I recently deleted an entry under the events section that referred to the end of the Great Jedi Purge due to the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi. On second thoughts i should have mentioned it here before i removed the entry (sorry about that), so here it is in discussion now.
I don't think the Purge really had an 'official end'. There were still a handful of Jedi alive even after Obi-Wan's death, most notably Yoda. Wasn't the Empire always on the lookout for Jedi and force-sensitives?
If people insist on putting an 'end date' to the Purge, i would have thought it would have been many years before 0 BBY, when or if Palpatine advised Vader to stop hunting Jedi.
Is there a real source that specifically states the Purge ended in 0 BBY? Azizlight 05:13, 23 Jul 2005 (UTC)
- You are correct. And EU sources I've been investigating clearly point to it ending far before that (indeed, Vader tells a Jedi in 1 BBY that the Purge is over. ) QuentinGeorge 06:43, 23 Sep 2005 (UTC)
There is no such thing as a "Year Zero"
- There is NO year Zero. It can not happen. 17:37 26 March 2010
- Sorry, in the galaxy far, far away there is. 1 BBY is the year before the Battle of Yavin, 0 BBY/ABY is the year OF the Battle of Yavin, 1 ABY is the year AFTER the battle of Yavin. There's no 0 BC/0 AD on Earth, but that's irrelevant here. QuentinGeorge 05:09, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
- No matter the galaxy you are in, there is no such thing as a "year zero". In the line of time, 0 is a point. It has no extension. Therefore, there is no such thing as a "day zero", "month zero", "year zero", "century zero", "millennium zero", etc. Zero is the frontier between the year -1 and the year +1. It is only a point in time and this is a matter of Mathematics, which are the same in all galaxies. If the existence of 0 BBY is canon, then canon is mathematically wrong. -—Unsigned comment by 213.97.15.73 (talk • contribs)
- Agreed. Mathematically, there is no 0 year - it's like dividing by 0—it can not be done. Meanwhile, the events that happen a year before the battle would have been in 1 BBY, and the events after would have been in 1 ABY. If your 21st birthday is in December, does this mean that you are considered 21 in July this year? Or will you be considered 21 in July of next year? The events of 1 ABY were things that happened within the year after the Battle of Yavin. Likewise, the events of 1 BBY happened within the year before. GethralkinHyperwave 17:44, April 10, 2010 (UTC)
- Argumentatively irrelevent, as you could make the same case that midichlorians are biologically impossible, and therefore the Force doesn't actually exist. The content of this site is dictated by the material published under the Star Wars aegis, and not real-world analysis (which is akin to Original Research). There is a Year 0, simply because the source material asserts so. Dangerdan97 22:54, May 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Agreed. Mathematically, there is no 0 year - it's like dividing by 0—it can not be done. Meanwhile, the events that happen a year before the battle would have been in 1 BBY, and the events after would have been in 1 ABY. If your 21st birthday is in December, does this mean that you are considered 21 in July this year? Or will you be considered 21 in July of next year? The events of 1 ABY were things that happened within the year after the Battle of Yavin. Likewise, the events of 1 BBY happened within the year before. GethralkinHyperwave 17:44, April 10, 2010 (UTC)
Lack of births
I am still curious as to why or how there are no noted births in this year. -- Riffsyphon1024 23:56, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
- Considering that by now in the post original trilogy EU would include atleast some people born then, I can only guess. Perhaps the destructions of Alderaan and the Death Star caused some sort of mass feedback that caused multiple miscarriages? -- SFH 01:41, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
- That's what I thought too, but is that the reason? -- Riffsyphon1024 02:02, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Are 0 BBY and 0 ABY the same year
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't 0 BBY and 0 ABY be the same year? —Unsigned comment by Liberi Fatali37 (talk • contribs)
- Nope, not according to the New Essential Chronology. It lists events in both years. And sign your comments. 4~ is not hard. -Fnlayson 06:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
- If 0 BBY "was known as Year 35 after the Great ReSynchronization" and 1 ABY "was known as Year 36 after the Great Resynchronization", then what happened to 0 ABY? Could it be that there's one year zero that is split into BBY / ABY? Or are they both full years, and the articles got the GRs numbers wrong? -- Xerxes 13:22, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, they are the same year. The Death Star was destroyed in Year 35 after Great ReSynchronization, savy? After that, they counted the years from GRS for a while, for about another 20 years. Then they decided to count from the destruction of the Death Star. BUT WITH ATTENTION! If they had set the date of destruction to Month 1 and Day 1 of the new year, that would completely messed up the counting of days, especially for the records made from 0 ABY till the introduction of the new calendar. So they decided to rename 35 GRS to year zero, and they distinguished the events of this year the following way: things which happened in 0 BBY happened in that year but before the battle of Yavin 4, things which happened in 0 ABY also took place in the very same year, but after the battle. The months, weeks and days remained in place. The next year, 36 GRS became 1 ABY in its full length. At least that is how I figured it out... Domlith 14:19, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think that is correct... Note also the use of "0 BY" or just "BY" meaning 35 GrReS (0 BBY + 0 ABY). Charlii 22:10, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
- Actually, they are the same year. The Death Star was destroyed in Year 35 after Great ReSynchronization, savy? After that, they counted the years from GRS for a while, for about another 20 years. Then they decided to count from the destruction of the Death Star. BUT WITH ATTENTION! If they had set the date of destruction to Month 1 and Day 1 of the new year, that would completely messed up the counting of days, especially for the records made from 0 ABY till the introduction of the new calendar. So they decided to rename 35 GRS to year zero, and they distinguished the events of this year the following way: things which happened in 0 BBY happened in that year but before the battle of Yavin 4, things which happened in 0 ABY also took place in the very same year, but after the battle. The months, weeks and days remained in place. The next year, 36 GRS became 1 ABY in its full length. At least that is how I figured it out... Domlith 14:19, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
GrS dates
What is the source of GrS dates in 0 BBY/ABY? It was discussed somewhere, but I can't find it.Darth Morrt 12:51, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
- They are easy to derive given the GRS dates for ESB events in the old Adventure Journals and the GRS dates given for the Clone Wars in the new HolonetNews articles. QuentinGeorge 12:58, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
- I don't have any Adventure Journal 8(. They are very hard to find. Is there a fix day date for the Battle of Yavin or just the 3rd month is sure?Darth Morrt 14:15, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Why don't we clear some things up?
At the first topic of this page, Star Wars books, from what I've read on here, list 0 ABY and 0 BBY as a year. In my opinion, it's logical to have a year 0, since it's 0 years after/before the Battle of Yavin. If something happened a day later from the destruction of the Deathstar and it was in 1 ABY, that would imply the event occured a year after the destruction, not a day.
Secondly, someone says "Nope, not according to the New Essential Chronology.," yet both articles say the year was x years after y event, and 0 BBY says "The following events took place in 0 BBY, in the part of the year that precedes the Battle of Yavin," which implies that 0 ABY and BBY were the same solar year, just split up in to two sections and named a different year. If this is so, can someone please make it more clearer in the articles? --—Kris | Talk, 17:45, January 16, 2011 (UTC)
Rogue One
Shouldn't this get a mention?89.240.161.171 11:22, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- You're on the Legends page. Rogue One is canon (see 0 BBY) OOM 224 ༼༽talk༼༽ 11:28, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
This seems very incorrect to me.
0 BBY and 0 ABY is the same year? Where's the source for this? The Essential Chronology and The New Essential Chronology are both very explicit that the Battle of Yavin itself is the "0" point. Not the year of the battle. (Even though confusingly there are events listed at 0 BBY.) If anything 0 BBY and 1 BBY is the same year. As I understand it "0" does not start on 35:1:1. It starts on 35:3:8. 1 BBY is 368 days before Yavin. And 1 ABY is 368 days after. Heartofajedi (talk) 14:34, 14 February 2024 (UTC)