When Does "Star Wars: The Bad Batch" Season One (2021) Take Place?
"Star Wars: The Bad Batch" season one is a science fiction animated television series showran by Brad Rau that released May 4th, 2021. So when is "The Bad Batch" season 1 set?
It takes place on the fictional Star Wars timeline in the year:
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")."
19 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")."
During season 1 episode 1 "Aftermath" a clone says, ..."intelligence is reporting Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi has found and engaged General Grievous on Utapau.", referring to scenes in "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" (2005), which takes place in 19 BBY. As they overlap, it must be 19 BBY at the start of the season.
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 19 BBY is 7958. It's explained on Wookieepedia. By the Lothal Calendar, year 19 BBY is 3258 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.
