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RS Timeline
Over the past few months/weeks, General Raven and I have been at work developing and implementing the RS fictional timeline. We have currently completed that project.
From here on in you will notice dates being assigned to narratives and missions, these are in-character dates using the Galactic Standard Calendar. It is an unusual calendar that diverges from our normal everyday calendar, so therefore it makes sense to explain the peculiarities of it.
As a picture is worth a roughly proportionate amount of words, here is a link to a graphical representation of the Star Wars in-character calendar year:
http://wiki.rebelsquadrons.org/Calendar
* Note that there are ten months in a standard yeah, each of which contain thirty-five days.
* Each week is a group of five days.
* There are several times in the year which are not governed by months, such as the three festival weeks, and the three stand-alone holidays.
Now, to help maintain a suitable momentum for the club's fictional progression through the Star Wars timeline, we are using a ratio of approximately 3:1 (it's actually 14:5), where one month of real time approximately equals ten days in-universe time. There are many reasons for this, the most pertinent being that we want to proceed through the timeline at a fairly good pace, without rushing through or getting bogged down with it. You will find that we will be incorporating elements of the Expanded Universe timeline into our fictional narrative, even if only as background context.
The current date (or at least, once VSG/RID 101 and Tour 1 is officially released) is 44:2:27.
The years we are using are not the BBY/ABY system (years Before and After the Battle of Yavin, respectively), as that system is not invented until some twenty-five years after the said battle, in the New Jedi Order series.
So for the most part, galactic denizens (including the New Republic and its subsidiaries, i.e. us) use the dating system of the Great ReSyncrhonisation. The Great ReSyncrhonisation was an attempt at doing away with all the disparate calendars in use during the Old Republic, all of which were highly different, and many of which were in use as 'official' in some context.
Year 0 of the Great ReSynchronisation (0GrS, as it is written) was approximately thirty-five years before the Battle of Yavin (over a decade before the break-out of the Clone Wars).
Years of the Great ReSynchronisation are written 5GrS, for example, but specific dates drop the GrS, for example: 5:2:21.
Years set before the Great ReSynchronisation are dubbed Before ReSynchronisation, and are written thus: 5BrS (note that neither GrS nor BrS have spaces between them and the year number). Dates of these times are written with a minus sign, i.e. -5:2:21. The only person currently born in negative years is Dave, though. :P
Also, a nifty thing about the calendar system, is that you can provide as little or as much detail as you want without specifying so. Starting at the highest time unit (years), you work your day down with colon separators, so 44:2 is Month 2 of 44GrS; 44:2:16 is Day 16 of Month 2 of 44GrS; 44:2:16:12 is Hour 12 of Day 16 of Month 2 of 44GrS, and so on.
If you are looking to assign in-universe dates to anything (missions, narratives, whatever), then contact the Logistics Office, as we have all of this data on-file. Eventually when we finish setting up an online calendar system, you will be able to have some more autonomy, but for now it is the domain of the Logistics Office.
And now, an example of the dating system used with the fictional history of the RS, noting highlighted points:
39:9:1 -- Conceptual plans for a New Republic military force to protect New Republic territory from Imperial aggression in the Outer Rim begin.
40:4:31 -- Task Force Republic Shield is authorised for operations in the Outer Rim, based in the Greeop Sector near the Rimma and Triton Trade Routes rimward of the Minos Cluster. Super becomes the first Fleet Commander of the task force.
40:6 -- Snappleguy joins the task force.
40:7 -- Super resigns; Dialathos becomes the second Fleet Commander of the task force. Kaz Falcion joins the task force.
40:8 -- The Task Force Republic Shield Academy institution is created.
40:9 -- Patriot Battle Fleet is created.
40:10 -- Dialathos resigns; Mike McEwen becomes the third Fleet Commander of the task force. The Commando Division establishes itself prominently beyond the bounds of the Fleet Commander's flagship task group.
41:1 -- MacMan McEwen resigns; Castor Efrata-Landis becomes the fourth Fleet Commander of the task force.
41:2:1 -- The Minos Conflict begins in the Minos Cluster. This is the first major military campaign Task Force Republic Shield is engaged in.
41:2 -- The Commando Division takes serious losses, and is reduced to an element of the flagship task group.
41:3 -- The Commando Division re-establishes itself prominently beyond the bounds of the Fleet Commander's flagship task group.
41:3:23 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their first tour of duty.
41:4:7 -- The Minos Conflict ends, with the task force achieving triumph over local Imperial forces in the Minos Cluster.
41:6 -- Intrepid Battle Group establishes itself prominently beyond the bounds of the Fleet Commander's flagship task group. Strategic and Tactical Command establishes itself prominently beyond the bounds of the Fleet Commander's flagship task group. Intrepid Battle Group takes serious losses, and is reduced to an element of the flagship task group.
41:6:13 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their first tour of duty. Retribution Fleet begin their "fourth" tour of duty.
41:7 -- Castor Efrata-Landis resigns; Jack Stewart becomes the fifth Fleet Commander of the task force.
41:7:16 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their second tour of duty.
41:9 -- The task force, under orders from FC Jack Steward, abandons the Minos Cluster.
41:9:6 -- Retribution Fleet end their "fourth" tour of duty.
41:10 -- Jack Stewart resigns; Dew becomes the sixth Fleet Commander of the task force.
42:1 -- Dew resigns; Dave Trebonious-Astoris becomes the seventh Fleet Commander of the task force. Strategic and Tactical Command takes serious losses, and is reduced to an element of the flagship task group. Intrepid Battle Group re-establishes itself prominently beyond the bounds of the Fleet Commander's flagship task group.
42:1:4 -- Retribution Fleet begin their "fifth" tour of duty.
42:1:11 -- The Cadrel Expanse Conflict, better known as the First Outer Rim War, begins in the Cadrel Expanse.
42:1:20 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their second tour of duty, and begin their third tour of duty.
42:2:17 -- Renegade Fleet begin their first tour of duty.
42:3:4 -- Retribution Fleet end their "fifth" tour of duty.
42:3:25 -- The Cadrel Expanse Conflict ends, with the task force achieving triumph over Imperial and militant forces in the Cadrel Expanse.
42:3:27 -- Intrepid Battle Group begin their first tour of duty.
42:3:30 -- Retribution Fleet begin their "sixth" tour of duty.
42:4 -- Dave Trebonious-Astoris resigns; Rahj Tharen becomes the eighth Fleet Commander of the task force.
42:5:31 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their third tour of duty. Renegade Fleet end their first tour of duty.
42:6:16 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their fourth tour of duty. Retribution Fleet end their "sixth" tour of duty.
42:6:24 -- Renegade Fleet begin their second tour of duty.
42:7:8 -- Retribution Fleet begin their "seventh" tour of duty.
42:7:13 -- Intrepid Battle Group end their first tour of duty.
42:7:28 -- Intrepid Battle Group begin their second tour of duty.
42:8:12 -- The Binaural Conflict, better known as the Second Outer Rim War, begins in the Binaural Sector.
42:9:11 -- The Binaural Conflict ends, with the task force conquering the Binaural Sector.
42:10 -- Retribution Fleet takes serious losses, and is reduced to an element of the flagship task group.
42:10:18 -- Intrepid Battle Group end their second tour of duty.
42:10:30 -- Retribution Wing end their "seventh" tour of duty.
42:10:33 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their fourth tour of duty.
43:1:8 -- Intrepid Battle Group begin their third tour of duty.
43:1:10 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their fifth tour of duty.
43:2 -- Academy broken up into its constituent elements. Rahj Tharen resigns; Gavin Cantorph Kravis becomes the ninth Fleet Commander of the task force.
43:2:5 -- Retribution Wing begin their "eighth" tour of duty. Renegade Fleet end their second tour of duty.
43:2:17 -- Renegade Fleet begin their third tour of duty.
43:5:19 -- Intrepid Battle Group end their fourth tour of duty.
43:5:27 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their fifth tour of duty.
43:H2 -- Intrepid Battle Fleet begin their fifth tour of duty.
43:6:8 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their sixth tour of duty.
43:6:13 -- Renegade Fleet end their third tour of duty.
43:6:28 -- Renegade Fleet begin their fourth tour of duty.
43:7:9 -- Retribution Wing end their "eighth" tour of duty.
43:8:10 -- Retribution Wing begin their "ninth" tour of duty.
43:9 -- Gavin Cantorph Kravis resigns; Tyrell "Spokes" Borran becomes the tenth Fleet Commander of the task force.
43:9:17 -- Intrepid Battle Group end their fifth tour of duty.
43:10 -- Intrepid Battle Group and Renegade Fleet experience structural changes and squadron reorganisation.
43:10:15 -- Intrepid Battle Group begin their sixth tour of duty.
43:10:32 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their sixth tour of duty.
44:1 -- Tyrell "Spokes" Borran resigns; Licah Fox becomes the eleventh Fleet Commander of the task force.
44:1:17 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their seventh tour of duty.
44:1:19 -- Retribution Wing end their "ninth" tour of duty.
44:1:20 -- Righteous Indignation Division begin their probationary tour of duty.
44:1:24 -- Retribution Wing transfers from the flagship task group to Patriot Battle Fleet.
44:2 -- Licah Fox resigns; Dave Trebonious-Astoris becomes the twelfth Fleet Commander of the task force.
44:2:14 -- Intrepid Battle Group end their sixth tour of duty and return to Tarsonis for shore leave.
44:2:19 -- Renegade Fleet end their fourth tour of duty and return to Tarsonis for shore leave.
44:2:25 -- Righteous Indignation end their probationary tour of duty and return to Blerthmore for redeployment.
44:2:27 -- In a few hours or days (you'll know when, believe me) this will be the current date, and major events will transpire. Up until now Renegade and Intrepid forces are based at Tarsonis for shore leave, Righteous Indignation are based on Blerthmore awaiting redeployment, and Patriot are being hammered mercilessly by enemy forces in the Minos Cluster.
":)
Col. David Vaughan
Logistics Officer
From here on in you will notice dates being assigned to narratives and missions, these are in-character dates using the Galactic Standard Calendar. It is an unusual calendar that diverges from our normal everyday calendar, so therefore it makes sense to explain the peculiarities of it.
As a picture is worth a roughly proportionate amount of words, here is a link to a graphical representation of the Star Wars in-character calendar year:
http://wiki.rebelsquadrons.org/Calendar
* Note that there are ten months in a standard yeah, each of which contain thirty-five days.
* Each week is a group of five days.
* There are several times in the year which are not governed by months, such as the three festival weeks, and the three stand-alone holidays.
Now, to help maintain a suitable momentum for the club's fictional progression through the Star Wars timeline, we are using a ratio of approximately 3:1 (it's actually 14:5), where one month of real time approximately equals ten days in-universe time. There are many reasons for this, the most pertinent being that we want to proceed through the timeline at a fairly good pace, without rushing through or getting bogged down with it. You will find that we will be incorporating elements of the Expanded Universe timeline into our fictional narrative, even if only as background context.
The current date (or at least, once VSG/RID 101 and Tour 1 is officially released) is 44:2:27.
The years we are using are not the BBY/ABY system (years Before and After the Battle of Yavin, respectively), as that system is not invented until some twenty-five years after the said battle, in the New Jedi Order series.
So for the most part, galactic denizens (including the New Republic and its subsidiaries, i.e. us) use the dating system of the Great ReSyncrhonisation. The Great ReSyncrhonisation was an attempt at doing away with all the disparate calendars in use during the Old Republic, all of which were highly different, and many of which were in use as 'official' in some context.
Year 0 of the Great ReSynchronisation (0GrS, as it is written) was approximately thirty-five years before the Battle of Yavin (over a decade before the break-out of the Clone Wars).
Years of the Great ReSynchronisation are written 5GrS, for example, but specific dates drop the GrS, for example: 5:2:21.
Years set before the Great ReSynchronisation are dubbed Before ReSynchronisation, and are written thus: 5BrS (note that neither GrS nor BrS have spaces between them and the year number). Dates of these times are written with a minus sign, i.e. -5:2:21. The only person currently born in negative years is Dave, though. :P
Also, a nifty thing about the calendar system, is that you can provide as little or as much detail as you want without specifying so. Starting at the highest time unit (years), you work your day down with colon separators, so 44:2 is Month 2 of 44GrS; 44:2:16 is Day 16 of Month 2 of 44GrS; 44:2:16:12 is Hour 12 of Day 16 of Month 2 of 44GrS, and so on.
If you are looking to assign in-universe dates to anything (missions, narratives, whatever), then contact the Logistics Office, as we have all of this data on-file. Eventually when we finish setting up an online calendar system, you will be able to have some more autonomy, but for now it is the domain of the Logistics Office.
And now, an example of the dating system used with the fictional history of the RS, noting highlighted points:
39:9:1 -- Conceptual plans for a New Republic military force to protect New Republic territory from Imperial aggression in the Outer Rim begin.
40:4:31 -- Task Force Republic Shield is authorised for operations in the Outer Rim, based in the Greeop Sector near the Rimma and Triton Trade Routes rimward of the Minos Cluster. Super becomes the first Fleet Commander of the task force.
40:6 -- Snappleguy joins the task force.
40:7 -- Super resigns; Dialathos becomes the second Fleet Commander of the task force. Kaz Falcion joins the task force.
40:8 -- The Task Force Republic Shield Academy institution is created.
40:9 -- Patriot Battle Fleet is created.
40:10 -- Dialathos resigns; Mike McEwen becomes the third Fleet Commander of the task force. The Commando Division establishes itself prominently beyond the bounds of the Fleet Commander's flagship task group.
41:1 -- MacMan McEwen resigns; Castor Efrata-Landis becomes the fourth Fleet Commander of the task force.
41:2:1 -- The Minos Conflict begins in the Minos Cluster. This is the first major military campaign Task Force Republic Shield is engaged in.
41:2 -- The Commando Division takes serious losses, and is reduced to an element of the flagship task group.
41:3 -- The Commando Division re-establishes itself prominently beyond the bounds of the Fleet Commander's flagship task group.
41:3:23 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their first tour of duty.
41:4:7 -- The Minos Conflict ends, with the task force achieving triumph over local Imperial forces in the Minos Cluster.
41:6 -- Intrepid Battle Group establishes itself prominently beyond the bounds of the Fleet Commander's flagship task group. Strategic and Tactical Command establishes itself prominently beyond the bounds of the Fleet Commander's flagship task group. Intrepid Battle Group takes serious losses, and is reduced to an element of the flagship task group.
41:6:13 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their first tour of duty. Retribution Fleet begin their "fourth" tour of duty.
41:7 -- Castor Efrata-Landis resigns; Jack Stewart becomes the fifth Fleet Commander of the task force.
41:7:16 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their second tour of duty.
41:9 -- The task force, under orders from FC Jack Steward, abandons the Minos Cluster.
41:9:6 -- Retribution Fleet end their "fourth" tour of duty.
41:10 -- Jack Stewart resigns; Dew becomes the sixth Fleet Commander of the task force.
42:1 -- Dew resigns; Dave Trebonious-Astoris becomes the seventh Fleet Commander of the task force. Strategic and Tactical Command takes serious losses, and is reduced to an element of the flagship task group. Intrepid Battle Group re-establishes itself prominently beyond the bounds of the Fleet Commander's flagship task group.
42:1:4 -- Retribution Fleet begin their "fifth" tour of duty.
42:1:11 -- The Cadrel Expanse Conflict, better known as the First Outer Rim War, begins in the Cadrel Expanse.
42:1:20 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their second tour of duty, and begin their third tour of duty.
42:2:17 -- Renegade Fleet begin their first tour of duty.
42:3:4 -- Retribution Fleet end their "fifth" tour of duty.
42:3:25 -- The Cadrel Expanse Conflict ends, with the task force achieving triumph over Imperial and militant forces in the Cadrel Expanse.
42:3:27 -- Intrepid Battle Group begin their first tour of duty.
42:3:30 -- Retribution Fleet begin their "sixth" tour of duty.
42:4 -- Dave Trebonious-Astoris resigns; Rahj Tharen becomes the eighth Fleet Commander of the task force.
42:5:31 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their third tour of duty. Renegade Fleet end their first tour of duty.
42:6:16 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their fourth tour of duty. Retribution Fleet end their "sixth" tour of duty.
42:6:24 -- Renegade Fleet begin their second tour of duty.
42:7:8 -- Retribution Fleet begin their "seventh" tour of duty.
42:7:13 -- Intrepid Battle Group end their first tour of duty.
42:7:28 -- Intrepid Battle Group begin their second tour of duty.
42:8:12 -- The Binaural Conflict, better known as the Second Outer Rim War, begins in the Binaural Sector.
42:9:11 -- The Binaural Conflict ends, with the task force conquering the Binaural Sector.
42:10 -- Retribution Fleet takes serious losses, and is reduced to an element of the flagship task group.
42:10:18 -- Intrepid Battle Group end their second tour of duty.
42:10:30 -- Retribution Wing end their "seventh" tour of duty.
42:10:33 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their fourth tour of duty.
43:1:8 -- Intrepid Battle Group begin their third tour of duty.
43:1:10 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their fifth tour of duty.
43:2 -- Academy broken up into its constituent elements. Rahj Tharen resigns; Gavin Cantorph Kravis becomes the ninth Fleet Commander of the task force.
43:2:5 -- Retribution Wing begin their "eighth" tour of duty. Renegade Fleet end their second tour of duty.
43:2:17 -- Renegade Fleet begin their third tour of duty.
43:5:19 -- Intrepid Battle Group end their fourth tour of duty.
43:5:27 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their fifth tour of duty.
43:H2 -- Intrepid Battle Fleet begin their fifth tour of duty.
43:6:8 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their sixth tour of duty.
43:6:13 -- Renegade Fleet end their third tour of duty.
43:6:28 -- Renegade Fleet begin their fourth tour of duty.
43:7:9 -- Retribution Wing end their "eighth" tour of duty.
43:8:10 -- Retribution Wing begin their "ninth" tour of duty.
43:9 -- Gavin Cantorph Kravis resigns; Tyrell "Spokes" Borran becomes the tenth Fleet Commander of the task force.
43:9:17 -- Intrepid Battle Group end their fifth tour of duty.
43:10 -- Intrepid Battle Group and Renegade Fleet experience structural changes and squadron reorganisation.
43:10:15 -- Intrepid Battle Group begin their sixth tour of duty.
43:10:32 -- Patriot Battle Fleet end their sixth tour of duty.
44:1 -- Tyrell "Spokes" Borran resigns; Licah Fox becomes the eleventh Fleet Commander of the task force.
44:1:17 -- Patriot Battle Fleet begin their seventh tour of duty.
44:1:19 -- Retribution Wing end their "ninth" tour of duty.
44:1:20 -- Righteous Indignation Division begin their probationary tour of duty.
44:1:24 -- Retribution Wing transfers from the flagship task group to Patriot Battle Fleet.
44:2 -- Licah Fox resigns; Dave Trebonious-Astoris becomes the twelfth Fleet Commander of the task force.
44:2:14 -- Intrepid Battle Group end their sixth tour of duty and return to Tarsonis for shore leave.
44:2:19 -- Renegade Fleet end their fourth tour of duty and return to Tarsonis for shore leave.
44:2:25 -- Righteous Indignation end their probationary tour of duty and return to Blerthmore for redeployment.
44:2:27 -- In a few hours or days (you'll know when, believe me) this will be the current date, and major events will transpire. Up until now Renegade and Intrepid forces are based at Tarsonis for shore leave, Righteous Indignation are based on Blerthmore awaiting redeployment, and Patriot are being hammered mercilessly by enemy forces in the Minos Cluster.
":)
Col. David Vaughan
Logistics Officer
Comments
BGN Gavin Starseeker - Wed Nov 29 2006, 8:45am
Purty. At least now, the history of the RS can be accurately traced and any future actions properly carried out without contradicting previous events etc.Nice work! ":)
FA Dave Trebonious-Astoris - Thu Nov 30 2006, 10:11am
I'm so glad to have the distinction of being the only one born BrS. :P You did a great job compiling this system, Vaughan.