Dawn of the Underworld

50 BSW4

• Airen Cracken is born on Contruum.
• The future Grand Moff Galgen is born on the planet Lebbat in the Brother Sector.
• Culdinatia the Second of Janos, realising that his world’s culture is stagnating, allows limited travel off world, further opening the horizons of Janite exploration.
• As a result, the Janos Exclusion Zone is rescinded.
• Duze Jostenn survives an assassination attempt on the world of Watanna.
• Gardulla the Hutt comes to Tatooine, setting up operations in Mos Taike. Her ventures are a success but she is forced to remain on Tatooine to keep the Desilijic Clan, led locally by Jabba the Hutt, from taking over Besadii turf.

48 BSW4

• Mon Mothma is born on Chandrila.
• Ade-arr B’erain successfully takes the trials and becomes a Jedi Knight. No longer a Padawan, he embarks on his own missions and sees much of the galaxy on his travels.

47 BSW4

• Aayla Secura is born.

46 BSW4

• Padmé Naberrie Amidala is born on Naboo.
• Veruna is elected King of Naboo.
• Wilhuff Tarkin enters the Imperial Academy.

45 BSW4

• Senator Sheev Palpatine funds long-range Deep Core exploration, greatly increasing the number of safe hyperspace routes through the Chommell sector and the wider Mid Rim.

44 BSW4

• Gial Ackbar is born on Calamari.
• Mace Windu joins the Jedi Council.
• Qui-Gon Jinn takes Obi-Wan Kenobi as his Padawan learner.
• The Stark Hyperspace War erupts.

43 BSW4

• Darth Plagueis dies at the hand of Palpatine, leaving Sidious as the reigning Dark Lord of the Sith. Plagueis had begun experiments that would lead to the birth of a child through the midichlorians. Sidious takes over watching for the birth of Anakin and brings his secret apprentice Maul from hiding now Plagueis is no more.

42 BSW4

• Anakin Skywalker is born.
• Grabby Cap is born on Luronsa IV.
• Wilhuff Tarkin graduates from the Academy and joins the Republic Outland Regions Security Force.
• Acrupial, son of Culdinatia the Second succeeds his father upon his death and takes the name of Culdinatia the Third.
• Narn Giappa Lomona and Sierra Cetting Retgarr meet at a festival dance on A-desando and begin dating.

41 BSW4

• Kister Banai is born.
• Maximilian Veers is born.
• Traders arriving on Janos enter into disputes with the natives due to the vast differences in culture. After a long period of restless peace, the Janites are stirred into action by such incursions.
• Narn Giappa Lomona and his bride Sierra are wed on A-desando.

40 BSW4

• Grippy Cap is born on Luronsa IV.
• Finis Valorum becomes Supreme Chancellor of the Republic.
• On Janos, the ruling council of the Jedi, with the permission of Emperor Priest Culdinatia the Third, hand over a Sith Holocron to a mysterious stranger.

39 BSW4

• Firmus Piett is born.
• Shmi Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker arrive on Tatooine as slaves of Gardulla the Hutt.
• Industrial Automaton produces R2-D2, beginning his career with the Royal House of Naboo. His first assignment is to the Royal Security Forces for King Veruna as astromech for Bravo Squadron pilots.
• Aurran is sold by the A-desandian Security Services and begins his service with the Lomona family in Ecaps City on A-desando.

38 BSW4

• Lerone Eyelove is born on Chevron
• Glann Cipple begins working for the Setnin sectors prime ganglord Duze Jostenn. Embarking upon a successful career as a smuggler the seeds of what will become a massive empire are sown.
• Darth Maul begins fulfilling missions for Darth Sidious.
• Watto wins Anakin and Shmi Skywalker in a bet with Gardulla the Hutt. Anakin and Shmi pass into Watto‘s ownership.

37 BSW4

• Lobot is born.
• Troopie is activated on Zelon and utilised as a work droid for the A- desandian Trade Ministry on Chancai.
• The Z-95 Headhunter goes into production.

Hunting Shadows

• Ade Lomona begins working for Duze Jostenn as a freighter pilot.

36 BSW4

• Ahsoka Tano is born on Shili, the homeworld of the Togruta species.
• Crix Madine is born on Corellia.
• Level twenty-five of the Chancai Trade Centre is completed. Despite constant sabotage attempts the city continues to operate and maintains its standing as the prime trade location in the neighbouring sectors.
• King Veruna of Naboo is corrupted by Senator Palpatine of Naboo.
• Finis Valorum is re-elected as Supreme Chancellor of the Republic.
• Seen as a political prodigy Padmé Amidala is sent to Theed for continued schooling.
• After Darth Sidious gives Maul his final test Sidious has Darth Maul look into the Sith Archives to build a double-bladed lightsaber based on that of a Dark Lord from thousands of years before, Exar Kun.

35 BSW4

• Padmé Amidala joins the Apprentice Legislature on Naboo.
• Bib Fortuna, a smuggler, is caught on Ryloth and sentenced to death. Fortuna convinces Jabba to let him be one of his slavers. Bib returns to Ryloth with a fleet of slaver ships.
• King Veruna breaks with many of Naboo‘s traditions. New technology, methods of administration, and legal precedents are imposed upon the people and institutions of Naboo.
• The A-desandian council of houses declares that all commercial trading be ended with their sister planet Halando, causing increased friction between the two worlds.

34 BSW4

• Hindley Galletti is born on Trefnare, first son of Gres and Draite Galletti.
• Glann Cipple and Dessio D’Staan begin working as partners whilst running for Duze Jostenn. A strong friendship is forged.
• Hijjin Lomona is born in the city of Ecaps on A-desando, the first son of Sierra and Narn Giappa Lomona.
• Quinlan Vos is promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight and takes Aayla Secura as his Padawan Learner.
• Padmé Amidala becomes Princess of Theed.
• R2-D2 is assigned to the Naboo Royal Starship.
• The N-1 Starfighter is designed.

33 BSW4

• With the ascension of Bail Organa to the position of Viceroy on Alderaan and elected Senator for Alderaan in the Galactic Senate, the Corellian Engineering Corvette CR70 known as the Star of Alderaan is taken as his new consular vessel and renamed the Tantive IV.
• Janos is declared off-limits by local authorities due to the increased number of incidents involving off-worlders. The volatile situation is discussed in senate chambers on Coruscant, as historically an unstable Janos has led to conflict in Setnin and the wider Sedapard Cluster.
• The Trade Federation‘s secretive military build-up has come to include several variants of Battle Droids, Colicoid Destroyer Droids and droid starfighters.
• Anak Venoor begins to work for Duze Jostenn.
• Darwyn T’Rella leaves her homestead of Mos Banely on Tatooine and travels to the Setnin sector in her ship the T’Rella’s Run searching for employment in the lucrative smuggling trade.
• Darth Sidious orders Poggle the Lesser to step up production of Battle Droids on Geonosis.
• Anakin Skywalker and Kister Banai discover a discarded Cybot Galactica protocol droid. Anakin decides to rebuild it.
• Queen Padmé Amidala of Naboo forms a group of handmaidens consisting of Sabé, Saché, Yané, Rabé, and Eirtaé.
• The Janos situation escalates and Supreme Chancellor Valorum suggests sending in two Jedi ambassadors. However, Senator Gennata of A-desando disagrees, saying that such matters were best solved internally and further proposing that Setnin establish its own procedures to contain the Janos threat by stepping away from direct Republic control.
• A vote in the Senate concerning the Setnin sector is conducted and Chancellor Valorum concedes. The Senate agrees with the actions taken by the Setnin authorities and ratifies their motion. Once again Setnin will stand alone.
• Acting on information from Senator Orn Free Taa, Bail Antilles brings Valorum before the courts. Tampered evidence appears to show that Valorum has been paid off by the Trade Federation, leaving him mired by baseless accusations of corruption.
• Under suggestion from Palpatine, Mas Amedda has been appointed to serve as Vice Chancellor, taking away much of Valorum‘s political power. Orn Free Taa and others begin to consider that the next Supreme Chancellor should not be Antilles or Ainlee Teem but Palpatine himself.

32 BSW4

• Rotta the Hutt is born to Jabba Desilijic Tiure.
• After full ratification on all sides, the Setnin sector is one of a large number of Sedapard sectors that opt to embark upon an era of complete autonomy from the Republic, taking sole care of its own affairs, independent of the influence of the Republic for the first time in 3418 years.
• By mutual agreement Setnin retains a non-voting Senator in the Senate, to keep close track of galactic politics and shifts of direction.
• In order to closely oversee the wide area that the Sedapard Cluster covers it is decided to establish a Jedi council specific to the cluster. Using one of the smaller chambers in the Chamber of Systems on the Zelonian moon of Benesk for matters of politics and the Jedi Temple on Zelon for training and spiritual matters, the Setnin Jedi remain close to the political machinations of Setnin in a purely advisory role.
• There are now only ten thousand Jedi Knights left in the galaxy.
• Colonel Kaaver Tapps informs Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum of the blockading of Naboo by the Trade Federation.
• The Jedi learn of the blockade of Naboo. Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum secretly dispatches the Radiant VII to the Naboo blockade bearing two Jedi ambassadors, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan learner, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• The Neimoidian Trade Federation and the Republic clash over trade routes. The Federation opts to invade the respected planet of Naboo as an example to other planets who refuse to accede to their demands and blockade the planet.

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

• Deland Pabs Tyerell forms the Ratts Tyerell Foundation, dedicated to outlawing the sport of podracing. Some believe this is used by the Republic to crack down on non-humans, though the Republic, particularly Palpatine, denies it.
• In the wake of the vote of no-confidence that removed him from the position of Supreme Chancellor, Finis Valorum goes into seclusion.
• The Royal Security Force on Naboo begins upgrading the planet with discreet defenses, such as shield generators and ion cannons.
• The H-Type Nubian Yacht that will be Padmé Amidala‘s Royal Yacht is commissioned.
• The Republic passes largely ineffectual laws banning the use of droid armies.
• Supreme Chancellor Palpatine outlaws all battle droids.
• The YT-1760 line from Corellian Engineering Corporation is launched.
• The Commission for the Protection of the Republic (COMPOR) is founded, receiving covert aid and political power from Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.
• Supreme Chancellor Palpatine awards Arakyd Industries with a large contract, which includes Vanguard probots that will help the Republic Explorational Corps open new hyperlanes into the Deep Core.
• The Geonosians begin work on a new line of Super Battle Droid to replace the models used by the Trade Federation on Naboo. They are developed over the next decade and will not see major action until the Battle of Geonosis.
• Nute Gunray refuses to resign as Trade Federation Viceroy and claims no prior knowledge of the Sith. He pleads innocent to all charges and after numerous hearings remains in power.
• Count Dooku leaves the Jedi Order, swiftly coming under the influence of Darth Sidious who intends to school him in the ways of the Sith and have him replace Darth Maul as his Sith Apprentice.
• Dooku returns to Serenno, using his family fortune to build a Separatist movement, aimed at direct conflict with the Republic.
• Darth Tyranus journeys to Geonosis to partner with Archduke Poggle the Lesser.
• Jango Fett names his Firespray Slave-1.
• Count Dooku offers Jango Fett the opportunity to come to the planet Kamino and donate his DNA and his expertise to creating and training the perfect army – exact clones of Jango himself, grown at twice the normal rate and programmed for absolute loyalty and obedience. Jango considers this, and agrees on one condition, that he take the first clone, unaltered, for himself. Not as a son, but an apprentice.
• Darth Tyranus returns to his tower to discover his Master, Darth Sidious waiting for him. Dooku reports that the search for a Prime Clone for the clone army is almost complete.
• Jango Fett arrives on Kamino and undergoes the cloning process. The first batches of two hundred thousand clones begin their growth and Jango receives his unaltered clone, an infant version of Jango that he names Boba.
• Count Dooku vanishes from public view.
• Ade Lomona and Anak Venoor team up for a mission for Duze Jostenn shipping seven crates of undisclosed items to Chinngard with Glann Cipple.