The Star Wars timeline has been in constant flux since George Lucas released the first movie - and here are some of the biggest and most curious.
The Star Wars timeline has been in a constant state of flux since George Lucas launched the franchise in 1977. There's a sense in which change is baked into Star Wars, in large part because George Lucas successfully transformed his idea for a solo movie into a massive transmedia franchise. Comics and novels were even being published before The Empire Strikes Back hit theaters. Unsurprisingly, though, this has resulted in a significant amount of changes and retcons along the way.
How Old Is The Republic In Star Wars? "For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic," Obi-Wan Kenobi famously told Luke Skywalker in the first Star Wars movie . It seemed to present the history of the Republic as a vast, sprawling one - and then, surprisingly, it was apparently contradicted by George Lucas himself in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.
Lucasfilm had previously operated under the principle of a tiered canon, with George Lucas' stories at a higher level of canon and everything else adjusting around it. Lucasfilm announced a new approach in which everything was equally canon, opening the way to impressive transmedia stories like the books around Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It didn't take long for the contradictions to mount up, however.
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