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Unexplored Star Wars Eras?

VulcanMindBlown

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I was reading on my iPod Touch Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare and I realize that there two eras that seem to be unexplored:

1. The formation of the Galactic Republic, where Sid Bibbio said that there was a huge war around the time of the formation of the Galactic Republic (as opposed to the Old Republic.) Is this the Hundred-Years Darkness?

2. The remnants of the Confederacy of Independant Systems in the Outer Rim warring against the new Galactic Empire. The only thing that I could find was this Omnibus of the Dark Times (between Episode III and IV.) I saw on Wookiepedia that the skirmishes were only mentioned in Tarkin, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross-Sections, Star Wars: Battlefront II (Legends), Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption, and Cataylst: the Rogue One novel books.

Can someone confirm this? They didn't have sources in the eBook that I had.
 
For a thousand GENERATIONS the Jedi were guardians of peace in the Galaxy.

In contrast, the Republic that Palpatine destroyed was only in power for 1,000 YEARS.

Seems to me that there were plenty of eras prior to the most recent Republic(s)

How did the Jedi begin? What is their origin as a group?
 
There is also the old(er) republic. There was a republic before the one seen in the movies. It's been mentioned on Clone Wars and Rebels. It is implied that the Mandalorians either had a hand or took advantage of the fall to attack the Jedi temple
 
"For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic... before the dark times, before the Empire."

To me, this always meant that there was one long-lived republic that existed until the Empire took over.

Clear and simple, right? :shrug:

But then there was Palpatine's throwaway line about "this Republic that has stood for a thousand years," which everybody ran with, and which suddenly necessitated ret-conning about plural past republics and not just the one.

Kor
 
It may technically be one Republic, but it takes a few decades or centuries long breaks for a bit of Sith fueled totalitarianism.
 
Yeah, from what I've read the notion that the Sith overthrew the Old Republic once before was one Lucas has had since at least the development of TPM, if not earlier. If you read the TPM novelization (which unlike the other two Prequel novelizations seems to utterly ignore the EU) it gives a surprisingly detailed account of the rise and fall of the Sith, which I think could only have been based on Lucas's notes.

"The Sith had come into being almost two thousand years ago. They were a cult given over to the dark side of the Force, embracing fully the concept that power denied was power wasted. A rogue Jedi Knight had founded the Sith, a singular dissident in an order of harmonious followers, a rebel who understood from the beginning that the real power of the Force lay not in the light, but in the dark. Failing to gain approval for his beliefs from the Council, he had broken with the order, departing with his knowledge and his skills, swearing in secret that he could bring down those who had dismissed him.
He was alone at first, but others from the Jedi order who believed as he did and who had followed him in his study of the dark side soon came over. Others were recruited, and soon the ranks of the Sith swelled to than fifty in number. Disdaining the concepts of cooperation and consensus, relying on the belief that acquisition of power in any form lends strength and yields control, the Sith began to build their cult in opposition to the Jedi. Theirs was not an order created to serve; theirs was an order created to dominate.
Their war with the Jedi was vengeful and furious and ultimately doomed. The rogue Jedi who had founded the Sith order was its nominal leader, but his ambition excluded any sharing of power. His disciples began to conspire against him and each other almost from the beginning, so that the war they instigated was as much with each other as with the Jedi.
In the end, the Sith destroyed themselves. They destroyed their leader first, then each other. What few survived the initial bloodbath were quickly dispatched by watchful Jedi. In a matter of only weeks, all of them died.
All but one..."

"...The Sith who had survived when all of his fellows had died had understood that. He had adopted patience as a virtue when the others had forsaken it. He had adopted cunning, stealth, and subterfuge as the foundation of his way-old Jedi virtues the others had disdained. He stood aside while the Sith tore at each other like kriks and were destroyed.
When the carnage was complete, he went into hiding, biding his time, waiting for his chance. When it was believed all of the Sith were destroyed, he emerged from his concealment.
At first he worked alone, but he was growing old and he was the last of his kind. Eventually, he went out in search of an apprentice. Finding one, he trained him to be a Master in his turn, then to find his own apprentice, and so to carry on their work. But there would only be two at anyone time. There would be no repetition of the mistakes of the old order, no struggle between Siths warring for power within the cult.
Their common enemy was the Jedi, not each other. It was for their war with the Jedi they must save themselves. The Sith who reinvented the order called himself Darth Bane."
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Whether he had this idea earlier than that is unclear as he tended to keep this stuff close to the chest until it's needed, presumably to allow for story flexibility if a better idea occurs to him later.

Indeed, a version of the opening crawl from the 3rd draft indicates that the "for over a thousand generations" line was actually "a thousand years": -

The REPUBLIC GALACTICA is dead. Ruthless
trader barons, driven by greed and the
lust for power, have replaced enlighten-
ment with oppression, and "rule by the
people" with the FIRST GALACTIC EMPIRE.

For over a thousand years, generations of
JEDI KNIGHTS were the guardians of peace
and justice in the galaxy. Now these
legendary warriors are all but extinct.
One by one they have been hunted down and
destroyed by the sinister agents of the
Emperor: the DARK LORDS OF THE SITH.​
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Mind you, going back earlier to the 2nd draft and the Jedi have been around for a hundred thousand years!

The REPUBLIC GALACTICA is dead. Ruthless
trader barons, driven by greed and the lust for
power, have replaced enlightenment with
oppression, and "rule by the people" with the
FIRST GALACTIC EMPIRE.

Until the tragic Holy Rebellion of "06", the
respected JEDI BENDU OF ASHLA were the most
powerful warriors in the Universe. For a
hundred thousand years, generations of Jedi
Bendu knights learned the ways of the
mysterious FORCE OF OTHERS, and acted as the
guardians of peace and justice in the
REPUBLIC. Now these legendary warriors are all
but extinct. One by one they have been hunted
down and destroyed by a ferocious rival sect of
mercenary warriors: THE BLACK KNIGHTS OF THE
SITH.

It is a period of civil wars. The EMPIRE is
crumbling into lawless barbarism throughout the
million worlds of the galaxy. From the
celestial equator to the farthest reaches of
the GREAT RIFT, seventy small solar systems
have united in a common war against the tyranny
of the Empire. Under the command of a mighty
Jedi warrior known as THE STARKILLER, the REBEL
ALLIANCE has won a crushing victory over the
deadly Imperial Star Fleet. The Empire knows
that one more such defeat will bring a thousand
more solar systems into the rebellion, and
Imperial control of the Outlands could be lost
forever...​
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Personally, I'm still of the opinion that the "dark times" Kenobi references doesn't refer to the rise of the Empire as most assume, but to that period when the Sith broke away from the Jedi and started carving out Empires for themselves.
I also like to think that certain elements of the various early drafts could been folded into the events of this period. "The Holy Rebellion" (called the "Great Rebellion" in the rough draft) could refer to the Sith breaking away from the Jedi en mass, civil wars throughout the galaxy as those Sith ferment chaos acquire their dominions, Sith Knights hunting down scattered Jedi and who knows, maybe at some point a lone Princess was escorted through Sith territory to a hidden fortress by a venerable Jedi General named Luke Starkiller? ;)
 
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Kor said:
"For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic... before the dark times, before the Empire."

To me, this always meant that there was one long-lived republic that existed until the Empire took over.

Clear and simple, right? :shrug:

But then there was Palpatine's throwaway line about "this Republic that has stood for a thousand years," which everybody ran with, and which suddenly necessitated ret-conning about plural past republics and not just the one.

Kor
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Maybe referring to specific governments, or that the member planets and sectors had been stable for a 1,000 years.
 
There was also the Hutt Wars that was in my reference book, but not listed in any sort of story form. I wished that they explored it....
 
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