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Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.

A light-year, or light year, also abbreviated ly, was the distance light traveled in vacuum in one Galactic Standard Year. 3.258 light years made up a parsec, which was a unit of distance that was important in locating star systems in the known galaxy.

Since the Galactic Standard Calendar year was 368 days, a Galactic Standard Light Year would have been 9,531,961,160,601,600 meters.

Text and facts from the “Light-year/Legends” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.

Facts

Length
About 9.5 trillion kilometers
Purpose
Unit of distance

Appearances

37 works, in story order
  1. Star Wars: The Old Republic (mentioned only)
  2. Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel (mentioned only)
  3. Knight Errant
  4. Star Wars: Invasion of Theed Adventure Game
  5. Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight (mentioned only)
  6. Passages
  7. Death Star
  8. Han Solo at Stars' End (mentioned only)
  9. Gone To Ground
  10. Star Wars: X-Wing Aces Target Game
  11. Tests of the Godking
  12. Star Wars (1977) 7 (first appearance)
  13. Only Droids Serve the Maker
  14. A Bitter Winter
  15. Tales of the Smoking Blaster
  16. Under a Black Sun
  17. Beyond the Rim
  18. Star Wars (1977) 38
  19. Splinter of the Mind's Eye (mentioned only)
  20. The Bounty Hunter (mentioned only)
  21. Idol Intentions (mentioned only)
  22. Laughter After Dark
  23. The Stele Chronicles
  24. Star Wars (1977) 39 (mentioned only)
  25. The Empire Strikes Back: A Storybook
  26. Star Wars (1977) 41 (mentioned only)
  27. Star Wars (1977) 50 (mentioned only)
  28. The Longest Fall (mentioned only)
  29. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire novel (mentioned only)
  30. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire abridged audiobook (mentioned only)
  31. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire junior novelization (mentioned only)
  32. X-Wing Rogue Squadron 31 (mentioned only)
  33. The DarkStryder Campaign
  34. Heir to the Empire
  35. Dark Force Rising
  36. Counterstrike
  37. Retreat from Coruscant

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