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  1. 32 BBYSidious kills his master Darth PlagueisOn Coruscant, in a residential complex belonging to the Muun Hego Damask, the apprentice strikes at his master. Darth Sidious kills Darth Plagueis in his sleep, completing years of training under the Rule of Two and remaining the sole full Lord of the Sith on the eve of a decisive year for the Republic.
  2. 29 BBYObi-Wan and Anakin set out for Zonama SekotObi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice Anakin Skywalker arrive on the living planet Zonama Sekot to learn about the mysterious organic ships considered among the fastest in the galaxy and to find the missing Jedi Vergere. The planet's seed-partners grow a ship for them, which Anakin names Jabitha.
  3. 29 BBYSienar and Tarkin's fleet attacks Zonama SekotA force under the command of Raith Sienar and Wilhuff Tarkin attacks Zonama Sekot. During the battle, Anakin Skywalker defeats the Blood Carver assassin Ke Daiv, after which the Jedi leave the system and head for the planet Selin.
  4. 29 BBYRaith Sienar develops the battle planetoid designThe designer Raith Sienar prepares plans for an expeditionary battle planetoid, a huge mobile station. This design will become the starting point for the project from which the Death Star later grows.
  5. 22 BBYDeath of Governor Ghez Hokan on QiiluraPadawan Etain Tur-Mukan, who lost her master Kast Fulier, finishes off Ghez Hokan, the commander of the local militia, and takes her fallen master's lightsaber from him. After Omega Squad is evacuated, she remains on the planet with Master Arligan Zey.
  6. 22 BBYMace Windu ends the Summertime War on Haruun KalThe cyclical war between the Korunnai and the Balawai, which had become a proxy front of the Clone Wars, comes to an end. The Korunnai, led by Windu and Billaba, take the Pelek Baw spaceport, Windu overcomes Depa Billaba and Kar Vastor, and the sides then agree, with him as mediator, to form a joint democratic government.
  7. 22 BBYSabotage by Omega Squad on QiiluraFour clone commandos, Niner, Darman, Fi, and Atin, operate as Omega Squad for the first time. Their mission on Separatist-held Qiilura is to destroy the laboratory where a nanovirus lethal to clones was being developed and to capture the project's leader, Dr. Ovolot Qail Uthan.
  8. 22 BBYDepa Billaba's fall to the dark sideJedi Master Depa Billaba, sent to raise a resistance on Haruun Kal, loses contact with the Order. A recovered recording of her voice reveals madness and cruelty, and Mace Windu, arriving on his home planet, becomes convinced that his former Padawan has turned to the dark side and is guilty of war crimes.
  9. c. 19 BBYMeeting of Yoda and Count Dooku on VjunDooku invites his former master to truce negotiations, but the meeting at Château Malreaux turns out to be a trap. Yoda tries to bring his apprentice back from the dark side, but the conversation breaks down with the arrival of Kenobi and Skywalker and turns into a duel, and Dooku escapes together with Ventress.
  10. c. 19 BBYAsajj Ventress kills Masters Jai Maruk and Maks LeemDiscovering the ruse with Yoda's double, the dark Jedi Asajj Ventress intercepts the real Grand Master at the Phindar spaceport. Masters Jai Maruk and Maks Leem, who were escorting Yoda, are killed in the fight with her and the battle droids, and their Padawans continue on with Yoda.
  11. 19 BBYGrievous destroys refugee ships at BelderoneHaving cracked the Separatist code through a captured transmitter, Republic intelligence thwarts the invasion of Belderone. Realizing that the battle is lost, General Grievous fires on the evacuation ships before withdrawing: more than ten thousand people are killed, including twenty-seven Jedi.
  12. 19 BBYJedi seize Nute Gunray's mechno-chair on Cato NeimoidiaAn operation to capture the Viceroy of the Trade Federation fails: Gunray slips away but abandons his mechno-chair with its built-in transceiver. Anakin Skywalker disables the chair's self-destruct, and the Republic obtains a recording of the Viceroy's communications with Darth Sidious.
  13. 19 BBYJedi hunt for Darth Sidious in Coruscant's industrial districtThe trail from the captured transmitter leads Mace Windu and Shaak Ti to an abandoned industrial district of the capital. A search party of troopers and Padawans makes its way through the tunnels from Sidious's lair to the Senate District and emerges at the 500 Republica skyscraper, but the operation is cut short by the start of the attack on Coruscant.
  14. 19 BBYDeath of Senator Fang Zar on AlderaanThe Emperor orders Vader to capture Fang Zar, the troublesome senator from Sern Prime. The Dark Lord catches up with the fugitives on Alderaan just as they are preparing to leave and kills the senator with his lightsaber; his companions manage to save the badly wounded Jula, Roan Shryne's mother.
  15. 19 BBYFall of Kashyyyk and death of Roan ShryneImperial assault forces land on Kashyyyk, where the surviving Jedi fight side by side with the Wookiees. Roan Shryne takes on Vader to let Olee Starstone escape and is killed; Chewbacca gets the remaining Jedi away, and the planet falls under the Empire's control.
  16. 19 BBYVader investigates the unexecuted order on MurkhanaA few weeks after the fall of the Jedi Order, the Emperor sends his apprentice to Murkhana: some of the clones failed to finish exterminating the Jedi. There the Dark Lord duels Master Bol Chatak and kills her, but Roan Shryne and the Padawan Olee Starstone manage to escape the planet.
  17. 19 BBYNosaurian resistance crushed on New PlymptoImperial forces wipe out the Nosaurian resistance on its home planet. The only survivors are the former Jedi General Dass Jennir and the scout Bomo Greenbark, who make their way to the spaceport and, unable to find their fellow Nosaurians' families, arrange help with the crew of a passing ship.
  18. c. 18 BBYDeath of Kento Marek and the emergence of the secret apprenticeVader arrives on Kashyyyk on the trail of a Jedi protecting the Wookiees and kills Kento Marek. Discovering that the dead man's young son is unusually strong, the Dark Lord kills his own subordinates, takes the boy, and secretly raises him behind the Emperor's back as an apprentice under the name Starkiller.
  19. c. 10 BBYHan Solo escapes from Garris ShrikeA young man raised on a pirate ship under the rule of Garris Shrike decides to run away and hire on as a pilot on Ylesia. The escape is discovered; in the fight, the Wookiee cook Dewlanna mortally wounds Shrike but is killed herself, and her pupil leaves the ship on a cargo run, taking with him a knowledge of the Wookiee language.
  20. c. 5 BBYChewbacca's life debt to Han SoloA smuggler discharged from Imperial service runs into a Wookiee whom he saved from slavers and who now considers himself bound by a life debt. On Nar Shaddaa, the partners find work with a smuggler pilot and then enter the service of the Hutts Jabba and Jiliac.
  21. 3 BBYDeath of Shaak Ti on FeluciaVader's secret apprentice tracks down on Felucia a Togruta master who survived the extermination of the Jedi and was training local Force-sensitives. She sends her Padawan into hiding and gives battle near a sarlacc's nest, but loses, and before dying warns the victor that the Sith always betray one another.
  22. c. 3 BBYSearch for the Mindharp in the Rafa systemHaving won the droid Vuffi Raa at sabacc, the gambling entrepreneur sets out to claim a prize in the Rafa system, where he is arrested on a trumped-up charge. The governor and a sorcerer of Tund force him to search for the Mindharp, an ancient artifact of the vanished Sharu race, giving him a miniaturized Key.
  23. 2 BBYCorellian Treaty and the Imperial trapOn Corellia, scattered groups opposed to the Empire sign a treaty establishing a unified military coalition. As soon as the document is declared ratified, Imperial troops seize the building: the meeting was a staged trap, and the “Jedi” accompanying the conspirators reveals himself as Vader's apprentice.
  24. c. 2 BBYHan Solo wins the Millennium FalconAt a sabacc tournament in Cloud City, the smuggler beats the former owner of a YT-1300 light freighter in the final game and wins the ship. He then begins modifying the vessel for smuggling and, with his partner, stops at Kashyyyk, where the partner is getting married.
  25. 1 BBYVirus outbreak on the prison barge PurgeBecause of an engine failure, an Imperial prison barge docks with an abandoned Star Destroyer, and a boarding party brings an unknown contagion aboard. Almost the entire crew and the prisoners die and turn into aggressive undead; only a handful of people survive, including two smuggler prisoners.
  26. c. 0 ABYBattle for Poln MajorThe warlord Nuso Esva abducted the family of Candoras sector governor Bidor Ferrouz and forced him to offer the Alliance a base in order to lure Captain Thrawn into the Poln system and frame him. The Hand of Judgment squad repelled three attacks by Esva's forces, and Mara Jade freed the governor's wife and daughter and decided not to accuse him of treason.
  27. c. 0 ABYDestruction of the pirate base on GepparinThe Emperor's Hand Mara Jade infiltrated the base of the Bloodscar pirates on Gepparin. At the same time, Captain Kendal Ozzel and ISB Colonel Vak Somoril sent the Star Destroyer Reprisal there, intending to destroy the base along with Jade herself. The base was destroyed and almost all of the pirates were killed, but Caaldra, the gang leader's deputy, managed to escape.
  28. c. 0 ABYDisaster at Deepspace BeshSubjected to Imperial conditioning, the Alliance mathematician Jorin Sol gave away the rebel fleet's retreat algorithms. Darth Vader's fleet, led by the Executor, launched a surprise attack on the rebels, heavily damaging the flagship and wounding Leia Organa. Coming to his senses, Sol persuaded the scout Tungo Li to send the ships into hyperspace at random, which saved the fleet at the cost of heavy losses.
  29. c. 0 ABYDesertion of the Hand of Judgment unitAfter refusing to fire on civilians on the planet Teardrop, the stormtrooper Daric LaRone killed Imperial Security Bureau Major Drelfin in self-defense. Together with four fellow troopers, he left the Star Destroyer Reprisal and formed a band of self-appointed avengers that called itself the Hand of Judgment.
  30. c. 0 ABYJanek Sunber's feigned defectionImperial Lieutenant Janek Sunber, Luke Skywalker's childhood friend from Tatooine, approached Darth Vader with a plan to lure the young rebel into a trap. Sunber sent word that he wished to defect to the Alliance, Skywalker went after him against orders, and the operation turned into an Imperial strike on the rebel fleet.
  31. c. 0 ABYMarblewood estate heist on WukkarHan Solo assembled a crew of about a dozen people, including Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, and Winter, to crack the vault of Avrak Villachor, the Black Sun sector chief, at the Marblewood estate on the planet Wukkar. The job was commissioned by the bounty hunter Boba Fett, posing as a wronged businessman. The stolen sum turned out to be smaller than promised, and the Black Sun Vigo Qazadi was killed by Fett.
  32. c. 0 ABYSkirmish on Shelkonwa and the execution of Governor ChoardShelsha sector governor Barshnis Choard and his administrator Vilim Disra were preparing to take the sector out of the Empire with the help of pirates. Leia Organa, who had come for negotiations, was betrayed by Disra, and the Executor arrived at the capital, Makrin City, with the 501st Legion. Luke Skywalker and Han Solo got Leia out, and Mara Jade and the Hand of Judgment squad eliminated the traitor Choard.
  33. c. 2 ABYDuel in the Temple of PomojemaAt the Temple of Pomojema on Mimban, Darth Vader got ahead of the crystal seekers and fought Leia Organa and Luke Skywalker at once. He defeated Organa and knocked Skywalker down, but lost his right arm to a lightsaber strike and lost the fight. After obtaining the crystal, Skywalker healed himself and Organa.
  34. c. 2 ABYSearch for the Kaiburr crystal on MimbanLuke Skywalker and Leia Organa crash-landed on the swampy planet Mimban, also known as Circarpous V. There, the old seeker Halla showed them a shard of the Kaiburr crystal and a map to the Temple of Pomojema. The crystal, which amplified the abilities of a Force-sensitive near the temple, became the goal of a joint expedition.
  35. c. 3.5 ABYBattle of GallLearning from the mercenary Dash Rendar that Boba Fett's ship Slave I had put in for repairs at Gall, the rebels tried to recover the frozen Han Solo. Rogue Squadron under Luke Skywalker had to tie up the Imperial fighters while Rendar, Calrissian, and Organa fought their way to Fett's ship. Fett escaped, and the battle ended in a draw.
  36. c. 3.5 ABYDeath of Prince Xizor and destruction of his skyhookThe Falleen prince Xizor, underworld lord of the Black Sun syndicate, tried to eliminate Luke Skywalker in order to take Darth Vader's place beside the Emperor. While Palpatine was inspecting the second Death Star, Vader intercepted an incriminating message and ordered the Executor to destroy the orbital skyhook station above Coruscant. Xizor died along with the station.
  37. c. 4 ABYBakura joins the new rebel governmentAfter the defeat of the Ssi-ruuk and the liberation of the planet, the government of Bakura joined the union that had succeeded the Alliance. To deter further invasions, a task force was sent to the Ssi-ruuk star cluster. The Alliance itself was soon reorganized into the Alliance of Free Planets, the forerunner of the New Republic.
  38. c. 4 ABYBattle of Bakura and the truce with the EmpireShortly after Endor, the Alliance intercepted an Imperial probe carrying a call for help from Bakura's governor Wilek Nereus, whose planet was under attack by the reptilian Ssi-ruuk. The rebels and the Imperial garrison concluded a temporary truce and together repelled the invasion, after which Nereus broke the agreement and attacked his allies. His death, an uprising of the Bakurans, and the defection of commander Pter Thanas to the Alliance led to the surrender of the Imperial garrison.