In all seriousness “A long time ago in a _____ far far away…” is just a standard opening for a fantasy story, which is exactly what the Star Wars franchise is: a fairy tale about knights and wizards and evil sorcerers and princesses and monsters and sword fights. Lucas just replaced “kingdom” with “galaxy.”
Trying to figure out how the story of Star Wars fits in with our own timeline is like trying to figure out when dragons and unicorns went extinct or finding Hobbiton on a map of Europe.
