- "They took it upon themselves to make a record of Jedi history and teachings…"
- ―Palpatine, to Leia Organa Solo, on the actions of a group of Jedi around this year
590 before the Battle of Yavin (BBY) was a year in the period of time known as the Great Peace of the Republic. The era, having begun more than four hundred years earlier, featured widespread settlement into the unexplored regions of the Outer Rim Territories and the opening of the Deep Core. Around this year, Jedi Master Bodo Baas updated the Tedryn Holocron, a Jedi teaching device.
Proem[]
After a thousand years of conflict between the Jedi and Sith, the New Sith Wars came to an end in 1000 BBY. The Galactic Republic narrowly escaped destruction, and Supreme Chancellor Tarsus Valorum announced the Ruusan Reformation, reorganizing the Galactic Senate[8] and codifying the Jedi Order as a branch of the Judicial Department.[9]
In 600 BBY, the Jedi Bodo Baas was one of a group of Jedi who lived and served in the Adega system[10] and who took it upon themselves to create records of Jedi history and teachings for future Jedi to learn from.[7] After being promoted to the rank of Jedi Master,[10] Baas inherited a Jedi holocron and teaching device, the Tedryn Holocron.[11]
The galaxy in 590 BBY[]
- "A brother and sister born to walk the sky,
But reckless brother falls--into dark side's eye!
Jedi sister carries hope for future in her womb.
Only she can save the Skywalkers from certain doom!
A Jedi-killer wants to tame her.
Now the Dark Side Lord comes to claim her.
She must battle join against this thief,
Or the dynasty of all the Jedi will come to grief!" - ―The prophecy of Baas's Master was added to the Tedryn Holocron around 590 BBY
The year 590 BBY was also known as 3,063 after the Treaty of Coruscant (ATC),[4] a peace agreement that brought an end to the Great Galactic War in 3653 BBY.[8] 590 BBY was also the same as 410 after the Ruusan Reformation,[5] and 555 before the Great ReSynchronization (BrS), a year-notation system established in 35 BBY.[6] By 590 BBY, the Great Peace of the Republic, the period of time that followed the Ruusan Reformation, was more than four hundred years in the making.[13] The Republic continued its expansion into the Deep Core and uncharted Wild Space areas that later became part of the Outer Rim Territories.[8]
After completing his records around 590 BBY, Bodo Baas updated and reorganized the Tedryn Holocron, which had once been held by his ancestor, Vodo-Siosk Baas.[1] Bodo Baas added to the holocron the prophecy that had been written by his own Master four hundred years earlier.[14]
Impact[]
The Great Peace of the Republic continued for nearly six hundred more years,[13] as the Republic continued to expand. Economic forces began to shape the Republic, as companies bought star systems in the Tingel Arm and established the Corporate Sector.[9]
In 10 ABY, the Tedryn Holocron was found by Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order. Skywalker fulfilled the prophecy of Baas's Master when he and his sister, Leia Organa Solo, defeated the ruler of the first Galactic Empire, the Dark Side Lord Palpatine.[11]
Notable events[]
- Around this year, Bodo Baas put his records—including his Master's prophecy—into the Tedryn Holocron. (Approximate date)[7][14]
Behind the scenes[]
The comic Dark Empire 5, written by Tom Veitch, makes only a passing reference to Bodo Baas and his group of Jedi, who collected Jedi knowledge and recorded it six hundred years prior to 10 ABY—or 590 BBY—in which the story takes place.[7]
Appearances[]
- Dark Empire 5 (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only)
Sources[]
- Dark Empire endnotes (Indirect mention only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Official Star Wars Fact File 74 (BAA 1-2: Bodo Baas (German Edition))
- ↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 363 ("Great Peace of the Republic") establishes that the Great Peace of the Republic lasted between the Ruusan campaign and the beginning of the Clone Wars, which The New Essential Chronology dates to 1000 BBY and 22 BBY, respectively.
- ↑
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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 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.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 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.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Dark Empire 5
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 The Essential Atlas
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 The New Essential Chronology
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 The Essential Guide to Characters
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
- ↑ Dark Empire 6
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 363 ("Great Peace of the Republic")
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Dark Empire endnotes