679 BBY, or 679[1] Before the Battle of Yavin, was a year in the 'ABY-BBY' dating system.[6] Around that year,[1] a starship that would eventually fall into the hands of the family of the Evereni species known as Faers was constructed.[5]
Behind the scenes[]
679 BBY was indirectly mentioned in the short story "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," written by Tessa Gratton and published in the 2023 young-adult anthology The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.[5]
Appearances[]
- "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life (First mentioned, simultaneous with audiobook) (Indirect mention only)
- "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life audiobook (Indirect mention only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The segment of "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" depicting a Jedi's death onboard the Gaze Electric takes place around 379 BBY per the reasoning here. Marda Ro met the Faers after the Jedi's death; therefore, she must have met them no earlier than 379 BBY. The starship being three centuries old is established during their encounter, meaning it must have been created around 679 BBY.
- ↑ Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious dates the assassination attempt on Padmé Amidala on Coruscant and the carbon-freezing of Han Solo—events that Star Wars: Timelines places in the years 22 BBY and 3 ABY of the 'ABY-BBY' dating system, respectively—to 7955.442.1 and 7980.421.2 in the Coruscant reckoning calendar, therefore establishing a difference of approximately 7,977 years between the two dating systems.
- ↑ Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide places the founding of the Galactic Empire in the year 3258 LY of the Lothal Calendar. Star Wars: Timelines dates the proclamation of the New Order to 19 BBY, placing the zero point—the Battle of Yavin—of the 'ABY-BBY' dating system around 3277 LY and therefore establishing a difference of approximately 3,277 years between the two dating systems.
- ↑ Per Star Wars: The Rebel Files, a calendar existed during the reign of the Galactic Empire the zero point of which was the Empire's founding. Star Wars: Timelines dates the proclamation of the New Order to the year 19 BBY of the 'ABY-BBY' dating system, therefore establishing a difference of approximately nineteen years between the two dating systems.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
- ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas