Time travel/Legends

The term time travel refers to travel from one point in time to another, analogous to travel from point to point in realspace or hyperspace. It does not generally refer to a body's natural experience of the flow of time along with the rest of the universe: rather, it refers to travel to the past against the natural flow of time, or travel to the future at a rate faster than that of the rest of the universe.

While time travel was an exceedingly rare phenomenon, a few cases have been partially documented. No record of deliberate, physical time travel is known &mdash; all known cases involved unusual hyperdrive malfunctions, the effects of the Force, or similar exotic events.

C-3PO, R2-D2, and the Sooma/Alzar incident
While working as diplomatic couriers, the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO were assigned to escort the child Prince Plooz from Sooma to his home planet, Alzar. Along the way, their ship were attacked by the forces of General Sludd, a renegade from Alzar who was plotting to kill the prince in order to start a war which would allow him to conquer both planets. In an effort to escape, R2-D2 engaged the hyperdrive even though Prince Plooz, in an effort to "help", had damaged the anti-matter power systems. The droids and the prince jumped to hyperspace just as Grudd's electron torpedoes denotated. Whether because of the damage to the hyperdrive power systems, the explosion of the nearby electron topedoes, or both, their ship came out of hyperspace in a starless void. Their only apparent exit was a rift which took them to the Endor system &mdash; but when they went through the rift, they discovered that they had not only travelled to another system, but to another time.

Plooz, believing himself to be in his home system, ran away from his caretakers in an escape pod which took him to the forest moon of Endor. After some adventures on Endor, where R2-D2 and C-3PO met the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village and rescued the royal toddler from a group of Duloks led by King Gorneesh, the droids and the prince returned to their ship and went back through the time rift. They arrived only minutes after they left, and brought the prince back to Alzar safely.

The timing of this incident is unclear: while C-3PO and R2-D2's readings on arrival in the Endor system implied that they had travelled one hundred years into the future, the Ewoks and Duloks they met on Endor included such figures as Wicket W. Warwick and Chief Chirpa who participated in the Battle of Endor. At the time of their mission to Alzar, the two droids were travelling independently, which implies the incident took place while they were

Mace Windu and the Secret of Tet-Ami
The Temple of Tet-Ami on Benja-Rihn had been the subject of much speculation.

Sam Heggs's account
In 3 ABY, a spacer and hunter named Sam Heggs once told an odd story to a bounty hunter named Jeet Travis. Heggs claimed that while on Nimba Five hunting Bemis, he came across a nest of grumph eggs. Soon afterwards, though it was the middle of Nimba Five's long winter, he found a lush jungle nearby. In the jungle, he came across a young man being chased by a grumph.

Other than Heggs's story, and his grumph eggs, no evidence of this incident exists. It may only have been a ruse which Heggs used to separate Travis from his bottle of Vaschean rye.

Jacen Solo's flow-walking
The Jedi Jacen Solo learned a Force power called "flow-walking" from the Aing-Tii. This ability allowed him to to not only view the past, but also leave an imprint of himself there. He used this power in 35 ABY to witness the crash of the Tachyon Flier in 27 ABY, and leave an imprint of himself for his mother, Leia Organa Solo, to follow.

Jacen Solo's use of flow-walking is the only recorded deliberate use of time travel, though it did not involve physical movement through time. It is likely that flow-walking was used by Solo, and by the Aing-Tii, on other occaisions.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Droids 4: Lost in Time
 * Marvel Ewoks 10: The Demons of Endor
 * Tales from Mos Eisley: Heggs' Tale


 * Star Wars Tales 13
 * The Secret of Tet-Ami
 * The Joiner King