New Jedi Order

"Not the last of the old Jedi, Luke. The first of the new."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

The New Jedi Order was the organization led, and primarily formed by Luke Skywalker in the years following the Battle of Endor (4 ABY).

The Lone Ranger (4 to 10 ABY)
After the virtual extermination of the Old Jedi Order by Emperor Palpatine and his subsequent overthrow, only one Jedi remained: Luke Skywalker. Having played a key role in destroying the Emperor and redeeming his apprentice Darth Vader, Skywalker alone, was the heir to this once noble Order.

The road to restoration was long and wrought with mistakes. Initially, Skywalker was reluctant to attempt training any other Jedi, for fear of repeating Obi Wan Kenobi’s mistakes, but he did gain valuable teaching experience while instructing new recruits to the Rebellion in warfare, recruits such as Kiro, Barney and the Rik Duel gang.

For a number of years after this, Skywalker continued to hone his own skills as he worked as a Jedi Knight throughout the galaxy. During this time, he made a number of discoveries relating to the Jedi, on planets such as Circarpous V, Toola, and Dathomir, and also briefly taught Prince Isolder the basic tenets of the Force. As a non Force-sensitive, the Prince provided a risk free student for Luke to practice on.

Encounter with the dark side (10 to 11 ABY)
The rise of the cloned Palpatine shook Skywalker out of his solitary existence. Faced with the threat of awesome power, he decided to train under the Emperor and to try to defeat him from the inside. However, Skywalker succumbed to the dark side. He was brought back to the light side by his sister, Leia Organa Solo, who also stole a precious Holocron from the Emperor. On the run from Imperial forces, Luke and Leia gathered around them a cadre of Force-sensitives that Luke began to instruct. These included the redeemed Kam Solusar, Vima-Da-Boda, the Ysanna siblings Jem and Rayf, and Jedi Purge survivor King Empatojayos Brand.

Defeating the Emperor cost these initial trainees dearly&mdash;Jem, Rayf, and Brand lost their lives, while Vima fled back into the underworld. The cost to Luke was dear also. His encounter with the dark side would scar his soul permanently. However, he gained an appreciation of his own strength, and a deeper realization of what it would cost to return the Jedi Knights to the Galaxy. This ideal, and his enhanced powers made Luke the first new Jedi Master of the New Jedi Order. Other gains made were the redemption of Kam and the acquisition of the Bodo Baas holocron.

Jedi Praxeum (11 to 18 ABY)


After the Emperor’s defeat, Obi Wan Kenobi appeared to Luke in a vision. He would no longer appear in Luke's visions, so he charged Luke with the mission of restoring the Jedi. Luke was deeply destressed at being the last of the old Jedi, but Obi-Wan's last thought came with a chuckle and a sense of calm: ''“Not the last of the old Jedi, Luke. The first of the new.”''

With this encouragement, Luke approached the New Republic for permission to establish a Jedi Academy. During his travels, he had discovered a number of Force-sensitives and finally felt ready to begin to train new Jedi. Permission was granted and a site on historic moon, Yavin IV, selected. This first class consisted of twelve pupils with Luke as their teacher. Some of those twelve were Kam and Tionne Solusar, Kirana Ti, Madurrin, Kyle Katarn, Dorsk 81, Brakiss, Corran Horn, Streen, and Gantoris. Other Jedi to join soon after were Kyp Durron, Cilghal, Mara Jade, and Dal Konur.

It was not long before it became apparent that not all was well at the Academy. The spirit of Exar Kun, Sith Lord, haunted some of the temples on the moon and began to influence Luke’s students towards the dark side. Kun attacked Luke, forcing him into a coma, and Kyp Durron, one of the most promising students, fled the Academy in the Sun Crusher, wrecking havoc on the galaxy and destroying the world of Carida.

Eventually Luke was awoken and the Sith spirit was defeated by a joint Jedi offensive. This would be but one of many trials ahead of the fledgling Order though, with subsequent attacks directed against it by Admiral Daala, the Empire Reborn, and the Second Imperium.

Growth and Expansion (18 to 25 ABY)
Despite these setbacks, the Jedi Order continued to grow and to serve the galaxy. Jedi played key roles in disabling the Eye of Palpatine, preventing the spread of the Death Seed plague and stopping the Disciples of Ragnos.

During this period, research missions increased, with investigation on such planets as Chandrila, Coruscant, Ossus, Kamino, Korriban, Ruusan, Barab I, and Borgo Prime. Discoveries of other holocrons, such as that of Asli Krimsan on Vjun, and Arca Jeth on Arkania boosted the knowledge of ancient Jedi practices.

In 22 ABY a Junior Jedi Academy was established to train younger Jedi as per ancient traditions. The Jedi Order was also supplemented by recruits from other Force traditions such as the Iron Knights, the Jensaarai, the Matukai, and students from the School of Hidden Wisdom.

On that same year, Jedi trainees Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila discovered the ancient Jedi Master Ikrit and freed the trapped Massassi souls within the Golden Globe, a Dark Side device by the Dark Lord Exar Kun in 3,997 BBY to drain the souls of the trapped Massassi to fuel his powers. These two Jedi along with Tionne Solusar, Uldir Lochett and R2-D2 also discovered Kenobi's lightsaber and the holocron of the ancient Jedi Ash Krimsan at Bast Castle on Vjun, and thwarted Orloc's attempts to start his own Jedi Order.

Later that year, Luke and Mara Jade Skyalker travelled to the Unknown Regions to locate the wreckage of the disastrous Old Republic Outbound Flight expeditionary fleet in an inaccesible region of space known as the Redoubt. They were accompanied by Chiss Aristocra Formbi, Commander Chak Fel of the Empire of the Hand and New Republic envoy Dean Jinzler who wanted to honour his late Jedi sister by visiting the wreck and several Geroons whom wished to pay their respects to the Jedi who had freed them from their cruel Vagaari masters. However, upon reaching the site of the wreckage on a planetoid within the Redoubt, they discovered that the survivors had formed a colony and that the Geroons were actually the Vagaari themselves, whom had come to avenge their defeat at the Chiss decades earlier. However, the two Jedi along with the Chiss, Empire of the Hand and the survivors of the Outbound Flight defeated the Vagaari and drove them away.

In 23 ABY, the New Jedi Order was faced with the Shadow Academy (Dark Jedi training ground founded by Brakiss) and its ally: the Second Imperium which rejected the Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty signed between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic in 19 ABY. The Second Imperium kidnapped Jedi trainees, including Luke's niece and nephew, Jaina and Jacen Solo and their friend Lowbacca, from Luke's Jedi Order and then went recruiting disadvantaged youth when that failed with the Solo twins and Lowie's rescue. The Second Imperium was led by four Imperial Guards masquerading as Emperor Palpatine. During an assault on the Jedi Praxeum, the Second Imperium and the Shadow Academy were defeated by Luke's Jedi trainees, thus removing an obstacle to the New Jedi Order.

In 24 ABY, the New Jedi Order encountered the alien-supremacist anti-Human Diversity Alliance which sought to punish the Human species for the atrocities of the New Order. The Diversity Alliance attempted to stockpile weapons and locate the location of the Emperor's Plague warehouse for their war against Humans. However, they too would be defeated by the Jedi. This was followed by Czethros's attempts to return the crime syndicate Black Sun to its former glory and dominate the Galaxy. However, he too was defeated by the Jedi.

The Yuuzhan Vong War (25 to 30 ABY)
During the time of relative peace up to 25 ABY, the new Jedi Order seemed to be well and truly established as a force in the galaxy once more. Numbers were up around 100, with a number of Jedi Masters trained.

However, with the onset of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, the Jedi were to face a foe that would rock their Order to its very foundations. Public opinion was turned against the Jedi by the invaders with Jedi hunted around the galaxy. During this time, cracks appeared within the Jedi Order over what approach to take to the invaders. Spearheading the more aggressive faction was Kyp Durron, while Luke Skywalker led a more defensive position. Some of this conflict was resolved with the establishment of a Jedi Council, seeking to create a unified response for all Jedi.

The Jedi eventually played a vital role in the resolution of the war, but the cost was severe. Jedi numbers were virtually halved and their mindset became far more severe.

Recovery and Renewal (30 ABY onwards)
Following the Yuuzhan Vong war, the Jedi academy was moved to Ossus, while the High Council relocated to a newly-constructed Jedi Temple on Coruscant.

Crisis (c.140 ABY)
By around 140 ABY, the Sith Order has returned to prominence, with the weakened Jedi steadily losing ground against their foe. Cade Skywalker was one of the last few Jedi of this timeframe.

Fallen Jedi
(† = deceased)

Species represented in the Jedi Order


"There's nothing in Jedi teachings that favours either male or female&mdash;or even human for that matter."

- Luke Skywalker in a lecture to a number of young Jedi Knights

Jedi installations across the galaxy

 * Yavin IV Praxeum; the main training facility from 11 ABY through to its destruction in 26 ABY.
 * Coruscant Jedi Temple; an administrative facility in the heart of the Republic, a smaller Jedi facility was maintained here.
 * Shelter; nestled in the Maw Cluster, this base provided a haven during the Yuuzhan Vong war and a waypoint for the Great River.
 * Eclipse Station; hidden in the Deep Core, this provided another refuge for the Jedi during the Yuuzhan Vong war.
 * Ossus Jedi Academy; after the Yuuzhan Vong war, this facility was established to replace the lost praxeum on Yavin IV.

Jedi Order affiliated ships
To function adequately across the Galaxy, the Jedi Order needed a number of starships to deliver its Knights into position. These ships came from a number of sources: some the New Republic supplied, such as XJ X-Wings, or StealthX starfighters. Others were donated or acquired from private sources. The Celador Sash was one such freighter, gifted by a trader once saved by Obi-Wan Kenobi. Finally, other ships were privately owned but were closely tied with the workings of the Jedi Order, such as the Millennium Falcon and the Errant Venture. During the Yuuzhan Vong War, a number of used ships were acquired by the Praxeum to deliver anonymously the Jedi, as many of their starships had become well known throughout the Galaxy. The Lady Starstorm was one such ship.

Appearances

 * Jedi Academy Trilogy
 * I, Jedi
 * Children of the Jedi
 * Darksaber
 * Planet of Twilight
 * Black Fleet Crisis
 * The New Rebellion
 * Corellian Trilogy
 * Hand of Thrawn Duology
 * Junior Jedi Knights series
 * Young Jedi Knights series
 * The New Jedi Order
 * Dark Nest Trilogy
 * Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy