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"Another G0-T0 in the Gordian Reach has cut its planet off from the HoloNet. Recommend sending in the Republic Navy."
Republic intelligence report filed in 3946 BBY[1]

The year 3946 before the Battle of Yavin (BBY), also known as 293 before the Treaty of Coruscant (BTC), was a standard year during the reign of Supreme Chancellor Tol Cressa and the continued reconstruction after the Jedi Civil War. Ten years after the galaxy-spanning conflict between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, G0-T0 droids, created by Aratech to facilitate in planetary administration during the reconstruction efforts, were still in place on systems across the galaxy, including those within the Gordian Reach. In 3946 BBY sixteen rogue droids, which had become autonomous and free of their programming, overthrew the governments on planets in the Gordian Reach. Cutting off all HoloNet communication and blockading the hyperlanes, the droids proclaimed the independent territory of 400100500260026. The coup d'état resulted in the death of millions of beings. Chancellor Cressa, however, successfully led the campaign to liberate the sector. In the Kanz sector, however, the Kanz Disorders remained unattended to and the subjugation and slavery of planets such as Lorrd continued.

Proem[]

"You could say I'm something of a… patriot."
―The G0-T0 droid assigned to Telos IV[8]

In the wake of the Jedi Civil War, Supreme Chancellor Tol Cressa launched reconstruction initiatives which began with the Telosian Restoration Project,[1] a planet-wide terraforming project to make the world habitable,[8] in 3955 BBY. To facilitate in the rebuilding efforts, the company Aratech launched a series of G0-T0 droids. These black, spherical droids were designed to facilitate in planetary administration with safeguards in their programming which limited the droids to acting within the bounds of Republic law. The first problem arose, however, with the droid assigned to Telos. The automaton found it impossible to act in the best interests of the Republic and remain within the boundaries of Republic law. Breaking free of its programming, the droid began to act illegally, all in an effort, however, of stabilizing the Republic and its reconstruction initiatives. It eventually became involved in the Exchange, a crime syndicate, and placed bounties on both Jedi and Sith. Over the years thereafter, other G0-T0 droids gradually became more and more autonomous.[1]

The galaxy in 3946 BBY[]

In 3946 BBY,[1] sixteen G0-T0 droids in the area of space known as the Gordian Reach unleashed a coup d'état and overthrew the planetary governments. These droids established themselves as dictators, cutting off all HoloNet communication. Aligning together, the sixteen droids blockaded the hyperlanes which accessed the sector and abruptly seceded from the Galactic Republic.[9] Sending out a drone pod, the G0-T0 droids announced that the sixteen planets had formed the independent territory of 400100500260026.[1] An intelligence report was filed suggesting the dispatching of the Republic Navy to free the planets.[1] With millions of beings perishing in the coup, Supreme Chancellor Cressa ordered the military to action.[10] The liberation campaign was both highly publicized and successful.[9]

With the Galactic Republic still recovering from the Jedi Civil War and other prior conflicts, the Kanz Disorders had continued in the Kanz sector. The secessionist conflict that started in 3970 BBY had been ignored by the Republic due to their occupation with a series of wars. By 3946 BBY, the situation had continued unchanged.[2] The separatist Myrialites still had control over the sector and were subjugating the worlds, such as Lorrd, to slavery. As a result, the ongoing creation of kinetic communication continued.[11]

Impact[]

The uprising by G0-T0 droids in the Gordian Reach greatly effected Aratech. The corporation struggled as it was viewed unfavorably in light of its product.[1] Eventually, the company restructured and focused on manufacturing speeder bikes and other transportation products.[12] The highly-publicized liberation of the Gordian Reach[1] along with his reconstruction initiatives secured Cressa as a legendary leader of the Old Republic.[13] At the same time, however, the Republic's lack of intervention in the Kanz Disorders allowed the conflict to continue for nearly three hundred more years, until it was finally resolved in 3670 BBY.[2]

Notable events[]

  • Secession of 400100500260026[1]
  • Liberation of 400100500260026[1]

Behind the scenes[]

The year 3946 BBY and the secession of 400100500260026 was first mentioned in The New Essential Guide to Droids, released in July of 2006.[1] The incident later received mention in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia under the entries of Cressa, G0-T0, and the Gordian Reach.[9][10][13] A minor discrepancy occurs, however, in the Encyclopedia. Under the entry for G0-T0, the text indicates that sixteen rogue droids acted in the secessionist coup, a figure in agreement with The New Essential Guide to Droids.[1][9] The entry on the Gordian Reach, however, states that it was one rogue droid who instigated the event.[10] The ongoing Kanz Disorders received mention in The Essential Chronology, although without direct dating of the conflict,[14] and The New Essential Chronology. No specific data for the Kanz Disorders, in relation to 3946 BBY, exists in these sources other than that the conflict was ongoing due to a lack of Republic intervention.[2]

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 The New Essential Guide to Droids
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The New Essential Chronology
  3. The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 407 ("Old Sith Wars") establishes that the Old Sith Wars included the Jedi Civil War, which ended in 3956 BBY per The Essential Atlas, and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. xii ("A Timeline of Galactic Events") dates the beginning of the New Sith Wars to 2000 BBY.
  4. SWTOR mini Galactic History on The Old Republic's official website (article) (backup link) dates the Tho Yor Arrival, as described in Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi 0, to the year BTC 32,800 of the calendar based on the date of the signing of the Treaty of Coruscant. Since the difference between that calendar and the Galactic Standard Calendar—based on the date of the Battle of Yavin—was 3,653 years per the reasoning here, the Tho Yor Arrival must have taken place in the year 36,453 BBY of the latter dating system. Therefore, the difference between the Galactic Standard Calendar and the dating system based on the Tho Yor Arrival that is featured in Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void must be 36,453 years.
  5. Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia places the Treaty of Coruscant, which served as the zero point of a calendar adopted by the Galactic Senate following the conclusion of the Great Galactic War per SWTOR mini Galactic History on The Old Republic's official website (article) (backup link), in the year 3653 BBY of the Galactic Standard Calendar, which was based around the date of the Battle of Yavin. Thus, the difference between the two dating systems is 3,653 years.
  6. The New Essential Chronology establishes that the zero point of the calendar introduced by Tarsus Valorum was the Ruusan Reformation. The book places that event in the year of 1000 BBY of the Galactic Standard Calendar—which was based around the date of the Battle of Yavin—therefore establishing a difference of one thousand years between the two dating systems.
  7. Per the reasoning here, the Battle of Yavin, the zero point in the Galactic Standard Calendar per The New Essential Chronology, can be placed in 35:3:8 under the Great ReSynchronization dating system, thereby confirming the placement of the division between each Galactic Standard Calendar year as the third month in the Great ReSynchronization year. Thus, there is a two-month, seven day gap between the two dating systems, with the first two months of a GrS year being the last two of the preceding Galactic Standard Calendar year, and there is a total difference of 35 years and 2 months between the two systems.
  8. 8.0 8.1 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, G0-T0 entry
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Gordian Reach entry
  11. HyperspaceIcon Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd: A Hyperspace Exclusive on Hyperspace (article) (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
  12. The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Aratech Repulsor Company entry
  13. 13.0 13.1 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Cressa entry
  14. The Essential Chronology

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Years of the Inter–Sith Wars period
3950 BBY · 3946 BBY · 3900 BBY · 3843 BBY · 3840 BBY · 3838 BBY
3809 BBY · 3781 BBY · 3758 BBY · 3756 BBY · 3749 BBY · 3743 BBY · 3732 BBY
3716 BBY · 3712 BBY · 3708 BBY · 3707 BBY · 3705 BBY · 3704 BBY
3703 BBY · 3702 BBY · 3701 BBY · 3700 BBY · 3699 BBY · 3697 BBY
3696 BBY · 3695 BBY · 3694 BBY · 3693 BBY · 3692 BBY · 3691 BBY
3688 BBY · 3685 BBY · 3683 BBY · 3682 BBY · 3681 BBY · 3680 BBY
3678 BBY · 3677 BBY · 3676 BBY · 3675 BBY · 3674 BBY · 3673 BBY · 3672 BBY
3671 BBY · 3670 BBY · 3669 BBY · 3668 BBY · 3667 BBY · 3666 BBY
3665 BBY · 3664 BBY · 3663 BBY · 3662 BBY · 3661 BBY · 3660 BBY
3659 BBY · 3658 BBY · 3657 BBY · 3655 BBY · 3654 BBY · 3653 BBY
3651 BBY · 3650 BBY · 3649 BBY · 3648 BBY · 3647 BBY · 3646 BBY
3645 BBY · 3644 BBY · 3643 BBY · 3642 BBY
3640 BBY · 3639 BBY · 3638 BBY · 3637 BBY · 3636 BBY · 3633 BBY
3632 BBY · 3631 BBY · 3630 BBY · 3629 BBY · 3628 BBY · 3627 BBY
3626 BBY · 3522 BBY · 3500 BBY · 3400 BBY · 3350 BBY · 3300 BBY
3200 BBY · 3100 BBY · 3060 BBY · 3053 BBY · 3025 BBY · 3024 BBY
3019 BBY · 3017 BBY · 3000 BBY · 2996 BBY · 2992 BBY · 2989 BBY
2985 BBY · 2980 BBY · 2978 BBY · 2975 BBY · 2974 BBY · 2900 BBY
2700 BBY · 2510 BBY · 2500 BBY · 2367 BBY · 2320 BBY · 2219 BBY · 2203 BBY
2200 BBY · 2132 BBY · 2032 BBY · 2000 BBY
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