Tuesday, April 21, 2020

More Updates Coming Atcha!

Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! Yes, more updates. First of all, I'm officially launching the Starport Press blog. You can find it here. I'll no longer be posting any original work news and stuff on this blog, but I definitely will on my LiveJournal (to visit my LiveJournal, you can follow the LiveJournal link on the "Me Across the Net" page, click the LiveJournal logo on the sidebar, or just click here). I'll also be posting in-universe The Second Imperium Trilogy updates on the ISMF blog (to visit the ISMF blog, click the "ISMF Headquarters" button under the blog's title and description and follow the instructions). Something cool (I personally think) with the Starport blog is that if you click the "Visit the Forums" button, you can visit the new Starport Press forums. Yay! I've updated the Complete Timeline of Star Wars Legends, so if you click the Complete Timeline of Star Wars Legends button under the blog's title and description, you'll see that I've added the Indiana Jones quadrilogy and THX 1138. Both of these are some other classic George Lucas works, and if you're wondering how I added them, I'll tell you.

So if you're a Star Wars fan, you probably have heard of "Into the Great Unknown." If you haven't, it's a short comic that appeared in Star Wars Tales #19, and is the first OFFICIALLY-LICENSED comic/story to show Han Solo and Indiana Jones in the same universe. Han is fleeing from an Imperial fleet in orbit of the moon Hovan-99 and doesn't calculate jump coordinates, so he, Chewie and the Falcon land in a galaxy "No longer far away." Han asks Chewie to land the Falcon at the "blue one" and they crash exactly where the Endor scenes were filmed for Return. Han and Chewie go looking for any settlements but are attacked by Native Americans. Han dies, in the Falcon's cockpit (which is where he orders Chewie to put him), and references Vector Prime. Yep, the part where Chewie dies. The part that Dark Horse made into a comic series. RIP Chewie. Except this time it's Han that dies. 126 years later, Indy and teenager Shorty turn up, and they eventually find the Falcon and Han's dead body. They were actually looking for the Sasquatch, who is Chewie (yes, Chewie's still alive), but Indy says that they should just leave him and the Sasquatch as part of the great unknown.

How does this add the Indy movies and THX 1138 to my Star Wars timeline, you may ask? Well, thanks to some info on Wookieepedia, Haden Blackman said there was no exact date of the story, since it's an Infinities tale, but he said that the Indy segment takes place 7-8 years after Temple, and I just chose 7 years, so the Indy segment is 1942, and that means that the Han segment 126 years earlier must be 1816. Han says to Chewie that he thought it would be Chewie saving his kids (Vector Prime reference), and Han had his first kids in 9 ABY, so the most approximate date for the Han segment would be 9 ABY (in Star Wars time), meaning that the Indy segment would be 135 ABY. From here, I used this method to add the Indy movies to the timeline, and I thought that why not add THX 1138, pretending that it takes place in the same universe as the Indy films, because why not? It's Earth in the 25th century, plus it was referenced in the cancelled George Lucas' Monsters and Aliens trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer, so I'm just adding it. Note that the date is a weird and wonky plus-minus something or another. I worked this out knowing that the only date given for THX 1138 is the 25th century, so I used the Indy date method to work out when the 25th century would be. Hope you like the update. Well, that's a wrap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

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