• thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    the fact that is said 1980 implies that star wars is going at the same time as our own planet in the same universe i am not a star war fans so can someone please tell me what event in star wars happens during the watergate incident?

    Edit: i am not a part of the subreddit just found the post recommended to me

    • olosta@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      3 days ago

      The first thing that appears on screen is “a long time ago, in a galaxy far away”.

    • OZFive@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      Please allow me to geek out for a short minute…

      The correct time frame is 3 ABY (After Battle of Yavin, the events in the original Star Wars). I am sure the meme was just using the original release date of the movie The Empire Strikes Back in which the battle on Hoth took place.

      You might have known all this, but I wanted something to do while I was waking up and drinking my coffee

      • bob_lemon@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Im pretty sure the Empire does not use BBY/ABY though, considering they lost that particular battle.

        Edit: From another comment below, the Empire seems to use BFE/AFE (before/after Formation of the Empire), although wookiepedia mentions that this was invented in 2017.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yeah I don’t think there is a direct event that points out to the people that the government had been using events to grasp more power and dissolve power from senate, as it had been done prior to start of the serieis. One could argue this was clearly shown in the prequels. The prequels show over reach, false flag attempts, the assassination attempt, and use of order 66 to claim the Jedi order was the enemy and he needed wartime powers. Just so happened to fall around the time the Patriot Act was being signed in by Bush after 9/11.