ELEVEN YEARS AND COUNTING

Welcome to the official home for the Star Wars Timeline Gold. The SWT-G is the ongoing culmination of the Star Wars Timeline Project, which began with the Star Wars Timeline 1.0, a 4-page Microsoft Works document that I produced in late 1997 to assist myself and fellow fans in understanding the ever-growing official continuity of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

Over the 12 years that followed (1997 - 2009), the "SWT" evolved into the "SWT-G" (Star Wars Timeline Gold), releasing 76 editions and growing from that small 4-page document into a 3-volume document with a combined length of just over 1,700 pages. During that time, the project's sole creator, Nathan P. Butler (yours truly), also contributed to the official Star Wars saga in the form of a What's the Story profile (the co-written "DC0052 Intergalactic Speeder" entry), Equals and Opposites (a story in Star Wars Tales #21 and Star Wars Tales, Vol. 6 that will be re-released in 2009 as a Hasbro Comic Pack with Kyle Katarn and Yuuzhan Vong action figures), and chronological data for the Star Wars Essential Atlas. Butler also contributed to the unofficial Using the Force: Creativity, Community, and Star Wars Fans and Star Wars Super Collector's Wish Book, 4th Edition.

We have now entered a new stage in the SWT-G, as the first 2009 edition launches a new Clone Wars Supplement to chronicle both the "old" and "new" iterations of the Clone Wars era (necessitated by continuity chaos from The Clone Wars and related spinoff materials).

I sincerely hope you find the Star Wars Timeline Gold useful and worthwhile as we approach its 12th Anniversary in October 2009.

--Nathan P. Butler