Big Bang

"Everything that exists, and will ever exist, was spawned from the primordial plasma of time's beginning."

―Jedi Master Ood Bnar

The Big Bang was the event that created the universe, an unknown amount of time prior to the formation of the galaxy thirteen billion years before the Battle of Yavin.

The Shawken Device was designed to cause a chain reaction that would destroy all star systems in the existing universe, with the purpose of eventually triggering a new Big Bang to begin the universe again. While this exact outcome is questionable, the effects produced by this superweapon could have still been disastrous had it ever been given a chance to destroy the planet Shawken, where it was located.

Behind the scenes

The age of our universe, according to results from the Planck observatory satellite released in March 2013, is 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years. This improved measurement includes the data used for a 2006 measurement of 13.772 ± 0.059 billion years from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.

Many fan-made timelines, such as Star Wars Timeline Gold, use references to Earth in the Star Wars canon to determine the time difference between the events in the films and the present day. Timelines which assume this time difference is only a few centuries or millennia often list 13,700,000,000 BBY or a similar date as the date of the Big Bang. However, since neither Earth nor the Milky Way galaxy is mentioned in canonical Star Wars materials, such calculations are speculative.

Appearances

• File:SWG logo sm.png Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars (1977) 87 (First mentioned)

Sources

• Tales of the Jedi Companion
• The Essential Atlas

Notes and references

Pre-Republic era (—25,053 BBY) Galactic timeline Previous: None Next: Expansionist Era (25,053–20,000 BBY) Years of the Pre-Republic era 13,000,000,000 BBY · 5,000,000,000 BBY · 10,000,000 BBY · 3,000,000 BBY · 2,000,000 BBY 1,500,000 BBY · 1,000,000 BBY · 600,000 BBY · 200,000 BBY · 100,086 BBY 100,000 BBY · 90,000 BBY · 57,000 BBY · 53,600 BBY · 53,300 BBY 37,453 BBY · 36,453 BBY · 36,019 BBY · 35,453 BBY · 35,000 BBY 33,908 BBY · 33,598 BBY · 33,357 BBY · 32,925 BBY · 32,920 BBY 30,500 BBY · 30,000 BBY · 28,930 BBY · 28,916 BBY · 28,915 BBY 28,912 BBY · 28,793 BBY · 28,000 BBY · 27,987 BBY · 27,700 BBY 27,500 BBY · 27,453 BBY · 27,000 BBY · 26,053 BBY · 26,012 BBY 26,000 BBY · 25,997 BBY · 25,823 BBY · 25,818 BBY · 25,816 BBY 25,815 BBY · 25,811 BBY · 25,805 BBY · 25,802 BBY · 25,801 BBY 25,800 BBY · 25,797 BBY · 25,793 BBY · 25,792 BBY · 25,783 BBY 25,200 BBY · 25,150 BBY · 25,130 BBY · 25,127 BBY · 25,126 BBY 25,125 BBY · 25,120 BBY · 25,116 BBY · 25,102 BBY · 25,100 BBY 25,099 BBY · 25,096 BBY · 25,053 BBY

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External links

• Big Bang on Wikipedia

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