I had a few questions concerning PoD.
1. How much time passes from the start of the book (on Apatros, not the prologue) until the point where Bane joins the academy?
2. How much time passes from when Bane first joins the academy to when the masters and students of the academy set off for Ruusan.
3. How much time passes from when Bane first sets off for Lehon until the end of the book?
4. How old are Bane and Zannah by the end of PoD? Zannah's about 8, right? And I did some calculations, and Bane is definitely no older than 27. I'm guessing he's 26.

For now, but as soon as Ben turns 14 (and I think that's a given based on how long the series will span) then it will no longer support that view.

I still think it's stupid that a retcon timeline takes priority over a 19 book arc, but it seems we'll have to live with it.

Or you can just say (as I do) that Dark Nest and LOTF have butchered the characters that much (Jaina a bug, Jacen a Sith Lord and Luke as dictator of the Jedi Order) that your personal timeline ends with NJO which runs 25.9 (or 26) - 30 ABY. Everything after that is just a good read.

I'm not sure if my personal timeline will end with NJO or jump from NJO to Legacy comic. I love Legacy comic, but I want to see how much it relates to DN/LOTF (right now I think it links much more to NJO). To me NJO was the perfect wrap up to Star Wars (the ending seemed like it was written as the end of the saga) and I'm happy for my timeline to end there and just read the later books as a possible future.

So whilst DN may have supported the correct 25.9-30 ABY timeline for NJO (though that was a happy accident as Troy Denning has admitted he used the "official" timeline and thought the book was in 34 ABY), LOTF sadly does NOT support the correct NJO timeline. It does make me sad that rather than admit the timeline is in error they have retconed the setting and character ages of the entire NJO by following the incorrect "official" timeline in LOTF.

Fair enough. I was being approximate, you're right it would have been more accurate to say 27.6 ABY


This (I'm sorry to say) is where you're wrong. LOTF does NOT place Ben's birth at 27.6 ABY, it places it at 26.6 ABY (or since they're using the 12 month/368 day calendar for LOTF it places it in Month 9 of 26 ABY).

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As of day 29 of the LOFT series (day 150 of the year without starting a 10 month/12 month debate) they are 31. That places the twins birthday at some point in the first 150 days of the year.

And also as of LOTF there is a contradiction as Ben Skywalker's age has been written according to the timeline which has him born 26.5 ABY making him 13 going on 14. If you go off the timing in the books (with each NJO hardback at the end of the year) then he was born 27.5 ABY and should be 12 going on 13.

So the retcon established by the timeline is now continuity because of Ben's age in LOTF. I don't like it, but in all honesty it's a pretty minor retcon compared with the Vergere was Sith retcon they pulled (or at least seemed to pull) in Betrayal. Doesn't make the choice to go with an approximate timeline over the books seem any less ridiculous, but it is minor compared to other things they've done in LOTF.

It isn't an "alleged" error. It is an error, and a grievuos one at that which needs to be corrected. Check your books, and it is clear where the error lies.

What do you mean by that? the SW year is 368 days long, and the Solo twins didn't age fast. They were born in The Last Command circa 9.5 ABY. They turned 14 just before YJK: Heirs to the Force, placing that book at 23.5 ABY, and turned 16 just before YJK: Return to Ord Mantell, placing that book at 25.5 ABY. They turned 17 just before Hero's Trial, placing that book at 26.5 ABY, and turned 18 between Conquest, and Rebirth, the second book is when Ben was born which sets that book after 27.5 ABY. Ben was four months old in SBS. Jacen and Jaina were 20 by TUF, and in fact had turned 20 during the Force Heretic Trilogy, They wouldn't turn 20 until 29.5 ABY. Yet, the time line places those books between 28.2 and 28.7 ABY, only 19 years after they were born. If you continue to look at their ages in the books, it consistantly, points to the books taking place a full year later than their placement on the NEC time line. (cont.)

how long is the SW year? and how did Jacen and Jania age so fast?

Tramp, you should take a look at (turn volume on).

Yet, Heirs to the Force states specifically that they were 14 years old. Return to Ord Mantell specifically says that they are 16 years old, and Hero's Trial specifically states that they are 17 years old in that book. Luke and Mara weren't only married 6 years by Vector Prime, they were married seven years. Having been married in 19 ABY, they couldn't have been married for seven years if VP took place in 25 ABY.

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