Different exhibits offer you a ticking clock. Andor, which simply returned to Disney+ for its second and ultimate season, offers you a ticking calendar.
That is the that means of “BBY 4,” which seems on display initially of Andor Season 2, episode 1. Informal viewers might not keep in mind all the way in which again to Andor Season 1, episode 1, once we got one other time setting: BBY 5.
Get used to it, as a result of time jumps are coming: The second batch of Andor season 2 (dropping subsequent week) is about in BBY 3; the third in BBY 2; and the ultimate three episodes, hitting Disney+ on Might 13, cowl the occasions of BBY 1, and dovetail with the start of Rogue One.
Nevertheless, Andor by no means explains this mysterious acronym. You would be forgiven for considering the “Y” refers to 12 months. However no, BBY means Earlier than the Battle of Yavin — one other identify for the Loss of life Star-destroying conclusion to the unique Star Wars film in 1977, which George Lucas renamed Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981.
BBY and ABY (After the Battle of Yavin) grew to become a helpful relationship system for Star Wars books, comics, and different media. The Empire Strikes Again, for instance, takes place in ABY 3; Assault of the Clones was BBY 22. Not that both film ever mentioned so on display, after all.
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And the extra that Lucasfilm’s chief nerds thought of it, the much less BBY and ABY made sense within the Star Wars universe. In any case, the Empire did not fall till the occasions of Return of the Jedi (ABY 4). Would not the brand new Galactic Republic select that as its key date?
One firm veteran mocked the entire idea of the BBY relationship system in a now-deleted tweet: “‘I do know! Let’s make a calendar based mostly round our second-greatest victory!’ — The Rebels.”
Lucasfilm’s 2014 canon reset, which declared all beforehand revealed novels and comics to be a part of a separate, never-happened timeline referred to as Legends, successfully did away with the relationship system. Nevertheless it continued in fan discussions, and within the on-line useful resource often called Wookieepedia.
And when director Tony Gilroy got here alongside to create Andor as a prequel to Rogue One, he wanted to point his time jumps to viewers. BBY made sense on condition that Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) dies in Rogue One, mere days earlier than the Battle of Yavin — and much from being worn out, BBY grew to become enshrined on display for the primary time.
