Somebody got tired of wondering how old everyone in Star Wars was, so Yoda’s Datapad turned the problem into a giant table.
Visit the Star Wars Character Age Table
The page lines up characters against the movies and works out their ages at each point in the timeline. Luke, Leia, Han, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Chewbacca, Palpatine, Rey, Kylo Ren and a long list of supporting characters all get rows.
The result is one of those fan references that looks simple until you notice the continuity problem hiding underneath it.
Star Wars has two large bodies of chronology to reconcile: the older Expanded Universe material now called Legends, and the post-2014 canon. Yoda’s Datapad does not quietly mash them together. Where the newer canon and older sources disagree, the page gives separate entries.
Anakin Skywalker is a good example. The table preserves different age calculations from pre-2014 material and newer canon sources, then explains why older references could make him appear a year older in Attack of the Clones. Han Solo also gets separate canon and Legends rows.
A fan page built like a reference book
The table uses the Battle of Yavin as its chronological zero point. Birth dates are expressed relative to Episode IV, then translated into ages for the major films. That makes the page useful even when the answer is not especially intuitive.
Chewbacca is listed as roughly 200 years old around the original film. Yoda reaches 900 by Return of the Jedi. Maz Kanata crosses the thousand-year mark by the sequel trilogy. C-3PO gets the appropriately messy treatment of being “built” at one point from components that may themselves be much older.
The notes matter as much as the numbers. The author identifies approximations, contradictions and places where a source only establishes a minimum age. That is better reference work than pretending fictional chronology is cleaner than it is.
Yoda’s Datapad also maintains a Star Wars book timeline, which fits the same basic philosophy: make a useful map through a franchise that accumulated decades of overlapping material.
This is one of the things independent fan sites did especially well. Instead of writing another article about the same famous characters, somebody built the odd reference table they personally wanted and kept maintaining it.
Search engines can answer “How old was Luke in A New Hope?” now. The underlying fan work is still more interesting because it shows where the answer came from, where the sources disagree and where the universe refuses to behave like a clean database.