SEVENTY-EIGHT EDITIONS 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 14 years that followed (1997 - 2011), the "SWT" evolved into the "SWT-G" (Star Wars Timeline Gold), releasing 78 editions and growing from that small 4-page document into a 3-volume document with a combined length of almost 1,900 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 was 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 Jully 2011 edition has arrived.

I sincerely hope you find the Star Wars Timeline Gold useful and worthwhile as we approach its 14th Anniversary in October 2011.

--Nathan P. Butler