Hello everyone!
I'm new here, so I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask.
I'm currently working on a believable backstory for my first character. And to do that I need to understand the time in which he grew up. I still don't quite understand how time works here. The timeline shows different posters for different time periods. So here are my questions:
1. How do I know in which year we currently are? Are we in 875 ABY, 876 ABY ... 880 ABY?
2. If I want to give my character a backstory, for example "refugee turned slave", how do I figure out which planets where under attack at which time? I know I can search for planets in the open RP forum, but the dates of threads and replies are real time, so I have no idea what happened when ingame.
3. If I want to base my backstory on a specific timeframe, like the civil war between the New Imperial Order and the Sith Empire between 867-874, how can I find out which planets were conquered in this time? The map doesn't show historical changes right? But there must be more information on how and when factions grew and took territory from others.
I would really appreciate it if someone can help me understand the basics here. Really struggling with my backstory, since I can't seem to understand how to connect RP events to a specific year.
Thanks for helping.
I'm new here, so I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask.
I'm currently working on a believable backstory for my first character. And to do that I need to understand the time in which he grew up. I still don't quite understand how time works here. The timeline shows different posters for different time periods. So here are my questions:
1. How do I know in which year we currently are? Are we in 875 ABY, 876 ABY ... 880 ABY?
2. If I want to give my character a backstory, for example "refugee turned slave", how do I figure out which planets where under attack at which time? I know I can search for planets in the open RP forum, but the dates of threads and replies are real time, so I have no idea what happened when ingame.
3. If I want to base my backstory on a specific timeframe, like the civil war between the New Imperial Order and the Sith Empire between 867-874, how can I find out which planets were conquered in this time? The map doesn't show historical changes right? But there must be more information on how and when factions grew and took territory from others.
I would really appreciate it if someone can help me understand the basics here. Really struggling with my backstory, since I can't seem to understand how to connect RP events to a specific year.
Thanks for helping.