Star Wars: Complete History of the Galaxy After Endor!

[@CoreysDatapad]

This was supposed to be the last video of last year, but instead it's the first of this year since it ended up taking way longer than I expected. Thanks again for all your support throughout 2023! I've got a lot of bigger videos like this planned for the coming year, so I hope you enjoy them. I'm going to keep working on this for a standalone image people can download and print or whatever (EDIT: It's here!) patreon.com/posts/106870751

[@MalachiCo0]

Is there a way I can view this chart on my own?

[@CoreysDatapad]

I'm gonna work a bit more on it for a layout which can show the whole thing at once with all the event bubbles and then post that.

[@MalachiCo0]

@@CoreysDatapad Cool. Can't wait.

[@ImmaSpam__________________Can]

What kind of chart is this? I really want to know how you made it.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Better late than never.

[@canpiv09]

2:54 All I can hear is "Why doesn't Zsinj, as the largest warlord, not simply eat the other warlords?" That is not an image I expected to visualize today.

[@SkepCakes]

Star Wars Hermann Goring

[@KingMordred]

I freaking love the official ilustrations from book covers and essential guides that show the epic events and characters of the post-ROTJ timeline. The artists behind them will never get enough respect

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Imagine them getting the traditional animation adaptation treatment, even for a bunch of anthologies.

[@London_Mule]

except the cursed drawing of cock eyed Luke at 10:35, that one can stay buried

[@JediSentinal]

​@@London_Mulenah, that needs to be on a billboard over time square in NYC. 😏

[@lynngreen7978]

Zsinj was the largest of the Warlords. He also controlled the most territory.

[@marcbrown9413]

Indeed! He was rather corpulent.

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

Quite literally lol.

[@datzfatz2368]

HE CHONK

[@Drave_Jr.]

I love how chaotic this all is, because that is roughly what would happen when your ability to be everywhere at once is minimal. Do wish fate of the EotH was more concrete.

[@fluffly3606]

This is about the chaos I'd expect from the relatively sudden final collapse of a state that had been dominant yet slowly decaying for 1000 years

[@autumngottlieb3071]

Because I am one of the single-digit number of people who thinks this much about Fate of the Jedi, I would like to mention in regards to the Corellian Confederation: In the first book of FotJ, they're trying to reintegrate the Confederation and the Remnant through diplomatic means, and while the Confederation side of it falls by the wayside pretty quickly, there is a scene in the fourth book where Daala and her aide Wynn Dorvan are discussing the public reactions to Niathal's "suicide" and Wynn mentions "crazy Confederation holdouts." I, at least, took that to imply that the Confederation had mostly been successfully reintegrated by that point.

[@marty2129]

Interesting take on that detail. When I read that line I saw it more as Dorvan speculating about actors who would rather try to sabotage those negotiations, but taking this as indication that Confederation worlds actually rejoined GA at that point could explain a lot...

[@autumngottlieb3071]

Another piece of blatantly obvious evidence that just clicked for me: In the first book of FotJ, the reunification efforts are headed by a Senator Tiurrg Drey'lye of Bothawui, implying that at least the Bothans had already come back into the Alliance at that point, or had at least been working toward that goal for some time.

[@KingMordred]

15:55 Ngl, Raynar Thul is one of the most underrated Star Wars character ever. He went from being a spoiled rich kid in "Young Jedi Knights" to literaly saving the Galaxy from Abeloth at the end of the "Fate of the Jedi". 10/10 character development

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Another good arc wasted by way of being properly ended on apocrypha. What is this, Cheetor's arc in Beast Machines: Transformers?

[@ericarikaliean172]

😅

[@WhyTestify1]

Love the chaos of the post endor period in Star Wars.

[@MatticusSama]

1) I absolutely love this video. 2) I love the irony of saying the New Republic leadership on Coruscant refused to accept the gravity of the situation after the fall of Sernpidal, considering how the planet was destroyed.

[@noahdowning6821]

crazy how 80 percent of star wars fans no nothing of these books while others claim the EU was a convoluted mess of fan fiction more fans need to see this video!!

[@curzon9619]

They only claim it's convoluted because (realistically) there were dozens of contesting factions after the death of Palpatine. Publishing wise it was fairly organized.

[@coreyander286]

Read the Wookieepedia article for the Death Star plans in Legends and tell me the Rebels acquiring the Death Star plans in Legends wasn't unrealistically convoluted. The opening crawl of SW77 was pretty darn clear: There was a single battle, the first major victory for the Rebellion, and in that battle the Death Star plans were acquired. Cut to what Legends depicts: The Rebels raid Corulag, and capture plans that don't add anything new to what they already knew. Rebels housed in the Death Star I prison complex cause a prison riot, stealing the Death Star plans and sending them to Polis Massa. Biggs Darklighter, who depending on the canonicity of the cut scene from Episode IV shouldn't even be among the Rebels yet, raids a facility in AX-235 and delivers a portion of the Death Star schematics to the Tantive IV on route to Raltiir. Kyle Katarn raids the outpost on Danuta, stealing another portion of the schematics and sending it to the Tantive IV before it arrived at Raltiir, too. The Battle of Toprawa happens and the schematics there are captured too, and Raltiir is blockaded before the Tantive IV arrives. The Tantive IV arrives and Havet Storm on the surface of Raltiir gets _another_ portion of the schematics on Raltiir, then transmits those combined with Bria Tharen's get to the Tantive IV. Darth Vader had time tracking the plans stolen from the Death Star prison break to a false lead in Kalakar Six that was a trick from the Prophets of the Dark Side, and then decided to go to Toprawa to follow the Tantive IV instead of following the plans that went to Polis Massa. Vader can only follow the Tantive IV after it passes through Polis Massa to acquire _those_ portions of the schematics, when the droid spy U-3PO gave away the Tantive IV's location. But U-3PO's signal was irrelevant, because it turns out that there was _another_ portion of schematics that a rogue Moff gave to the Bothan Spynet who somehow got it to the Tantive IV, and all this time the Emperor has been personally killing Bothans on Bothawui, and somehow one of the Bothans knows the Tantive IV is going to Tatooine, and the Emperor contacts Vader and tells him to go there, even though Vader has already been trailing the Tantive IV since Polis Massa, even though the radio drama implied Vader had trailed the Tantive IV from Raltiir. And on the way from Polis Massa to Tatooine, only in that time are the Rebels able to compile these... at least six portions of the Death Star designs. So elegant and realistic. Much better than that trashfire that is the Battle of Scarif. (Oh, and now I realize I couldn't even keep Raltiir and Toprawa separate in my head.)

[@indianajones4321]

Of course Zsinj gets a larger line to fit his… large force

[@Shocktimus989]

Timelines of the galaxy across certain events (be it Legends or canon), especially visual ones are one of my favorite things to just stare at and analyze, so this is perfect for me! It's one of the big reasons I love the work you guys do with EaWX as well; getting to see how galaxy evolves, borders change, etc. Well done!

[@matt_9112]

Watching your video had an odd effect on me: It (finally) somewhat put me at ease with the rebranding of the EU. Harrsk, Zinsj, Daala and (for me, first and foremost) Pellaeon are indeed names of legend. Still gonna call it the EU though.

[@marty2129]

That's pretty neat to see this... Damn shame we never got anything thus far that would bridge some gaps, especially the development between the end of New Jedi Order and the Dark Nest/start of the Legacy of the Force series and later the timeline between Crucible and SW Legacy comics... There is a neat fanfiction series which is so-so on some aspects but has some really nice ideas to fill in those eras (the one focusing on Pellaeon and covering both the Orinda campaign and the immediate pre-LotF politics was IMHO perfect), but it would be much better seeing it done officially...

[@auctor9165]

What is this fanfic series called?

[@coreyander286]

Yeah, the fact that Legends is "non canon" (even though it's really just a secondary canon placed 99% on ice) could kind of work as an _excuse_ for Lucasfilm to "let loose" and be like, "Hey famous Legends author, go crazy and tell us how Luke died in this timeline". Maybe if the stars align, maybe after High Republic or the multimedia event after High Republic ends, they'll decide it's worth it to do a Legends Revisited multimedia event where they think of every major loose end in Legends and let authors tie them up. KOTOR 3, finding out what the deal with Allana Solo was, finding out where they were going to go with Dawn of the Jedi.

[@marty2129]

@@auctor9165 Star Wars: Attrition by HandofThrawn45 (that's the Pellaeon-focused fiction... For the series, check the author, and aside of using Zonama Sekot for a very fan-fictiony moment in their take on Sword of the Jedi, the writing is IMHO pretty good, on par of at least some SW novels)

[@JediSentinal]

Already watched this twice, gonna watch it maaaany more times. This is a chaotic as hell time period and this graphic helps me with that! This was always my weakest point of knowlege lore wise (the post endor legends timeline) but now its not as bad! I teally hope this video does well as it looks like it was a ton of work, but its so niche that while i personally would love further detail i dont think it would do well as its own video.

[@lynngreen7978]

After FotJ the Jedi are an independent faction until 138ABY, when they join the Triumvirate in the GA. There is also the Lost Tribe (which are isolated from 5000BBY-40ABY and are presumably absorbed by the), One Sith (formed somewhere after 25ABY, and seizing the Empire as noted at 130ABY)

[@CoreysDatapad]

The Jedi operated independently and the Lost strive did exist, but they didn't control significant territory, which was the requirement to be on the graph, as I went over a bit when I talked about the Nagai-Tof war and a couple other points.

[@lynngreen7978]

@@CoreysDatapad Ah, thanks.

[@nomar5spaulding]

Dude... This is amazing. This video could basically be retitled, "Why Dorja's favorite period in Star Wars is the Warlord's Period." Chef's kiss.

[@ArK047]

Excellent chart to sum up the galaxy post-Endor and a great way to start the year

[@SupremeCommanderGray]

Love timelines and diagrams like this, incredible work as always. Can’t wait to play Revans Revenge

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

3:02 that picture gives him Herman Georing if he was a Saturday morning cartoon villain vibes

[@engine4403]

Finally, a channel with something new..

[@kaleye3989]

Thank you very much for the time and effort you must have gone through for this video.

[@coreyander286]

Does Corey have a visual history like this for the acquiring of the Death Star plans in Legends? The way the Rebels capture like a dozen different sections of the Death Star plans and put them together as the Tantive IV flies by a number of planets seems like one of the craziest lack-of-author-coordination things in Legends, a reminder of how bad things could get in Legends when compared to something like the Battle of Scarif, but also sort of beautiful in its convolution.

[@manishpatel2525]

Excellent.

[@indianajones4321]

Awesome chart

[@RubberToeYT]

This is one of my favourite Star Wars periods and a rabbit hole that i can’t wait to go deeper into

[@dont-rump901]

Love these kind of long videos. Cheers to the new year!😁

[@Pittcrew1034]

Still no idea how to read the chart, but I like the pretty colors. Great video!

[@ewokrothaar8434]

Impressive. Very nice.

[@philloraptor8205]

Great work! I really enjoyed the video

[@violetlight1548]

Thank you for this chart! You can actually see what a comparative big deal the Empire of the Hand was in Legends -- something I wish the other authors (besides Timothy Zahn) had realised.

[@daltonsherrod1573]

Would love to see a pre Endor version of this

[@emzonik8851]

It's Endor what caused this massive split tho, or rather a chain of splits. Before that you'd just have one huge section, that being the Galactic Empire, and a tiny tiny line being rebels, still only since 2BBY. And of courde during the Clone War it'd be simmilar, with the Republic instead of GE and a smaller parallel section being the CIS. So the chart would be boring af. It could work with some Old Republic eras tho.

[@daltonsherrod1573]

@@emzonik8851 the Old republic is really what I meant. I guess I should have been more specific lol

[@emzonik8851]

@@daltonsherrod1573 Well, you know, OR is pre-Endor in the same way Ceasar is pre-WW2

[@daltonsherrod1573]

@@emzonik8851 very true 😂😂😂 I do think it would still be neat to see the entire timeline done in this style, even if less dramatic

[@michaelandreipalon359]

A timeline between Yavin and Endor would be quite interesting and easily fleshed out.

[@macwade2755]

Happy New Year, Corey’s Datapad!

[@highbornjase2412]

great video really fleshes out what went on in a short time would love to see more of them thank you Corey have a great new year

[@prussiankingdom7840]

Ok this is crazy good, now we need someone who knows mappinng to transform this into an "Every year" video

[@CoreysDatapad]

I'll get there eventually. It's much trickier.

[@williamnelson5549]

A deeper follow up would be pretty cool imo. Great video though and happy new years!

[@coreyander286]

I'd like one of these with every. single. Imperial. remnant. All of them! 😱

[@pearcemiller]

That zoom out at 7.00 is hilarious. Thanks for the great video!

[@fGlassmanN]

Great summary!

[@byronhunt2]

And if you play Thrawns Revenge mod you can experience the whole Post Endor Period.... Anyway thanks for the video love the star wars content you put out!

[@legoforbeginners6950]

Deeper follow up please. Love this stuff.

[@marcbrown9413]

Many thanks Corey! May the Force be with You in the New Year🙏😀

[@Jin-1337]

5:44 cheeky Corey, I'll do it

[@OverwatchSniper]

Being an old Imperial or Rebel during the Galactic Alliance period must've been kinda funny, fighting alongside your old enemy

[@Prophetofthe8thLegion]

Imperial: “Never thought I’d die fighting side by side with a rebel.” Rebel: “And what about fighting side by side by side with a friend?” Imperial: “Aye, that I can do.”

[@Prophetofthe8thLegion]

Imperial: “Never thought I’d die fighting side by side with a rebel.” Rebel: “And what about side by side with a friend?” Imperial: “Aye, that I can do.”

[@HonestObserver]

Excellent work. But can you also keep track of all the Dark Jedi / Darksiders of the week who came crawling out post-Endor despite not actually being Sith for some reason? Or maybe for brevity and sanity’s sake, just a video explaining the difference between Dark Jedi and Sith could do.

[@Joannes808]

Other than the Hutt home world. Is there any known planet in this timeline that never switched factions through violent means? Every one I can think of offhand had at least one near world ending event in one form or another.

[@chimera6485]

Absolutely loved the video.

[@cptjoseph13]

i really enjoy these videos as I have read most books out of order

[@General_Arcturus506]

Can you do a timeline on the current canon?

[@torchstarhunter1534]

Incredible video dude

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

Not to be critical but why this style of chart and not a color coded map of the Galaxy that updates and shifts in relation to the progression of the years and factions?

[@CoreysDatapad]

Because a full map of the galaxy with shifting, while a long-term goal with the galactic map graphics I've been working on over the years with the campaign maps, will take much, much more work.I also just like Sankeys.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

@@CoreysDatapad fair enough, though such a map would be the first of its kind and rather insightful for those less chart savvy. A future project perhaps or one I may have to turn my own mind towards.

[@CoreysDatapad]

It'll happen, in the same way I've done the other campaign breakdowns showing different territory on the map, but when "campaign map with shifting territory" means "every campaign with all territory" there's way more work involved.

[@garryame4008]

Pretty insane timeline! great work!

[@darthironhand4353]

Fantastic work, well worth the effort from my perspective at least!

[@gregharn1]

This was fantastic & beautiful!

[@blaineishere3851]

awesome vid as always!

[@Kaleesh_General27]

any chance you could do I pre clone wars chart like this? Like from as early as possible till episode 1? That would be really cool too. Loved the video though, thanks for all the effort!

[@CoreysDatapad]

Yep, I'll cover other areas like this eventually

[@thorshammer7883]

This is the true canon that deserves to be taught and learned from as the foundation of Star Wars to fans and the community. The Disney era doesn't deserve to exist for the unruly desecration and adversity it is.

[@silverphoenixgaming7857]

Awesome content, well made!

[@ZoomReverseFlash]

For the Legacy era, the Imperial faction became dominant in the Triumvirate, so there is a question of which planets the actual Galactic Alliance has gotten post-treaty.

[@MoggerNChief]

Nice vid man

[@adequate673]

ah yes the real sequel era

[@coreyander286]

Lucas's sequel trilogy would've retconned most of this too. You know it to be true.

[@Gooberpatrol66]

Damn, that's impressive

[@MythicOneOne]

Love your videos. The channel name got me thinking though; if all the videos are on your Datapad, what would happen if someone in the Star Wars universe stumbled upon them?

[@CoreysDatapad]

Possibly copyright infringement

[@pointly]

Holy shit! I thought I was Star Wars fan... damn bro! So in the end, the New Republic failed... that sucks.

[@crazyguy1mania537]

Could you link the chart somewhere where it could be downloaded?

[@CoreysDatapad]

I'm doing a bit of editing to make it work better as a single still image, then it'll be posted

[@JediSentinal]

Now i want to make a video that refrences this video and includes the books you can read for more info! Like how you can read the dark fleet crisis trilogy to find out more about the duskhan (spelling 😬) league if your curious, or the NJO series for vong info. Granted i dont know how to edit videos, so this wont happen amytime soon. 😏

[@antonioabreu5736]

Neat video

[@bradleykalinoski99427]

What I hate the most about this current canon is that it basically just flips the sides in how much power they have. Somehow after the emperor dies the rebels gain the entire new Republic and even the capital planet and the empire are just a small rebel force. The empire was a totalitarian state who commanded countless planets with massive stat destroyers. At bare minimum it should've been an equal playing field from then on out. Basically the start of a proper war for power of the galaxy instead of a rebellion shown in the movies. But new canon just kind shrugs its shoulders and goes "well rebels are now the new Republic and you don't need an explanation.

[@tTaseric]

I do love me some diagrams

[@empirednw6624]

It’s a damn shame what the galaxy is coming to, for imperials like me and imperials like you….

[@DevelopmentRobco]

120 years to get right back to where we left off after palpatine destroyed the Jedi order and reformed the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire. This is so much better than canon and shows how one man (Darth Sidious) forced all of this seen and unseen to take place and how the Skywalker family was both the catalyst for this great but small time period of termoil in the galaxy, but also the end of it.

[@coreyander286]

...Is it a good thing to place it all on Darth Sidious, narratively? Is that even what Lucas intended? There was rot in the Republic and the Jedi Order even before Sidious arrived on the scene, and there would have been that rot even if Bane's heirs hadn't been scheming unseen for a thousand years. A lot of it falls on the Republic citizenry as a whole, if they hadn't backslid and took democracy for granted, Sidious's scheming wouldn't have had any threads to pull at. Lucas says as much in story sessions with the director and screenwriter or Empire or Jedi, when comparing Sidious to Nixon.

[@iiTzoreo1]

Well now I wanna play empire at war

[@rollinghouse7140]

Good… good… let the lore flow through you…

[@Theology.101]

I’m sending this bad boy to my mom who’s listening to the audiobooks lmao

[@jacobgordon7998]

Thank you for putting this together. For my money the EU, prior to Disney's acquisition of the IP, is canon. I can envision a more coordinated re-imagining of the timeline that maintains the spirit and pays homage to the old-EU which Disney could turn to with Star Wars, as their current agenda continues to be a financial and thematic failure completely disconnected from George Lucas' Star Wars.

[@oseritzel]

*chanting* More unknown regions, more unknown region.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

A personal take on this would have made me be more stringent on removing the apocrypha; sorry, Troy Denning, Karen Traviss, and those half-cringe Marvel 1977 comics (although some tales can still stay canonical, like that Alderaanian stormtrooper tale and the Tarkin superweapon op). Would also have continued with far more obscure stuff like Tales issue 19, set in a way, way too distant and still oppressive future where Threepio is now a senile storyteller wreck. Either way things go, one has to eschew away pessimism and just embrace the fascinating side of the never-ending battle that is the Legends-verse from Endor up to the Legacy comics. Similar experience with Universal Century Gundam+Turn A, the DC Animated Universe, and the Dark Souls trilogy can help. Addendum: The Chiss and the Hand needed more love so to make them worth their hype.

[@DarthVages]

👍

[@empirednw6624]

Fel empire is best empire.

[@dylanos9022]

Could you do a canon version?

[@patricklioneljonson2747]

wait... no disney rewrites?

[@akumaking1]

Legends>Disney

[@55ziomal55]

I hate the Disney trilogy and about 60% of what they now release as Disney Canon, but anyone telling me that they should've had just adapted Legends is out of his fucking mind. Legends had amazing individual stories but on the grand scale it was an incomprehensible mess of narratives that nobody would've been able to combine into a cohesive story which in some major plot points was almost as stupid as Disney Canon.

[@АлексейМомот-щ7о]

You're insane if adapting some book plot points and main characters is some insurmountable task to you. Just because graphs like this look incomprehensible doesn't mean Legends is incomprehensible mess. I would have faithfully adapted Legacy of the Force instead of doing the 25% different Rey/Kylo story and accidentally making her a Palpatine lmao at the end 😂 And fans will throw stones at me, but that's easier to adapt into movies than 19 books of the Vong war, or the asinine thing they're doing now where they're doing Thrawn without OT characters anywhere. The real problem they had is greed and paying these authors their deserved money for popular characters, not how hard it is adapt or how messy it was.

[@coreyander286]

The actors for Luke, Leia and Han might have been old enough that the sequel trilogy could've picked up after Fate of the Jedi. I do think they would've had to write an entirely new story with a new anti-New-Republic villainous force, maybe underworld groups like Lucas wanted to do in his '00s/'10s conception of a sequel trilogy. Even then, it'd be weird because they'd have to mention that Chewbacca died between Episodes VI and VII, without being able to say, "Yeah, when those extragalactic invaders cut off from the Force invaded and used biological technology to make moons collide with planets, it's a long story that isn't relevant here." What's certain is that Lucas's sequel trilogy would've retconned a bunch of EU things even if it wasn't absolutely necessary to.

[@АлексейМомот-щ7о]

@@coreyander286 ANH said Ben fought in some weird Clone Wars and no one minded... That's just how Star Wars rolls. You can even make a homage scene between Luke and Rey if they want to copy the OT so damn much! "You fought in the Yuuzhan Vong War?. Yes, I was once a Jedi Master the same as your uncle's former roommate..."

[@KingMordred]

It's pretty sad that this incredible timeline written over decades was thrown in the trash only for Disney to blatantly remake OT. Damn Mickey...

[@coreyander286]

It's not thrown in the trash, it's just put on ice. And look at how the Death Star plans were acquired in Legends versus the Battle of Scarif in Disney canon and tell me the Legends storytellers didn't really drop the ball.

[@KingMordred]

@@coreyander286 I get why people would prefer the Canon version. However, thevplans being divided and located in differentnplaces was much more sensical and cool. Besides, Jyn Erso will NEVER be on the same level as Kyle Katarn and Bria Tharen

[@brycetomecek5065]

Excellent!

[@PenguinofD00mxxx]

Wow, great visuals