The war was three years long, right?

[Chad32]

In book 13, Tobias said everything had been going on for about a year. That's 13 books in around 1 year. If we used that as some kind of measurement, then two years would be around book 26. But going like this to book 54 would make it more like 4 years. However, it's stated that it's been about 3 years at the end of the series.

So when is the two year mark? It's not really a big deal or anything, but it's something to talk about.

I was tempted to put this in the random questions thread, but no one ever pinned it and I think it's down past page three.

[Kitulean]

I tend to generally figure that Tobias was over estimating and that the year mark comes around book 16. The two year mark would be around book 32, then the three year mark would be around 48. If you figure that books 48 to 54 couldn't have taken place that far apart, then it fits.

[Azguard]

 that's true that's true. it seems some parts go way faster. like the last few books seem to take place rather quickly.

[Starsword]

Thats about 1 1/3 missions a month. What slackers

[musicman88]

Well, 1 1/3 missions a month worth writing books about anyway...

[Starsword]

Hahaha, thats a fact. But at least book characters can age as much as they need to, unlike movie actors.

[Duff]

yea by the end they were in alot of missions, alot more than 54, alot of them started with them checking out some random sharing outlet or pool entrance or something like that, which probably happened alot

yea tobias' guess could have been a little off since he lived in the woods, but it didnt really matter too much in the long run

[Starsword]

Yeah, I never really thought about that. I guess there were just a lot of boring, routine, in between missions. That would be kinda weird if in between minor missions were referenced at points, not a reference that has any particular meaning, but just a curve ball.

[Liz]

yea by the end they were in alot of missions, alot more than 54, alot of them started with them checking out some random sharing outlet or pool entrance or something like that, which probably happened alot

yea tobias' guess could have been a little off since he lived in the woods, but it didnt really matter too much in the long run

Yeah, I assumed that they had more missions that were closer together as the series progressed.  So the two year mark being somewhere around 26 makes sense to me.

[Kitulean]

In book 22 when Jake tells David they've been in this war for.... 'what seems like forever', I was like "Noooo! Tell us how long it's been! Give us a marker!"

[Azguard]

 "what seems like forever" can actually be calculated to .... 579 days and 22 hours. =)

[Duff]

i bet if you went back you could kinda get a ballpark, cause they do alot of, it had been months since so and so and we had just got back from so you could put together some kind of rough timeline, too much work tho lol

[musicman88]

It's weird because the series came out in 1996 which means that the Animorph involvement should've began than or possibly even earlier than that.  So if it was a 3 year war the war should've ended in 1999 which was around book 30 something?   Confusing...

[Kitulean]

The books don't follow the real time line at all, like any other book series. Some books are obviously one right after another immediately, like the David trilogy, even though they were each released a month apart, and some are further apart than the month between the book releases. Three years for 54 stories plus the megamorphs is pretty spot on.

[Phoenix004]

Yes the war was three years long, which means that technically a year passes every 18 books, but this probably won't be the case since different amounts of time pass between each book.

The number of missions they've been on is unknown because they will have been on missions that weren't in the books.

This question should really have been posted in the triva thread, which is reserved for questions with simple, one answer questions. It is stickied at the top of the page and can be found here http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,823.0.html