896 BBY/Legends

896 before the Battle of Yavin (BBY) was part of an time period known as the Great Peace of the Republic. In this era, parts of the Deep Core of the galaxy was opened to the Galactic Republic, and previously unexplored regions of the Outer Rim Territories were settled. 896 is the birth year of Yoda, later Grand Master of the Jedi Order.

Proem
The conflict known as the New Sith Wars which saw a thousand years of fighting between two major Force-user factions, the Jedi and Sith, was finally ended in 1,000 BBY. The Galactic Republic was in ruins and was reorganized by the Ruusan Reformation, announced by Supreme Chancellor Tarsus Valorum. The winning faction of the previous long war, Jedi Order was codifyed as a branch of the Republic's Judicial Department.

The galaxy in 896 BBY
The era of the Great Peace of the Republic began with the Ruusan Reformation more than one hundred years before the year of 896 BBY. During these years, the Republic opened the Deep Core of the galaxy, and unexplored then Wild Space parts of space were charted by scouts and chartographers. The latter areas later became part of the Outer Rim Territories.

Yoda, a Force-sensitive member of a green-skinned species was born in the first quarter of the year.

Impact
After 896, the expansion of the Galactic Republic continued during the Great Peace of the Republic, which lasted for nearly nine hundred more years. In the following years, Economic forces acquired more and more power in the Republic, as companies established the Corporate Sector from star systems brought in the Tingel Arm.

At one hundred years of age, Yoda became a Jedi Master. In the later centuries, he trained Jedi countless apprentices to knighthood, get a seat in the Jedi Council, and became Grand Master of the Jedi Order.

Notable events

 * Birth of Yoda, later Grand Master of the Jedi Order.

Behind the scenes
"When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not."

- Yoda, to Luke Skywalker

In George Lucas's 1983 Return of the Jedi, Yoda implyed to his apprentice, Luke Skywalker that he was nine hundred years old. The movie was set to happen four years after the Battle of Yavin, featured in the first Star Wars film, A New Hope. In 1998, LucasArts released the Star Wars: Behind the Magic, an interactive database on CD-ROM, which was the first to state that Yoda was born in 896 BBY.

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