Commander Mike Beidler is a Foreign Area Officer (military diplomat) and former aviator in the United States Navy who has served as a military technical adviser and continuity editor for a number of Star Wars authors. Creator of the Star Wars Literature Compendium, the earliest (1995) and—at one time—the most comprehensive literature timeline on the Internet, Beidler is considered the father of Star Wars chronologies and the inspiration for more recent and comprehensive timelines, such as Time Tales and The Star Wars Timeline Project.

Beidler has been Tuckerized as a number of Expanded Universe characters: Myk Bidlor and a B'omarr monk and a Rodian both named Beidlo. He is, along with Tom Veitch and Rich Handley, wholly responsible for the famous Scourge of the Nevoota Bee in-joke.

ContributionsEdit

• 1995 - Tom Veitch – Empire's End 2: Rage of the Emperor (script polishing; military tech adviser; all battle dialogue)
• 1997 - Tom Veitch – Lightsider: A Star Wars Manuscript (military tech adviser; text editor)
• 1997 - John Whitman – Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear—The Hunger (plot and character development)
• 1998 - A. C. Crispin – Star Wars: Rebel Dawn (character development; Millennium Falcon weaponry research)
• 1998 - Daniel Wallace – Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons (early project development on the Internet version)
• 2002 - Daniel Wallace – "The Vehicles of Episode II", Star Wars Insider 64 (interviewed regarding the helicopter-like characteristics of the Republic Gunship)
• 2008 - Dark Horse Comics – Luke Skywalker: Last Hope for the Galaxy (assisted in selecting the collected stories)

Mike Beidler TuckerismsEdit

• Myk Bidlor, forensic scientist hired by Durga the Hutt (Star Wars: Rebel Dawn by A. C. Crispin)
• Beidlo, B'omarr monk (Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear—The Brain Spiders by John Whitman)
• Beidlo, Rodian bounty hunter ("Crimson Bounty", Star Wars Adventure Journal 14 by Charlene Newcomb and Rich Handley)