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Palpatine says in AOTC that the Republic has stood for a thousand years- which I guess dates it back to just after the Sith were last beaten.

But that is far younger than was assumed by many and by the EU, based on Obi-Wan's "Thousand Generations" line in ANH.

Certainly surprised me!

think those "thousand years" were more like "a long long time" could me 12 thousand for example

Not at all. The time scale he is talking about is clearly less than that or else he would have said "thousands of years."

In EU it was developed 25,000 years before TPM. But I guess he's saying 1,000 because the Republic almost crumbled when Exar Kun and his Sith Lords were trying to take it down. They almost succeeded, but the Sith lost and the Republic made itself stronger.

EU

Duh. So?

so it doesn't count

And?

and your whole post is worth nada

It could be split into numbered Republics like the French, but I have never heard anyone call it the "xth" Republic.

And Sio Bibble's comment that there has not been a full scale war since the foundation of the Republic does clearly rule out the 25,000 year thing. I would guess the last Sith war was full scale as well.

So I guess we all come to the opinion that the current Republic arose from the last Sith War. Presumably, of course, the Jedi were the guardians of civilisation long before that.

perhaps a well-known history lesson?

a thousand generations is less than a thousand years.

athousand years is about 3 to 5 thousand generations.

so a thousand generations is actually about 280 years.

what the HECK are you one about???

That is the WEIRDEST thing I have ever heard.

A generation is about 20-30 years, Fernando. A period of time in which children become adults. That's the whole point of differeng generations.

a thousand generations is roughly 20000 years

Unless they make children in a very young age.

does he say years or generations now?

Palpatine says years. Obi-Wan said generations.

i dont know how the heck i came up with that crap, sorry my math that day was realy shitty now i understand.

if family takes 4 generations to turn the century. in other words my great grand pa was born about 100 years before me.

so if 4 generations = 100 years
then 40 generations = 1000
therefore 1000 generations = 25 000 years

Well, that's all a lot happier now!

IF you take 25 years per generation that is. It might be a bit longer these days.

well, I like the +20 000 years more then the 1000 years one