Pulling a Bindo

The phrase "pulling a Bindo" was a slang term in Basic used by the Jedi of the Sith Civil War era - and possibly long after it as well as likely just before the onset of the Sith War - to describe a Jedi who had married, which was largely against Jedi protocol. The term came from the name Jolee Bindo, a Jedi Knight who had married a woman named Nayama Bindo and suffered horrible repercussions in the years to come. Though Bindo was undoubtedly not the first Jedi to ever marry - and certainly not the last - his story is so wrought with tragedy that it makes it one of the most memorable "lessons" against Jedi marriage. It's possible that the phrase also applied to Jedi who bore or fathered children, whether inside or outside of wedlock.

Thousands of years before the Galactic Civil War, marriage was heavily discouraged among the Jedi Order, but it was not a rule that was strictly enforced until about the time of the Ruusan Reformations. Among other Jedi who have "pulled a Bindo" during Bindo's own time were Andur Sunrider (his wife Nomi Sunrider did not become a Jedi until after their marriage) and, later, his daughter Vima Sunrider.

During the waning days of the Old Republic, noted Jedi who married and/or produced children were Jedi Master Ranik Solusar, Yrda Kilwallen Sibwarra, Vima-Da-Boda, Cronal, Jedi Master Quinlan Vos, Reess Kairn, and Sharad Hett. The most tragic of the stories of Jedi who married during this time was undoubtedly that of Anakin Skywalker. Also married during this time was Jedi Master Nejaa Halcyon, but as a Jedi born and raised on Corellia, Halcyon was not subject to the same rules of the Jedi Council on Coruscant, as the Jedi of Corellia outright rejected laws which forbade Jedi to marry. Also of note was Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi, a Cerean who was given a special privelege for marriage because of the low birth rate on his homeworld.

There were several Jedi of the New Jedi Order who also "pulled a Bindo," but among the New Jedi Order, marriage was never forbidden. Among these Jedi were Jedi Masters Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade Skywalker and Jedi Master Kam Solusar (son of Ranik Solusar) and Tionne Solusar.