Star Wars Books & Comics' Star Wars Saga¹ timeline lists all Story Group approved stories and their approved media that form the Star Wars official continuity. This timeline constitutes a muti-media of films, TV episodes, novels, short stories, comics, young adult novels, and children's books and comics; and are listed in chronological order, ie the recommended viewing/reading order. It also distinguishes the approved canonical media, for example while the films of the Original and Prequel Trilogies have all had various theatrical, VHS, DVD and Blu-ray releases and re-releases over the years as well as novel and comic adaptations⁵ published, the approved format is currently the 2011 Blu-ray/DVD edition (and subsequent re-releases of those versions) - all other formats/versions are not approved formats.
Unlike the 25,921 year timeframe of the Star Wars Legends timeline, at present the Star Wars Saga¹ spans just 66 years: from The Phantom Menace thru to The Force Awakens; and where the events of A New Hope are used as a convenient reference point.

• ¹ Star Wars Saga is not a Lucasfilm endorsed term to describe the new official continuity, it was created by this website to differentiate between Legends stories (the former Expanded Universe) and Lucasfilm Story Group approved in-continuity stories.
• ² DATE: Saga dating is having occured either before or after Episode IV: A New Hope, ie the events seen in A New Hope are classed as zero year on the Star Wars timeline (as above). For obvious reason this is not an in-universe calendar, it is only used as a reference point within the real-world.
• ³ MEDIA FORMAT: Saga stories are told using a variety of media: Film (first published as a theatrical release); TV (television programme. To assist with viewing order, episodes include season and episode number, eg TV [Ep. 1.12] is Season 1, Episode 12); Book (novel, usually first published in hardback, and may also include children's books); Comic (usually first published as individual comic books before being collated into a graphic novel); Short Story (stories usually published in Star Wars Insider magazine).
• ⁴ APPROVED MEDIA: A Saga story's current approved media. This is the current media format in which to enjoy the approved Saga story. Please note that for Episodes I thru VI only the audio-visual version as released on Blu-Ray in 2011 or on DVD in 2013 or Digital HD in 2015 (and subsequent releases on same format) is classed as the approved version: novelisations of any of the films (and other adaptations such as comic book, children's book, etc.) form part of Story Group continuity only in so far as where the novel's story aligns to that seen on-screen - the rest of the adaptation's story is classed as Legends.
  *Approved media for original novel stories first published in hardback also include the e-Book version, unabridged Audio Book version and, when released, the paperback version.
• ⁶ Story/title not yet published.
• ⁷ Exact timeline placement yet to be determined.
• This list is neither definitive nor exhaustive.
• Star Wars Books and Comics would like to acknowledge the following for their assistance in assembling this timeline: StarWarsDatapad.com; Eddie van der Heijden's Once Upon A Galaxy; Nathan P. Butler's Star Wars Timeline Gold; and Darth Kondorr.
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