Day 0 - The JvS Timeline

I was always a fan of using the current canon timepoint as our baseline and keeping the dates from there.

The way I have been doing it is the AU. Everything in Canon has happened up to this point. We are like 138ABY I believe. So I have given in about 50 years (from where Xeo was) so I am in the 180's. This way if more canon stuff happens there is still 50 years for it to fit in. Well like 40 but whatever. If it is different which it will be, no harm no foul.

My timeline is set about 200 years after the Firrerreon genocide. So about where you have yours set. I've always been of the thinking that we should have a set timeline for JvS, one where everything in canon happened already so all the history is there. I'm also of the thinking that people can write closed storylines set in different era's should the not want to abide by the timeline for open RP.

This could work, any of these ideas actually. Deadniquitous actually explained the condition of every character on this site well!

Though as someone did already say in another topic, people could still ignore the set timeline and do what ever they want. (Which I do not mind and respect how they like to RP) Like Adrien had said. That is important here, not to change how others like to RP. We all have our differen't ways, time zones & setting. But! There still is a way to even make that work.

Even though people will do what they will, we still could have a timeline set. Think of the Marvel universe for example, you have the Avengers. New york being attacked by aliens from outer space, while the X-Men are travelling threw time and changing the future, or Jean grey going nuts in Manhattan. Even though each event was a world wide breaking news sort of thing, either party Avengers or X-men heard a whisper of each others problems. It didn't exist. Now they're crossing stories, such as Quick silver being in the Avengers. That's the son of magneto. I don't know if that made sense but of well. Enough about Marvel, I'll stop before I nerd out completely. Back to the point. A timeline can exist despite what other people decide to do. It can be created, just for the sake of it being...there. So we can actually safely talk about the Rebellion Era and the fall of the Empire without getting into any entanglements of what exists and what does not.

An alternate future where Alderaan is still here, and i think i speak for most of us here when i say we want a timeline set after canon. Other people can Rp in their own time, no offence to anyone who does like that, it doesn't quite make sense to me because They RP in say...1834BBY, yet! Alderaan is gone, none of the canon characters exist and nothing canon can exist if the galaxy is well...existing with us. After canon would make sense, enough time after canon legacies had died off and remnants of major canon things would not exist, except some, and our galaxy would be the future.

I've always RPed JvS as a decade or so after the Vong War.... *shrugs*

Perhaps what is not broken, should not be fixed?

Maybe it's because I'm from the West Coast, but I fail to see how New York City and Manhattan are two different places. Isn't it all just in New Jersey?

I agree with Major, it is splitting hairs, despite the fact that I also think a timeline would be better storywise. I'm going to RP as though there is one, someone else is going to blend era's, and someone else is going to stick with their favorite era, it's just how it is.

I'm still dying to see what the interaction would be like between Adrien and someone who RP's "Golden Age" or in a set era because of the off chance that Alderaan could be brought up, since in Adrien's world it's not there, just an asteroid field that used to be a planet but obviously to some it still exists. Everyone would think the other is crazy with their point of view, laughs will be had, and general poking fun.