedi Masters led by Mace Windu. The Jedi ignite their lightsabers and engage Anakin in battle, but fail to resist the Dark Lord, falling to his blade. Soon, Palpatine finds himself alone against the armed Sith, though far from defenceless; when Anakin moves to deliver the killing blow, Palpatine blocks the energy blade with his bare hands, using his dark power to protect his skin from the burning plasma, then uses the Force to violent shove the Dark Lord back. Soon, the two darksiders engage in fierce battle, using their black arts to deliver devastating blow after devastating blow. In the end, though, Palpatine proves to be the more powerful combatant, and Anakin, unaided by the Sith who failed to uphold their vow to fight with him in his hour of need, succumbs in defeat. Using the Force, Palpatine lifts Anakin up, crushing him up against the wall painfully, then retrieves the Sith's lightsaber and ignites it. Instead of killing Anakin, Palpatine brandishes the glowing cyan blade before the former Jedi, waving it threateningly in front of his face as he reveals that he had known the Dark Lord was coming, that he had foreseen their battle several weeks ago. At that point, he demands to know what it is Anakin wants with him, to know who he works for. Anakin remains silent, until Palpatine answers for him, admitting that he already knows of Anakin, of his allegiance to the Sith, and of the dark vision of the future which drives him. When Anakin declares that he knows Palpatine is the dominating figure of his vision, Palpatine answers in the negative; it was not Palpatine Anakin sees rising to power, but of he himself, coming to power. According to Palpatine, the vision foretells a moment in the near future when the Jedi Order, grown corrupt and hungry for power, with rise up and overthrow the Emperor and the Senate, stepping in to take complete control of the Empire. When that happens, Anakin - now completely recreated in the twisted image of the ancient Dark Lords - with a resurrected Sith Brotherhood at his command, will reveal themselves to the Jedi. The Brotherhood of the Sith will ally with the Jedi, initially playing as subordinates to them; in time, though, the Sith will manoeuvre itself to a position of power over the Jedi Order, subjugating and subsuming them completely. At that point the Sith Empire will be reborn, and a millennia of tyranny will begin, eventually bringing the entire galaxy down into a state of ruin and chaos from which it will never recover. At that point, Palpatine deactivates Anakin's lightsaber, frees him from his hold, and makes him an offer: "Leave the Dark Lords, leave their crumbling tombs and cold bones, and come to me. I can give you the power they have denied you, the security you crave. Together, we can outwit the Sith, and crush the Jedi before they rise against us. We can turn the tides of fate, shape this universe into the best of all possible worlds. You and your wife can live in peace for the rest of your days. The children of your children will never have to face a dark day at any point in their lives. They will never have to experience war or the loss of loved ones to violence. Join me, Anakin Skywalker. There is no other way." The Dark Lord of the Sith, swayed by Palpatine's words, pledges his services to the President, becoming the sorcerer's royal servant and enforcer.
Anakin Skywalker, having persuaded Darth Vader into coming over to his side, encounters Obi-Wan Kenobi on the volcanic world of Sullust. The Dark Lord with his new apprentice engage the Jedi Knight in a lightsaber duel, and together they manage to beat their former master down. In the end, though, as Anakin prepares to deliver the killing blow, Darth turns on the Dark Lord, severing the Dark Lord's right hand below the cyan blade can fall. Anakin, enraged, calls one of Darth's two lightsabers to him, and turns his aggression his way. As the two Sith clash sabers, they drive themselves farther and farther away from Obi-Wan and closer and closer to the edge of a cliff overlooking a roiling river of white-hot magma. Before Obi-Wan and go to their aid, a violent eruption occurs, throwing blazing lava and super-hot rock up into the air. The violence of the blast strikes the cliff the Sith are standing upon and, before Obi-Wan can do anything to help them, the entire sheet of rock beneath them collapses, sending the combatants into a free fall to the churning river of flame below. Dispirited, Obi-Wan turns to leave, stopping once only to retrieve Anakin's fallen lightsaber from his dismembered hand before departing the area.
Through the power of the dark side of the Force, Anakin survives the plunge into the river of magma and eventually hauls himself out of the churning mass and back onto land. However, most of his body has been horribly burned by the white-hot lava; everything from the chest down has been burnt away, leaving the charred remains barely alive. Before he can perish, Palpatine arrives and, using his own dark powers, boosts Anakin's failing lifeforce, ensuring his survival until the Dark Lord can been taken to a medical facility and hooked up to life support equipment.
Anakin Skywalker, now little more than a partial torso with a head and arm, goes through a series of lengthy and strenuous surgical operations to restore his mobility and vitality through the use of advanced bionics.
19-15 BBY
The Great Jedi Purge occurs.
18 BBY
President Palpatine declares himself Emperor of the Galactic Empire.
Anakin Skywalker emerges from his months of mental and physical recuperation transformed into a powerfully built armoured cyborg. In the wake of his rebirth, the Dark Lord of the Sith decides to assume a new persona for himself, and - in honour of his old apprentice - takes the name of Darth Vader as his own.
Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa are born on Alderaan. Leia is placed under the care of Bail and Breha Organa, while Luke is taken by Obi-Wan to be raised by his Jedi Master Yoda on Dagobah.
15 BBY
Visivious Drakarn, an Imperial Inquisitor, arrives on Dagobah, where he discovers Yoda living on Dagobah with Luke Skywalker. The Dark Jedi, unable to convince the diminutive Jedi into joining forces with the Empire, ignites his lightsaber and attacks the Master. The battle is short, and Yoda easily bests the dark warrior, but the Inquisitor escapes, fleeing the planet in his personal starship. Believing that Drakarn will soon alert the Imperials to his presence on Dagobah, Yoda makes contact with Obi-Wan, urging him to come to the swamp world as soon as possible. The Jedi Knight receives the message, and hurries to Dagobah. There, Yoda tells him that time is short, to take Luke and leave the planet before the Empire arrives. Obi-Wan heeds his Master's advice and departs, deciding to take Luke to be raised by the boy's uncle and aunt Owen and Beru Lars on Tatooine. Unbeknownst to either Jedi, Inquisitor Drakarn is killed by rival Inquisitor Fluvian Destu before he can report his find to his superiors, leaving Yoda's presence on Dagobah undisclosed.