User:QuentinGeorge/Tidbits from the Upcoming New Essential Chronology

Posted in this thread by finkman. (All direct copy and pastes from his posts).

Main Headings

 * Part One: Tales of the Ancient Republic (100,000 BBY - 1000 BBY)
 * Part Two: The Fall of the Republic (89 BBY - 19 BBY)
 * Part Three: The Empire and the New Order (19 BBY - 0 BBY) (This is a VERY short section - only 3 pages)
 * Part Four: Profiles in History (10 BBY - 3 ABY)
 * Part Five: The Galactic Civil War (3 BBY - 5 ABY)
 * Part Six: Birth of the New Republic (4 ABY - 8.5 ABY)
 * Part Seven: Empire Resurgent (9 ABY - 11 ABY)
 * Part Eight: The Return of the Jedi Knights (11 ABY - 13 ABY)
 * Part Nine: Uprisings and Insurgencies (14 ABY - 18 ABY)
 * Part Ten: A Lasting Peace (19 ABY) [not terribly "lasting," no?]
 * Part Eleven: Generations of Jedi Knights (22 ABY - 24 ABY)
 * Part Twelve: The New Jedi Order (25 ABY - 36 ABY)
 * Part Thirteen: The Killik Expansion (35 - 36 ABY)

Other Stuff

 * Confirmed survivors of the Jedi Purge: K'kruhk, A'Sharad Hett, Jeisel
 * Those who knew that Vader was Anakin Skywalker: Obi-Wan, Yoda, Bail Organa, Owen and Beru Lars, R2-D2.
 * Through at least the first year after ROTS, the public was ignorant that the Sith had returned
 * The history of the Death Star is somewhat sorted out. Basically, Sienar proposed a moon-sized battlestation, and Tarkin guided its initial construction in the Outer Rim. Over the years, the skeletal frame of the DS moved from system to system to avoid sabotage. "As the years stretched on," people had doubts about the viability of the superlaser. Thus, Tarkin had a "proof of concept model" built at the Maw. The Maw scientists discovered flaws in the original Geonosis design that were still being incorporated into the "actual" Death Star. Tarkin took a revised design to the Emperor, who approved a prototype to test Tarkin's design. Wookiee slaves then created a scaled-down version of the superlaser and skeleton in the Maw, which proved successful. After that, construction restarted on the original prototype, which was "stalled" in its construction around Despayre by this point.