Methodology

A primary source is required

Every event names the work in which it appears and a verifiable claim — exactly what follows from that work. Entries without a primary source are not added to the archive.

The primary source is the work itself: a film, an episode, a novel or a comic. Recaps and reviews are not sources, although they help locate the right episode.

Dating

Dates use the standard count from the Battle of Yavin: BBY before it, ABY after. Precision is stated explicitly, because it varies:

• exact — the date is named in the work or in an official reference;
• approximate — the year is inferred from context and from comparing events;
• range — only the bounds of the period are known;
• era only — nothing more precise can be established;
• unknown — the order is clear, the date is not.

The abolished “year zero”

Lucasfilm dropped the designation “0 BBY”: the year before the Battle of Yavin is 1 BBY, and the battle itself is the zero mark. The archive follows this rule, so the events of Rogue One are dated 1 BBY, not 0.

Verification statuses

Each entry carries a status showing how well it is supported: sourced, reviewed by editors, or disputed — when sources contradict one another.

Disputed entries are neither deleted nor “resolved” by arbitrarily picking one version: a disagreement between sources is itself a fact, and the reader is told about it.

Canon and Legends

Continuity is conveyed by text and by an icon — never by colour alone. Legends material is not mixed with canon in one list without an explicit label.

What the archive does not do

Dates, connections, biographies and quotations are never invented here. When data is missing, an uncertainty status is used instead of a plausible guess: false confidence does more harm than an honest gap.