The Death Knell

The end of a certain month in the 17th year of the Great Synchronic Calendar.

This is the time displayed in the upper right corner of the screen of this video. Aphra's judgment is correct. The year of this video is indeed 20 years ago.

Deathstroke twisted his mouth and looked at the man on the screen who looked very imposing and was preparing for the recording work. Generally speaking, if this kind of business-like video recording his archaeological discoveries appears in a movie, it will eventually become a series of last words. .

Speaking of which, the chronology in the galaxy in the Star Wars universe is very confusing. From the perspective of a time traveler, Su Ming is more accustomed to using the galactic standard calendar of BBY and ABY, which takes the Battle of Yavin that destroyed Death Star One as the watershed. Chronology.

After the Battle of Yavin, the abbreviation is ABY, and vice versa, it is BBT. The time he is currently in is ABY-2 years.

The Battle of Yavin was an important node in the transformation of the Galactic Empire from prosperity to decline, but people living in this universe today cannot look at the problem from the perspective of a 'future victor'. After all, the Galactic Empire is the ruler now, and they use the most It's the imperial calendar.

The Galactic Empire was founded in 19-BBY, which is Imperial Calendar Year 0. Today, the Imperial Army and the inner ring areas of the Galaxy basically use this calendar.

The Jedi Knights also have another calendar, the Calendar of Toyo's Advent. In ancient times, the 'Toyo Spaceship' sent Force-sensitive people to the planet Tyson, so the year when the Jedi were born is the first year. That year Converted to the standard calendar, it is 36463-BBY.

During the Old Republic period before the establishment of the Empire, equivalent to 35-BBY, the Old Republic promoted a Great Synchronous Movement, allowing the entire galaxy to use a unified calendar. This was the 'Great Synchronic Calendar'.

This calendar is very popular and is still used by many people. It stipulates that the entire galaxy must follow the days of Coruscant, the capital of the Republic.

A year is divided into 10 months, each month has 35 days, and each month is divided into seven weeks, each week has five days and 24 hours a day.

That's a total of 350 days, and then add in the 3 separate holiday weeks and 3 vacation days, and there are 368 days in a year.

So if someone says that the people of the Old Republic live a much better life than the people of the Galactic Empire, that is purely an illusion. There are 18 days of vacation in total in a year, and the slaves don’t even have these 18 days. After all, they built their capital star to look like a hive. What kind of benevolent government can be implemented with power?

From some perspectives, the treatment of humans in the Galactic Empire is very good. For example, when Aphra was studying at the Imperial Engineer Academy, according to the imperial calendar, there were eight days of rest in four weeks of each month, and the empire paid for tuition, meals and accommodation. It's all-inclusive, and the school also provides pocket money, so life is endlessly fun.

But the King of Paragon is a typical example of taking too big a step and implementing certain policies of "humanity is supreme" too early.

The Galactic Empire abolished slavery in the Old Republic. Human beings must receive reasonable remuneration as long as they work, but aliens are not among them. They can serve as "bonded workers" and only need to take care of food and lodging, which is equivalent to slavery in disguise.

Comprehensive tax reduction projects, but only on planets where the dominant race is human, such as those places with many aliens in the outer ring sectors, will instead increase taxes and impose strict controls.

All races can apply to join the Imperial Army, but humans have extra points in promotions and other aspects. When a charge is needed, it is the aliens' army of servants who go up first to serve as cannon fodder.

There are a lot of policies like this, and they all share the same thoughts as someone else. Aliens are not considered human beings.

Even the emperor went to the extreme in many ways. Even humans who were close to aliens were regarded as traitors and would be captured as coolies.

After such an operation, alien rebellions broke out all over the galaxy.

Before traveling through time, Su Ming had of course watched the Star Wars movie. He was still young at the time and found it very strange.

Why are the rebels full of weird-looking people and not many normal people? On the contrary, the villains of the Galactic Empire are all humans?

It wasn’t until later that I realized that Star Wars was not a war drama, but a family ethics drama, so that was fine.

If we look at the new official history, what will happen in the future proves that the aliens on the Rebel side are actually not very good. After the Rebels defeat the Galactic Empire and establish the New Republic, Princess Leia, who helped them, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and other humans were all pushed out of the leadership, and the galaxy became a galaxy of aliens.

However, according to the Milky Way setting that was later completed by Dark Horse Comics, the Milky Way in this universe was born 1.4 trillion years ago, and the first intelligent race in the universe was a large shell, which could be considered an alien.

In short, after the establishment of the New Republic, humans can be slaves again, pay heavy taxes, and charge forward to die.

Maybe it was because Su Ming's ideological level was so poor that he couldn't figure out what the humans who had helped the rebels were up to in the end. Just to make those alien aliens tower over you?

This feeling is a bit like a human who spends all his income to feed an alien picked up on the roadside, and finally successfully cultivates and evolves it into an alien queen. He also hopes that the insect swarm he helped raise can see the past. Don't eat him out of favor.

Keen and aliens have different emotions, especially when there are politicians among the aliens.

The train of thought will run away as soon as I think about it, but the time in the outside world is actually only the moment when the video recording just started.

The man in the video fiddled with the recording equipment for a while, then reached out to pat the microphone. From time to time, he would arrange for the team members behind him to set up houses and move goods.

As the background is a forest glade, everyone is busy, and everyone has a happy face.

"I am Dr. Piazza Adams from the Galactic Archeology Association. Today, my team members and I successfully arrived at the planet Haven IV. The climate here is sultry and the smell is not very good, but if the previous clues are true, , we might just make a big discovery and it will all be worth it.”

"As for what I discovered, let me keep it a secret for now. I will reveal the truth in the future, which will be shocking enough. At the same time, this is also for the sake of scientific rigor, because I don't have any evidence to prove that it really exists."

Next, he called his team members one by one in front of the camera and introduced them. He beamed as if he wanted to distribute the credit in advance. It seemed that he was very confident.

But in Su Ming's view, the flag had already been erected, and all family photos were group photos.

"Do you know anyone here?" he asked Aphra, wanting to see if any survivors had returned to the association.

But the female doctor shook her head, folded her arms and replied: "In the 17th year of the Great Synchronicity, I was only a few years old at that time. I should have been left by my father on another planet to compete with an alien insect. "

"Master, you really live an exciting life. Many humans don't have experience like you. You must be very proud, right?"

Mechanical Wolong's eyes lit up, and the etiquette program caught the opportunity, and he immediately took the shot.

Aphra covered her face speechlessly and said in a voice that seemed to come from the underworld: "I would rather not have these experiences. Even staying at home and playing with dolls is better than this!"