The New Essential Chronology has hit the stores, in both hardcover and paperback editions! This is the place to ask questions or record your observations.

I'm going to try to respond to quesions in the talkbacks below, and periodically update the main body with corrections or Easter Eggs.

Also, check out the excellent "endnotes" feature on the NEC here.

I'll get it started...

DYN (Did You Notice):
According to the intro, the New Essential Chronology is an in-universe document compiled by "Voren Na'al, Archivist Emeritus" for the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. Voren Na'al originated in the original Star Wars Roleplaying Game by West End Games, in which he served as a rookie in-universe author for many of their roleplaying rulebooks. Voren hasn't been seen much since WEG's implosion in 1995, but as a fictional character, he seemed like the kind of guy who would get involved in a project like this. As "archivist emeritus," he's apparently moved up in the world.

CORRECTIONS:
- Several times in the New Jedi Order section, Anakin Solo's mission to Myrkr to destroy the voxyn cloning material is referred to as the "mission to Wayland." D'oh.

- Over on the TFN forums, it's pointed out that the NEC places the destruction of the Ubese homeworld (forcing the Ubese to wear breath masks like Leia in ROJ) at approx. 2000-1500 BBY -- however, the game Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, set in 3951 BBY, features breathmasked Ubese. It's a discrepancy for now. (For the record, I placed the event where I did to correspond with WEG's Alien Anthology, and was unaware of KOTOR2's Ubese at the time.)

- The KOTOR2 section also describes the characters "Darth Kreia" and "Darth Traya," which is an error that I don't want to explain here (to avoid in-game spoilers). Between this and the Ubese, that's what I get for not playing KOTOR2 prior to writing this book.

- Two different timeframes are mentioned for the establishment of the Corellian Trade Spine hyperspace route: one that coincides with the establishment of the Rimma (circa 5500 BBY) and one that coincides with the Hydian (circa 3000 BBY). The first date is the correct one.

- Dorsk 81 is mistakenly mentioned as a Jedi casualty during the New Jedi Order... the correct name is Dorsk 82. (Dorsk 81 died much earlier during Darksaber.)

Dan
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