#battle of yavin

[alphamecha-mkii]

Death Star is Cleared to Fire by Joe Wight

[star-wars-forever]

[gwempire]

Imagine, for a moment, that you're an evil sinister Dark Lord battling an uprising against your empire, and you notice a young pilot with the same magic powers as you, is the age that your child who died when your wife gave birth would be, shares your old surname, and has the preferred boy name you and your wife picked out. Would it take your evil sinister Dark Lord Overlord telling you that that's your son?

And IMAGINE, for a moment, that you're an evil sinister Dark Lord who's just come to power. You see that a close politician friend of your pregnant politician wife, who has recently died by your hand, has adopted a young girl who has the preferred GIRL name you and your wife picked out, would you be suspicious? Or would it take using your magic powers in a battle against your son by pluck his fears from his mind to realise you have a daughter as well?

Anyway I think Darth Vader was in active denial or dumb as a rock because dude?????

[sidonius5]

[swtechspecs]

Imperial Navy TIE Pilot's Uniform

Source: Star Wars Technical Journal (Del Rey, 1995)

[errantindy]

A New Chapter IS AWAY!

Sand Becomes Pearls Chapter 39: Fear Like Fireflies has been posted.

The attack on the Death Star continues as TIE fighters arrive. Gold Leader begins his attack run, and Pearl and what remains of Red Squadron must defend themselves, defend Gold Squadron, and attempt to mask the rebels real purpose of the attack.

[grayrazor]

There are people who say that Clone Wars era starfighters were broadly better than Imperial ones, but in the movies at least, TIE Fighters have a way better K/D ratio than Vulture Droids. Nine TIEs took out 26/30 Rebel fighters over Yavin, while after the Droid Control Ship exploded there were at least half of the ~14 Naboo fighters left despite going up against hundreds of droids.

[inquisitor-apologist]

I think Sabine cried at the Battle of Yavin. I think it was the most beautiful explosion she’d ever seen.

[sandsu03]

Death Star Destruction Service🫡

[domonicriley]

I think the BBY/ABY date system works OK, but considering most of Star Wars is set around the same time, it might be better to make an in universe dating system called the 'Galactic Standard Calendar or similar which starts 1000 or so years before The Clone Wars

So, for example, the Battle of Yavin would take place in something like 1022GSC.

This would make the dating system more like our own and remove the confusion over a 'year 0' which the BBY system has.

[beasanfi1997]

Maybe Anakin sense Ezra frees Lothal kidnapping Thrawn and using the escape pod in the scene of a New Hope After his son Luke blows up the Death Star and so Anakin went to find Ezra

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: The Card Game - Red Three by ameeeeba

[catsandcatci]

ooohhh new pet peeve just now. when people use BBY for fics that take place before BBY (battle of yavin) or even for fics where ITS AN AU SO THE BATTLE OF YAVIN DOES NOT TAKE PLACE. it hurts my little calendar nerd heart

[nawilla]

Fic Excerpt: Vader is a bit more frustrated during the Battle of Yavin

Another scene from my Star Wars Original trilogy AU.  Vader is in the thick of the Battle of Yavin, and is a bit more frustrated in this version.

* * *

On his own ship, Vader kept his escorts close, hoping to block in these insolent rebels.  

This group moved differently.

They felt different.

Particularly the leader.

“The Force is strong in this one,” Vader observed.

His comm crackled.

“Kriff, not this Force shit again.”

Vader snarled at the disrespect and with a wave of his hand, his left escort slammed into the wall of the trench, exploding on impact.  

“Do you have anything to say?” he asked his remaining escort.

“Sir, no Sir,” came the meek reply.

[iron-crakka]

Happy new year! Here's a new years Glup Shitto for you: The year 0 BBY!

As you all know, i'm sure, the calendar in the Star Wars universe is measured in years before and after the battle of Yavin, or BBY and ABY for short. this makes a certain amount of sense from an in universe perspective, as the first major victory of the rebellion against the empire, as well as an out of universe one, being the events of the first star wars movie. However, it gets a little bit weird in the year of battle of Yavin. See, the year numbering is based on the battle, but the year start is inherited from a previous system. This means that the battle of Yavin happened in the middle of the year (during the third month). So, what is that year titled? Is it 0 BBY or 0 ABY? Or is it maybe 1 ABY?

If we consider real life calendars for a moment, the in the Gregorian calendar, there is no year zero, it simply goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE. However, several real world calendars do have a year 0, though as best as I could find they don't use a before/after scheme (feel free to correct me if this is wrong).

The galactic standard calendar, though, has an odd way of handling this: there is a year 0, and the portion of the year before the battle is designated 0 BBY and the portion after is 0 BBY (not sure what the day itself is considered to be part of). Therefore, there is a 0 BBY, but it is only about 3 months long, and the year 0 ABY is roughly 7 months long (the calendar has 10 months).

Another fun bit of trivia (but only one, lest this turn into a full calendar post (more calendar fun facts coming soon (probably))): the galactic standard year, used in most calendars—including the BBY/ABY system—is based on the orbit of Coruscant, which is actually 368 days long.

Glup Shitto Classification: Look, it's new year's eve and I ran out of queued posts so this is just a quick one, but there's more calendar stuff to mine for later.

[swtechspecs]

Sienar Fleet Systems TIE Advanced x1

Source: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Del Rey, 1996)