Forum:SH Archive/Validity of the "Skywalker epoch"

I felt the need to bring this up here rather than the article's talk page because this effects a larger portion of the wiki. Currently we have Skywalker epoch listed as an in-universe era spanning the birth of Anakin Skywalker and his descendants. However, after searching through the only source to use the name, the Tales of the Jedi Companion, I have found little to no evidence to substantiate this. "Skywalker Epoch" only appears to be used twice in the book. The first instance is at the beginning of chapter 11, "Sites", where it is explicitly used in an out-of-universe context. The author talks about planets that can be used in an RPG campaign, and the TotJ comics, among other things, are referred to by name. The straight text is just: "Before using a planet from the Skywalker Epoch, check its history to determine whether or not it was a member of the galactic community prior to the Great Sith War." The second mention, at the beginning of chapter 12: "Running A Tales of the Jedi Campaign," is even more vague: "The long periods of time required for space travel and trans-galactic communication in this era (as compared with the Skywalker Epoch) serves to definitively separate the Core from the Frontier." This whole chapter appears to be written out-of-universe, except for the portions where Ood Bnar speaks, as it simply gives gamemasters instructions on how to run their own TotJ era campaigns. Neither of these mentions seem to be used in-universe from what I can tell.

Furthermore, the above excerpts don't shed any light on exactly what time period the Skywalker epoch encompasses. The closest thing I could find was the sentence following the first mention, which lists planets that exist in both the TotJ era and the "Skywalker Epoch." But even then, there still isn't proof that the term was ever used in-universe, or that "some historians" in the galaxy ever used it as our article claims, or that it started with Anakin's birth and went on from there. As it stands right now, our article on the Skywalker epoch appears to be completely fanon, and I'm questioning whether the article should be kept at all since it's unclear that the term was ever used in-universe. Which is why I brought the matter here first. Can anybody else who has the book find a mention of the term being used in-universe? Am I missing something obvious? Is it used in another source? If somebody can substantiate what we currently have in our article, then I'll shut my mouth and forget about this whole thing. But for now, this is my take on it. Xicer9 ( Combadge) 03:29, June 9, 2010 (UTC)