⚡ Gial Ackbar's Timeline

~55 BBY - Birth on Mon Cala

Gial Ackbar is born on the ocean world of Mon Cala. Canon gives only an approximate window for his birth, roughly between 61 BBY and 52 BBY.

~22 BBY - Captain of the Mon Calamari Guard

Ackbar rises to captain of the Mon Calamari Guard and serves as a trusted military adviser to King Yos Kolina and his son, Prince Lee-Char.

21 BBY - The Mon Cala civil war

After the king's assassination, Quarren separatists backed by the Karkarodon Riff Tamson attack the Mon Calamari. Ackbar fights alongside Jedi reinforcements, Anakin Skywalker's forces and Gungan warriors sent by Padmé Amidala, protecting Lee-Char through the underwater battles.

21 BBY - Victory and Lee-Char's coronation

With Tamson defeated and the Quarren reconciled, Lee-Char is crowned king of a reunited Mon Cala, with Ackbar established as his leading military commander.

~19 BBY - The Empire subjugates Mon Cala

Following the rise of the Galactic Empire, Mon Cala is occupied and much of its population, Ackbar included, is pressed into servitude.

~4 BBY - Service with the Rebel Alliance

Freed from Imperial captivity, Ackbar joins the Alliance to Restore the Republic, where his tactical skill quickly earns him fleet command and the rank of admiral.

4 ABY - Briefing at Sullust

Ackbar presents the Alliance battle plan against the second Death Star, coordinating Han Solo's strike team on the Endor moon with the fleet's attack on the battle station.

4 ABY - Battle of Endor

Commanding from the Home One, Ackbar realizes the Alliance has flown into an Imperial ambush and orders the fleet to engage the Star Destroyers at point-blank range, a decision that keeps the rebels alive until the Death Star's shield falls and the station is destroyed.

5 ABY - Campaigns for the New Republic

Ackbar continues to lead fleets in the final campaigns against Imperial remnants as the New Republic is established, and serves his homeworld in its government.

~28 ABY - Joining the Resistance

Retired from New Republic service, Ackbar answers Leia Organa's summons and helps organize the Resistance against the rising First Order, becoming its senior naval adviser.

34 ABY - Battle of Starkiller Base

After the First Order destroys the Hosnian system, Ackbar helps plan the Resistance strike that brings down Starkiller Base.

34 ABY - Death aboard the Raddus

During the Resistance evacuation of D'Qar, First Order TIE fighters and Kylo Ren's TIE silencer strafe the bridge of the flagship Raddus. Ackbar is blown into space and killed, leaving Leia Organa to command the surviving fleet.