#i brought this up in a discord server i'm in recently and i've been itching to share this with the world lol

[oneinathousand]

So, when is "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away" in Star Wars? A lot of people don't even think about it, but the implication is that the events of the franchise take place in some other galaxy in our very universe.

As far as I know, this answer has never been given in canon, and I've seen many fans dismiss it as nothing more than a sort of fairytale opening to get the audience to suspend their disbelief.

However, there is a second-hand source claiming that George Lucas actually had something in mind. In, of all things, Lord of Misrule, the autobiography of Christopher Lee (Count Dooku) had this to say:

Much of Attack takes place on the planet of Geonosis, where those skeletal bipeds with dragonfly wings are the Geonosians. Some Geonosian dialogue is difficult to put over because it is a mixture from an ancient time in a faraway galaxy - which George told me was considerably more than 7,000 years ago - and modern speech in our own galaxy of cinema duplexes.

And there you have it. If what Lee says is true, and Lucas really did mean this and didn't pull the answer out of his ass, then at the very least the events of Star Wars take place during the very beginnings of Earth civilization, quite likely even before that.

Some of you may be wondering why Lucas would tell Lee this of all people and possibly not anybody else. I think the answer is that if Christopher Lee asks you a worldbuilding question, you're gonna give him an answer of some kind. Since Lee was a LOTR fanboy and surely knew that Middle Earth was set in our distant past, he probably noticed SW was apparently the same and asked Lucas about it.

Of course, since this is second-hand, you can dismiss it if you want to. I'm sure many of you would prefer not to have any answer to the question at all like the Force got with the midichlorians, and that's totally cool.

I, however, will accept this as canon in my heart just because it's REALLY, REALLY FUNNY to imagine that while the SW characters are going "Somehow, Palpatine returned", we're just chilling on Earth figuring out how to grow crops like