Post #781567

Author: pablumatic
Parent topic: Was there any indication how long the Empire was around before the prequels?
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Date created: 18-Jul-2015, 10:31 AM

I would say The Empire Strikes Back shrunk the timeline of the Empire down to about 20 years. Simply due to Vader being Luke's father.

At that point a date was set for when Anakin turned to the Dark Side and the age of Luke sets that date about 20 or so years in the past.