ANCIENT SETNIN HISTORY ERA

 

The era of stabilisation, development and massive growth throughout the Setnin Sector.  As part of the Republic, the Setnin Sector thrived and grew to exert a huge influence over her neighbouring sectors...

 

2500 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         The En’K’Far murders the P’ro royal family and steal their riches, keeping them hidden in a secret location until their discovery millennia later.

 

2000 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Shallamballa, Abrogardian religious profit, predicts rainfall on the arid Verlence Sector world.  His predictions prove to be correct, and it never stops raining.  Two thousand years later his prophecy was celebrated annually by the religious festival of Shallamballa.

-         The alien race known as the Bedois begins an academy on their homeworld of Bedois, later to be renamed Alganar III.

 

1875 years before Battle of Yavin

 

ESTABLISHMENT OF DESANDO DYNAMICS

 

-         Desando Dynamics begin operating out of the city of Ecaps on the world of A-desando.  Later to become the pre-eminent starship manufacturer in the Setnin Sector, Desando Dynamics begins its life as a swoop and speeder builder, later up rating to fighters, starships and its most popular item, freighters.

 

1650 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Desando Dynamics successfully launches an orbiting starship yards above the world of Halando, sister planet to A-desando.  With profits and demand high, the two worlds embark on a project to make the worlds of the Desando System both rich and successful.

-         The Halando government, envious of the success of her sister world, levies a high taxation on the station yard, causing friction to re-emerge between the perennially warring worlds.  Disgusted at this turn of events, the president of Desando Dynamics has the yard ferried back into orbit of A-desando in a geostationary orbit above Ecaps City.

 

1542 years before Battle of Yavin

 

CONSTRUCTION OF COMMODOR BEGINS

 

-         A conglomerate of starship design companies looking for a world suitable for expansion and development build on the world of Commodor.  With a small population of inhabitants eager for off-world money and industry to be brought to their world, the flat arid plains of Commodor are soon replaced by starship repair yards, construction facilities and skyhooks which link the surface to the massive orbital yards and capital ship repair stations above.

 

1238 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Arcc Nedeen is born on Bedois.

 

1200 years before Battle of Yavin

 

CREATION OF THE KI-KI ORDER OF MINDS

 

-         After a long period of relative peace between the systems, Prime Lord Hundaya Kreaiden, realises that resources are running low. To cut costs and make money they invest in a simple outmoded communication system called Enhancers, which amplify the thoughts of telepaths that are rife throughout the worlds. The Order of the Minds is created to handle all comm. traffic.

 

1160 years before Battle of Yavin

 

KI-KI EXPANSION BEGINS

 

-         The new communications layout is not enough to increase funds so the Prime Lord decrees that other worlds must be sought out and absorbed by the newly named Ki-Ki Sector.

 

1100 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         The Moorsh Conglomerate is invaded by the Ki-Ki Sector and forced into membership.

 

1022 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         The Ruusan Reformation, the name given to this point in galactic history. The Republic Measures and Standards Bureau reset the galactic calendar producing the most accurate depiction of galactic time known to the Republic.

 

1005 years before Battle of Yavin

 

1005-BBY - A Forgotten Conflict

 

JEDI/BEDOIS CLASH ON BEDOIS

 

-         The Jedi Knights and the Bedois clash for the final time on Bedois, leaving tens of thousands dead.  Arcc Nedeen is the sole Bedois survivor and despite terrible wounds flees the planet – taking the life forces of his dead compatriots with him.

 

1003 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Two years after the Jedi – Bedois confrontation, unlicensed settlers arrive on Bedois and officially rename it Alganar III.  After strange accidents and illnesses wipe out many of the settlers they swiftly decide to leave.

 

1000 years before Battle of Yavin

 

QUARANTINING OF ALGANAR III

 

-         The Republic Senate, in conjunction with the Jedi Council, declares Alganar III a quarantined world.  Its location is removed from star charts and gazetteers and the topic of Alganar III becomes a forbidden subject throughout the Republic.

-         Believing the Sith to be finally extinct, the Jedi give up the use of battle armour, a symbolic gesture designed to show the Republic that the Jedi will not become a conquering army.

-         The being known as Corlan P’ur creates a Dark Side creature that is a pure vessel of power by combining Dark Side energies and gene science. His aim is to create an army of beings with which he could defeat the Jedi.

-         Unsatisfied with its position as a servant of the Sith Lord, the creature attempts revolt. However, it doesn‘t succeed and is trapped and imprisoned by Corlan P’ur. Unable to make the creature do his bidding, and unable to destroy it, Corlan P’ur sends it into permanent exile, trapped within a specialised energy cage.

-         Corlan P’urs creature is buried far underground with a self-generating energy source, on a planet somewhere within the Setnin Sector.

 

900 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         The Three Star Assembly, afraid of the Ki-Ki war machine and what it would do to their population, requests official membership into the Ki-Ki Sector.

 

896 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Yoda, the future Jedi Master and teacher of countless Jedi including Anakin and Luke Skywalker, Zeboden and Ade-arr B’erain is born.

 

816 years before Battle of Yavin

 

ESTABLISHMENT OF MODERN CHANCAI TRADE CENTRE

 

-         The first foundations of what is to become the modern Chancai Trade Centre are laid down on the site where the ancient Zelonians held their first markets thousands of years before.

 

803 years before Battle of Yavin

 

DECLARATION OF THE SETNIN COUNCIL

 

-         The Setnin Council is officially declared.  Taking the ancient Chamber of Systems on the Zelonian moon of Benesk the council is initially made up of twenty-five systems, but in later years will grow to include many more and become the political engine that drives the entire sector through wars, famine and strife.

 

700 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         A horrific plague known as the Death Seed tears through the galaxy, wiping out and destroying entire sectors of their populations of sending them back to a Stone Age barbarism.  While managing to avoid the effects of the plague, neighbouring sectors such as the Ki-Ki and Brother Sectors are affected.

 

600 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Jabba Desilijic Tiure, otherwise known as Jabba the Hutt, is born to Zorba the Hutt on Nal Hutta.  While never entering the Setnin Sector, the Hutts activities in later centuries have a great effect on her citizens, as his actions do in countless other sectors across the galaxy.

 

550 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         The Ki-Ki Houses of Trade are created out of newly conquered worlds and control all business with worlds beyond the Ki-Ki borders.

 

400 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-       On A-desando, four young Jedi trainees, preparing for their final tests to become Jedi Knights, find a Sith artefact.  Overcome by its dark power they turned to the dark side and begin a murderous killing spree.  They are eventually quelled by fellow Jedi.

 

350 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         The formation of the Trade Federation.  A massive conglomeration of various corporations and special interest groups, among her founding members are the Neimoidians.  Over the years the Trade Federation becomes a giant in trade and politics and becomes one of the few non-planetary members of the Galactic Senate.

 

300 years before Battle of Yavin

 

KI-KI SECTOR REFUSES OFFER OF ADMISSION INTO THE REPUBLIC

 

-         The Ki-Ki Sector refuses membership of the Republic, instead preferring to stand-alone and determine her own future, laws and rules.

-         The Jedi begins to operate the process of one master, one apprentice.  Learning from past history they decide that a Jedi Knight may only take on one Padawan at a time, therefore stopping the mass proliferation of sith as has happened in the past.  As a consequence of this, the numbers of Jedi throughout the galaxy begin to dwindle.

 

175 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         The Games are created for the entertainment of the citizens of the Ki-Ki Sector. Once again, lack of resources threatens to split the sector so Prime Lord Kiri Kreaiden creates staged battles to remind the citizens of their duty to the sector and to honour the dead who created the sector.

 

GALACTIC DISGUST AT KI-KI GAMES

 

-         Initially the Games are simple plays, but soon degenerate into genuine deaths and combat in the arenas. The spectacle is condemned by the rest of the galaxy, especially the Republic, and Ki-Ki is all but shunned.

 

172 years before Battle of Yavin

 

LEOGARD DISCOVERED

 

-         The planet Leogard is discovered by explorers mapping out new sections of the Setnin Sector.  Hidden by a huge dark dustcloud, the sun of Leogard manages to push its light through the cloud, giving the planet an eternal twilight.

 

160 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Future Jedi Master Zeboden is born on the world of Crilik in the Wildspace region of the galaxy.

 

155 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         The first geologists arrive on Leogard and begin to test the planet for future mining operations.

-         Zeboden is taken from his homeworld and arrives on Coruscant for his training under the watchful eye of Yoda and the Jedi Council.

 

140 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Already apprenticed to an aged Jedi, Zeboden leaves Coruscant and journeys to the Setnin Sector, where he begins his formal training as a Jedi.

 

126 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Zelons government sets down guidelines stating that the already massive Chancai Trade Centre shall not exceed twenty-two levels and not encroach upon native Zelonian territories in the jungles of the Mutumbarr Lake region.

 

107 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         The Zelonian government is overthrown and replaced by the greedy Zelonian Trade Guilds.  All previous rulings governing the expansion of the Trade City are rewritten and permission is given for Chancai to continue its expansion.  Level twenty-three is begun.

 

106 years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         The Class Three Haruuga trading vessel later to be owned by Captain Pellone is launched from the Iralini Shipyards.

 

Ninety years before Battle of Yavin

 

KI-KI AND BROTHER SECTORS STAND-OFF AT THE BATTLE OF FEDARN

 

-         A border skirmish between the Ki-Ki Sector and the Brother Sector almost leads to full-scale war but mediators from the Republic and the Setnin Sector intercede to stop the possible conflict.

-         The Ki-Ki Sector, hoping to use the skirmish as a justification to take fresh worlds from the Brother Sector, harbour a great resentment towards both Setnin and the Republic for their interference

 

Eighty years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Aurran is activated for the first time aboard the Republic cruiser Renown III.

 

Seventy-six years before Battle of Yavin

 

DEATH OF BEAYANCE TREASE

 

-         Beayance Trease, ruler of the Setnin underworld is assassinated.

 

DUZE JOSTENN TAKES CONTROL OF SETNIN UNDERWORLD

 

-         Duze Jostenn steps into the power vacuum vacated by Trease and takes control of the Setnin Sector underworld.  With huge resources and contacts, Jostenn runs his activities from his headquarters on Yotil through the Battle of Naboo, the Clone Wars and the transition of the Republic into the Galactic Empire.

 

Seventy-two years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Glann Cipple is born into the Muyaden travelling tribe.

 

Sixty-eight years before Battle of Yavin

 

BIRTHS OF ADE-ARR B’ERAIN AND ASTORR GORRE

 

-         The future Jedi Knight Ade-arr B’erain and his twin brother Add-wan are born in the underground town of Thoden, close to the city of Hweg Shul on Nam Chorios.

-         Astorr Gorre is born on the remote Setnin world of Tegenar.

 

THE FIGHTING INDIGOS TAKE ON DUZE JOSTENN

 

-         The Fighting Indigos, a crack squad of soldiers who fought for the Republic as well as for other organist ions, tackle the newly crowned ganglord Duze Jostenn on his headquarters on Yotil.  Unsuccessful in their attempt to have him eliminated, they barely manage to escape with their lives.

 

Sixty-seven years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Aurran is purchased by the A-desando Security Forces and sees a massive slice of the Mid-Rim on his travels.

 

Sixty-two years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         The Muyaden, a race of peaceful travellers searching for a home enters the Corb Sector and finds the planet Klaem.

-         Ade-arr B’erain is taken from his parents on Nam Chorios by Jedi Master Zeboden when it is discovered that his use of the force is setting off huge electrical force storms on the planet.  He is taken to Coruscant where he studies the force as a youngling under Master Yoda.

 

Sixty years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Four infamous warlords flee to the Despot System in the Setnin Sector and entrench themselves to hide from a common, unseen enemy.  They never leave the system again and die there.

-         Eight-year-old Astorr Gorre refuses to train on Coruscant, insisting that he wants to stay with his parents and be normal. 

-         Jedi Knight Zeboden, the Jedi who protects the world of Tegenar, informs the Jedi Council on Coruscant of Astorr Gorre’s decision, saying he will keep a close eye on his development.  The Jedi reluctantly accept this.

-         Narn Giappa Lomona, father of Jan and brother of Ade is born on the planet Halando, sister world of A-desando in the Desando System.

 

Fifty-seven years before Battle of Yavin

 

-         Guta Cipple, leader of the Muyaden, decides it’s time for his fifteen year old son Glann son to lead the Muyaden. As his sons first task as leader he instructs him to meet with Longbody, an ancient alien inhabitant of Klaem who the Muyaden want off their adopted world.

 

GLANN CIPPLE BETRAYS HIS FAMILY

 

-         Longbody informs Glann that unless the Muyaden leave they will all die by his hand.  Fearful for his own life Glann agrees to betray his people in return for his life.