shot in the dark here bc i’m not sure how active the swtor community is on here, but does anyone know roughly how long each planet quest or class story segment on each planet would take in-universe? i’m trying to finally create a timeline for my in-game legacy but the software i’m using requires me to input months/dates for events happening in the same in-game year so i’m trying to figure out how to divide up the class story acts throughout each year and can’t find much info on line so far
The SWTOR Timeline for “Corellian Whiskey and Sullustan Gin” (updated February 2026)
I haven’t changed this in six months, so I think this is the final shake-out, in terms of how time works in my headcanon universe. I’ve posted this previously, but in honor of Eva’s second birthday, I figure I’d nail it all down so people can check in and figure out “why the hell is this BBY and ATC date not matching up on her fics?”
First, here’s the canon timeline from Charles Boyd
The timeline below mostly follows Boyd’s, but there have been some retcons I disagree with, since they were done years after the release of content and create problems of their own.
So, the short version as to how time moves in the SWTOR universe: there are two major timelines, one BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin) that sets in context with the 9 “Skywalker” films, and BTC/ATC (before/after the Treaty of Coruscant). One of the problems with both timelines is that they are based upon events that do not occur on the calendared first day of a year – they’re relative, not absolute. Charles Boyd has acknowledged this; the game dates are skewed (a year BTC/ATC doesn’t start on New Year’s Day, essentially).
I decided to focus on the BTC/ATC timeline since that is more relevant to our SWTOR characters. I moonlight as a historian, sometimes with a military bent. Prior to the post-modern era (when we can carry out warfare whenever and wherever), there was a set time of year for military campaigns and wars. For the Northern Hemisphere, that typically took place from after the heavy rains of spring to the first frost (roughly, the Roman Tubilustrium and Equus October). The height of that season took place in June and July.
As posited in my previous timeline, I suggest that the Sack and successive Treaty of Coruscant happened roughly midyear. The event starts year 0 for our in-game characters. Both Star Wars dating systems have a year 0, unlike our BCE/CE calendar.
Below the cut is my timeline of SWTOR history. I’ve laid out BTC/ATC year and then its associated BBY year, since most of the rest of Star Wars runs on that system. (Since it was a space battle, the Battle of Yavin could have taken place at any time, unaffected by weather, so it is feasible it happened in the first month of a year.) I’ve taken some major hints from Boyd’s timeline in June 2020 that appeared on the SWTOR forums, but rejected others. He has said it was meant to be a broad guide, and it does have some wiggle room. Basically, this timeline stays within a year of Boyd’s, with some notable differences at a few key points.
Note: exact dates regarding the Corolastors, Gronn, and Darmas Pollaran are completely headcanon. I’ve italicized headcanon ideas about canon characters/events. I’ve bolded known issues with the timeline that multiple people have commented upon.
Smugglers run in Eva’s blood, from the beginning. Her grandmother Dyominia was one; her lover was an imperial admiral who’d clawed his way to the top predominantly through his skills as a fighter pilot and tactician.
40 BTC mid-3693 to mid-3692 -- Athene Corolastor born on her mother’s ship. Athene never met her father, but he knew of her existence. He died when she was still a child, and her mother died when Athene’s own child was very small.
38 BTC 3691-3690 –Hadrian born. He had no last name when he was given unto the Brotherhood of the Three Moons.
37 BTC mid-3690 to mid-3689 - The asset ultimately known to the Republic as Darmas Pollaran born.
28 BTC -- mid- 3681 BBY to mid-3680 BBY -- The Sith return, and young Jace Malcom and Satele Shan escape Korriban with Nico Okarr to spread the word.
The Rimma Trade Blockade gives a decisive edge to the Empire. However, the Republic takes a massive number of casualties trying to break it; when they attempted to invade the Seswenna region, one of the Imperial ships self-destructs in order to destroy supplies useful to the Republic and to do massive damage to Republic ships in the area. This gives the rest of the Imp fleet time to withdraw. The commander who gave the self-destruct order was Athene’s father. She never knows him. Dyominia is aware of his death.
Darmas’ world is spun upside down as suddenly, his father begins to take politically significant offices. “The secretary” becomes one of the first Keepers. Darmas develops a distaste for the position early; he never aspires to it.
Sometime around 22 BTC (3675-3674), Dyo dies when Athene is still a teenager. The girl sets out on her own, on their very small freighter.
21 BTC - mid-3674 - mid 3673 -- Gronn the Bounty Hunter born
20 BTC - mid-3673-mid-3672 -- Athene accidentally picks Hadrian up, and they were never parted.
16 BTC mid-3669 - mid-3668 - REDACTED
15 BTC mid-3668 - mid 3667 -- REDACTED Virtue’s Thief is acquired by Athene, used. The ship is named by Hadrian in joking reference to Athene, who….made it impossible for him to return to monk life.
14 BTC – mid 3667- mid 3666 – The Battle of Alderaan occurs in 3667. Satele Shan engages in a six month affair with Jace Malcom. About four months in, she gets pregnant. By the time she is three months pregnant, she has ended her relationship with Jace (Annihilation; Satele was not obviously pregnant when she dumped Jace.) Satele continued to fight on the battlefield until she could not; what that means to a Jedi, I don’t know.
13 BTC – mid 3666-mid 3665 – Theron Shan born in 3666 and given over to Ngani Zho to be raised. Satele continues to visit the baby until he is six months old. (The Lost Suns).
12 BTC mid 3665-mid 3664 – Corso Riggs born.(SWTOR)
10 BTC mid 3663- mid 3662– Eva II Corolastor born in late 3663. Eva is not only on the run from the Republic, the Empire, and the Hutt Cartel, but also from the Three Moons religious order, since she should have been pledged to them in restitution for her father’s renouncement of his vows. This claim has devolved to the point where Eva and the Mother Superior wave to each other in passing at major space stations and the Department of Space Vehicles.
At some point, her parents acquire Huck, a modified HK-51 that is a crewhand/childminder and eventually modified by Eva herself to be a friend.
9 BTC mid 3662- mid-3661
8 BTC mid 3661- mid-3660
7 BTC – mid 3660 - mid 3659– Hylo Visz breaks the Mandalorian Blockade of the Hydrian Way. (SWTOR; BH story references and in-game explanation) One of Eva’s earliest memories is Hylo Visz’s great run through the blockade when she is 3. Theron is 6.
6 BTC mid 3659-mid 3658 7/4
5 BTC mid 3658- mid 3657 8/5
4 BTC mid 3657- mid 3656 9/6
3 BTC mid 3656-mid 3655 10/7
2 BTC mid 3655- mid 3654 11/8
1 BTC mid 3654- mid 3653 – Eva celebrates her 9th birthday, and she is given a kitten. Despite it being a boy, she names it Hylo, after the greatest smuggler who ever lived. Theron is 12. Eva is 9.
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0 BTC – mid 3653 to mid 3652–The Sack of Coruscant occurs, followed by the Treaty of Coruscant shortly thereafter. Theron turns 13 after, though it is questionable when the news reaches him and Master Zho. Eva’s 10th birthday in late 3653 is celebrated in Virtue’s Thief while running dark; The Corolastors wish to avoid being caught up in the shifting galactic boundaries.
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1 ATC mid 3652- mid-3651– By now, news of the Treaty of Coruscant has reached Master Zho. After a final training exercise, Zho gives up custody of Theron (The Lost Suns; this is my headcanon guess as to when this occurs. Theron is certainly an early adolescent when it happens, based on what we see in the comics.) Theron turns 14 at Haashimut. By the start of the school year, in a whirlwind of a couple of frantic months, Theron ends up at the Coronet City Military Academy. Zho disappears. Eva is 11.
By the end of 3651(unknown how early/late), Satele has "found” Tython. I personally interpret “found” as having rediscovered it. The formal ‘founding of Tython’ occurs when the Jedi start to populate the planet, so she could find Tython at the beginning of 3651 but not have it fully functional until years later, closer to 3645 when she becomes the Grand Master.
At any rate, Satele finds out belatedly that Theron has been taken to Coronet City Military Academy as a ward of the state; she had been out of comm range on her small ship when Master Till’in tried to find her to tell her. She finds the arrangement with the Academy acceptable and does not request any changes.
2 ATC mid 3651- mid 3650--- 15/12
3 ATC mid-3650- mid 3649--- 16/13 – In 3649, Theron is recruited by Marcus Trant. (Annihilation) This is an attempt to reconcile Theron’s service years and Karpinsky’s math mistake regarding Theron’s birth year. Annihilation states that Theron was a 10 year veteran of SIS by the time of its events. He destroyed the Ascendant Spear, which was AFTER the Battle of Illum, since Malgus’ disappearance is noted. Ergo, the Ascendant Spear incident could take place either in late 3640 or in early 3639 – we can suggest Theron rounds up his experience by a few months, since there is a gap between Nar Shadaa and Operation: End Game.
Hadrian’s mother was a famous burlesque dancer who gave him up due to the nature of her job; her world was not suitable for a child. However, Colette Evangeline deVine-Grandpierre never failed to correspond with her son, though her versions of stories were heavily edited to protect his innocent sensibilities. It wasn’t until after he was accidentally acquired by Athene that the full truth of his mother’s life was known to him. They got on swimmingly after that; Colette was the only grandparent that Eva ever met or remembered, and she still was a knock-out well into her later decades. She died when Eva was a young teenager.
4 ATC – mid 3649 to mid 3648 – Theron joins the SIS early start program prior to his 17th birthday, making him a 10-year veteran of SIS by 3639. He continued his education with SIS until he was 21.
5 ATC – mid 3648-mid 3647 18/15
6 ATC – mid 3647-mid 3646 19/16
7 ATC mid 3646-mid 3645 – early in this year, prior to her 17th birthday, Eva Corolastor is orphaned during the course of a convoy gone bad. Because she is known to the Republic as being over 21, she is the default heir and beneficiary of her parents. At 16, she is captain of her own ship. By year’s end, Theron is 20 and Eva is 17.
Sometime in 3645, Satele becomes Grand Master of the Jedi Order.
8 ATC – mid 3645 to mid 3644 – 21/18 (REDACTED) Huck is destroyed.
9 ATC – mid 3644-mid 3643 – 22/19
10 ATC – mid 3643 to mid 3642 – The events of Lost Suns occur in 3643, and the Prologues of SWTOR begin in the second half of 3643 (Boyd). I headcanon that after Lost Suns, Theron meets Jonas Balkar at Trant’s office for the first time, both of them having been promoted to senior agents and getting to wear their own clothes to the office rather than the (dorky) uniform.
Risha is 21; Corso is 22. and Theron is 23. Eva is 19 when she has a one-night stand with Darmas Pollaran, and the two stay in touch. She turns 20. As a belated gift, she buys herself a new bed after getting her ship back from Skavak. By mid 3642, she spaces Skavak and claims Nok Drayen’s treasure.
11 ATC – mid 3642 to mid 3641 – Eva and Darmas officially get together. They scam the Republic, posing as privateers but actually building their own smuggling empire. Eva gives up Hylo the cat because he needs a better life. That, and Darmas doesn’t like him. Hylo becomes a god on a far-flung planet at the age of 12.
12 ATC – mid 3641 to mid 3640 – in late 3640, Eva realizes that Darmas has not only played the Republic, but her too. She’s 22. The end of Chapter 2 and all of 3 run together for the Smuggler.
Sometime in 3640, Jace Malcom is promoted to Supreme Commander of Republic Forces.
13 ATC mid 3640 to mid 3639 – Busy year!
Eva goes to Ilum to detox. The Battle of Corellia takes place. The Bounty Hunter finishes his business by killing the Republic Chancellor Janarus. This results in Leontyne Saresh being elected in an emergency session of the Galactic Senate in late 3640.
In the wake of the Battle of Corellia, Eva meets Gronn (Age 34; she’s not yet 23). The Battle of Ilum occurs toward the end of 3640, beginning of 3639. After these events, the Smuggler disappears, operating Voidfleet from unknown locations across the galaxy.
After the Battle of Ilum , Theron destroys the Ascendant Spear; he is 26 (this happens either in either very late 3640 or early 3639; Annihilation indicates time passes from Theron’s vacay gone wrong on Nar Shaddaa and Jace recruiting him, so more likely 3639). Theron finds out who his biological father is (Jace Malcom) and officially meets his mother (Satele Shan) when he sneaks into her apartment on Coruscant.
From this point, things are elastic by up to a year. In June 2020, Boyd stated that Hutt Cartel was 2 years after the end of SWTOR, with content releases in 2012 being in 3639, 2013 being 3628, etc.
One flaw with that: SWTOR dropped in December 2011 and Cartel in April 2013, only 1 year and 4 month apart, not 2 years. So even though Boyd says elsewhere that time passes in SWTOR like it does IRL, his timeline states that Hutt Cartel is a full 2 years or more after the end of SWTOR and then that there is no gap between the events between KotFE and KotET. My timeline is slightly compressed in comparison to his until KotFE/KotET.
Toward the end of ATC 13 and the beginning of ATC 14, Theron does the intel for the Makeb op; this is done shortly before forces arrive so the intel is still fresh. In this foggy period in mid 3639 (straddling years 13 and 14 ATC), the Makeb op starts. Eva and Virtue’s Thief are hired by Saresh for this op. Jace and Satele see the Voidhound: Risha, not Eva.
14 ATC – mid 3639 to mid 3638 – The op on Makeb ends and Virtue’s Thief disappears again for over 8 months. Theron is occupied with the Shroud and the situation on Oricon, but he keeps his own op project alive: a raid on Korriban. In the second half of ATC 14, early 3638, Theron makes contact with the Voidhound successfully. In 3638, the Korriban raid is a success, but their association continues beyond expectations when Tython is raided as well.
15 ATC – mid 3638 to mid 3637 – Theron forgets his own birthday due to the Revanite crisis. During mid-3638, the operations of Manaan and Rakata Prime result in Theron Shan and Lana Beniko going on the run from the Revaniites. Seven months after the raid on Tython, the gang reunite on Rishi in late 3638 and after a brisk op of a few weeks. Eva turns 25. They decamp to Yavin for several months; Life Day occurs on Yavin.
In game, Forged Alliances (April 2014) started a year after the Hutt Cartel (April 2013) and 8 months before the drop date of Shadow of Revan (December 2014). The op on Rishi starts about 8 months after Tython, and they reach Yavin about a month after Rishi. I estimate the the Yavin Op would have taken about 2-3 months, going into the following galactic year BBY.
In early 3637, the Yavin op completes within a couple of months of the new galactic year. There is some exchange of mail among Eva, Lana, and Theron in the ensuing months. Theron goes dark about two weeks before Ziost, an operation that ends disastrously. Theron is suspended from SIS by the end of 15 ATC.
16 ATC – mid 3637 to mid 3636 – Theron experiences his 29th birthday while suspended; Eva attempts to visit him, but she is turned away in the interests of his career.
The Eternal Fleet attack occurs before the end of 3637. Eva is put into carbonite before her 26th birthday in late 3637. The Republic and the Empire sign treaties by the end of 16 ATC (by mid 3636).
Sometime in 3636, Saresh is voted into a second term as Republic Chancellor (given that she was voted in emergency session in late 3640/13 ATC, the proper election could have been in early 3640/12 ATC, meaning the Chancellor serves for 4 years. This is further supported when she is term limited not too long before Popsicle Time ends.
17 ATC – mid 3636-mid 3635 REDACTED. By this point, Satele has left the Republic for destinations unknown.
18 ATC – mid 3635-mid 3634 – REDACTED
19 ATC – mid 3634 to mid 3633 – REDACTED
20 ATC – mid 3633 to mid 3632 – REDACTED. Election of Madon, with Saresh as his puppeteer, occurs in 3632; Theron departs the Republic, age 33.
21 ATC – mid 3632 to mid 3631
Interestingly enough, Boyd suggests that the time in carbonite may be closer to 5.5 or 6 years, but Malavai Quinn states, on Iokath that it’s been “6 years, 8 months, and 12 days” since the Eternal Fleet incident. Even though it sounds like a bad idea, I trust Quinn here; he expresses the developers’ original intent for the timeline. Boyd stated that KotFE started in late 3631, and by early 3629 (around 12-14 months later), Iokath was happening. By his “6 years, 8 months, 12 days” statement about the Eternal Fleet incident at the start of Iokath, Quinn contradicts this; it’s much closer to 20+ months since defrost.
Essentially, Boyd has tried to retcon KotFE and KotET into one year, extending the carbonite freeze to almost 6 years. and truncating the time between KotFE and KotET to a few weeks. I disagree here; the Outlander is in carbonite for less than 5.5 years, and there is a six month gap between KotFE and KotET, as the developers originally indicated in interviews.
KotFE dropped in October 2015. I set late 3632/early21 ATC as the ‘thaw’ point for the Outlander. I’ve tried to match patch dates to chapter events.
The events of KotFe Chapters II to IX take place over a few weeks, in late 3632, then a four-month gap for star fortresses and recruiting between Chapter IX and Chapter X in early 3631 (this is the period of time between the drop of KotFE and its initial content patch).
Late 3632: Outlander is broken out. After a week on the run, Lana, Koth, and Eva make it to Odessen, where Eva is immediately put into medbay. A couple of weeks later, Theron arrives on Odessen. The platonic, professional work relationship between him and Eva lasts less than 12 hours before they’re back where they left off before Ziost (kriffing lustful idiots). Eva considers herself 26, not 31. Four months pass between Chapters IX and X.
Early 3631 – Bowdaar returns in time to help Eva and Theron destroy the Star Fortresses. Story missions Anarchy in Paradise, Disavowed, and Visions in the Dark are each a month apart; Profit and Plunder winds up less than a week after the failed op in Visions in the Dark, since we retrieve both Kaliyo and Aric. A month later, we recruit the Mandalorians and then there’s the Gemini incident.
22 ATC – mid 3631 to mid- 3630– Theron’s 35th birthday is shortly followed by the Battle of Odessen (which did drop in August/summer our time) in 3631. After the dust clears, Guss Tuno shows up alive.
According to the original developer statements, there is a six-month gap between the end of KotFE (mid 3631) and the start of KotET (early 3630). Some questioned this due to Theron making an anniversary joke late in the game if you romance him but kill Arcann. He doesn’t explicitly refer to a first anniversary, so I’m willing to buy 6 months, setting KotET’s start date in early 3630 (6 months from the Battle of Odessen, over a year since the Outlander and Theron get together and are looking toward a second anniversary). It also makes sense with the joking the Outlander and a romanced Theron do on Voss - there’s a ‘settled in’ vibe between them, indicating time has passed.
Just after KotET dropped in December 2016, there was a shake-up at Bioware and on the SWTOR team. People left, people got put into different positions, and there were several changes in the trajectory of SWTOR, including the cancellation of a third KotXX expansion. This is why Fractured Alliances and Arcann’s redemption are ... wonky.
Early to mid 3630 is characterized by the invasion of Voss, the chase for Arcann, and eventually the final fight against Vaylin. By mid-3630, Risha, Corso, Akaavi, and Mako are reunited with Eva.
23 ATC – mid 3630-mid 3629 – Finishing up of KotET. Shortly after the end of KotET (weeks, less than a month), the Iokath operation starts, not quite a full 7 years since the Eternal Fleet incident, based upon the reunion with Malavai Quinn if the Sith Warrior. This also fits in with the concern Iokath was causing during the later chapters of KotET; people wouldn’t leave a planet like that alone for long. It’s not something you wait to go back to.
The Iokath operation is lengthier than the game suggests, given the nature of a conquest of a planet and then the op that comes with it. Quinn’s date statement occurs at the beginning of the op, but there is no definitive end point, nor how long the factions are on there during the quest line itself. Additionally, I can imagine uprisings happening while Iokath is going on; the Eternal Alliance is distracted, now is the time to strike. There’s also at least 4 months between the Iokath patch drop and the Umbara patch drop.
We can pad this out in a few directions, depending on how long people think it took Theron to execute his plans on Iokath and on Odessen. Then it’s a question of how long Theron was gone. In real-time, it was 9 months, between August 2017 and May 2018. As mentioned previously, there was a lot of admin and development changes behind the scenes, and it did affect the content put out there. Nathema was supposed to end in early 2018; it ended in May 2018, just barely within the first half of the year. Also, in Fall 2018, Onslaught was thought to drop within 6 months. It was pushed back to Fall 2019. Although Boyd tries to unify the timeline, there are some issues of story pacing as a result of that.
So, that all said:
24 ATC – mid 3629 to mid 3628 – Finish the Iokath campaign and the uprisings by mid 3629 -- all seems quiet. Then the Traitor Arc begins in late 3629. Woe is us. Theron is gone for months, but less than a year -- I headcanon almost 5 months months. This includes a Life Day in 3629. Theron arrives home early in 3628 BBY after being proven to have been a double agent for the Alliance. Eva, while taking him back into the Alliance, doesn’t respond well to his marriage proposal She runs, taking 3 months of leave.
Theron and Eva reconcile just before his 38th birthday.
25 ATC – mid 3628 to mid 3627 – Ossus takes place in late 3628. Upon her return, Eva celebrates her 30th birthday on Odessen. Hearts and Minds takes place in early 3627; everyone at SIS is relieved to find out that not only is Theron still alive after all that traitor stuff, he’s loved and even married.
26 ATC – mid 3627 to mid 3626 – Onslaught and then the resolution to the Satele Shan situation. Boyd has already indicated that all of this was meant to be more condensed than it is, but due to COVID, storyline releases have been stretched out. Original draft at very bottom, but with recent interview in 12/2024, here’s where the plotline stands: in theory, we’re supposed to be in late 3626 BBY/27 ATC in 7.6 (which had no plotline). I’m going for a more reasonable smoosh into 3 years rather than 1 since Onslaught, so here we go:
26 ATC -- mid 3627 to mid 3626: The plotline regarding the Mandalorians and Malgus’s exploration of Dantooine in Secrets of the Enclave happen in the same year as the launch of Onslaught, Echoes of Oblivion, and Spirit of Vengeance.
27 ATC: mid 3626 to mid 3625 BBY Legacy of the Sith launches in mid 3626 BBY (Summer). Malgus is captured and interviewed. In late 3626, the Alliance heads off to Ruhnuk. Eva interviews Malgus multiple times, and Shae makes her take certain precautions. Eva works the Manaan job and the Mando angle herself, while she delegates Elom to Fria. Eva finds herself pregnant by early 3627, as seen in short fic Maybe.
Old Wounds happens in early 3625 BBY. This is Fria’s investigation on Voss, and Eva is out of the line of fire, dealing only with the 3. She is very close to term by mid 3625 bby. Eva is 32/Theron is 40 by the end of this year
28 ATC: mid 3625 to mid 3624 BBY – Eva has her son with Theron Shan, Argento “Argo” Shan. When Argo is 2 months old, his mother’s little jaunt to Port Nowhere launches her into a conflict that spirals back around to Ord Mantel and the Hidden Chain activity there. The plotlines for 7.4, 7.5 (acquiring the holocron), and 7.7 (7.6 has no plotline due to strike) happen in this year. Early 3625 is theoretically “now” in game. Eva and Theron should be 33 and 41 respectively, with Argo being born being in Spring/Summer of 3625, and Theron turning 41 a few months later, Eva 33 a few months after that.
Previous draft:
Building out into Shan!Baby land...and entering into highly elastic time. The pandemic sort of warped everything, and the transition from Bioware to Broadsword has also made the timeline....wonky. So this is my best guestimate right now.
ELASTIC TIME
27 ATC -- mid 3626 to mid 3625 BBY -- 32/40 -- Return to the Jedi Enclave in mid 3625.
28 ATC -- mid 3625 to mid 3624 BBY – 33/41. Legacy of the Sith Launch in early 3624. Operations on Manaan handled by Eva, and operations on Elom handled by Jedi liaison Fria Whitcord.
29 ATC mid 3624 to mid 3623 BBY -- Malgus is captured, and operations on Ruhnuk commence.
In early 29 ATC, weeks after capturing Malgus (there’s fic that explains why), Eva finds herself pregnant, despite the odds and doctors saying it would never happen post carbonite. Eva thinks it’s perfect pazaak -- highly unlikely, but possible. Theron classifies this as ‘miracle’ and tries to balance Eva’s joy with his own numerical despair about the odds of a child born to a person post-carbonite.
In late 29 ATC, Argento Shan is born to Eva Corolastor (34) and Theron Shan. (42) Theron has been in love with Eva for just shy of 15 years now.
30 ATC -- mid 3623 to mid 3622 BBY -- In early 30 ATC, The Mystics of Voss have a prophecy, and new efforts at peace on the planet start. Eva supervises activity on Voss, but her only active role is meeting with the Mystics (and bitching them out for dropping the galaxy in her lap again).
In mid 30 ATC (late 3623/early 3622 BBY) Ord Mantell becomes a hotbed of activity with the separatist activity ramping up alongside Heta Kol’s Mando activity. Eva’s maternity leave abruptly ends with the Broken Chain’s attempt to take Port Nowhere...while she’s on it. So much for a quiet mission close to home.
32 ATC -- mid 3621 to mid 3620 BBY -- 37/45 – Dyominia Shan is born to Eva Corolastor and Theron Shan.
36 ATC – mid 3617-mid 3616 BBY – Dyo is 4, Argo is 7. Eva is 41 and Theron is 49.
45 ATC -- Eva is 50, Theron is 58. Dyo is 13, and Argento is 16.
I am currently replaying the Agent storyline, now at the “booby-trapped holoconference”, and here are some notes to the timeline of the game, from my now almost three-day Agent marathon (I went from Nar Shaddaa to Belsavis)
Nok Drayen is present and alive (and mentions it being his last participation) on the trapped holocall.
The call happened 6 months prior to Agent ending Belsavis storyline
Mentions of Angral, Baras and awakening of the childern of the Emperor (presumably happening in that order, with the Childern of the Emperor being very recent development)
Minister of Intelligence watches the chancellor guy’s speech about the war starting right as the Agent comes in after the mining colony
It seems like time difference between ch1 and 2 of the agent storyline is several weeks, possibly over a month (Ardun Kothe references getting messages from the Cipher looking to turn for “few weeks” and the aplication of Castellan restraints takes between 3 and 30 days)
On the other hand, there’s only very short time between end of chapter II and beggining of Belsavis (few days, a week at most) - Keeper tells you to take few hours, then get back to Dromund Kaas, and Minister of Intelligence says Imperial Forces will arrive at the mining colony “tomorow”, with them arriving at the same time Agent is there (and possibly including the Kalio trip to Hutta - which can be played after Hoth - and which I usually play in the interlude)
Time Agent spends on Hoth is less than 30 days, because Watcher X references the IX serum not doing it’s job fully yet on Quesh. (and possibly including the Kalio trip to Hutta - which can be played after Hoth and before second visit to Quesh)
Imperial Belsavis arc happens a little later than the Republic one (Warden Graal is the only warden we see, but he dies at the end - or can die, at least)
So, some points to the overall SWTOR storyline that I draw from this (more my assumtions than actual points in the game)
Smuggler Chapter I ends somewhere in during mid-to-late 2nd chapter of Agent storyline (because Nok is “alive” only at a very short time there, right at the end of CH1) - so Smuggle line is probably last in the timeline (possibly with Trooper, as they start at the same time - Corso refferences Republic Walker being shot down by the separatists)
End of SW chapter II would be around the same time as start of Agent chapter III.
Baras is already a problem (probably because he want’s to start a war between Republic and Empire) for Star Cabal half a year before this moment in the game.
Note: I didn’t play all of the classes all the way through - I didn’t finish ch2 with Smuggler and Trooper and ch3 with Bounty Hunter, yet, so if there are any conflicts with said storylines, I apologize.
So this is an open question for SWTOR fic writers and readers. How much concern or care do you have for the timeline? How stringent or loose do you need it to be to make you happy, quality-wise?
I ask because of the recent Charles Boyd forum post, which adds a year to everything I had plotted out (SoR/Ziost takes place in 3637-3636 rather than 3638-3637, for example; character ages would be another affected issue).
Now, Wookiepedia hasn’t taken this into account (it’s a forum post not a publication), and I know there are a lot of fics out there that are beyond a casual re-write. There’s a part of me that wants to be “historically accurate” and get all the years right, but there’s another part of me that’s like, “You are the only person who cares about that.”
So, what you think? You can comment or use the ask box.
So, let’s be clear. The timeline of SWTOR is pretty confusing, when it comes to time passed, at least. Which can be a solid problem, when writing a fan-fic. Some people have the main game span across few weeks, other months, others years, and it takes too much efford to find all the info.
I must admit, this is more of a cheet sheet for me, than act of good will to other swtor writers, but hey, it still counts, right?
Anyway, I managed to find pretty good timeline, and I’d like to share it with all of you SWTOR fan-fic writers.
Here we go :-D
Great Galactic War: 28 BTC (before Treaty of Coruscant) - 0 ATC (after Treaty of Coruscant)/ 38 -10 prior to beggining of the game.
Rediscovery of Tython: 2ATC/ 8 years before the game
Taris Resettlement Initiative: 5 ATC
Base game: cca 10ATC - 12ATC
With respective chapers being spaning around a year each.
Rise of the Hutt Cartel: 13 ATC
Oricon: 14 ATC
Forged Alliances (Prelude to Shadow of Revan): 15 ATC, very shortly after each other
Shadow of Revan (Rishi, Yavin, Ziost): 16 ATC
Knights of the Fallen Empire:
Chapter One: 16 ATC
Rescue of the Outlander - Raid on Gilded Star: 21 ATC
Darvannis to first Battle of Odessen: 22 ATC, probably very shortly after each other
SWTOR pals: has anyone attempted a timeline of how all the endings for the class storylines fit together?
Right now in particular, I’m looking at the Sith Warrior and Inquisitor’s endings--Thanaton is present during the SW’s fight with Baras, so I’m wondering if I can just say that the whole Kaggath deal with the SI fighting him on Corellia and then pursuing him to Korriban takes place after that. It could also be that the Baras fight takes place after Thanaton has fled to Korriban but before the SI has arrived there to finish the job, but assuming the SI hauls ass to Korriban right after Thanaton flees (which I do), that puts two separate battles that both have huge impact for the Empire occurring in the same place within a very short window of time and I think I’d like to space them out more. Also, I think it works to have Thanaton be impatient to get things over with during the Baras fight because let’s go, people, some of us have Kaggaths to get to.
(...And then there’s the fact that the JK story ends with a MASSIVE REPUBLIC ATTACK ON DROMUND KAAS, which I have already decided for my own purposes takes place while Ruqi and her crew are traveling from Korriban to Dromund Kaas after the Baras fight, so now I have to decide how that possibly impacts the SI story’s ending.)
Thoughts? Am I missing something important that makes having the Kaggath take place after Baras is dead not work? What are timelines anyway I mean is time even real when you think about it?
Holy crap this post made my life a whole lot easier, especially for my giant 'almost all classes' timeline. It lined up pretty well with my BH and Sith Warrior canons too, and Frauzet is fucking amazing for clearing it all up.
You killed about 90 percent of my fic woes, I swear. :)
