When Does "Star Wars: Andor" Season Two (2025) Take Place?

"Star Wars: Andor" season two is a science fiction television series showran by Tony Gilroy that premiered April 22nd, 2025. So when is "Andor" season 2 set? 

It takes place on the fictional Star Wars timeline in the years: 

4 BBY - 1 BBY 

We know this because ALL the Star Wars franchise stories are simply set “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”. As stated on Wikipedia, the final scenes of "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" (1977) depict a space dogfight and "This battle has become known as the Battle of Yavin, and its date is used as a place-marker for events in the expanded Star Wars universe. Events before the Battle of Yavin are marked by BBY ("Before the Battle of Yavin"), and events that occur after are marked by ABY ("After the Battle of Yavin")." 

Season two episode twelve "Jedha, Kyber, Erso" leads into the film "Rogue One" (2016), which takes place weeks or even days before it, therefore within 1 year before the Battle of Yavin in "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" (1977). So the season ends in 1 BBY. 

The rest of the season depicts Cassian Andor's life in the 3 years leading up to the film "Rogue One" (2016), which itself takes place just before the Battle of Yavin in "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" (1977). 

-1 - 3 = -4. 

This is the system most fans use as it was introduced first. It originates in a 1996 role-playing game. Wookieepedia includes an explanation entry. 

There are also two more fictional calendars created for the Star Wars universe in the 2010s. By the CRC or Coruscant reckoning calendar, year 4 BBY is 7973. It's explained on Wookieepedia. By the Lothal Calendar, year 4 BBY is 3273 LY (for Lothal year). It's explained on Wookieepedia. 

If you want to read a scientific attempt at making sense of an actual year on the Gregorian calendar when the Star Wars franchise takes place, there's an excellent article at Wired. Taking the "long time ago" part as gospel but recognizing the time it takes for any "galaxy far, far away" to form with stars and solar systems and planets with intelligent lifeforms. The author, Patrick Johnson, can only place it somewhere between 4.7 billion years ago to the more recent past something like 1,000 years ago. So sometime between 470000000000 BC and 1000 AD. 

It is a chronologically midway TV series in the Star Wars universe and can be watched at its timeline point. 

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