Timeline is melting my brain!

[Koth]

So, i got into the beta weekends and i played quite a bit.. or atleast enough to know i love the game... now being the lore nerd i tend to be, long ago say ohhh about 7 years ago (around the time wow launched) i lost touch with Star Wars lore/fluff or whatever you wanna call it, anyway i was wondering if anyone knows when ToR starts after the Treaty of Coruscant, the reason am asking is because am quite fond of connecting my character/s in some menial fashion or other to someone important, even if its "he discovered me", so anyone wanna take a guess or give me the answer?

PS: Am referring to Kao Cen Darach in this case, though i think my guy will be too young.

[Caliban]

I could be completely wrong here but I believe that it's 10 years.

The Treaty was signed in 3653 BBY and SWTOR starts in 3643 BBY.

Take a peek at

http://timelineuniverse.net/TheSithEra.htm

PS - There is a reference in game somewhere, but I'm damned if I can remember where it is.

[Yakusoku]

So, i got into the beta weekends and i played quite a bit.. or atleast enough to know i love the game... now being the lore nerd i tend to be, long ago say ohhh about 7 years ago (around the time wow launched) i lost touch with Star Wars lore/fluff or whatever you wanna call it, anyway i was wondering if anyone knows when ToR starts after the Treaty of Coruscant, the reason am asking is because am quite fond of connecting my character/s in some menial fashion or other to someone important, even if its "he discovered me", so anyone wanna take a guess or give me the answer?

PS: Am referring to Kao Cen Darach in this case, though i think my guy will be too young.

Im sure i remember hearing the excact amount of years in game. But for the life of me cant rememeber what it was. And the old republic wiki only says "Struggling with a wave of seceding star systems, an insurmountable supply crisis, and chaos on the streets of Coruscant, the Senate has become paralyzed in the years since the treaty."

[Exerxes]

The biggest issue is that BW didn't set the start date in stone. All the classes have a class 'story' and the time that story start differentiates between the classes.

All Jedi seem to start off as Padawans on a newly-built temple on Tython, after the TOC. How long would it feasibly take to build it? 3 years? 10? More?

I think we'll have to put exact figures out of our heads and work within 5 years or so of the TOC, because so far BW hasn't helped to clarify the time.

Ex

[Zenkutsu]

It's appeared in multiple places as 10 years ATC. Don't ask me for a link though..

[Velorius]

They intentionally kept it kind of vague, the closest to official as far as I know is this quote

Hey folks,

We've always kept the end of the timeline a little vague since some origin stories start a little earlier than others, have more time pass during their stories, etc.

The window for the game start is about 10-12 years after the treaty of Coruscant. Most player characters weren't old enough to be adults during the last war but many of the people you'll interact with were. This is the next generation, watching the Treaty of Coruscant tear at the edges and wondering how long until the seemingly inevitable war to end it all begins.

Hope that helps!

Daniel:csw_tattooine

I'd link to the original thread the quote came from but the forums are down and the thread probably wiped.

[Koth]

That works, make's sense too also nice find Caliban, shall have to have a look through that!

[Xenn]

For further brain melting.... The Galactic Timeline Records 1-12 ~48min...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeboxMqdXdE

[Friesian]

For my smuggler I used ATC 6-ATC 8 as connection to TKM, being on Ord Mantell.

[Lisszia]

We used ATC 10 +/- 2 years for game start with Pata. Finished the bio in ATC 7 leaving free space after that. At the time we wrote it it was said on the forum by BW that it's around 10. Later I saw the post with 10-12 that also fits good for us.