How are you measuring a year in life ... Or, more precisely, a long time ago in a galaxy away, away? For years, the main films "War of the Starvars" have avoided any official calendar in the universe, instead simply referring when events occur with respect to each other. He has 10 years between "Episode I - Phantom Threat" and "Episode II - Attack of Clones", for example, and 19 years between "Episode III - SIT Revenge" and "Episode IV - New Hope". However, in the background - original books, extended stories for the universe, video games, etc. - Fans could find a much more formal timetable.

Over the years, especially since Disney has acquired the franchise, that calendar system is more and more in the biggest projects "War on the Starvars". "Andor", for example, throws the year on the screen on several occasions, as the story marches towards the original trilogy: "5 BBI", "4 BBI" and so on. For those who are not in knowledge, BBI stands for "before the battle of Javin". His colleague, "Abi", stands for "after the battle of Javin". As it is implicit, these stand-in for calendar ex. or BC

For a long time, this calendar was intended only as a reference point for us in the real world, instead of a real system of dating in the universe. However, again, it has changed in the Disney era. Indeed, there are many other calendars within the "Starwells War", but no one has caught the fans in the same way as the BBI/Abi system.

BBI and Abi were first introduced into the "Starwells War: The Game of" Role War "in the mid-1990s. It was a time when the expanded universe, or the legends of the "war on the Starvali", as Disney and Lucasfilm was called, began to expand dramatically (without intention of intending). Between the Timothy Zaan Trunal trilogy or the "successor to the empire", "The Stories of the Edice" (which explored the ancient origin of EDI and SIT) and other similar stories, the universe that was only loosely defined in the original George Lucas trilogy, began to become much more detailed.

When preparing source books and reference materials for playing roles of tablets, it helps to keep in mind a specific calendar. Since Lucas kept his "Starwells War" time schedule pretty vague, EU creatives filled the gaps on the day. This, in turn, has led to the fact that the BBY/ABY socializing system is catching fans and has become a kind of standard, although there has always been a certain confusion given the EU fractional nature.

Using "New Hope" as a central part of the calendar only seemed to make sense, though it also meant that there was much more "BBI" than Abi in the current Canon. Disney has moved less than 50 years over the destruction of the first death Starwar Its current timeline "Starwalks War"Although certain stories of the EU/legends have jumped forward several additional generations, that continuity has not yet gone as far as in the future as in the past. The old era of the republic and times before gathering a huge part of the calendar and in the canons before and post-disies, returning for thousands of years.

As I said earlier, the BBI/Abi calendar was initially intended as a reference point for fans, not the characters in the universe. In fact, there are various other calendars made by the characters in the current canon, including the imperial calendar, which uses the formation of the empire as its central, and the calendar for calculating the corousant, which is called "Andor". Separately, Disney divided the time frame into different eras, such as the High Republic, the Old Republic, the rule of the empire, and so on.

In a galaxy so great, it is natural that there would be many different ways to measure a day, one year or simply a cosmic span of time. That said, the BBI/Abi Convention recently entered the real "War of the Starwells" universe.

The book "The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire" from 2024 by the author of the real world, Chris Kampchal, is presented as a book of history in the universe attributed to fictional author Beomont Keane. In that book, the image of Keane, a historian who used to resist the war against the first row, argues for the adoption of the BBI/Abi calendar, as Destruction of the first mortal starvetIn his eyes, he clearly shares the larger Galaxy history in two different eras. The book itself even recognizes that the move can be controversial, having fun with some of the disagreements within the franchise and the accidental of the official calendar systems.