
In comparison, the Expanded Universe, which consists of all Star Wars media except the films, covers more than five millennia, the earliest story in the in-universe chronogy taking place in circa 5,000 BBY ( Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith) and the latest in circa 137 ABY ( Star Wars: Legacy).ĭespite the artificial separation of the films and the Expanded Universe, all Star Wars stories, regardless of the media (films, books, comics, games, cartoons, toys, and others), are parts of the same shared continuity, except for material explicitly deemed non-canon by Lucasfilm. The six films cover a relatively short 36-year period of galactic history ( 32 BBY to 4 ABY, where BBY and ABY stand for "before/after the Battle of Yavin" (which can be interpreted as "before/after the events of Episode IV). Star Wars is set in a unknown galaxy roughly modeled after the Milky Way, only known as the " Star Wars galaxy" or the "galaxy far, far away".
