If Story #1 is one year after AOTC, then story #2 is 1.5 years after AOTC, and those get compressed into, say, a six month time span, then you'd have Story #1, then Story #2, with their time span squished, but their relative order the same.

Yes, I am aware of that. I feel that you are missing my point.
I'll try to explain: I have an HNN article. The article is in-universe, meaning that it exists in its exact form both in my universe and in the Star Wars galaxy. Some Rodian might have turned on his HoloNet transceiver and got the exactly same article, issue etc. that I did. The article "existed" in Star Wars, just as the NEC did (though no doubt the NEC would be much easier to retcon).

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*Alas, the HNN can not be fitted into a compressed timeline. It has a fixed date. The incident in the Taldot sector (ie. the Battle of Balamak), for example, must have happened on 14:2:12.
This, of course, could be retconned, and the CW timeline could be compressed yet still continuous. *

Uhm . . . the "fixed date" issue does not apply to anything in the compression. That's the point. Events were fixed at one month, one week, one year, one day, etc. after AOTC. Knowing the approximate date (at least the year and month) of AOTC or ROTS (at least to the week), we can pretty well narrow down the day (or a very narrow range of days) of the month, for almost every single story between AOTC and ROTS.

Thus, when compression happens, the events still exist, and just as we have to tweak the dates on the other items, wherein we knew dates but didn't have them appearing all nice and written out, we tweak the HNN dates as well.

If Story #1 is one year after AOTC, then story #2 is 1.5 years after AOTC, and those get compressed into, say, a six month time span, then you'd have Story #1, then Story #2, with their time span squished, but their relative order the same. If those two stories now have new dates, and there were originally HNN articles that take place between them, then, okay, they stay between, but they have to adjust their dates just like everything else.

Nathan, I have the greatest respect for what you are doing and trying to do, but isn't the SW universe getting too big to fit everything into one single chronology? It's expanding and expanding and it will always be. I think that someday there will even be more stories than time

As for the NEC and other guides, we have seen plenty of in-universe comments about dates changed to fit new retcons, such as, for example, Timothy Zahn's dates for Clone Wars events in the original Thrawn Trilogy. Why would you expect the NEC to be treated any differently than any other EU material?

Not because it is more important or official than any other source, but because it is written from an "in-universe" perspective. In the Star Wars universe, the NEC is written by Voren Na'al, Archivist Emeritus of the Historical Council of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. See what I mean? That work is a piece of continuity in itself. If the timeline is compressed, then (nearly) all of Na'al's data and research would be erroneous. We would then need a retcon for why the poor historian got his work messed up so badly.

Does anyone else find it incredibly amusing that of all people, I end up playing the voice of reason?

O_o

Given that Barriss Offee and other characters do end up showing up in some other stories, though not many, I would imagine that it would be all stories being compressed. That would make the most sense, since so many characters crossover and events are mentioned in other sources.

Oh, and Insider's HoloNet News! They are written from an in-universe perspective, often with exact dates, and must at least remain un-altered.

Almost all of the prior Clone Wars materials were given exact dates of one kind or another. I would imagine that HoloNet News would be no different in how it is treated, i.e. compressed down with its relative dating the same (what it comes before or after), but its numerical dating changed.

As for Anakin's knighting, that has already been retconned, putting that scene from the earlier series right around the time of Jedi Trial. If things are simply to be compressed, then it would make sense that it would be compressed with it.

As for the NEC and other guides, we have seen plenty of in-universe comments about dates changed to fit new retcons, such as, for example, Timothy Zahn's dates for Clone Wars events in the original Thrawn Trilogy. Why would you expect the NEC to be treated any differently than any other EU material?

It seems like people are making this idea of a compression much more complicated than it actually is.

Consider: You plan to wake up at 9:00, then go to the dentist by 10:00, the grocery store by noon, pick up a new Star Wars novel (naturally) by 3:00 p.m., run some other errands, then head home by 5:00 or so. Then you find out that an old friend will be in town and intends to drop by your home around 3:00 p.m. Uh-oh! So you compress the time you have for what you need to do. You still wake up, go to the dentist, go to the grocery store, pick up the novel, run those errands, and head home, but now instead of having until 5:00 to do this, you have until 3:00. You don't change the order in which you do things; you simply do them faster or more efficiently so that you can do them in a shorter time span. That's all that compression has to entail. It can be more complicated, but at its core, that's what compression is, by definition. You just . . . compress. You squeeze. You squish. You don't necessarily rearrange, even though you certainly could if it were necessary.

George Lucas has referred to the animated micro-series as the "pilot series" for this 3D generated film and series, right? It has been said that the new series will not supercede the original one in continuity, but rather expand upon it. (Seemingly without regard to other CW sources, but that's just the way it is.) So, the problem here is: In the original Clone Wars series, in Chapter 21, we can see Ki-Adi-Mundi reporting to the Council his encounter with General Grievous - this occured on Hypori, 4 months ABOG. We then make a jump to Anakin's knighting ceremony - retconned to take place 30 months ABOG. Now, George was probably not aware of this "jump." He still means that Anakin was promoted 4 months after the outset of the war.
If this is the case, then the "compression" of the timeline could prove much easier - or much more difficult - than expected.

Hmm... I guess it all could fit together, thanks to all the committed people involved... However, there's no doubt it would be much easier to retcon this new film and TV series, and leave the already established continuity alone. Also, what about The New Essential Chronology, which is supposed to be written from an "in-universe" perspective (and, for example, places the Battle of Praesitlyn - which takes place before Anakin's knighting - 30 months ABOG)?

Then again, there's a changing hairstyle to consider....