New Year Fete Week was a week dedicated to marking the start of a fresh year. The Master Codebreaker was under the impression that Maz Kanata had cleverly hidden a New Year Fete Week greeting inside her Smuggler's Guide in the shape of a complex cryptogram. This belief stemmed from an incident where, after taking possession of the logbook from a Kanjiklub chief, he mistakenly decoded it, producing the message "Happy Fete Week."