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"I call on Jedi for judgment."
―A Barabel, whose species had deep respect for the Jedi, calling the help of Jedi Luke Skywalker during a dispute with a Rodian[8]

902 before the Battle of Yavin (BBY) was a year in the era known as the Great Peace of the Republic. The time period began nearly one hundred years earlier and featured the Galactic Republic's settlement into previously unexplored regions of the Outer Rim Territories. Around 902 BBY, the millennia-long Barabel War, a bloody conflict for hunting grounds, escalated to the entire Barabel population of the planet Barab I. The intervention of Jedi Knight Noga-ta brought an end to the dispute.

Proem[]

Around 4500 BBY,[9] stemming from a dispute over prime hunting grounds, a bloody civil conflict[10] known as the Barabel War[1] erupted on Barab I, homeworld of the Barabel species. The war continued for millennia,[10] until a peace agreement was settled by passing Jedi, around 902 BBY.[2] In 1000 BBY, the New Sith Wars, fought between the Jedi and the Sith, came to an end. Then-current Supreme Chancellor Tarsus Valorum reorganized the Galactic Senate through the Ruusan Reformations,[11] and the Jedi Order became a branch of the Republic Judicial Department.[12]

The galaxy in 902 BBY[]

The year 902 BBY was also known as 2,751 after the Treaty of Coruscant (ATC),[5] a peace agreement that brought an end to the Great Galactic War in 3653 BBY.[11] 902 BBY was also the same as 98 years after the Ruusan Reformation,[6] and 867 before the Great ReSynchronization (BrS), a year-notation system established in 35 BBY.[7] By 902 BBY, the Great Peace of the Republic, the era that began with the Ruusan Reformation, was nearly one hundred years in the making.[13] The Republic expanded further into the galactic Deep Core and unexplored Wild Space regions that were later reorganized into the Outer Rim Territories.[11]

Around 902 BBY, in the final stages of the Barabel War, the population of Barab I was divided into two opposing camps,[14] supporting the hunters[1] of two of the larger clans disputing the rights of access to certain choice hunting grounds.[15][16] The disagreement threatened to erupt into full-scale butchery,[17] as the entire species was destined to join the coming battle.[1] The clans formed two armies that were each bent on the ultimate destruction of their enemies, but before the final battle,[9] a group of passing Jedi Knights intervened.[1] The Jedi, including the Ithorian Jedi explorer Noga-ta,[10] listened to both sides and passed a fair judgment.[1] In accordance the Jedi decree, clans always had to share hunting grounds, and a clan's largest kill of the night had to be given to the head of another clan.[15] They settled a peace agreement that ended the Barabel War.[2]

Impact[]

The Republic continued its expansion, and the Great Peace of the Republic lasted for nearly nine hundred more years. Later in the era, economic forces began to shape the Republic, as companies bought Tingel Arm star systems to establish the Corporate Sector.[12] The Jedi explorers did not record Barab I in the galactic registry, so the planet remained uncharted, until the scouts of Planetary Safaris Inc., an Imperial corporation organizing exotic hunting expeditions, discovered the Barabels.[17]

The Barabels never forgot the Jedi decree and never again fought over hunting territory.[15] They developed a rich mythology around the "great warriors from beyond the clouds,"[16] although the different stories sometimes mentioned a band of Jedi, sometimes a single Jedi with companions. Noga-ta was immortalized on pots[15] and wall carvings that were discovered by researchers hundreds of years later,[2] although some Barabels—who believed that outsider's meddling into the sacred past would rouse the spirits of the dead—made their efforts much harder.[15]

When the first Imperial scouts arrived at the planet, the Barabels treated them with respect, believing the Jedi heroes of their legends had returned "from beyond the clouds."[16][15] During the reign of the Galactic Empire, even in face of persecution, many Barabels refused to denounce the Jedi or the Force. They referred to the legend of the Barabel War,[1] when the Jedi stopped a thousand years of slaughter.[10] From that event onward, the Barabels had a deep respect for the Jedi[1] and accepted the judgment of a Jedi in any dispute great or small.[17]

Notable events[]

  • Around 902 BBY, Jedi explorer Noga-ta ended the Barabel War by settling a peace agreement over hunting grounds. (Approximate date)[2]

Behind the scenes[]

The year 902 BBY was only indirectly mentioned in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, which stated that Noga-ta settled the dispute among the Barabels "about 900 years before the Galactic Civil War."[2] Since the Galactic Civil War began in 2 BBY,[12] this article treats this description as the basis for the year. The end of the Barabel war had been mentioned in various earlier source materials describing the Barabels, but these sources provided no exact time frame for the event. In 2006, The New Essential Guide to Alien Species was the first to provide a date for the event by stating that a civil war erupted on Barab I around 4500 BBY, and Jedi "mediated a truce that is never broken."[9] However, in 2008, The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia placed the event around 902 BBY. In 2009, the Galaxy at War roleplaying sourcebook solved the discrepancy by stating that the civil war lasted for millennia and was settled "centuries before the Empire."[10]

Sources[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Dark Force Rising Sourcebook
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 386 ("Noga-ta")
  3. 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.
  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. 5.0 5.1 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 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. 6.0 6.1 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.
  7. 7.0 7.1 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.
  8. Dark Force Rising
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Galaxy at War
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 The Essential Atlas
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 The New Essential Chronology
  13. The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 363 ("Great Peace of the Republic")
  14. Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races, Second Edition
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 Alien Anthology
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons

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Years of the Great Peace of the Republic
1000 BBY · 998 BBY · 997 BBY · 996 BBY · 995 BBY · 992 BBY · 990 BBY
987 BBY · 980 BBY · 902 BBY · 900 BBY · 900s BBY · 899 BBY · 896 BBY
881 BBY · 868 BBY · 850 BBY · 832 BBY · 822 BBY · 800 BBY · 796 BBY
750 BBY · 738 BBY · 737 BBY · 722 BBY · 719 BBY · 704 BBY · 700 BBY
690s BBY · 684 BBY · 671 BBY · 654 BBY · 650 BBY · 620 BBY · 610 BBY
602 BBY · 600 BBY · 592 BBY · 590 BBY · 583 BBY · 580 BBY · 553 BBY
550 BBY · 539 BBY · 533 BBY · 532 BBY · 524 BBY · 522 BBY · 520 BBY
519 BBY · 517 BBY · 516 BBY · 509 BBY · 500 BBY · 499 BBY · 490 BBY
470 BBY · 460 BBY · 450 BBY · 440 BBY · 439 BBY · 420 BBY · 405 BBY
403 BBY · 402 BBY · 401 BBY · 400 BBY · 399 BBY · 398 BBY · 392 BBY
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230 BBY · 229 BBY · 222 BBY · 221 BBY · 220 BBY · 214 BBY · 212 BBY
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37 BBY · 36 BBY · 35 BBY · 34 BBY · 33 BBY · 32 BBY · 31 BBY
30 BBY · 29 BBY · 28 BBY · 27 BBY · 26 BBY · 25 BBY · 24 BBY
23 BBY · 22 BBY
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