Great ReSynchronization

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"The current debate stems over which zero-point year-notation system is the best, with the Great ReSynchronization of 13 years ago and the Ruusan Reformation of a millennium ago being popular contenders."
―HoloNet News[1]

The Great ReSynchronization was a reform of the Galactic Standard Calendar that was adopted in 35 BBY by the Republic Measures & Standards Bureau to recalibrate the disparate dating systems used by the Galactic Republic.[1] The reform established the year 35 BBY as the zero point of the new calendar.[1][2]

Behind the scenes

The dating scheme for the Great ReSynchronization calendar was introduced in West End Games' Star Wars Adventure Journal for its recurring in-universe articles Galaxywide NewsNets. This dating system used the year 35 BBY at its zero point,[3] which the 1994 reference book A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded established as the end of the Clone Wars.[4] As later sources placed the Clone Wars one decade later,[5] Pablo Hidalgo's HoloNet News eventually retconned the year 35 BBY as the Great ReSynchronization to justify its use as a calendar zero point.[1][2]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 HNNsmall RM&S; Debates Calendar Reform — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #45 (original site is defunct)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 StarWarsDotComBlogsLogoStacked Star Wars Calendars on Continuity, Criticisms, and Captain Panaka — Daniel Wallace's StarWars.com Blog (original site is defunct)
  3. ↑ SWAJsmall "Galaxywide NewsNets" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 3
  4. ↑ A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
  5. ↑ Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones