Ancient Setnin History

3,000 BSW4

• • • Freia Kallea maps the Hydian Way. This expands the definition of the Republic, which had originally been defined by a wedge between the Perlemian Trade Route and Corellian Run. Wide-scale colonization of the northern and southern quadrants of the galaxy begin, shortly leading to the establishment of the Rimma Trade Route and Corellian Trade Spine.
    • Corellia StarDrive is bought out by Corellia Engineering Systems.

2,973 BSW4

• • • A new Galactic Senate building is constructed on Coruscant.

2,500 BSW4

• • • 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.

2,000 BSW4

• • • Shallamballa, the Abrogardian prophet, predicts rainfall on the arid Verlence system world. His predictions prove to be correct, and rained for six straight months. Two thousand years later his prophecy was celebrated annually by the festival of Shallamballa.
    • The alien race known as the Bedois begins an academy on their homeworld of Bedois, later to be renamed Alganar III.
    • Incom Corporation is formed.

1,989 BSW4

• • • Coruscant’s lower levels are taken by the underworld.

1,980 BSW4

• • • Lord Ecclessis Figg builds Cloud City in the skies of Bespin.

1,875 BSW4

• • • Desando Dynamics begins operating out of the city of Ecaps on the world of A-desando. Later to become the pre-eminent starship manufacturer in the Sedapard Cluster, Desando Dynamics begins its life as a swoop and speeder manufacturer.

1,650 BSW4

• • • 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.

1,542 BSW4

• • • 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.

1,238 BSW4

• • • Arcc Nedeen is born on Bedois, the world later renamed Alganar III.

1,200 BSW4

• • • 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 Ki-Ki worlds. The Order of the Minds is created to handle all comm. traffic.

1,160 BSW4

• • • 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.

1,100 BSW4

• • • The Moorsh Conglomerate is invaded by the Ki-Ki sector and forced into membership.
    • The Republic enters its dark age where it can no longer afford to maintain its communications network. It’s forced to drop all contact with settlements outside of the Core and made to rely on courier ships.
    • Tatooine is surveyed for the first time by the Republic Survey Corps and deemed habitable.

1,005 BSW4

• • • 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.

A Forgotten Conflict

1,003 BSW4

• • • 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.
    • Around this time, Jedi Master Hoth becomes the leading figure on the Republic‘s side of the war versus the Sith.

1,000 BSW4

• • • 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.
    • Doonium becomes the metal alloy of choice for capital ship construction.
    • The game Dejarik is invented. The idea behind the game is to use representations of real and mythical creatures from a number of cultures.
    • Ancient Huttese again comes into use.
    • Corellian Engineering Corporation releases the unsuccessful YV series of vessels.
    • Orin, the second planet in the Bespin system, is knocked from its orbit and the Velser‘s Ring asteroid belt is formed.
    • The legendary Rule of Two is born.
    • The Jedi Order centralizes its activities. The Jedi centre on Coruscant is expanded into Jedi Temple. The Great Library of Ossus is emptied and all Jedi knowledge brought into the Jedi Archives of Coruscant‘s Jedi Temple.
    • The Republic Measures and Standards Bureau reset the galactic calendar producing the most accurate depiction of galactic time known to the Republic.
    • 1024 regional sectors are created, each represented in the Senate by a single senator.
    • Following the Ruusan Reformations the sectors of the Sedapard Cluster are not listed among the 1024 regional sectors but instead forms what becomes known as the Sedapard Alignment, with seven individual representatives standing in the senate.
    • Senator Arsis Datter of Zelon in the Yatchrare system becomes the next senator to represent Setnin affairs in the Senate.
    • To reduce the potential of a Sith resurgence, the Jedi Order begin training children from birth. This training of Padawans is centralized on Coruscant to reduce the chances of unsupervised students delving into forbidden Sith knowledge.

900 BSW4

• • • 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 BSW4

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

816 BSW4

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

803 BSW4

• • • 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 sector through wars, famine and strife.
    • All future senators representing Setnin affairs in the Galactic senate are voted for by the Council on Benesk and by default represent the world of Zelon. Each representative of the Sedapard Alignment has a different voting system unique to it’s own political mechanisms.

700 BSW4

• • • Around this era, Cybot Galactica introduces the WED Treadwell Repair Droid.

600 BSW4

• • • Jabba Desilijic Tiure, otherwise known as Jabba the Hutt, is born to Zorba the Hutt on Nal Hutta. While rarely encroaching on the Setnin sector, the Hutts activities do reach other sectors in the Sedapard Cluster and in later centuries has a great effect on her citizens, as his actions do in countless other sectors across the galaxy.

550 BSW4

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

500 BSW4

• • • Modern Huttese enters common usage.
    • The Wookiees make enemies of the Trandoshans.

490 BSW4

• • • The Corporate Sector is established.

350 BSW4

• • • The Trade Federation is formed. A mega corporation, the Trade Federation was a massive conglomeration of various corporations and special interest groups and among her founding members were the Neimoidians. Over the years the Trade
      Federation became a giant in trade and politics and one of the few non-planetary members of the Galactic Senate.

322 BSW4

• • • Cybot Galactic begins using the Universal Socket Interface when building droids, allowing droid parts between companies to be swapped back and forth.

The High Republic Era

300 BSW4

• • • The Ki-Ki sector breaks away from the Sedapard Alignment, preferring to stand-alone and determine her own future, laws and rules.
    • The remaining six members of the Sedapard Alignment convene emergency talks to solidify the agreements they have in place, which have worked well to the benefit of all sectors for the past 700 years. Those sectors are Setnin, Brother, Quarshannell, Tak-Atane, Parsnec and Daz-Raa.

219 BSW4

• • • The Dark Side of the Force begins to gain in power.

200 BSW4

• • • Chewbacca is born on Kashyyyk.

194 BSW4

• • • The word spice becomes the common terminology for illegal substances, especially within the Setnin sector where the spice planets of Gista and Noscage have thrived for centuries. Indeed, Gista gave its name to a prominent hyperspace
      lane, the Gista Trail, leading beyond the sector and the Sedapard Cluster towards the Outer Rim Territories.

175 BSW4

• • • 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.
    • 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 by the Republic, and Ki-Ki is all but shunned.

172 BSW4

• • • 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.

155 BSW4

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

126 BSW4

• • • 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.

121 BSW4

• • • The Gungans of Naboo call up their Grand Army for the last time until the Battle of Naboo.

120 BSW4

• • • The stasis booth is developed.

107 BSW4

• • • 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.
    • Despite an outcry from the native people of Zelon and disquiet in the Setnin Council, the Zelonian Trade Guild is on solid legal ground and ignores pleas for compromise and planning change. The lush jungles surrounding the Chancai Trade Centre begin to be torm down to make way for expansion.

106 BSW4

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

102 BSW4

• • • Count Dooku is born on Serenno.
    • BLX-5, or Bollux as he is better known, is first activated.

97 BSW4

• • • The Tatooine township of Mos Banely is established.

96 BSW4

• • • Corruption begins to breed within the Republic government.

92 BSW4

• • • Qui-Gon Jinn is born.
    • Ki-Adi-Mundi is born on Cerea.

91 BSW4

• • • Finis Valorum, future Chancellor of the Republic, is born.
    • Qui-Gon Jinn begins his Jedi training.
    • A ship full of marauders from Sanyassa crash on the Forest Moon of Endor.
    • A Dathomiri Nightsister named Charal abandons the Nightsisters with a death mark on her head. She lands on the Forest Moon of Endor, joining with King Terak‘s marauders.

90 BSW4

• • • 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 Sedapard Alignment intercede.
    • 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 the Sedapard Alignment, primarily Setnin, and the Republic for their interference.

85 BSW4

• • • Mos Eisley spaceport is built.

82 BSW4

• • • The High Republic era ends.
    • Sheev Palpatine is born on Naboo.
    • The Neimoidians take control of the Trade Federation and install a dedicated Trade Federation military force.

80 BSW4

• • • Z-3BO, otherwise known as Aurran, is activated for the first time aboard the Republic cruiser Renown III.
    • Mos Espa is established.

79 BSW4

• • • Qui-Gon Jinn becomes Padawan to Count Dooku.

76 BSW4

• • • Beayance Trease, ruler of the Setnin underworld is assassinated.
    • 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 Clone Wars and the transition of the Republic into the Galactic Empire.

74 BSW4

• • • Qui-Gon Jinn is promoted to Jedi Knight.

72 BSW4

• • • Glann Cipple is born into the Muyaden travelling tribe.
    • Shmi Skywalker is born.
    • Mace Windu is born on the planet Haruun Kal. He is soon taken to Coruscant to be trained as a Jedi.

70 BSW4

• • • The Kira Run that winds Corewards a parsec below the Setnin sector is discovered.

68 BSW4

• • • Bail Organa is born.
    • 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, a crack squad of soldiers who fought for the Republic as well as for other organisations, 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.

67 BSW4

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

66 BSW4

• • • Jango Fett is born on Concord Dawn.
    • The Skywalker family’s vessel is attacked with Shmi taken into slavery. She will eventually become the property of Pi-Lippa.
    • The Radiant VII is launched.

65 BSW4

• • • The Hutts come to Tatooine, settling predominantly around Mos Espa. Slavery and crime follow them, instigating a revitalized economy.

64 BSW4

• • • Wilhuff Tarkin is born on Eriadu.

62 BSW4

• • • Darth Plagueis takes Palpatine as his Sith Apprentice and gives him the name Darth Sidious.
    • The Muyaden, a race of peaceful travellers searching for a home enters the Daz-Raa sector and the Corb system, finding the largely deserted planet Klaem.
    • Ade-arr B’erain is taken from his parents on Nam Chorios by the Jedi 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.

60 BSW4

• • • 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.
    • 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 raised as a normal child.
    • Master Zeboden, the Jedi Knight 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 Council reluctantly accepts.
    • Corellian Engineering Corporation launches the YT-1300 freighter series and becomes an instant classic.
    • Tosche Station is constructed on Tatooine.

59 BSW4

• • • Quinlan Vos is born on Kiffex.
    • Qymaen jai Sheelal, the future General Grievous is born on the planet Kalee.

58 BSW4

• • • Jabba the Hutt comes to Tatooine making Mos Espa his home of choice.

57 BSW4

• • • Obi-Wan Kenobi is born.
    • Aurra Sing is born on Nar Shaddaa.
    • 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.
    • At their meeting Longbody informs Glann that unless the Muyaden leave Klaem it is they who will die by his hand. Fearful for his own life Glann agrees to betray his people in return for his liberty.
    • Ade-arr B’erain becomes a Padawan learner and is assigned to the vast expanses of the Sedapard Cluster.
    • Ade Lomona, brother of Narn Giappa, is born on the planet Halando, sister world of A-desando.

56 BSW4

• • • Obi-Wan Kenobi begins training under Master Yoda.
    • Guta Cipple tells his horrified son that he wants him to fight against Longbody and his forces in the coming battle.
    • Fearful of facing Longbody, Glann Cipple betrays his people and leaves Klaem, the Corb system and the Daz-Raa sector in his Sunwing.
    • The Muyaden are totally wiped out.
    • Glann Cipple flees the Daz-Raa sector followed by another Sunwing who tries to take revenge for Cipples treachery.
    • Glann Cipple disables the pursuing Sunwing and they crash on a moon where Glann almost kills the pilot, placing the unconscious man in Glann’s own flight suit and helmet and sending him away on a random route in Cipple’s badly damaged Sunwing, hoping that the pilot would be found dead and identified as Cipple.

55 BSW4

• • • Glann Cipple enters the Setnin sector and uses his Sunwing to attack a lone freighter. Taking the ship, the Happy Contriver, he starts a new life for himself in the Setnin sector.

54 BSW4

• • • The future Darth Maul is born on Iridonia.
    • Darth Sidious arrives on Iridonia and takes Maul to raise as his Sith Apprentice. Sidious intends to train Maul in secret, avoiding detection by his own master Darth Plagueis.
    • Beru Whitesun is born.
    • Level twenty-four of the Chancai Trade Centre is lowered into place and the rooftop turbines brought on line for the first time.
    • Fourteen year old Astorr Gorre leaves his homeworld and his family behind, determined to learn more about the force and the way in which he uses it. Now a virtual outcast due to his use of his powers he travels alone and swiftly, shirking contact with others and honing his skills, primarily his ability to manipulate the thoughts of others.

53 BSW4

• • • Bossk is born on Trandosha.
    • Darwyn T’Reller is born in the homestead of Mos Banely on Tatooine.
    • The Lomona family move within system from Halando to A-desando. Narn and Ade initially resent the relocation but soon learn to appreciate all that A-desando has to offer them.

52 BSW4

• • • Jar Jar Binks is born on Naboo.
    • Melm is born in Goanar Township on Amagad.
    • Sheev Palpatine becomes the senator for Naboo.