Jedi Order

"For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times. Before the Empire."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Jedi Order was an ancient monastic peacekeeping organization unified by its belief in and observance of the Force, specifically the light side. The Jedi were guardians of peace and justice in the Galactic Republic for thousands of years before the Clone Wars. Led by the Jedi Council, the Order grew over the millennia, during which time it faced wars against their mortal enemy, the Sith, as well as the Mandalorians.

The Jedi Order was founded at least a thousand generations before the Battle of Yavin, and was strictly a peacekeeping organization throughout most of its history. During the Battle of Geonosis, however, the Jedi took control of the Republic army, and became military leaders to fight the Separatist Alliance in the Clone Wars. Unbeknownst to them, the conflict had been engineered in order to destroy them by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who was secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. By the war's end, Palpatine transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire and executed Order 66, a command given to all clone troopers to kill the Jedi as traitors. The Jedi Order collapsed, with only a few survivors escaping the Sith plot. At the end of the Galactic Civil War, only one Jedi, Luke Skywalker, was known to be alive in the galaxy.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Star Wars Journeys: The Phantom Menace
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars film
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul&mdash;Son of Dathomir 3
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul&mdash;Son of Dathomir 4
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Lords of the Sith
 * A New Dawn
 * ''Star Wars Rebels
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope