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The original
Founding of the Order and early Jedi
Many ancient and semi-legendary organizations have been proposed to be the forerunners of the Jedi Order, including the
According to a commonly accepted version, the dawn world of the Jedi was Tython.[2] The Galaxy's best philosophers, priests, scientists, and warriors came together here long ago to discuss their discoveries involving the enigmatic and mystical Ashla.
In the event historians now know as the
From the ashes of these wars arose the early Jedi, and their Jedi Forge initiation ceremony led to the invention of lightsabers after they faced threats from beyond Tython. Through the use of advanced offworld technology, the Jedi were able to "freeze" a laser beam, resulting in the birth of the lightsaber.[1] A proactive group left Tython to liberate other worlds, becoming the Jedi Knights. They founded a philosophical school on Ossus, defining the light side and dark side of the Force (equivalent, respectively, to the ancient Ashla and Bogan) as well as the Living Force and Unifying Force.
In 25,000 BBY, the Galactic Republic formed.[1] The Republic mapped the Perlemian Trade Route, which linked Coruscant with Ossus.
The Second Great Schism, the first Dark Jedi and the Hundred Year Darkness
The Republic and Jedi fortified Ossus, Falang Minor, and Haashimut to protect the Perlemian from the Tionese and Hutts.[2]
In 10,000 BBY, the Jedi created what would later be called the Lost City of the Jedi on Yavin 4. They used the City to terraform Yavin 4 into a rain forest world. Within the next 3,000 years, the Jedi abandoned Yavin 4.
In
The Great Hyperspace War
In
The Sith Empire was believed to have collapsed shortly afterwards due to infighting and attacks by the Republic, but the Sith Empire had retreated into the Unknown Regions where the Lords of the Sith waited patiently for over a millennium for the right moment to return. They became known as the True Sith.
The reign of Freedon Nadd
Peace was not easily attained as once again members of the Order began delving into the dark side of the Force. In
The Third Great Schism
In 4,250 BBY the Jedi underwent a civil war on Coruscant which became known as the Third Great Schism. Following their defeat, the Dark Jedi went to Vultar, where they were responsible for the Vultar Cataclysm.[1]
The Old Sith Wars
The Freedon Nadd Uprising
The world of
The Great Sith War
Only 400 years later, in
The Mandalorian Wars
To prevent the return of the Sith, the Jedi Master
Forty years would go by before the
Another and greater rift in the Order was caused when some of their most exceptional Jedi left to aid the Republic in the fight. The most notable were
The Jedi Civil War
At the close of the
Returning to the Republic, Darth Revan and Darth Malak began waging a second war, preying on a Republic already weakened by the Mandalorians and taking full advantage of the immense number of Jedi who were still willing to serve them. This Jedi Civil War pitted masters against students, fathers against sons, and friends against best friends, making it one of the most emotionally powerful wars in all galactic history. While the early stages of the war were indecisive, it soon became apparent that Revan's Sith armada was growing at a steady rate, and in a short time the Republic was overwhelmed with the seemingly limitless forces of the enemy.
During one fateful battle, a small Jedi strike team led by
Malak continued to wage war against the Republic, relying exclusively on brute force as opposed to subtle strategies. As the situation for the Republic and the Jedi became more desperate, they began to rely more and more on the battle meditation of Bastila Shan to gain an advantage over the ever-growing Sith Empire. Consequently, Darth Malak began to target Bastila specifically, hoping to crush the Republic's last chance of standing against his armies. During one battle in orbit above the world of
Carth and Bastila continued to gain more companions and managed to escape the destruction of Taris and fled to Dantooine, where in addition to learning that their third companion was Force sensitive discovered the existence of the
from various planets in order to discover the location of the Star Forge, which they believed was the key to Malak's power. During their quest, the group was captured by one of the Sith fleet's command ships, where after a frantic escape attempt, Carth, Bastila, and the new Jedi Padawan encountered Darth Malak himself. This confrontation revealed a startling truth: that Darth Revan had not been killed, but had instead been rendered amnesiac by Malak's attack and saved by the Jedi, specifically Bastila. The Jedi Council had inserted over his destroyed mind a new identity, that of a lowly officer who was now a Jedi Padawan. Darth Revan had been traveling with Carth and Bastila the entire time.Upon escaping Malak, Revan was determined to complete his mission and destroy his old apprentice. Eventually, he and his companions discovered the location of the Star Forge and launched an attack with the Republic against it. Revan managed to infiltrate the giant factory, which was the source of the Sith's limitless armada, and defeat his old apprentice Malak once and for all. However, even with Malak's death, Revan soon disappeared for reasons unknown, and new Sith Lords rose to take his place. Thus, the Sith continued to annihilate the Jedi and Republic, even without Revan or Malak.
First Jedi Purge and Aftermath
The Jedi Civil War and
Eventually, the
Great War
Almost three hundred years after Revan departed for the Unknown Regions, the True Sith revealed themselves. Under the leadership of their
The New Sith Wars
The horrors of the Old Sith Wars and the near extinction of the Jedi Order that had resulted from the conflict were remembered in the Republic for generations. Few could have guessed, however, that a much larger conflict would soon engulf the galaxy.
Like
Ruin established the New Sith Empire, which ruled over a large portion of the galaxy for close to one thousand years. Eventually, however, internal strife grew to be too much and the New Sith Empire collapsed in the Second Sith Civil War.
From amongst the fighting rose a charismatic Sith named Kaan. He defeated his enemies, took the title of Dark Lord, and established the
The Brotherhood attacked the Republic, and conquered vast swathes of the galaxy from a crumbling Republic; however, when total victory was in their grasp, they fell amongst themselves.
The Brotherhood splintered, and various high-ranking Sith Lords claimed the mantle of
The Jedi regrouped and formed a vast army to oppose the Brotherhood—the
Eventually the surviving Sith, after several long and bitter campaigns, regrouped on the world of
Hoth followed the Sith there, and the Army of Light and Brotherhood of Darkness engaged in seven fierce battles. At the conclusion of the
The New Sith Wars were over. The Jedi Order had survived once again, and the Sith were presumed wiped out to the last individual.
One, however, had survived: Darth Bane. He and his successors would hide from the Republic and the Jedi, planning revenge. This revenge would take a thousand years to come to fruition, but the new Sith had patience.[9]
Post-Ruusan Reformation
With the Sith thought extinct, the Jedi believed that they had at last forged a long-lasting peace in the galaxy.[10] With the Ruusan Reformation, both the Jedi and the Republic renounced militarism, disbanding their vast armies and navies. From that point on, the Galaxy would rely on smaller Judicial forces to help the Jedi keep the peace.[1]
The Jedi were determined that the Sith would not be reborn. Mindful of their own history, the Jedi set about enforcing strict guidelines that the Council hoped would avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. They would renounce all ties to the outside world—to wealth, material possessions and even family. Training would now be undertaken on a strict one-to-one basis and centralized on Coruscant. With the far-flung academies of the past, the temptation of delving into forbidden knowledge was just too great for members of the order.
The Phantom Menace
In
The Clone Wars
During the next ten years, former Jedi
Last stand of the Jedi Order
After the
The Dark Times
The Great Jedi Purge
At the onset of the
).This Purge had two initial parts. One,
After that, Vader recruited Inquisitors and Executors, Dark Jedi hunters, from former
A number of Jedi were able to survive, either they were exiles, had left the Order, were on secret missions, were just lucky or were very skilled.
The Empire
The
The Emperor also trained a number of "Emperor's Hands": those who had the potential to use the Force as his personal agents. Through the Force, he was able to relay orders to his agents.
Obi-Wan had the order to watch Luke Skywalker, Anakin's son, as he grew and teach him about the Force in order to keep the tradition alive and, perhaps, to restore the Order. Luke would become Yoda's last student, and he would come to play a pivotal role in the history of the Order.
While some Jedi went into hiding from the Empire, some who willfully forgot their Jedi lessons, other decided to make a stand against the Empire to remind the galaxy the Jedi would always thrive. But ultimately, many Jedi who stood against an army were killed and the resistance forces they led were no match for the superior stormtrooper legions.
The Return of the Jedi
After the
Four years after
Due to Luke's lack of knowledge with the old ways of the Jedi Order, the new generation of Jedi was very unorthodox. He established an academy for teaching many students the way of the Jedi that was very different from the "one student, one master" way used by the old order. The
Luke was unaware that Yavin 4 had been a base for the Sith Lord
Luke eventually turned the academy into a center that would provide basic training for potential Jedi. He began pairing Jedi who had gone through that training with a more experienced Jedi, much like the master-apprentice system used in the old order.
A new generation
This new order grew slowly but steadily. Some Jedi from the first class Luke taught—such as Kyp Durron—became Jedi Masters. The Order eventually become large enough that Luke Skywalker considered reinstating the Jedi Council. During this period, the
On one occasion,
, a charlatan who claimed to have Force powers though he actually used advanced technology to deceive others with demonstrations of Force power.Later, Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade Skywalker would travel to the
The Jedi Order would also encounter threats from the
Yuuzhan Vong War
Suddenly, in
After the war with the Yuuzhan Vong was over, Luke realized that the order would have to further adapt in order to survive. His experiences had led him to believe that the Force was not rigidly divided into a light and a dark side. Strong emotions, including anger, were not intrinsically evil; instead, the intentions of the Force user mattered most. Luke came to believe that nearly everyone, regardless of their heritage, had some ability to touch and use the Force. He also felt that individual Jedi (and other Force users) would need to discover their own paths: some could be called to contemplative life while others would feel a need to take a more active role in galactic affairs. Because the Jedi had no single goal, he felt the Jedi order as a whole should remain carefully aloof in its allegiance to the
The Dark Nest threat
In
Though they had been sequestered in the
Eventually, all three were absorbed into the Killik hive mind. Raynar Thul took on the persona
The process was not an easy one. While Killiks were peaceful, like most hive based species, they had no value on individual life. At lest one rival nest attacked the Yoggoy hive, but the hive survived, either defeating or absorbing the attacking nest. Then, the cyclical food shortages, which had never faced the Killiks before, forced them to begin trading with other planets and species. They also began absorbing more non-Killiks into their hive mind. Accordingly, in 35 ABY, when the Killiks were rediscovered by the Galactic Alliance, they were still barely surviving. At the same time, the Colony had expanded to 375 nests, though it is unknown how much of the total population of Killiks this represents. The existence of the Dark Nest was unknown to most Killiks, though.
Under the manipulation of the Dark Nest, the Killiks began expanding into the borders of the
Unfortunately for the Killiks, Woteba and all of the other planets in the nebula had an ancient environmental defense system. Whenever the planet was hit by the nova that formed the Utegetu Nebula, all animal life was wiped out, and plant life was restored within two years by the defense system. At first, Woteba seemed a paradise for Killik colonization, but the planet attacked them anytime they interfered with the ecosystem, destroying both structures and living beings with a corrosive substance known as
In
Legacy of the Jedi
Torn between his two families, the Jedi and his genetic one, Jacen chose to stand with his uncle, Luke Skywalker, on the side of the Galactic Alliance. But when the
Solo was led to
After the
The New Empire
At some point following the
By around
Sources
- Power of the Jedi Sourcebook
- The Essential Chronology
- Vader: The Ultimate Guide
- The New Essential Guide to Characters
- The New Essential Chronology
Notes and references
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l The New Essential Chronology
- ^ a b c Power of the Jedi Sourcebook
- Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith
- ^ The Essential Chronology
- ^ Tales of the Jedi Companion
- ^ Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (comics)
- ^ Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
- ^ a b c d Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
- ^ Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
- ^ Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Cite error: The named reference "ROTS" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
See also
- History of the Sith
- Jedi
- Jedi Order
- Sith