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Aing-Tii

2011-07-12T21:38:33Z

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''<blockquote>The Aing-Tii have a different view of the Force. Not in terms of Jedi or Dark Jedi—of black and white, as it were—but in a way I like to think of as a full-color rainbow.</blockquote>''
The '''Aing-Tii''' were a secretive [[species]] of [[alien]] monks who hailed from a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|world]] within the [[Kathol Rift]] and resided near that area of [[Realspace|space]]. Many members of the species were [[Force-sensitive]]; these were the only Aing-Tii who ever left their [[planet]], traveling about the Rift in large, organic [[starship]]s and using advanced weaponry to destroy those who opposed them. The Aing-Tii were very reclusive; they often used violence to dissuade outsiders from probing too far into their business, although a report based on a crashed Aing-Tii ship provided [[the galaxy]] with some details on their culture. Their belief system held that all events were not necessarily predetermined, but rather "guided." Unlike the [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]], the Aing-Tii held that [[the Force]] had neither a [[Light side of the Force|light]] nor a [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]], but was full of many colors, not unlike a rainbow.

The Aing-Tii monks only ever left their territories to attack [[Slavery|slavers]]; they believed slavery to be a great evil and were relentless in their persecution of those who thrived from it. The [[Jedi Order]] learned of the Aing-Tii at some point, and several years before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent a [[smuggler]] named [[Jorj Car'das]] to visit the monks so that he could be healed. Car'das spent many years with the Aing-Tii, and his reports on them eventually found their way into the archives of the [[New Jedi Order]]. [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] spent several years learning from the Aing-Tii after the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]]; his and Car'das's reports were compiled by [[Tionne Solusar]] and printed sometime after [[130 ABY]], though Solo kept much of what he had learned about the monks a secret. However, when Jedi [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] visited the Aing-Tii in [[43 ABY]], they discovered many details about what Solo had learned and how it had caused his fall to the dark side.

==Biology and appearance==
The Aing-Tii were a [[species]] of [[Sentience|sentient]], toothless [[mammal]]s who stood about two [[Imperial standard meter|meters]] tall on average. They stood erect on two clawed feet, and they had two spindly arms, each with three large digits. Their bodies were covered entirely in jointed protective coverings of bony plates, which extended up past their necks and onto their heads, where they acted and appeared like a protective helmet. The Aing-Tii head was small and jutted out perpendicularly from their chest. The head featured two large [[eye]]s and a series of long, thin tongues that extended around half a meter from their mouths. Each Aing-Tii had a long, prehensile tail that could be used in self-defense. The Aing-Tii each had a set of painted motifs covering their entire bodies, though the patterns were unique to each Aing-Tii. The species did not communicate through speech, as they were incapable of producing sound. Instead, they conveyed information via tasting, smelling and touching each other with their six long, thin green tongues.<ref name="KO" />

==Society and culture==
<blockquote>''"The Aing-Tii have an understanding of the Force; but it's a different understanding from that of the Jedi. Or perhaps it's merely a different aspect of the Force they relate to. I'm not really sure which."'' Jorj Car'das - Vision of the Future</blockquote>
The Aing-Tii were native to a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|planet]] whose location in the [[Kathol Rift]] was a closely guarded secret. The rift itself was a dangerous area of [[Realspace|space]], although by the time of the [[Galactic Empire]] they had developed space travel and many had taken to living in their semi-organic [[starship]]s. The majority of Aing-Tii never left their homeworld nor had any contact with members of other [[Sentience|sentient]] species. Those who did—commonly called Aing-Tii warrior monks—were highly xenophobic and reclusive, attacking any who tried to learn more about them. Although most aspects of Aing-Tii culture were not known to the wider [[The galaxy|galaxy]], it was documented that all Aing-Tii seen offworld were [[the Force|Force]]-[[Force-sensitive|sensitive]]. They believed that their Force talents were gifts from their [[Deity|deities]], "[[Those Who Dwell Beyond the Veil]]," although they generally preferred not to use the Force when they could avoid it. They saw the Force as sacred, something that was not to be meddled with. The monks spent their entire lives performing errands for their gods, traveling through the dangerous Kathol Rift—which they also viewed as a holy place—and performing pilgrimages in the hope that they would receive "an answer" from them.<ref name="KO" />

The monks did make occasional use of the Force, mostly to fuel their cavernous ships. The Aing-Tii had a different view of the Force from that of other Force-users:<ref name="VOTF" /> they believed that even one who was not Force-sensitive could manipulate the energy field to do his or her bidding. Although Aing-Tii avoided using these "gifts," the monks could instantaneously move an object—ranging in size from small items to 300-meter-long ships—from one location to another, an ability not mastered by even the most powerful of [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]]. They were also able to teach this power to non-Force-sensitives. The Aing-Tii believed that, while life was not predetermined, everything was somehow guided by the Force. Unlike the Jedi and Sith, the warrior monks did not believe in the [[Light side of the Force|light]] or [[Dark side of the Force|dark]] sides of the Force. Instead, they held that there were many different aspects to the Force.<ref name="VOTF" />

The monks were able to use myriad other Force powers, one of which was known as [[flow-walking]]. Skilled practitioners of the technique could surrender their emotions to the Force and center themselves in its flow, thus transcending time itself. An Aing-Tii could therefore use flow-walking to observe events in the past or future,<ref name="DN">''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]''</ref> so long as the monk knew the location at which the event had occurred or eventually would occur.<ref name="bloodlines">''[[Bloodlines]]''</ref> By allowing their senses of detachment to fade, and letting their emotional selves return, however, practitioners could impose themselves upon the passage of time and begin to influence and change the course of events.<ref name="DN" /><ref name="bloodlines" /> Such alternation was only possible to an extent; the Force itself was unable to be substantially altered and would ensure that events continued as they were pre-destined to do so.<ref name="inferno">''[[Inferno (novel)|Inferno]]''</ref> With its manipulation of the fabric of time, flow-walking was a complex, esoteric ability, and it remained a little-known secret among the Aing-Tii.<ref name="DN" />

The Aing-Tii held a deep hatred of [[slavery]], and they often attacked slavers who roamed the [[Kathol Outback]]. Due to the sheer power of their technology, the Aing-Tii traveled in groups of three to five ships, ramming vessels laden with slaves and destroying slaver ships that were free of slaves at the time. Few outsiders realized what was behind such attacks, thinking them simply random,<ref name="KO" /> although those who had dealings with the Aing-Tii learned quickly of this hatred.<ref name="VOTF" /> Although Aing-Tii were quick to respond to pleas from residents of the Kathol Outback, the species kept to themselves and discouraged any attempts by others to pry into their business. They did allow a small amount of information about themselves to surface, though only to scare off any who would seek to learn more.<ref name="KO" />

===Technology===
<blockquote>''"Their star drive is considerably different from ours. As you may have noticed from the battle. Instead of using the usual hyperspace travel, their ships are able to make an instantaneous jump to whatever point they wish."'' Jorj Car'das - Vision of the Future</blockquote>

The Aing-Tii developed a form of semi-organic technology early in their history, using it to build massive, 100-being ships. These vessels, named [[Sanhedrim ship]]s, over 300 meters long, were used by Aing-Tii warriors to embark on pilgrimages in the Kathol Rift, to attack slavers, and to respond to distress call sent by the people of the Kathol Outback. Each Sanhedrim was unique, with numerous symbols painted on the hull and dozens of conical exhaust ports and thruster pods jutting out at random places. Each Sanhedrim was roughly ovoid in shape and covered in thick hull plates, not unlike the imbricated hides of an Aing-Tii themselves. Sanhedrims had weaponry that, in comparison to that used by the [[Galactic Republic]] and Galactic Empire, were extremely advanced and deadly. Over 60 gunners on each ship used [[energy web generator]]s and [[null-burst projector]]s to destroy enemy ships with ease, although the Aing-Tii often rammed other vessels instead. The monks used non-deadly weapons to dissuade those who had taken an interest in them; the mysterious weapons altered the victim's perception of time, allowing the Aing-Tii to escape to their home territory. Aing-Tii ships usually traveled in groups of three or four, although it was not uncommon for a ship to wander by itself.<ref name="KO" /> The Sanhedrims were also able to evade being picked up by other ships' sensors.<ref name="SQ">''[[Survivor's Quest]]''</ref>

The Aing-Tii were reported to have a sort of symbiotic connection with the ships they served on. The Aing-Tii developed a method of moving from one destination to another, which was barely comprehensible to anyone but the monks. They used the Force in conjunction with their unique technology to [[Fold space|instantaneously move]] their ship through space.<ref name="EGttF" /> It was this technology, combined with their natural ability as navigators, that allowed them to travel through the dangerous Kathol Rift unhindered.

Another piece of Aing-Tii technology was the [[Vor'cha stun stick|''Vor'cha'' stun stick]]. These appeared to be wooden sticks wrapped in some kind of wire that could deliver a powerful energy charge, rendering a victim unconscious.<ref name="KO" /> The ''Vor'cha'' were able to penetrate [[armor]] and electrocute a victim regardless of what he or she was wearing.

==History==
The galaxy knew very little of the Aing-Tii's early history, and for centuries their existence was known only to a select few who had seen them in the flesh. The species' reclusive nature meant that they rarely interacted with the other inhabitants of the Rift, and then only to banish slavers or answer pleas for help.<ref name="KO" /> Their rumored powers piqued the curiosity of [[spacer]]s, who made several attempts to learn more about the monks. One group managed to sneak a micro-espionage [[droid]] onto an Aing-Tii ship during the time of the [[Galactic Republic]]; this provided the rest of the galaxy with its first images of reclusive species. This attempt was eventually halted by the monks, although around the same period an Aing-Tii vessel crashed on a remote world and provided the denizens of the Kathol Sector with much information on the species and their technology. Nevertheless, knowledge of the monks was always scarce.<ref name="KO" />

The [[Jedi Order]] had learned of the Aing-Tii by the time of the [[Ruusan Reformation]] and the species received an entry in the Jedi training manual ''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force|The Jedi Path]]'',<ref name="tjp">''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''</ref> although the Aing-Tii themselves were indifferent towards Jedi.<ref name="EGttF" /> Some time before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent [[Jorj Car'das]], a former [[smuggler]] whose health was deteriorating, to the monks so that he could be healed. The Aing-Tii agreed to heal Car'das, though only on the condition that he spend his life learning of their ways. Although Car'das was not Force-sensitive, he learned of their abilities and studied under them for decades. They eventually allowed him to leave and live out his life on [[Exocron]].<ref name="VOTF">''[[Vision of the Future]]''</ref>

At some point, the Aing-Tii began searching for the [[Codex]], a pyramidal construct made of ancient [[DarkStryder]] technology. They saw the Codex as sacred, and their culture dictated that an Aing-Tii could not physically touch the item, which could enhance one's ability to use the Force. They believed it was a remnant from "Those Who Dwell Beyond The Veil," and that it granted the ability to contact the mysterious beings.<ref name="KR" /> Desperate to get their hands on it, the monks kidnapped a Human named [[Makezh]] around [[7 ABY]] and reprogrammed him, subconsciously teaching him to locate and retrieve the Codex, as he was not bound by their customs.<ref name="KO" /> The Aing-Tii had a limited knowledge of the [[Human]] psyche, and Makezh suffered from a state of mild insanity,<ref name="S">{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> and the near eradication of his memories as a result of the brainwashing.<ref name="KO" />

[[File:Aing-Tii_vs._Empire.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The Aing-Tii battling Imperial forces on Demonsgate.]]
Makezh joined the crew of the [[New Republic]] vessel ''[[FarStar]]'' at [[Danoor]]; they required a navigator to traverse the Kathol Rift as they were tracking a rogue [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] [[Moff]] named [[Kentor Sarne]]. Before the vessel could enter the Rift, however, they were [[Battle of Danoor|engaged]] by an [[Unidentified Imperial-class Star Destroyer (Danoor)|''Imperial II''-class Star Destroyer]] and a [[CR90 corvette]] named the ''[[Lialic II]]''. During the battle, an Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship assisted the ''FarStar'' in defeating the Imperial force.<ref name="GE">{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}}</ref>

During the ''FarStar''{{'s}} trip through the Rift, they encountered an [[alien construct]]. A mission group went aboard, and while searching the construct, they discovered the Codex, although they were not aware of its purpose or significance to the Aing-Tii.<ref name="W">{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> Makezh, aware of the Codex's presence, was compelled by his programming to steal it, and he absconded from the ship over the planet [[Demonsgate]], traveling to the surface to present it to the Aing-Tii. Nevertheless, Makezh was pursued by Imperial [[stormtrooper]]s and [[bounty hunter]]s, forcing the Aing-Tii into a confrontation wherein they used their ''Vor'cha'' to incapacitate the soldiers. The Aing-Tii eventually took the device for themselves; rather than repaying Makezh for all he had gone through to get the Codex for them, they took him, along with many of the unconscious Imperials, onto their ships to study.<ref name="S" /> The Aing-Tii were later involved in the [[Battle of Kathol]], an engagement between the ''FarStar'' and her allies against Moff Sarne's Imperial forces.<ref name="E">''[[Endgame]]''</ref> Some reports claim that the Aing-Tii were responsible for the destruction of the ''FarStar'' during the battle, but the New Republic attempted to keep the ship's mission secret, and details on it were kept quiet.<ref name="E-1">The Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is only one of several possible fates that can befall the vessel, with the true cause left up to the discretion of the gamemaster, or if the players actions cause one reason to be used over the others. In this case, for the Aing-Tii to destroy the ''FarStar'', the players must have fought them on Demonsgate in an attempt to get Makezh back. Since this is not a required part of the adventure—and Makezh is later referenced to have been taken by the Aing-Tii anyway in the ''Jedi Academy Training Manual'' —the Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is not definite.</ref>

Around the same time, an elderly [[Sexes|female]] [[Bith]] trader named [[Maddie Macatten]] put great effort into tracking down the Aing-Tii and discovering their homeworld. The monks had previously freed her from slavers, and she wished to find them and thank her rescuers face-to-face. Macatten discovered a large amount of accurate information on the monks, although she was extremely old and most considered her insane, shrouding her findings in questions about their accuracy. The Aing-Tii also made an enemy during this period: the government of [[Sapella]] held a grudge against the monks after one of the Aing-Tii Sanhedrim collided with and destroyed one of their defense vessels. It was in actuality an accident, although the people of Sapella claimed that the Aing-Tii had attacked them on purpose.<ref name="KO" />

Jorj Car'das, the smuggler whose life the Aing-Tii had saved, kept in contact with his former hosts and occasionally called in favors from them. In [[19 ABY]], the Aing-Tii attacked a fleet of slavers commanded by a [[Rodian]] named [[Rei'Kas]], who had assaulted Exocron. The monks destroyed the slavers at Car'das's request and transported his ally, [[Talon Karrde]], to [[Bastion]], on one of the monks' rare journeys away from the Kathol Outback.<ref name="VOTF" /> Car'das later bade the Aing-Tii use their ships to transport him when he completed various errands.<ref name="SQ" /> The Aing-Tii ships would later be compared to those of the extra-galactic [[Yuuzhan Vong]] after their [[First Battle of Obroa-skai (Yuuzhan Vong War)|assault]] on [[Obroa-skai]] in [[25 ABY]].<ref name="AOC">''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]''</ref>

After the end of the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]] in [[29 ABY]], the [[Jedi Knight]] [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] journeyed to the Kathol Rift to study with the Aing-Tii monks. He learned much from them. By the time of his departure the monks had come to view Solo as a flawed student, but they did impart to him the knowledge of flow-walking, guiding and instructing the traveling Jedi Knight in the use of the intricate ability.<ref name="DN" /> When Solo returned to the [[New Jedi Order]], he made a report based on his findings, which, along with an essay on the monks written by Talon Karrde, was published by [[Tionne Solusar]] in her guide to the Force.<ref name="EGttF" /> Solo, however, kept much of what he had learned from the monks secret from his fellow Jedi,<ref name="DN" /> and Karrde had learned little from Car'das, so the Aing-Tii remained largely unknown to the wider galaxy.<ref name="VOTF" />

In [[43 ABY|43.5 ABY]] [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] traveled to the Kathol Rift, hoping to learn more about what caused Jacen Solo's fall to the [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]]. They arrived on the Aing-Tii homeworld and were met by [[Tadar'Ro]], the monks' liaison. Over the next few days the Skywalkers were taught the arts of [[flow-walking]] and Force teleportation. They were also brought into the [[Embrace]], a series of caves and caverns below the planet surface where the Aing-Tii kept sacred objects, which they called [[relics]]. Luke was allowed to touch the object known as the [[Codex]], which he hoped would grant him some sort of revelation. While the relic held no answers for him, Luke did sense a mass of dark energy that he believed originated from [[The Maw]]. Their visit proved inconclusive, so the two Skywalkers left the planet soon thereafter.<ref name="Omen" />

==Behind the scenes==
The Aing-Tii were created for ''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]'', a [[West End Games]] ''[[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game]]'' adventure series released in [[1995]]. In the supplement, gamemasters are encouraged to feature the Aing-Tii as either enemies or allies, and they play a recurring role in the campaign's storyline. [[Timothy Zahn]], who was involved in the ''DarkStryder Campaign'', reused them in his novel ''[[Vision of the Future]]'' in [[1998]], providing them with their first non-game appearance. Since ''Vision of the Future'', the Aing-Tii have been mentioned in a number of sources, including [[James Luceno]]'s ''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'', [[Troy Denning]]'s ''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'', the ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' series, and ''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''. They are featured heavily in the second ''[[Fate of the Jedi]]'' [[novel]], ''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''.

==Appearances==
*{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}} {{1st}}
*{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}} {{Mo}}
*{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}
*''[[Vision of the Future]]''
*''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Bloodlines]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Tempest (novel)|Tempest]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Invincible (novel)|Invincible]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''
*''[[Abyss (novel)|Abyss]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Allies]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*''[[The Kathol Outback]]'' {{1stm}}
*''[[The Kathol Rift]]''
*''[[Endgame]]''
*[[A Guide to the Star Wars Universe (Third Edition)|''A Guide to the Star Wars Universe'', Third Edition]]
*''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''
*''[[Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)|Scum and Villainy]]''
*{{SW|url=vault/books/news20081203.html|text=''The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia'' Spreads}}
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[Jedi Academy Training Manual]]''
*''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''

Aing-Tii

2011-07-12T21:37:40Z

74.167.117.159: /* Technology */

''<blockquote>The Aing-Tii have a different view of the Force. Not in terms of Jedi or Dark Jedi—of black and white, as it were—but in a way I like to think of as a full-color rainbow.</blockquote>''
The '''Aing-Tii''' were a secretive [[species]] of [[alien]] monks who hailed from a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|world]] within the [[Kathol Rift]] and resided near that area of [[Realspace|space]]. Many members of the species were [[Force-sensitive]]; these were the only Aing-Tii who ever left their [[planet]], traveling about the Rift in large, organic [[starship]]s and using advanced weaponry to destroy those who opposed them. The Aing-Tii were very reclusive; they often used violence to dissuade outsiders from probing too far into their business, although a report based on a crashed Aing-Tii ship provided [[the galaxy]] with some details on their culture. Their belief system held that all events were not necessarily predetermined, but rather "guided." Unlike the [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]], the Aing-Tii held that [[the Force]] had neither a [[Light side of the Force|light]] nor a [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]], but was full of many colors, not unlike a rainbow.

The Aing-Tii monks only ever left their territories to attack [[Slavery|slavers]]; they believed slavery to be a great evil and were relentless in their persecution of those who thrived from it. The [[Jedi Order]] learned of the Aing-Tii at some point, and several years before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent a [[smuggler]] named [[Jorj Car'das]] to visit the monks so that he could be healed. Car'das spent many years with the Aing-Tii, and his reports on them eventually found their way into the archives of the [[New Jedi Order]]. [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] spent several years learning from the Aing-Tii after the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]]; his and Car'das's reports were compiled by [[Tionne Solusar]] and printed sometime after [[130 ABY]], though Solo kept much of what he had learned about the monks a secret. However, when Jedi [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] visited the Aing-Tii in [[43 ABY]], they discovered many details about what Solo had learned and how it had caused his fall to the dark side.

==Biology and appearance==
The Aing-Tii were a [[species]] of [[Sentience|sentient]], toothless [[mammal]]s who stood about two [[Imperial standard meter|meters]] tall on average. They stood erect on two clawed feet, and they had two spindly arms, each with three large digits. Their bodies were covered entirely in jointed protective coverings of bony plates, which extended up past their necks and onto their heads, where they acted and appeared like a protective helmet. The Aing-Tii head was small and jutted out perpendicularly from their chest. The head featured two large [[eye]]s and a series of long, thin tongues that extended around half a meter from their mouths. Each Aing-Tii had a long, prehensile tail that could be used in self-defense. The Aing-Tii each had a set of painted motifs covering their entire bodies, though the patterns were unique to each Aing-Tii. The species did not communicate through speech, as they were incapable of producing sound. Instead, they conveyed information via tasting, smelling and touching each other with their six long, thin green tongues.<ref name="KO" />

==Society and culture==
<blockquote>''The Aing-Tii have an understanding of the Force; but it's a different understanding from that of the Jedi. Or perhaps it's merely a different aspect of the Force they relate to. I'm not really sure which.'' Jorj Car'das - Vision of the Future</blockquote>
The Aing-Tii were native to a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|planet]] whose location in the [[Kathol Rift]] was a closely guarded secret. The rift itself was a dangerous area of [[Realspace|space]], although by the time of the [[Galactic Empire]] they had developed space travel and many had taken to living in their semi-organic [[starship]]s. The majority of Aing-Tii never left their homeworld nor had any contact with members of other [[Sentience|sentient]] species. Those who did—commonly called Aing-Tii warrior monks—were highly xenophobic and reclusive, attacking any who tried to learn more about them. Although most aspects of Aing-Tii culture were not known to the wider [[The galaxy|galaxy]], it was documented that all Aing-Tii seen offworld were [[the Force|Force]]-[[Force-sensitive|sensitive]]. They believed that their Force talents were gifts from their [[Deity|deities]], "[[Those Who Dwell Beyond the Veil]]," although they generally preferred not to use the Force when they could avoid it. They saw the Force as sacred, something that was not to be meddled with. The monks spent their entire lives performing errands for their gods, traveling through the dangerous Kathol Rift—which they also viewed as a holy place—and performing pilgrimages in the hope that they would receive "an answer" from them.<ref name="KO" />

The monks did make occasional use of the Force, mostly to fuel their cavernous ships. The Aing-Tii had a different view of the Force from that of other Force-users:<ref name="VOTF" /> they believed that even one who was not Force-sensitive could manipulate the energy field to do his or her bidding. Although Aing-Tii avoided using these "gifts," the monks could instantaneously move an object—ranging in size from small items to 300-meter-long ships—from one location to another, an ability not mastered by even the most powerful of [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]]. They were also able to teach this power to non-Force-sensitives. The Aing-Tii believed that, while life was not predetermined, everything was somehow guided by the Force. Unlike the Jedi and Sith, the warrior monks did not believe in the [[Light side of the Force|light]] or [[Dark side of the Force|dark]] sides of the Force. Instead, they held that there were many different aspects to the Force.<ref name="VOTF" />

The monks were able to use myriad other Force powers, one of which was known as [[flow-walking]]. Skilled practitioners of the technique could surrender their emotions to the Force and center themselves in its flow, thus transcending time itself. An Aing-Tii could therefore use flow-walking to observe events in the past or future,<ref name="DN">''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]''</ref> so long as the monk knew the location at which the event had occurred or eventually would occur.<ref name="bloodlines">''[[Bloodlines]]''</ref> By allowing their senses of detachment to fade, and letting their emotional selves return, however, practitioners could impose themselves upon the passage of time and begin to influence and change the course of events.<ref name="DN" /><ref name="bloodlines" /> Such alternation was only possible to an extent; the Force itself was unable to be substantially altered and would ensure that events continued as they were pre-destined to do so.<ref name="inferno">''[[Inferno (novel)|Inferno]]''</ref> With its manipulation of the fabric of time, flow-walking was a complex, esoteric ability, and it remained a little-known secret among the Aing-Tii.<ref name="DN" />

The Aing-Tii held a deep hatred of [[slavery]], and they often attacked slavers who roamed the [[Kathol Outback]]. Due to the sheer power of their technology, the Aing-Tii traveled in groups of three to five ships, ramming vessels laden with slaves and destroying slaver ships that were free of slaves at the time. Few outsiders realized what was behind such attacks, thinking them simply random,<ref name="KO" /> although those who had dealings with the Aing-Tii learned quickly of this hatred.<ref name="VOTF" /> Although Aing-Tii were quick to respond to pleas from residents of the Kathol Outback, the species kept to themselves and discouraged any attempts by others to pry into their business. They did allow a small amount of information about themselves to surface, though only to scare off any who would seek to learn more.<ref name="KO" />

===Technology===
<blockquote>''"Their star drive is considerably different from ours. As you may have noticed from the battle. Instead of using the usual hyperspace travel, their ships are able to make an instantaneous jump to whatever point they wish."'' Jorj Car'das - Vision of the Future</blockquote>

The Aing-Tii developed a form of semi-organic technology early in their history, using it to build massive, 100-being ships. These vessels, named [[Sanhedrim ship]]s, over 300 meters long, were used by Aing-Tii warriors to embark on pilgrimages in the Kathol Rift, to attack slavers, and to respond to distress call sent by the people of the Kathol Outback. Each Sanhedrim was unique, with numerous symbols painted on the hull and dozens of conical exhaust ports and thruster pods jutting out at random places. Each Sanhedrim was roughly ovoid in shape and covered in thick hull plates, not unlike the imbricated hides of an Aing-Tii themselves. Sanhedrims had weaponry that, in comparison to that used by the [[Galactic Republic]] and Galactic Empire, were extremely advanced and deadly. Over 60 gunners on each ship used [[energy web generator]]s and [[null-burst projector]]s to destroy enemy ships with ease, although the Aing-Tii often rammed other vessels instead. The monks used non-deadly weapons to dissuade those who had taken an interest in them; the mysterious weapons altered the victim's perception of time, allowing the Aing-Tii to escape to their home territory. Aing-Tii ships usually traveled in groups of three or four, although it was not uncommon for a ship to wander by itself.<ref name="KO" /> The Sanhedrims were also able to evade being picked up by other ships' sensors.<ref name="SQ">''[[Survivor's Quest]]''</ref>

The Aing-Tii were reported to have a sort of symbiotic connection with the ships they served on. The Aing-Tii developed a method of moving from one destination to another, which was barely comprehensible to anyone but the monks. They used the Force in conjunction with their unique technology to [[Fold space|instantaneously move]] their ship through space.<ref name="EGttF" /> It was this technology, combined with their natural ability as navigators, that allowed them to travel through the dangerous Kathol Rift unhindered.

Another piece of Aing-Tii technology was the [[Vor'cha stun stick|''Vor'cha'' stun stick]]. These appeared to be wooden sticks wrapped in some kind of wire that could deliver a powerful energy charge, rendering a victim unconscious.<ref name="KO" /> The ''Vor'cha'' were able to penetrate [[armor]] and electrocute a victim regardless of what he or she was wearing.

==History==
The galaxy knew very little of the Aing-Tii's early history, and for centuries their existence was known only to a select few who had seen them in the flesh. The species' reclusive nature meant that they rarely interacted with the other inhabitants of the Rift, and then only to banish slavers or answer pleas for help.<ref name="KO" /> Their rumored powers piqued the curiosity of [[spacer]]s, who made several attempts to learn more about the monks. One group managed to sneak a micro-espionage [[droid]] onto an Aing-Tii ship during the time of the [[Galactic Republic]]; this provided the rest of the galaxy with its first images of reclusive species. This attempt was eventually halted by the monks, although around the same period an Aing-Tii vessel crashed on a remote world and provided the denizens of the Kathol Sector with much information on the species and their technology. Nevertheless, knowledge of the monks was always scarce.<ref name="KO" />

The [[Jedi Order]] had learned of the Aing-Tii by the time of the [[Ruusan Reformation]] and the species received an entry in the Jedi training manual ''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force|The Jedi Path]]'',<ref name="tjp">''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''</ref> although the Aing-Tii themselves were indifferent towards Jedi.<ref name="EGttF" /> Some time before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent [[Jorj Car'das]], a former [[smuggler]] whose health was deteriorating, to the monks so that he could be healed. The Aing-Tii agreed to heal Car'das, though only on the condition that he spend his life learning of their ways. Although Car'das was not Force-sensitive, he learned of their abilities and studied under them for decades. They eventually allowed him to leave and live out his life on [[Exocron]].<ref name="VOTF">''[[Vision of the Future]]''</ref>

At some point, the Aing-Tii began searching for the [[Codex]], a pyramidal construct made of ancient [[DarkStryder]] technology. They saw the Codex as sacred, and their culture dictated that an Aing-Tii could not physically touch the item, which could enhance one's ability to use the Force. They believed it was a remnant from "Those Who Dwell Beyond The Veil," and that it granted the ability to contact the mysterious beings.<ref name="KR" /> Desperate to get their hands on it, the monks kidnapped a Human named [[Makezh]] around [[7 ABY]] and reprogrammed him, subconsciously teaching him to locate and retrieve the Codex, as he was not bound by their customs.<ref name="KO" /> The Aing-Tii had a limited knowledge of the [[Human]] psyche, and Makezh suffered from a state of mild insanity,<ref name="S">{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> and the near eradication of his memories as a result of the brainwashing.<ref name="KO" />

[[File:Aing-Tii_vs._Empire.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The Aing-Tii battling Imperial forces on Demonsgate.]]
Makezh joined the crew of the [[New Republic]] vessel ''[[FarStar]]'' at [[Danoor]]; they required a navigator to traverse the Kathol Rift as they were tracking a rogue [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] [[Moff]] named [[Kentor Sarne]]. Before the vessel could enter the Rift, however, they were [[Battle of Danoor|engaged]] by an [[Unidentified Imperial-class Star Destroyer (Danoor)|''Imperial II''-class Star Destroyer]] and a [[CR90 corvette]] named the ''[[Lialic II]]''. During the battle, an Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship assisted the ''FarStar'' in defeating the Imperial force.<ref name="GE">{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}}</ref>

During the ''FarStar''{{'s}} trip through the Rift, they encountered an [[alien construct]]. A mission group went aboard, and while searching the construct, they discovered the Codex, although they were not aware of its purpose or significance to the Aing-Tii.<ref name="W">{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> Makezh, aware of the Codex's presence, was compelled by his programming to steal it, and he absconded from the ship over the planet [[Demonsgate]], traveling to the surface to present it to the Aing-Tii. Nevertheless, Makezh was pursued by Imperial [[stormtrooper]]s and [[bounty hunter]]s, forcing the Aing-Tii into a confrontation wherein they used their ''Vor'cha'' to incapacitate the soldiers. The Aing-Tii eventually took the device for themselves; rather than repaying Makezh for all he had gone through to get the Codex for them, they took him, along with many of the unconscious Imperials, onto their ships to study.<ref name="S" /> The Aing-Tii were later involved in the [[Battle of Kathol]], an engagement between the ''FarStar'' and her allies against Moff Sarne's Imperial forces.<ref name="E">''[[Endgame]]''</ref> Some reports claim that the Aing-Tii were responsible for the destruction of the ''FarStar'' during the battle, but the New Republic attempted to keep the ship's mission secret, and details on it were kept quiet.<ref name="E-1">The Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is only one of several possible fates that can befall the vessel, with the true cause left up to the discretion of the gamemaster, or if the players actions cause one reason to be used over the others. In this case, for the Aing-Tii to destroy the ''FarStar'', the players must have fought them on Demonsgate in an attempt to get Makezh back. Since this is not a required part of the adventure—and Makezh is later referenced to have been taken by the Aing-Tii anyway in the ''Jedi Academy Training Manual'' —the Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is not definite.</ref>

Around the same time, an elderly [[Sexes|female]] [[Bith]] trader named [[Maddie Macatten]] put great effort into tracking down the Aing-Tii and discovering their homeworld. The monks had previously freed her from slavers, and she wished to find them and thank her rescuers face-to-face. Macatten discovered a large amount of accurate information on the monks, although she was extremely old and most considered her insane, shrouding her findings in questions about their accuracy. The Aing-Tii also made an enemy during this period: the government of [[Sapella]] held a grudge against the monks after one of the Aing-Tii Sanhedrim collided with and destroyed one of their defense vessels. It was in actuality an accident, although the people of Sapella claimed that the Aing-Tii had attacked them on purpose.<ref name="KO" />

Jorj Car'das, the smuggler whose life the Aing-Tii had saved, kept in contact with his former hosts and occasionally called in favors from them. In [[19 ABY]], the Aing-Tii attacked a fleet of slavers commanded by a [[Rodian]] named [[Rei'Kas]], who had assaulted Exocron. The monks destroyed the slavers at Car'das's request and transported his ally, [[Talon Karrde]], to [[Bastion]], on one of the monks' rare journeys away from the Kathol Outback.<ref name="VOTF" /> Car'das later bade the Aing-Tii use their ships to transport him when he completed various errands.<ref name="SQ" /> The Aing-Tii ships would later be compared to those of the extra-galactic [[Yuuzhan Vong]] after their [[First Battle of Obroa-skai (Yuuzhan Vong War)|assault]] on [[Obroa-skai]] in [[25 ABY]].<ref name="AOC">''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]''</ref>

After the end of the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]] in [[29 ABY]], the [[Jedi Knight]] [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] journeyed to the Kathol Rift to study with the Aing-Tii monks. He learned much from them. By the time of his departure the monks had come to view Solo as a flawed student, but they did impart to him the knowledge of flow-walking, guiding and instructing the traveling Jedi Knight in the use of the intricate ability.<ref name="DN" /> When Solo returned to the [[New Jedi Order]], he made a report based on his findings, which, along with an essay on the monks written by Talon Karrde, was published by [[Tionne Solusar]] in her guide to the Force.<ref name="EGttF" /> Solo, however, kept much of what he had learned from the monks secret from his fellow Jedi,<ref name="DN" /> and Karrde had learned little from Car'das, so the Aing-Tii remained largely unknown to the wider galaxy.<ref name="VOTF" />

In [[43 ABY|43.5 ABY]] [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] traveled to the Kathol Rift, hoping to learn more about what caused Jacen Solo's fall to the [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]]. They arrived on the Aing-Tii homeworld and were met by [[Tadar'Ro]], the monks' liaison. Over the next few days the Skywalkers were taught the arts of [[flow-walking]] and Force teleportation. They were also brought into the [[Embrace]], a series of caves and caverns below the planet surface where the Aing-Tii kept sacred objects, which they called [[relics]]. Luke was allowed to touch the object known as the [[Codex]], which he hoped would grant him some sort of revelation. While the relic held no answers for him, Luke did sense a mass of dark energy that he believed originated from [[The Maw]]. Their visit proved inconclusive, so the two Skywalkers left the planet soon thereafter.<ref name="Omen" />

==Behind the scenes==
The Aing-Tii were created for ''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]'', a [[West End Games]] ''[[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game]]'' adventure series released in [[1995]]. In the supplement, gamemasters are encouraged to feature the Aing-Tii as either enemies or allies, and they play a recurring role in the campaign's storyline. [[Timothy Zahn]], who was involved in the ''DarkStryder Campaign'', reused them in his novel ''[[Vision of the Future]]'' in [[1998]], providing them with their first non-game appearance. Since ''Vision of the Future'', the Aing-Tii have been mentioned in a number of sources, including [[James Luceno]]'s ''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'', [[Troy Denning]]'s ''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'', the ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' series, and ''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''. They are featured heavily in the second ''[[Fate of the Jedi]]'' [[novel]], ''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''.

==Appearances==
*{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}} {{1st}}
*{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}} {{Mo}}
*{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}
*''[[Vision of the Future]]''
*''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Bloodlines]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Tempest (novel)|Tempest]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Invincible (novel)|Invincible]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''
*''[[Abyss (novel)|Abyss]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Allies]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*''[[The Kathol Outback]]'' {{1stm}}
*''[[The Kathol Rift]]''
*''[[Endgame]]''
*[[A Guide to the Star Wars Universe (Third Edition)|''A Guide to the Star Wars Universe'', Third Edition]]
*''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''
*''[[Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)|Scum and Villainy]]''
*{{SW|url=vault/books/news20081203.html|text=''The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia'' Spreads}}
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[Jedi Academy Training Manual]]''
*''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''

Aing-Tii

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''<blockquote>The Aing-Tii have a different view of the Force. Not in terms of Jedi or Dark Jedi—of black and white, as it were—but in a way I like to think of as a full-color rainbow.</blockquote>''
The '''Aing-Tii''' were a secretive [[species]] of [[alien]] monks who hailed from a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|world]] within the [[Kathol Rift]] and resided near that area of [[Realspace|space]]. Many members of the species were [[Force-sensitive]]; these were the only Aing-Tii who ever left their [[planet]], traveling about the Rift in large, organic [[starship]]s and using advanced weaponry to destroy those who opposed them. The Aing-Tii were very reclusive; they often used violence to dissuade outsiders from probing too far into their business, although a report based on a crashed Aing-Tii ship provided [[the galaxy]] with some details on their culture. Their belief system held that all events were not necessarily predetermined, but rather "guided." Unlike the [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]], the Aing-Tii held that [[the Force]] had neither a [[Light side of the Force|light]] nor a [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]], but was full of many colors, not unlike a rainbow.

The Aing-Tii monks only ever left their territories to attack [[Slavery|slavers]]; they believed slavery to be a great evil and were relentless in their persecution of those who thrived from it. The [[Jedi Order]] learned of the Aing-Tii at some point, and several years before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent a [[smuggler]] named [[Jorj Car'das]] to visit the monks so that he could be healed. Car'das spent many years with the Aing-Tii, and his reports on them eventually found their way into the archives of the [[New Jedi Order]]. [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] spent several years learning from the Aing-Tii after the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]]; his and Car'das's reports were compiled by [[Tionne Solusar]] and printed sometime after [[130 ABY]], though Solo kept much of what he had learned about the monks a secret. However, when Jedi [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] visited the Aing-Tii in [[43 ABY]], they discovered many details about what Solo had learned and how it had caused his fall to the dark side.

==Biology and appearance==
The Aing-Tii were a [[species]] of [[Sentience|sentient]], toothless [[mammal]]s who stood about two [[Imperial standard meter|meters]] tall on average. They stood erect on two clawed feet, and they had two spindly arms, each with three large digits. Their bodies were covered entirely in jointed protective coverings of bony plates, which extended up past their necks and onto their heads, where they acted and appeared like a protective helmet. The Aing-Tii head was small and jutted out perpendicularly from their chest. The head featured two large [[eye]]s and a series of long, thin tongues that extended around half a meter from their mouths. Each Aing-Tii had a long, prehensile tail that could be used in self-defense. The Aing-Tii each had a set of painted motifs covering their entire bodies, though the patterns were unique to each Aing-Tii. The species did not communicate through speech, as they were incapable of producing sound. Instead, they conveyed information via tasting, smelling and touching each other with their six long, thin green tongues.<ref name="KO" />

==Society and culture==
<blockquote>''The Aing-Tii have an understanding of the Force; but it's a different understanding from that of the Jedi. Or perhaps it's merely a different aspect of the Force they relate to. I'm not really sure which.'' Jorj Car'das - Vision of the Future</blockquote>
The Aing-Tii were native to a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|planet]] whose location in the [[Kathol Rift]] was a closely guarded secret. The rift itself was a dangerous area of [[Realspace|space]], although by the time of the [[Galactic Empire]] they had developed space travel and many had taken to living in their semi-organic [[starship]]s. The majority of Aing-Tii never left their homeworld nor had any contact with members of other [[Sentience|sentient]] species. Those who did—commonly called Aing-Tii warrior monks—were highly xenophobic and reclusive, attacking any who tried to learn more about them. Although most aspects of Aing-Tii culture were not known to the wider [[The galaxy|galaxy]], it was documented that all Aing-Tii seen offworld were [[the Force|Force]]-[[Force-sensitive|sensitive]]. They believed that their Force talents were gifts from their [[Deity|deities]], "[[Those Who Dwell Beyond the Veil]]," although they generally preferred not to use the Force when they could avoid it. They saw the Force as sacred, something that was not to be meddled with. The monks spent their entire lives performing errands for their gods, traveling through the dangerous Kathol Rift—which they also viewed as a holy place—and performing pilgrimages in the hope that they would receive "an answer" from them.<ref name="KO" />

The monks did make occasional use of the Force, mostly to fuel their cavernous ships. The Aing-Tii had a different view of the Force from that of other Force-users:<ref name="VOTF" /> they believed that even one who was not Force-sensitive could manipulate the energy field to do his or her bidding. Although Aing-Tii avoided using these "gifts," the monks could instantaneously move an object—ranging in size from small items to 300-meter-long ships—from one location to another, an ability not mastered by even the most powerful of [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]]. They were also able to teach this power to non-Force-sensitives. The Aing-Tii believed that, while life was not predetermined, everything was somehow guided by the Force. Unlike the Jedi and Sith, the warrior monks did not believe in the [[Light side of the Force|light]] or [[Dark side of the Force|dark]] sides of the Force. Instead, they held that there were many different aspects to the Force.<ref name="VOTF" />

The monks were able to use myriad other Force powers, one of which was known as [[flow-walking]]. Skilled practitioners of the technique could surrender their emotions to the Force and center themselves in its flow, thus transcending time itself. An Aing-Tii could therefore use flow-walking to observe events in the past or future,<ref name="DN">''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]''</ref> so long as the monk knew the location at which the event had occurred or eventually would occur.<ref name="bloodlines">''[[Bloodlines]]''</ref> By allowing their senses of detachment to fade, and letting their emotional selves return, however, practitioners could impose themselves upon the passage of time and begin to influence and change the course of events.<ref name="DN" /><ref name="bloodlines" /> Such alternation was only possible to an extent; the Force itself was unable to be substantially altered and would ensure that events continued as they were pre-destined to do so.<ref name="inferno">''[[Inferno (novel)|Inferno]]''</ref> With its manipulation of the fabric of time, flow-walking was a complex, esoteric ability, and it remained a little-known secret among the Aing-Tii.<ref name="DN" />

The Aing-Tii held a deep hatred of [[slavery]], and they often attacked slavers who roamed the [[Kathol Outback]]. Due to the sheer power of their technology, the Aing-Tii traveled in groups of three to five ships, ramming vessels laden with slaves and destroying slaver ships that were free of slaves at the time. Few outsiders realized what was behind such attacks, thinking them simply random,<ref name="KO" /> although those who had dealings with the Aing-Tii learned quickly of this hatred.<ref name="VOTF" /> Although Aing-Tii were quick to respond to pleas from residents of the Kathol Outback, the species kept to themselves and discouraged any attempts by others to pry into their business. They did allow a small amount of information about themselves to surface, though only to scare off any who would seek to learn more.<ref name="KO" />

===Technology===
<blockquote>"Their star drive is considerably different from ours. As you may have noticed from the battle. Instead of using the usual hyperspace travel, their ships are able to make an instantaneous jump to whatever point they wish." Jorj Car'das - Vision of the Future</blockquote>

The Aing-Tii developed a form of semi-organic technology early in their history, using it to build massive, 100-being ships. These vessels, named [[Sanhedrim ship]]s, over 300 meters long, were used by Aing-Tii warriors to embark on pilgrimages in the Kathol Rift, to attack slavers, and to respond to distress call sent by the people of the Kathol Outback. Each Sanhedrim was unique, with numerous symbols painted on the hull and dozens of conical exhaust ports and thruster pods jutting out at random places. Each Sanhedrim was roughly ovoid in shape and covered in thick hull plates, not unlike the imbricated hides of an Aing-Tii themselves. Sanhedrims had weaponry that, in comparison to that used by the [[Galactic Republic]] and Galactic Empire, were extremely advanced and deadly. Over 60 gunners on each ship used [[energy web generator]]s and [[null-burst projector]]s to destroy enemy ships with ease, although the Aing-Tii often rammed other vessels instead. The monks used non-deadly weapons to dissuade those who had taken an interest in them; the mysterious weapons altered the victim's perception of time, allowing the Aing-Tii to escape to their home territory. Aing-Tii ships usually traveled in groups of three or four, although it was not uncommon for a ship to wander by itself.<ref name="KO" /> The Sanhedrims were also able to evade being picked up by other ships' sensors.<ref name="SQ">''[[Survivor's Quest]]''</ref>

The Aing-Tii were reported to have a sort of symbiotic connection with the ships they served on. The Aing-Tii developed a method of moving from one destination to another, which was barely comprehensible to anyone but the monks. They used the Force in conjunction with their unique technology to [[Fold space|instantaneously move]] their ship through space.<ref name="EGttF" /> It was this technology, combined with their natural ability as navigators, that allowed them to travel through the dangerous Kathol Rift unhindered.

Another piece of Aing-Tii technology was the [[Vor'cha stun stick|''Vor'cha'' stun stick]]. These appeared to be wooden sticks wrapped in some kind of wire that could deliver a powerful energy charge, rendering a victim unconscious.<ref name="KO" /> The ''Vor'cha'' were able to penetrate [[armor]] and electrocute a victim regardless of what he or she was wearing.

==History==
The galaxy knew very little of the Aing-Tii's early history, and for centuries their existence was known only to a select few who had seen them in the flesh. The species' reclusive nature meant that they rarely interacted with the other inhabitants of the Rift, and then only to banish slavers or answer pleas for help.<ref name="KO" /> Their rumored powers piqued the curiosity of [[spacer]]s, who made several attempts to learn more about the monks. One group managed to sneak a micro-espionage [[droid]] onto an Aing-Tii ship during the time of the [[Galactic Republic]]; this provided the rest of the galaxy with its first images of reclusive species. This attempt was eventually halted by the monks, although around the same period an Aing-Tii vessel crashed on a remote world and provided the denizens of the Kathol Sector with much information on the species and their technology. Nevertheless, knowledge of the monks was always scarce.<ref name="KO" />

The [[Jedi Order]] had learned of the Aing-Tii by the time of the [[Ruusan Reformation]] and the species received an entry in the Jedi training manual ''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force|The Jedi Path]]'',<ref name="tjp">''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''</ref> although the Aing-Tii themselves were indifferent towards Jedi.<ref name="EGttF" /> Some time before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent [[Jorj Car'das]], a former [[smuggler]] whose health was deteriorating, to the monks so that he could be healed. The Aing-Tii agreed to heal Car'das, though only on the condition that he spend his life learning of their ways. Although Car'das was not Force-sensitive, he learned of their abilities and studied under them for decades. They eventually allowed him to leave and live out his life on [[Exocron]].<ref name="VOTF">''[[Vision of the Future]]''</ref>

At some point, the Aing-Tii began searching for the [[Codex]], a pyramidal construct made of ancient [[DarkStryder]] technology. They saw the Codex as sacred, and their culture dictated that an Aing-Tii could not physically touch the item, which could enhance one's ability to use the Force. They believed it was a remnant from "Those Who Dwell Beyond The Veil," and that it granted the ability to contact the mysterious beings.<ref name="KR" /> Desperate to get their hands on it, the monks kidnapped a Human named [[Makezh]] around [[7 ABY]] and reprogrammed him, subconsciously teaching him to locate and retrieve the Codex, as he was not bound by their customs.<ref name="KO" /> The Aing-Tii had a limited knowledge of the [[Human]] psyche, and Makezh suffered from a state of mild insanity,<ref name="S">{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> and the near eradication of his memories as a result of the brainwashing.<ref name="KO" />

[[File:Aing-Tii_vs._Empire.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The Aing-Tii battling Imperial forces on Demonsgate.]]
Makezh joined the crew of the [[New Republic]] vessel ''[[FarStar]]'' at [[Danoor]]; they required a navigator to traverse the Kathol Rift as they were tracking a rogue [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] [[Moff]] named [[Kentor Sarne]]. Before the vessel could enter the Rift, however, they were [[Battle of Danoor|engaged]] by an [[Unidentified Imperial-class Star Destroyer (Danoor)|''Imperial II''-class Star Destroyer]] and a [[CR90 corvette]] named the ''[[Lialic II]]''. During the battle, an Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship assisted the ''FarStar'' in defeating the Imperial force.<ref name="GE">{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}}</ref>

During the ''FarStar''{{'s}} trip through the Rift, they encountered an [[alien construct]]. A mission group went aboard, and while searching the construct, they discovered the Codex, although they were not aware of its purpose or significance to the Aing-Tii.<ref name="W">{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> Makezh, aware of the Codex's presence, was compelled by his programming to steal it, and he absconded from the ship over the planet [[Demonsgate]], traveling to the surface to present it to the Aing-Tii. Nevertheless, Makezh was pursued by Imperial [[stormtrooper]]s and [[bounty hunter]]s, forcing the Aing-Tii into a confrontation wherein they used their ''Vor'cha'' to incapacitate the soldiers. The Aing-Tii eventually took the device for themselves; rather than repaying Makezh for all he had gone through to get the Codex for them, they took him, along with many of the unconscious Imperials, onto their ships to study.<ref name="S" /> The Aing-Tii were later involved in the [[Battle of Kathol]], an engagement between the ''FarStar'' and her allies against Moff Sarne's Imperial forces.<ref name="E">''[[Endgame]]''</ref> Some reports claim that the Aing-Tii were responsible for the destruction of the ''FarStar'' during the battle, but the New Republic attempted to keep the ship's mission secret, and details on it were kept quiet.<ref name="E-1">The Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is only one of several possible fates that can befall the vessel, with the true cause left up to the discretion of the gamemaster, or if the players actions cause one reason to be used over the others. In this case, for the Aing-Tii to destroy the ''FarStar'', the players must have fought them on Demonsgate in an attempt to get Makezh back. Since this is not a required part of the adventure—and Makezh is later referenced to have been taken by the Aing-Tii anyway in the ''Jedi Academy Training Manual'' —the Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is not definite.</ref>

Around the same time, an elderly [[Sexes|female]] [[Bith]] trader named [[Maddie Macatten]] put great effort into tracking down the Aing-Tii and discovering their homeworld. The monks had previously freed her from slavers, and she wished to find them and thank her rescuers face-to-face. Macatten discovered a large amount of accurate information on the monks, although she was extremely old and most considered her insane, shrouding her findings in questions about their accuracy. The Aing-Tii also made an enemy during this period: the government of [[Sapella]] held a grudge against the monks after one of the Aing-Tii Sanhedrim collided with and destroyed one of their defense vessels. It was in actuality an accident, although the people of Sapella claimed that the Aing-Tii had attacked them on purpose.<ref name="KO" />

Jorj Car'das, the smuggler whose life the Aing-Tii had saved, kept in contact with his former hosts and occasionally called in favors from them. In [[19 ABY]], the Aing-Tii attacked a fleet of slavers commanded by a [[Rodian]] named [[Rei'Kas]], who had assaulted Exocron. The monks destroyed the slavers at Car'das's request and transported his ally, [[Talon Karrde]], to [[Bastion]], on one of the monks' rare journeys away from the Kathol Outback.<ref name="VOTF" /> Car'das later bade the Aing-Tii use their ships to transport him when he completed various errands.<ref name="SQ" /> The Aing-Tii ships would later be compared to those of the extra-galactic [[Yuuzhan Vong]] after their [[First Battle of Obroa-skai (Yuuzhan Vong War)|assault]] on [[Obroa-skai]] in [[25 ABY]].<ref name="AOC">''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]''</ref>

After the end of the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]] in [[29 ABY]], the [[Jedi Knight]] [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] journeyed to the Kathol Rift to study with the Aing-Tii monks. He learned much from them. By the time of his departure the monks had come to view Solo as a flawed student, but they did impart to him the knowledge of flow-walking, guiding and instructing the traveling Jedi Knight in the use of the intricate ability.<ref name="DN" /> When Solo returned to the [[New Jedi Order]], he made a report based on his findings, which, along with an essay on the monks written by Talon Karrde, was published by [[Tionne Solusar]] in her guide to the Force.<ref name="EGttF" /> Solo, however, kept much of what he had learned from the monks secret from his fellow Jedi,<ref name="DN" /> and Karrde had learned little from Car'das, so the Aing-Tii remained largely unknown to the wider galaxy.<ref name="VOTF" />

In [[43 ABY|43.5 ABY]] [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] traveled to the Kathol Rift, hoping to learn more about what caused Jacen Solo's fall to the [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]]. They arrived on the Aing-Tii homeworld and were met by [[Tadar'Ro]], the monks' liaison. Over the next few days the Skywalkers were taught the arts of [[flow-walking]] and Force teleportation. They were also brought into the [[Embrace]], a series of caves and caverns below the planet surface where the Aing-Tii kept sacred objects, which they called [[relics]]. Luke was allowed to touch the object known as the [[Codex]], which he hoped would grant him some sort of revelation. While the relic held no answers for him, Luke did sense a mass of dark energy that he believed originated from [[The Maw]]. Their visit proved inconclusive, so the two Skywalkers left the planet soon thereafter.<ref name="Omen" />

==Behind the scenes==
The Aing-Tii were created for ''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]'', a [[West End Games]] ''[[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game]]'' adventure series released in [[1995]]. In the supplement, gamemasters are encouraged to feature the Aing-Tii as either enemies or allies, and they play a recurring role in the campaign's storyline. [[Timothy Zahn]], who was involved in the ''DarkStryder Campaign'', reused them in his novel ''[[Vision of the Future]]'' in [[1998]], providing them with their first non-game appearance. Since ''Vision of the Future'', the Aing-Tii have been mentioned in a number of sources, including [[James Luceno]]'s ''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'', [[Troy Denning]]'s ''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'', the ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' series, and ''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''. They are featured heavily in the second ''[[Fate of the Jedi]]'' [[novel]], ''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''.

==Appearances==
*{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}} {{1st}}
*{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}} {{Mo}}
*{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}
*''[[Vision of the Future]]''
*''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Bloodlines]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Tempest (novel)|Tempest]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Invincible (novel)|Invincible]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''
*''[[Abyss (novel)|Abyss]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Allies]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*''[[The Kathol Outback]]'' {{1stm}}
*''[[The Kathol Rift]]''
*''[[Endgame]]''
*[[A Guide to the Star Wars Universe (Third Edition)|''A Guide to the Star Wars Universe'', Third Edition]]
*''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''
*''[[Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)|Scum and Villainy]]''
*{{SW|url=vault/books/news20081203.html|text=''The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia'' Spreads}}
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[Jedi Academy Training Manual]]''
*''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''

Aing-Tii

2011-07-12T21:37:02Z

74.167.117.159: /* Technology */

''<blockquote>The Aing-Tii have a different view of the Force. Not in terms of Jedi or Dark Jedi—of black and white, as it were—but in a way I like to think of as a full-color rainbow.</blockquote>''
The '''Aing-Tii''' were a secretive [[species]] of [[alien]] monks who hailed from a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|world]] within the [[Kathol Rift]] and resided near that area of [[Realspace|space]]. Many members of the species were [[Force-sensitive]]; these were the only Aing-Tii who ever left their [[planet]], traveling about the Rift in large, organic [[starship]]s and using advanced weaponry to destroy those who opposed them. The Aing-Tii were very reclusive; they often used violence to dissuade outsiders from probing too far into their business, although a report based on a crashed Aing-Tii ship provided [[the galaxy]] with some details on their culture. Their belief system held that all events were not necessarily predetermined, but rather "guided." Unlike the [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]], the Aing-Tii held that [[the Force]] had neither a [[Light side of the Force|light]] nor a [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]], but was full of many colors, not unlike a rainbow.

The Aing-Tii monks only ever left their territories to attack [[Slavery|slavers]]; they believed slavery to be a great evil and were relentless in their persecution of those who thrived from it. The [[Jedi Order]] learned of the Aing-Tii at some point, and several years before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent a [[smuggler]] named [[Jorj Car'das]] to visit the monks so that he could be healed. Car'das spent many years with the Aing-Tii, and his reports on them eventually found their way into the archives of the [[New Jedi Order]]. [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] spent several years learning from the Aing-Tii after the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]]; his and Car'das's reports were compiled by [[Tionne Solusar]] and printed sometime after [[130 ABY]], though Solo kept much of what he had learned about the monks a secret. However, when Jedi [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] visited the Aing-Tii in [[43 ABY]], they discovered many details about what Solo had learned and how it had caused his fall to the dark side.

==Biology and appearance==
The Aing-Tii were a [[species]] of [[Sentience|sentient]], toothless [[mammal]]s who stood about two [[Imperial standard meter|meters]] tall on average. They stood erect on two clawed feet, and they had two spindly arms, each with three large digits. Their bodies were covered entirely in jointed protective coverings of bony plates, which extended up past their necks and onto their heads, where they acted and appeared like a protective helmet. The Aing-Tii head was small and jutted out perpendicularly from their chest. The head featured two large [[eye]]s and a series of long, thin tongues that extended around half a meter from their mouths. Each Aing-Tii had a long, prehensile tail that could be used in self-defense. The Aing-Tii each had a set of painted motifs covering their entire bodies, though the patterns were unique to each Aing-Tii. The species did not communicate through speech, as they were incapable of producing sound. Instead, they conveyed information via tasting, smelling and touching each other with their six long, thin green tongues.<ref name="KO" />

==Society and culture==
<blockquote>''The Aing-Tii have an understanding of the Force; but it's a different understanding from that of the Jedi. Or perhaps it's merely a different aspect of the Force they relate to. I'm not really sure which.'' Jorj Car'das - Vision of the Future</blockquote>
The Aing-Tii were native to a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|planet]] whose location in the [[Kathol Rift]] was a closely guarded secret. The rift itself was a dangerous area of [[Realspace|space]], although by the time of the [[Galactic Empire]] they had developed space travel and many had taken to living in their semi-organic [[starship]]s. The majority of Aing-Tii never left their homeworld nor had any contact with members of other [[Sentience|sentient]] species. Those who did—commonly called Aing-Tii warrior monks—were highly xenophobic and reclusive, attacking any who tried to learn more about them. Although most aspects of Aing-Tii culture were not known to the wider [[The galaxy|galaxy]], it was documented that all Aing-Tii seen offworld were [[the Force|Force]]-[[Force-sensitive|sensitive]]. They believed that their Force talents were gifts from their [[Deity|deities]], "[[Those Who Dwell Beyond the Veil]]," although they generally preferred not to use the Force when they could avoid it. They saw the Force as sacred, something that was not to be meddled with. The monks spent their entire lives performing errands for their gods, traveling through the dangerous Kathol Rift—which they also viewed as a holy place—and performing pilgrimages in the hope that they would receive "an answer" from them.<ref name="KO" />

The monks did make occasional use of the Force, mostly to fuel their cavernous ships. The Aing-Tii had a different view of the Force from that of other Force-users:<ref name="VOTF" /> they believed that even one who was not Force-sensitive could manipulate the energy field to do his or her bidding. Although Aing-Tii avoided using these "gifts," the monks could instantaneously move an object—ranging in size from small items to 300-meter-long ships—from one location to another, an ability not mastered by even the most powerful of [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]]. They were also able to teach this power to non-Force-sensitives. The Aing-Tii believed that, while life was not predetermined, everything was somehow guided by the Force. Unlike the Jedi and Sith, the warrior monks did not believe in the [[Light side of the Force|light]] or [[Dark side of the Force|dark]] sides of the Force. Instead, they held that there were many different aspects to the Force.<ref name="VOTF" />

The monks were able to use myriad other Force powers, one of which was known as [[flow-walking]]. Skilled practitioners of the technique could surrender their emotions to the Force and center themselves in its flow, thus transcending time itself. An Aing-Tii could therefore use flow-walking to observe events in the past or future,<ref name="DN">''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]''</ref> so long as the monk knew the location at which the event had occurred or eventually would occur.<ref name="bloodlines">''[[Bloodlines]]''</ref> By allowing their senses of detachment to fade, and letting their emotional selves return, however, practitioners could impose themselves upon the passage of time and begin to influence and change the course of events.<ref name="DN" /><ref name="bloodlines" /> Such alternation was only possible to an extent; the Force itself was unable to be substantially altered and would ensure that events continued as they were pre-destined to do so.<ref name="inferno">''[[Inferno (novel)|Inferno]]''</ref> With its manipulation of the fabric of time, flow-walking was a complex, esoteric ability, and it remained a little-known secret among the Aing-Tii.<ref name="DN" />

The Aing-Tii held a deep hatred of [[slavery]], and they often attacked slavers who roamed the [[Kathol Outback]]. Due to the sheer power of their technology, the Aing-Tii traveled in groups of three to five ships, ramming vessels laden with slaves and destroying slaver ships that were free of slaves at the time. Few outsiders realized what was behind such attacks, thinking them simply random,<ref name="KO" /> although those who had dealings with the Aing-Tii learned quickly of this hatred.<ref name="VOTF" /> Although Aing-Tii were quick to respond to pleas from residents of the Kathol Outback, the species kept to themselves and discouraged any attempts by others to pry into their business. They did allow a small amount of information about themselves to surface, though only to scare off any who would seek to learn more.<ref name="KO" />

===Technology===
<blockquote>'''Their star drive is considerably different from ours. As you may have noticed from the battle. Instead of using the usual hyperspace travel, their ships are able to make an instantaneous jump to whatever point they wish.''' Jorj Car'das - Vision of the Future</blockquote>

The Aing-Tii developed a form of semi-organic technology early in their history, using it to build massive, 100-being ships. These vessels, named [[Sanhedrim ship]]s, over 300 meters long, were used by Aing-Tii warriors to embark on pilgrimages in the Kathol Rift, to attack slavers, and to respond to distress call sent by the people of the Kathol Outback. Each Sanhedrim was unique, with numerous symbols painted on the hull and dozens of conical exhaust ports and thruster pods jutting out at random places. Each Sanhedrim was roughly ovoid in shape and covered in thick hull plates, not unlike the imbricated hides of an Aing-Tii themselves. Sanhedrims had weaponry that, in comparison to that used by the [[Galactic Republic]] and Galactic Empire, were extremely advanced and deadly. Over 60 gunners on each ship used [[energy web generator]]s and [[null-burst projector]]s to destroy enemy ships with ease, although the Aing-Tii often rammed other vessels instead. The monks used non-deadly weapons to dissuade those who had taken an interest in them; the mysterious weapons altered the victim's perception of time, allowing the Aing-Tii to escape to their home territory. Aing-Tii ships usually traveled in groups of three or four, although it was not uncommon for a ship to wander by itself.<ref name="KO" /> The Sanhedrims were also able to evade being picked up by other ships' sensors.<ref name="SQ">''[[Survivor's Quest]]''</ref>

The Aing-Tii were reported to have a sort of symbiotic connection with the ships they served on. The Aing-Tii developed a method of moving from one destination to another, which was barely comprehensible to anyone but the monks. They used the Force in conjunction with their unique technology to [[Fold space|instantaneously move]] their ship through space.<ref name="EGttF" /> It was this technology, combined with their natural ability as navigators, that allowed them to travel through the dangerous Kathol Rift unhindered.

Another piece of Aing-Tii technology was the [[Vor'cha stun stick|''Vor'cha'' stun stick]]. These appeared to be wooden sticks wrapped in some kind of wire that could deliver a powerful energy charge, rendering a victim unconscious.<ref name="KO" /> The ''Vor'cha'' were able to penetrate [[armor]] and electrocute a victim regardless of what he or she was wearing.

==History==
The galaxy knew very little of the Aing-Tii's early history, and for centuries their existence was known only to a select few who had seen them in the flesh. The species' reclusive nature meant that they rarely interacted with the other inhabitants of the Rift, and then only to banish slavers or answer pleas for help.<ref name="KO" /> Their rumored powers piqued the curiosity of [[spacer]]s, who made several attempts to learn more about the monks. One group managed to sneak a micro-espionage [[droid]] onto an Aing-Tii ship during the time of the [[Galactic Republic]]; this provided the rest of the galaxy with its first images of reclusive species. This attempt was eventually halted by the monks, although around the same period an Aing-Tii vessel crashed on a remote world and provided the denizens of the Kathol Sector with much information on the species and their technology. Nevertheless, knowledge of the monks was always scarce.<ref name="KO" />

The [[Jedi Order]] had learned of the Aing-Tii by the time of the [[Ruusan Reformation]] and the species received an entry in the Jedi training manual ''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force|The Jedi Path]]'',<ref name="tjp">''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''</ref> although the Aing-Tii themselves were indifferent towards Jedi.<ref name="EGttF" /> Some time before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent [[Jorj Car'das]], a former [[smuggler]] whose health was deteriorating, to the monks so that he could be healed. The Aing-Tii agreed to heal Car'das, though only on the condition that he spend his life learning of their ways. Although Car'das was not Force-sensitive, he learned of their abilities and studied under them for decades. They eventually allowed him to leave and live out his life on [[Exocron]].<ref name="VOTF">''[[Vision of the Future]]''</ref>

At some point, the Aing-Tii began searching for the [[Codex]], a pyramidal construct made of ancient [[DarkStryder]] technology. They saw the Codex as sacred, and their culture dictated that an Aing-Tii could not physically touch the item, which could enhance one's ability to use the Force. They believed it was a remnant from "Those Who Dwell Beyond The Veil," and that it granted the ability to contact the mysterious beings.<ref name="KR" /> Desperate to get their hands on it, the monks kidnapped a Human named [[Makezh]] around [[7 ABY]] and reprogrammed him, subconsciously teaching him to locate and retrieve the Codex, as he was not bound by their customs.<ref name="KO" /> The Aing-Tii had a limited knowledge of the [[Human]] psyche, and Makezh suffered from a state of mild insanity,<ref name="S">{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> and the near eradication of his memories as a result of the brainwashing.<ref name="KO" />

[[File:Aing-Tii_vs._Empire.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The Aing-Tii battling Imperial forces on Demonsgate.]]
Makezh joined the crew of the [[New Republic]] vessel ''[[FarStar]]'' at [[Danoor]]; they required a navigator to traverse the Kathol Rift as they were tracking a rogue [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] [[Moff]] named [[Kentor Sarne]]. Before the vessel could enter the Rift, however, they were [[Battle of Danoor|engaged]] by an [[Unidentified Imperial-class Star Destroyer (Danoor)|''Imperial II''-class Star Destroyer]] and a [[CR90 corvette]] named the ''[[Lialic II]]''. During the battle, an Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship assisted the ''FarStar'' in defeating the Imperial force.<ref name="GE">{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}}</ref>

During the ''FarStar''{{'s}} trip through the Rift, they encountered an [[alien construct]]. A mission group went aboard, and while searching the construct, they discovered the Codex, although they were not aware of its purpose or significance to the Aing-Tii.<ref name="W">{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> Makezh, aware of the Codex's presence, was compelled by his programming to steal it, and he absconded from the ship over the planet [[Demonsgate]], traveling to the surface to present it to the Aing-Tii. Nevertheless, Makezh was pursued by Imperial [[stormtrooper]]s and [[bounty hunter]]s, forcing the Aing-Tii into a confrontation wherein they used their ''Vor'cha'' to incapacitate the soldiers. The Aing-Tii eventually took the device for themselves; rather than repaying Makezh for all he had gone through to get the Codex for them, they took him, along with many of the unconscious Imperials, onto their ships to study.<ref name="S" /> The Aing-Tii were later involved in the [[Battle of Kathol]], an engagement between the ''FarStar'' and her allies against Moff Sarne's Imperial forces.<ref name="E">''[[Endgame]]''</ref> Some reports claim that the Aing-Tii were responsible for the destruction of the ''FarStar'' during the battle, but the New Republic attempted to keep the ship's mission secret, and details on it were kept quiet.<ref name="E-1">The Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is only one of several possible fates that can befall the vessel, with the true cause left up to the discretion of the gamemaster, or if the players actions cause one reason to be used over the others. In this case, for the Aing-Tii to destroy the ''FarStar'', the players must have fought them on Demonsgate in an attempt to get Makezh back. Since this is not a required part of the adventure—and Makezh is later referenced to have been taken by the Aing-Tii anyway in the ''Jedi Academy Training Manual'' —the Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is not definite.</ref>

Around the same time, an elderly [[Sexes|female]] [[Bith]] trader named [[Maddie Macatten]] put great effort into tracking down the Aing-Tii and discovering their homeworld. The monks had previously freed her from slavers, and she wished to find them and thank her rescuers face-to-face. Macatten discovered a large amount of accurate information on the monks, although she was extremely old and most considered her insane, shrouding her findings in questions about their accuracy. The Aing-Tii also made an enemy during this period: the government of [[Sapella]] held a grudge against the monks after one of the Aing-Tii Sanhedrim collided with and destroyed one of their defense vessels. It was in actuality an accident, although the people of Sapella claimed that the Aing-Tii had attacked them on purpose.<ref name="KO" />

Jorj Car'das, the smuggler whose life the Aing-Tii had saved, kept in contact with his former hosts and occasionally called in favors from them. In [[19 ABY]], the Aing-Tii attacked a fleet of slavers commanded by a [[Rodian]] named [[Rei'Kas]], who had assaulted Exocron. The monks destroyed the slavers at Car'das's request and transported his ally, [[Talon Karrde]], to [[Bastion]], on one of the monks' rare journeys away from the Kathol Outback.<ref name="VOTF" /> Car'das later bade the Aing-Tii use their ships to transport him when he completed various errands.<ref name="SQ" /> The Aing-Tii ships would later be compared to those of the extra-galactic [[Yuuzhan Vong]] after their [[First Battle of Obroa-skai (Yuuzhan Vong War)|assault]] on [[Obroa-skai]] in [[25 ABY]].<ref name="AOC">''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]''</ref>

After the end of the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]] in [[29 ABY]], the [[Jedi Knight]] [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] journeyed to the Kathol Rift to study with the Aing-Tii monks. He learned much from them. By the time of his departure the monks had come to view Solo as a flawed student, but they did impart to him the knowledge of flow-walking, guiding and instructing the traveling Jedi Knight in the use of the intricate ability.<ref name="DN" /> When Solo returned to the [[New Jedi Order]], he made a report based on his findings, which, along with an essay on the monks written by Talon Karrde, was published by [[Tionne Solusar]] in her guide to the Force.<ref name="EGttF" /> Solo, however, kept much of what he had learned from the monks secret from his fellow Jedi,<ref name="DN" /> and Karrde had learned little from Car'das, so the Aing-Tii remained largely unknown to the wider galaxy.<ref name="VOTF" />

In [[43 ABY|43.5 ABY]] [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] traveled to the Kathol Rift, hoping to learn more about what caused Jacen Solo's fall to the [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]]. They arrived on the Aing-Tii homeworld and were met by [[Tadar'Ro]], the monks' liaison. Over the next few days the Skywalkers were taught the arts of [[flow-walking]] and Force teleportation. They were also brought into the [[Embrace]], a series of caves and caverns below the planet surface where the Aing-Tii kept sacred objects, which they called [[relics]]. Luke was allowed to touch the object known as the [[Codex]], which he hoped would grant him some sort of revelation. While the relic held no answers for him, Luke did sense a mass of dark energy that he believed originated from [[The Maw]]. Their visit proved inconclusive, so the two Skywalkers left the planet soon thereafter.<ref name="Omen" />

==Behind the scenes==
The Aing-Tii were created for ''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]'', a [[West End Games]] ''[[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game]]'' adventure series released in [[1995]]. In the supplement, gamemasters are encouraged to feature the Aing-Tii as either enemies or allies, and they play a recurring role in the campaign's storyline. [[Timothy Zahn]], who was involved in the ''DarkStryder Campaign'', reused them in his novel ''[[Vision of the Future]]'' in [[1998]], providing them with their first non-game appearance. Since ''Vision of the Future'', the Aing-Tii have been mentioned in a number of sources, including [[James Luceno]]'s ''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'', [[Troy Denning]]'s ''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'', the ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' series, and ''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''. They are featured heavily in the second ''[[Fate of the Jedi]]'' [[novel]], ''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''.

==Appearances==
*{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}} {{1st}}
*{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}} {{Mo}}
*{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}
*''[[Vision of the Future]]''
*''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Bloodlines]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Tempest (novel)|Tempest]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Invincible (novel)|Invincible]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''
*''[[Abyss (novel)|Abyss]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Allies]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*''[[The Kathol Outback]]'' {{1stm}}
*''[[The Kathol Rift]]''
*''[[Endgame]]''
*[[A Guide to the Star Wars Universe (Third Edition)|''A Guide to the Star Wars Universe'', Third Edition]]
*''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''
*''[[Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)|Scum and Villainy]]''
*{{SW|url=vault/books/news20081203.html|text=''The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia'' Spreads}}
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[Jedi Academy Training Manual]]''
*''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''

Aing-Tii

2011-07-12T21:36:36Z

74.167.117.159: /* Society and culture */

''<blockquote>The Aing-Tii have a different view of the Force. Not in terms of Jedi or Dark Jedi—of black and white, as it were—but in a way I like to think of as a full-color rainbow.</blockquote>''
The '''Aing-Tii''' were a secretive [[species]] of [[alien]] monks who hailed from a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|world]] within the [[Kathol Rift]] and resided near that area of [[Realspace|space]]. Many members of the species were [[Force-sensitive]]; these were the only Aing-Tii who ever left their [[planet]], traveling about the Rift in large, organic [[starship]]s and using advanced weaponry to destroy those who opposed them. The Aing-Tii were very reclusive; they often used violence to dissuade outsiders from probing too far into their business, although a report based on a crashed Aing-Tii ship provided [[the galaxy]] with some details on their culture. Their belief system held that all events were not necessarily predetermined, but rather "guided." Unlike the [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]], the Aing-Tii held that [[the Force]] had neither a [[Light side of the Force|light]] nor a [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]], but was full of many colors, not unlike a rainbow.

The Aing-Tii monks only ever left their territories to attack [[Slavery|slavers]]; they believed slavery to be a great evil and were relentless in their persecution of those who thrived from it. The [[Jedi Order]] learned of the Aing-Tii at some point, and several years before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent a [[smuggler]] named [[Jorj Car'das]] to visit the monks so that he could be healed. Car'das spent many years with the Aing-Tii, and his reports on them eventually found their way into the archives of the [[New Jedi Order]]. [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] spent several years learning from the Aing-Tii after the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]]; his and Car'das's reports were compiled by [[Tionne Solusar]] and printed sometime after [[130 ABY]], though Solo kept much of what he had learned about the monks a secret. However, when Jedi [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] visited the Aing-Tii in [[43 ABY]], they discovered many details about what Solo had learned and how it had caused his fall to the dark side.

==Biology and appearance==
The Aing-Tii were a [[species]] of [[Sentience|sentient]], toothless [[mammal]]s who stood about two [[Imperial standard meter|meters]] tall on average. They stood erect on two clawed feet, and they had two spindly arms, each with three large digits. Their bodies were covered entirely in jointed protective coverings of bony plates, which extended up past their necks and onto their heads, where they acted and appeared like a protective helmet. The Aing-Tii head was small and jutted out perpendicularly from their chest. The head featured two large [[eye]]s and a series of long, thin tongues that extended around half a meter from their mouths. Each Aing-Tii had a long, prehensile tail that could be used in self-defense. The Aing-Tii each had a set of painted motifs covering their entire bodies, though the patterns were unique to each Aing-Tii. The species did not communicate through speech, as they were incapable of producing sound. Instead, they conveyed information via tasting, smelling and touching each other with their six long, thin green tongues.<ref name="KO" />

==Society and culture==
<blockquote>''The Aing-Tii have an understanding of the Force; but it's a different understanding from that of the Jedi. Or perhaps it's merely a different aspect of the Force they relate to. I'm not really sure which.'' Jorj Car'das - Vision of the Future</blockquote>
The Aing-Tii were native to a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|planet]] whose location in the [[Kathol Rift]] was a closely guarded secret. The rift itself was a dangerous area of [[Realspace|space]], although by the time of the [[Galactic Empire]] they had developed space travel and many had taken to living in their semi-organic [[starship]]s. The majority of Aing-Tii never left their homeworld nor had any contact with members of other [[Sentience|sentient]] species. Those who did—commonly called Aing-Tii warrior monks—were highly xenophobic and reclusive, attacking any who tried to learn more about them. Although most aspects of Aing-Tii culture were not known to the wider [[The galaxy|galaxy]], it was documented that all Aing-Tii seen offworld were [[the Force|Force]]-[[Force-sensitive|sensitive]]. They believed that their Force talents were gifts from their [[Deity|deities]], "[[Those Who Dwell Beyond the Veil]]," although they generally preferred not to use the Force when they could avoid it. They saw the Force as sacred, something that was not to be meddled with. The monks spent their entire lives performing errands for their gods, traveling through the dangerous Kathol Rift—which they also viewed as a holy place—and performing pilgrimages in the hope that they would receive "an answer" from them.<ref name="KO" />

The monks did make occasional use of the Force, mostly to fuel their cavernous ships. The Aing-Tii had a different view of the Force from that of other Force-users:<ref name="VOTF" /> they believed that even one who was not Force-sensitive could manipulate the energy field to do his or her bidding. Although Aing-Tii avoided using these "gifts," the monks could instantaneously move an object—ranging in size from small items to 300-meter-long ships—from one location to another, an ability not mastered by even the most powerful of [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]]. They were also able to teach this power to non-Force-sensitives. The Aing-Tii believed that, while life was not predetermined, everything was somehow guided by the Force. Unlike the Jedi and Sith, the warrior monks did not believe in the [[Light side of the Force|light]] or [[Dark side of the Force|dark]] sides of the Force. Instead, they held that there were many different aspects to the Force.<ref name="VOTF" />

The monks were able to use myriad other Force powers, one of which was known as [[flow-walking]]. Skilled practitioners of the technique could surrender their emotions to the Force and center themselves in its flow, thus transcending time itself. An Aing-Tii could therefore use flow-walking to observe events in the past or future,<ref name="DN">''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]''</ref> so long as the monk knew the location at which the event had occurred or eventually would occur.<ref name="bloodlines">''[[Bloodlines]]''</ref> By allowing their senses of detachment to fade, and letting their emotional selves return, however, practitioners could impose themselves upon the passage of time and begin to influence and change the course of events.<ref name="DN" /><ref name="bloodlines" /> Such alternation was only possible to an extent; the Force itself was unable to be substantially altered and would ensure that events continued as they were pre-destined to do so.<ref name="inferno">''[[Inferno (novel)|Inferno]]''</ref> With its manipulation of the fabric of time, flow-walking was a complex, esoteric ability, and it remained a little-known secret among the Aing-Tii.<ref name="DN" />

The Aing-Tii held a deep hatred of [[slavery]], and they often attacked slavers who roamed the [[Kathol Outback]]. Due to the sheer power of their technology, the Aing-Tii traveled in groups of three to five ships, ramming vessels laden with slaves and destroying slaver ships that were free of slaves at the time. Few outsiders realized what was behind such attacks, thinking them simply random,<ref name="KO" /> although those who had dealings with the Aing-Tii learned quickly of this hatred.<ref name="VOTF" /> Although Aing-Tii were quick to respond to pleas from residents of the Kathol Outback, the species kept to themselves and discouraged any attempts by others to pry into their business. They did allow a small amount of information about themselves to surface, though only to scare off any who would seek to learn more.<ref name="KO" />

===Technology===
<blockquote>Their star drive is considerably different from ours. As you may have noticed from the battle. Instead of using the usual hyperspace travel, their ships are able to make an instantaneous jump to whatever point they wish.</blockquote>

The Aing-Tii developed a form of semi-organic technology early in their history, using it to build massive, 100-being ships. These vessels, named [[Sanhedrim ship]]s, over 300 meters long, were used by Aing-Tii warriors to embark on pilgrimages in the Kathol Rift, to attack slavers, and to respond to distress call sent by the people of the Kathol Outback. Each Sanhedrim was unique, with numerous symbols painted on the hull and dozens of conical exhaust ports and thruster pods jutting out at random places. Each Sanhedrim was roughly ovoid in shape and covered in thick hull plates, not unlike the imbricated hides of an Aing-Tii themselves. Sanhedrims had weaponry that, in comparison to that used by the [[Galactic Republic]] and Galactic Empire, were extremely advanced and deadly. Over 60 gunners on each ship used [[energy web generator]]s and [[null-burst projector]]s to destroy enemy ships with ease, although the Aing-Tii often rammed other vessels instead. The monks used non-deadly weapons to dissuade those who had taken an interest in them; the mysterious weapons altered the victim's perception of time, allowing the Aing-Tii to escape to their home territory. Aing-Tii ships usually traveled in groups of three or four, although it was not uncommon for a ship to wander by itself.<ref name="KO" /> The Sanhedrims were also able to evade being picked up by other ships' sensors.<ref name="SQ">''[[Survivor's Quest]]''</ref>

The Aing-Tii were reported to have a sort of symbiotic connection with the ships they served on. The Aing-Tii developed a method of moving from one destination to another, which was barely comprehensible to anyone but the monks. They used the Force in conjunction with their unique technology to [[Fold space|instantaneously move]] their ship through space.<ref name="EGttF" /> It was this technology, combined with their natural ability as navigators, that allowed them to travel through the dangerous Kathol Rift unhindered.

Another piece of Aing-Tii technology was the [[Vor'cha stun stick|''Vor'cha'' stun stick]]. These appeared to be wooden sticks wrapped in some kind of wire that could deliver a powerful energy charge, rendering a victim unconscious.<ref name="KO" /> The ''Vor'cha'' were able to penetrate [[armor]] and electrocute a victim regardless of what he or she was wearing.

==History==
The galaxy knew very little of the Aing-Tii's early history, and for centuries their existence was known only to a select few who had seen them in the flesh. The species' reclusive nature meant that they rarely interacted with the other inhabitants of the Rift, and then only to banish slavers or answer pleas for help.<ref name="KO" /> Their rumored powers piqued the curiosity of [[spacer]]s, who made several attempts to learn more about the monks. One group managed to sneak a micro-espionage [[droid]] onto an Aing-Tii ship during the time of the [[Galactic Republic]]; this provided the rest of the galaxy with its first images of reclusive species. This attempt was eventually halted by the monks, although around the same period an Aing-Tii vessel crashed on a remote world and provided the denizens of the Kathol Sector with much information on the species and their technology. Nevertheless, knowledge of the monks was always scarce.<ref name="KO" />

The [[Jedi Order]] had learned of the Aing-Tii by the time of the [[Ruusan Reformation]] and the species received an entry in the Jedi training manual ''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force|The Jedi Path]]'',<ref name="tjp">''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''</ref> although the Aing-Tii themselves were indifferent towards Jedi.<ref name="EGttF" /> Some time before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent [[Jorj Car'das]], a former [[smuggler]] whose health was deteriorating, to the monks so that he could be healed. The Aing-Tii agreed to heal Car'das, though only on the condition that he spend his life learning of their ways. Although Car'das was not Force-sensitive, he learned of their abilities and studied under them for decades. They eventually allowed him to leave and live out his life on [[Exocron]].<ref name="VOTF">''[[Vision of the Future]]''</ref>

At some point, the Aing-Tii began searching for the [[Codex]], a pyramidal construct made of ancient [[DarkStryder]] technology. They saw the Codex as sacred, and their culture dictated that an Aing-Tii could not physically touch the item, which could enhance one's ability to use the Force. They believed it was a remnant from "Those Who Dwell Beyond The Veil," and that it granted the ability to contact the mysterious beings.<ref name="KR" /> Desperate to get their hands on it, the monks kidnapped a Human named [[Makezh]] around [[7 ABY]] and reprogrammed him, subconsciously teaching him to locate and retrieve the Codex, as he was not bound by their customs.<ref name="KO" /> The Aing-Tii had a limited knowledge of the [[Human]] psyche, and Makezh suffered from a state of mild insanity,<ref name="S">{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> and the near eradication of his memories as a result of the brainwashing.<ref name="KO" />

[[File:Aing-Tii_vs._Empire.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The Aing-Tii battling Imperial forces on Demonsgate.]]
Makezh joined the crew of the [[New Republic]] vessel ''[[FarStar]]'' at [[Danoor]]; they required a navigator to traverse the Kathol Rift as they were tracking a rogue [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] [[Moff]] named [[Kentor Sarne]]. Before the vessel could enter the Rift, however, they were [[Battle of Danoor|engaged]] by an [[Unidentified Imperial-class Star Destroyer (Danoor)|''Imperial II''-class Star Destroyer]] and a [[CR90 corvette]] named the ''[[Lialic II]]''. During the battle, an Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship assisted the ''FarStar'' in defeating the Imperial force.<ref name="GE">{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}}</ref>

During the ''FarStar''{{'s}} trip through the Rift, they encountered an [[alien construct]]. A mission group went aboard, and while searching the construct, they discovered the Codex, although they were not aware of its purpose or significance to the Aing-Tii.<ref name="W">{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> Makezh, aware of the Codex's presence, was compelled by his programming to steal it, and he absconded from the ship over the planet [[Demonsgate]], traveling to the surface to present it to the Aing-Tii. Nevertheless, Makezh was pursued by Imperial [[stormtrooper]]s and [[bounty hunter]]s, forcing the Aing-Tii into a confrontation wherein they used their ''Vor'cha'' to incapacitate the soldiers. The Aing-Tii eventually took the device for themselves; rather than repaying Makezh for all he had gone through to get the Codex for them, they took him, along with many of the unconscious Imperials, onto their ships to study.<ref name="S" /> The Aing-Tii were later involved in the [[Battle of Kathol]], an engagement between the ''FarStar'' and her allies against Moff Sarne's Imperial forces.<ref name="E">''[[Endgame]]''</ref> Some reports claim that the Aing-Tii were responsible for the destruction of the ''FarStar'' during the battle, but the New Republic attempted to keep the ship's mission secret, and details on it were kept quiet.<ref name="E-1">The Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is only one of several possible fates that can befall the vessel, with the true cause left up to the discretion of the gamemaster, or if the players actions cause one reason to be used over the others. In this case, for the Aing-Tii to destroy the ''FarStar'', the players must have fought them on Demonsgate in an attempt to get Makezh back. Since this is not a required part of the adventure—and Makezh is later referenced to have been taken by the Aing-Tii anyway in the ''Jedi Academy Training Manual'' —the Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is not definite.</ref>

Around the same time, an elderly [[Sexes|female]] [[Bith]] trader named [[Maddie Macatten]] put great effort into tracking down the Aing-Tii and discovering their homeworld. The monks had previously freed her from slavers, and she wished to find them and thank her rescuers face-to-face. Macatten discovered a large amount of accurate information on the monks, although she was extremely old and most considered her insane, shrouding her findings in questions about their accuracy. The Aing-Tii also made an enemy during this period: the government of [[Sapella]] held a grudge against the monks after one of the Aing-Tii Sanhedrim collided with and destroyed one of their defense vessels. It was in actuality an accident, although the people of Sapella claimed that the Aing-Tii had attacked them on purpose.<ref name="KO" />

Jorj Car'das, the smuggler whose life the Aing-Tii had saved, kept in contact with his former hosts and occasionally called in favors from them. In [[19 ABY]], the Aing-Tii attacked a fleet of slavers commanded by a [[Rodian]] named [[Rei'Kas]], who had assaulted Exocron. The monks destroyed the slavers at Car'das's request and transported his ally, [[Talon Karrde]], to [[Bastion]], on one of the monks' rare journeys away from the Kathol Outback.<ref name="VOTF" /> Car'das later bade the Aing-Tii use their ships to transport him when he completed various errands.<ref name="SQ" /> The Aing-Tii ships would later be compared to those of the extra-galactic [[Yuuzhan Vong]] after their [[First Battle of Obroa-skai (Yuuzhan Vong War)|assault]] on [[Obroa-skai]] in [[25 ABY]].<ref name="AOC">''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]''</ref>

After the end of the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]] in [[29 ABY]], the [[Jedi Knight]] [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] journeyed to the Kathol Rift to study with the Aing-Tii monks. He learned much from them. By the time of his departure the monks had come to view Solo as a flawed student, but they did impart to him the knowledge of flow-walking, guiding and instructing the traveling Jedi Knight in the use of the intricate ability.<ref name="DN" /> When Solo returned to the [[New Jedi Order]], he made a report based on his findings, which, along with an essay on the monks written by Talon Karrde, was published by [[Tionne Solusar]] in her guide to the Force.<ref name="EGttF" /> Solo, however, kept much of what he had learned from the monks secret from his fellow Jedi,<ref name="DN" /> and Karrde had learned little from Car'das, so the Aing-Tii remained largely unknown to the wider galaxy.<ref name="VOTF" />

In [[43 ABY|43.5 ABY]] [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] traveled to the Kathol Rift, hoping to learn more about what caused Jacen Solo's fall to the [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]]. They arrived on the Aing-Tii homeworld and were met by [[Tadar'Ro]], the monks' liaison. Over the next few days the Skywalkers were taught the arts of [[flow-walking]] and Force teleportation. They were also brought into the [[Embrace]], a series of caves and caverns below the planet surface where the Aing-Tii kept sacred objects, which they called [[relics]]. Luke was allowed to touch the object known as the [[Codex]], which he hoped would grant him some sort of revelation. While the relic held no answers for him, Luke did sense a mass of dark energy that he believed originated from [[The Maw]]. Their visit proved inconclusive, so the two Skywalkers left the planet soon thereafter.<ref name="Omen" />

==Behind the scenes==
The Aing-Tii were created for ''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]'', a [[West End Games]] ''[[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game]]'' adventure series released in [[1995]]. In the supplement, gamemasters are encouraged to feature the Aing-Tii as either enemies or allies, and they play a recurring role in the campaign's storyline. [[Timothy Zahn]], who was involved in the ''DarkStryder Campaign'', reused them in his novel ''[[Vision of the Future]]'' in [[1998]], providing them with their first non-game appearance. Since ''Vision of the Future'', the Aing-Tii have been mentioned in a number of sources, including [[James Luceno]]'s ''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'', [[Troy Denning]]'s ''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'', the ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' series, and ''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''. They are featured heavily in the second ''[[Fate of the Jedi]]'' [[novel]], ''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''.

==Appearances==
*{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}} {{1st}}
*{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}} {{Mo}}
*{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}
*''[[Vision of the Future]]''
*''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Bloodlines]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Tempest (novel)|Tempest]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Invincible (novel)|Invincible]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''
*''[[Abyss (novel)|Abyss]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Allies]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*''[[The Kathol Outback]]'' {{1stm}}
*''[[The Kathol Rift]]''
*''[[Endgame]]''
*[[A Guide to the Star Wars Universe (Third Edition)|''A Guide to the Star Wars Universe'', Third Edition]]
*''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''
*''[[Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)|Scum and Villainy]]''
*{{SW|url=vault/books/news20081203.html|text=''The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia'' Spreads}}
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[Jedi Academy Training Manual]]''
*''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''

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''<blockquote>The Aing-Tii have a different view of the Force. Not in terms of Jedi or Dark Jedi—of black and white, as it were—but in a way I like to think of as a full-color rainbow.</blockquote>''
The '''Aing-Tii''' were a secretive [[species]] of [[alien]] monks who hailed from a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|world]] within the [[Kathol Rift]] and resided near that area of [[Realspace|space]]. Many members of the species were [[Force-sensitive]]; these were the only Aing-Tii who ever left their [[planet]], traveling about the Rift in large, organic [[starship]]s and using advanced weaponry to destroy those who opposed them. The Aing-Tii were very reclusive; they often used violence to dissuade outsiders from probing too far into their business, although a report based on a crashed Aing-Tii ship provided [[the galaxy]] with some details on their culture. Their belief system held that all events were not necessarily predetermined, but rather "guided." Unlike the [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]], the Aing-Tii held that [[the Force]] had neither a [[Light side of the Force|light]] nor a [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]], but was full of many colors, not unlike a rainbow.

The Aing-Tii monks only ever left their territories to attack [[Slavery|slavers]]; they believed slavery to be a great evil and were relentless in their persecution of those who thrived from it. The [[Jedi Order]] learned of the Aing-Tii at some point, and several years before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent a [[smuggler]] named [[Jorj Car'das]] to visit the monks so that he could be healed. Car'das spent many years with the Aing-Tii, and his reports on them eventually found their way into the archives of the [[New Jedi Order]]. [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] spent several years learning from the Aing-Tii after the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]]; his and Car'das's reports were compiled by [[Tionne Solusar]] and printed sometime after [[130 ABY]], though Solo kept much of what he had learned about the monks a secret. However, when Jedi [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] visited the Aing-Tii in [[43 ABY]], they discovered many details about what Solo had learned and how it had caused his fall to the dark side.

==Biology and appearance==
The Aing-Tii were a [[species]] of [[Sentience|sentient]], toothless [[mammal]]s who stood about two [[Imperial standard meter|meters]] tall on average. They stood erect on two clawed feet, and they had two spindly arms, each with three large digits. Their bodies were covered entirely in jointed protective coverings of bony plates, which extended up past their necks and onto their heads, where they acted and appeared like a protective helmet. The Aing-Tii head was small and jutted out perpendicularly from their chest. The head featured two large [[eye]]s and a series of long, thin tongues that extended around half a meter from their mouths. Each Aing-Tii had a long, prehensile tail that could be used in self-defense. The Aing-Tii each had a set of painted motifs covering their entire bodies, though the patterns were unique to each Aing-Tii. The species did not communicate through speech, as they were incapable of producing sound. Instead, they conveyed information via tasting, smelling and touching each other with their six long, thin green tongues.<ref name="KO" />

==Society and culture==
<blockquote>The Aing-Tii have an understanding of the Force; but it's a different understanding from that of the Jedi. Or perhaps it's merely a different aspect of the Force they relate to. I'm not really sure which. Jorj Car'das - Vision of the Future</blockquote>
The Aing-Tii were native to a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|planet]] whose location in the [[Kathol Rift]] was a closely guarded secret. The rift itself was a dangerous area of [[Realspace|space]], although by the time of the [[Galactic Empire]] they had developed space travel and many had taken to living in their semi-organic [[starship]]s. The majority of Aing-Tii never left their homeworld nor had any contact with members of other [[Sentience|sentient]] species. Those who did—commonly called Aing-Tii warrior monks—were highly xenophobic and reclusive, attacking any who tried to learn more about them. Although most aspects of Aing-Tii culture were not known to the wider [[The galaxy|galaxy]], it was documented that all Aing-Tii seen offworld were [[the Force|Force]]-[[Force-sensitive|sensitive]]. They believed that their Force talents were gifts from their [[Deity|deities]], "[[Those Who Dwell Beyond the Veil]]," although they generally preferred not to use the Force when they could avoid it. They saw the Force as sacred, something that was not to be meddled with. The monks spent their entire lives performing errands for their gods, traveling through the dangerous Kathol Rift—which they also viewed as a holy place—and performing pilgrimages in the hope that they would receive "an answer" from them.<ref name="KO" />

The monks did make occasional use of the Force, mostly to fuel their cavernous ships. The Aing-Tii had a different view of the Force from that of other Force-users:<ref name="VOTF" /> they believed that even one who was not Force-sensitive could manipulate the energy field to do his or her bidding. Although Aing-Tii avoided using these "gifts," the monks could instantaneously move an object—ranging in size from small items to 300-meter-long ships—from one location to another, an ability not mastered by even the most powerful of [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]]. They were also able to teach this power to non-Force-sensitives. The Aing-Tii believed that, while life was not predetermined, everything was somehow guided by the Force. Unlike the Jedi and Sith, the warrior monks did not believe in the [[Light side of the Force|light]] or [[Dark side of the Force|dark]] sides of the Force. Instead, they held that there were many different aspects to the Force.<ref name="VOTF" />

The monks were able to use myriad other Force powers, one of which was known as [[flow-walking]]. Skilled practitioners of the technique could surrender their emotions to the Force and center themselves in its flow, thus transcending time itself. An Aing-Tii could therefore use flow-walking to observe events in the past or future,<ref name="DN">''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]''</ref> so long as the monk knew the location at which the event had occurred or eventually would occur.<ref name="bloodlines">''[[Bloodlines]]''</ref> By allowing their senses of detachment to fade, and letting their emotional selves return, however, practitioners could impose themselves upon the passage of time and begin to influence and change the course of events.<ref name="DN" /><ref name="bloodlines" /> Such alternation was only possible to an extent; the Force itself was unable to be substantially altered and would ensure that events continued as they were pre-destined to do so.<ref name="inferno">''[[Inferno (novel)|Inferno]]''</ref> With its manipulation of the fabric of time, flow-walking was a complex, esoteric ability, and it remained a little-known secret among the Aing-Tii.<ref name="DN" />

The Aing-Tii held a deep hatred of [[slavery]], and they often attacked slavers who roamed the [[Kathol Outback]]. Due to the sheer power of their technology, the Aing-Tii traveled in groups of three to five ships, ramming vessels laden with slaves and destroying slaver ships that were free of slaves at the time. Few outsiders realized what was behind such attacks, thinking them simply random,<ref name="KO" /> although those who had dealings with the Aing-Tii learned quickly of this hatred.<ref name="VOTF" /> Although Aing-Tii were quick to respond to pleas from residents of the Kathol Outback, the species kept to themselves and discouraged any attempts by others to pry into their business. They did allow a small amount of information about themselves to surface, though only to scare off any who would seek to learn more.<ref name="KO" />

===Technology===
<blockquote>Their star drive is considerably different from ours. As you may have noticed from the battle. Instead of using the usual hyperspace travel, their ships are able to make an instantaneous jump to whatever point they wish.</blockquote>

The Aing-Tii developed a form of semi-organic technology early in their history, using it to build massive, 100-being ships. These vessels, named [[Sanhedrim ship]]s, over 300 meters long, were used by Aing-Tii warriors to embark on pilgrimages in the Kathol Rift, to attack slavers, and to respond to distress call sent by the people of the Kathol Outback. Each Sanhedrim was unique, with numerous symbols painted on the hull and dozens of conical exhaust ports and thruster pods jutting out at random places. Each Sanhedrim was roughly ovoid in shape and covered in thick hull plates, not unlike the imbricated hides of an Aing-Tii themselves. Sanhedrims had weaponry that, in comparison to that used by the [[Galactic Republic]] and Galactic Empire, were extremely advanced and deadly. Over 60 gunners on each ship used [[energy web generator]]s and [[null-burst projector]]s to destroy enemy ships with ease, although the Aing-Tii often rammed other vessels instead. The monks used non-deadly weapons to dissuade those who had taken an interest in them; the mysterious weapons altered the victim's perception of time, allowing the Aing-Tii to escape to their home territory. Aing-Tii ships usually traveled in groups of three or four, although it was not uncommon for a ship to wander by itself.<ref name="KO" /> The Sanhedrims were also able to evade being picked up by other ships' sensors.<ref name="SQ">''[[Survivor's Quest]]''</ref>

The Aing-Tii were reported to have a sort of symbiotic connection with the ships they served on. The Aing-Tii developed a method of moving from one destination to another, which was barely comprehensible to anyone but the monks. They used the Force in conjunction with their unique technology to [[Fold space|instantaneously move]] their ship through space.<ref name="EGttF" /> It was this technology, combined with their natural ability as navigators, that allowed them to travel through the dangerous Kathol Rift unhindered.

Another piece of Aing-Tii technology was the [[Vor'cha stun stick|''Vor'cha'' stun stick]]. These appeared to be wooden sticks wrapped in some kind of wire that could deliver a powerful energy charge, rendering a victim unconscious.<ref name="KO" /> The ''Vor'cha'' were able to penetrate [[armor]] and electrocute a victim regardless of what he or she was wearing.

==History==
The galaxy knew very little of the Aing-Tii's early history, and for centuries their existence was known only to a select few who had seen them in the flesh. The species' reclusive nature meant that they rarely interacted with the other inhabitants of the Rift, and then only to banish slavers or answer pleas for help.<ref name="KO" /> Their rumored powers piqued the curiosity of [[spacer]]s, who made several attempts to learn more about the monks. One group managed to sneak a micro-espionage [[droid]] onto an Aing-Tii ship during the time of the [[Galactic Republic]]; this provided the rest of the galaxy with its first images of reclusive species. This attempt was eventually halted by the monks, although around the same period an Aing-Tii vessel crashed on a remote world and provided the denizens of the Kathol Sector with much information on the species and their technology. Nevertheless, knowledge of the monks was always scarce.<ref name="KO" />

The [[Jedi Order]] had learned of the Aing-Tii by the time of the [[Ruusan Reformation]] and the species received an entry in the Jedi training manual ''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force|The Jedi Path]]'',<ref name="tjp">''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''</ref> although the Aing-Tii themselves were indifferent towards Jedi.<ref name="EGttF" /> Some time before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent [[Jorj Car'das]], a former [[smuggler]] whose health was deteriorating, to the monks so that he could be healed. The Aing-Tii agreed to heal Car'das, though only on the condition that he spend his life learning of their ways. Although Car'das was not Force-sensitive, he learned of their abilities and studied under them for decades. They eventually allowed him to leave and live out his life on [[Exocron]].<ref name="VOTF">''[[Vision of the Future]]''</ref>

At some point, the Aing-Tii began searching for the [[Codex]], a pyramidal construct made of ancient [[DarkStryder]] technology. They saw the Codex as sacred, and their culture dictated that an Aing-Tii could not physically touch the item, which could enhance one's ability to use the Force. They believed it was a remnant from "Those Who Dwell Beyond The Veil," and that it granted the ability to contact the mysterious beings.<ref name="KR" /> Desperate to get their hands on it, the monks kidnapped a Human named [[Makezh]] around [[7 ABY]] and reprogrammed him, subconsciously teaching him to locate and retrieve the Codex, as he was not bound by their customs.<ref name="KO" /> The Aing-Tii had a limited knowledge of the [[Human]] psyche, and Makezh suffered from a state of mild insanity,<ref name="S">{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> and the near eradication of his memories as a result of the brainwashing.<ref name="KO" />

[[File:Aing-Tii_vs._Empire.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The Aing-Tii battling Imperial forces on Demonsgate.]]
Makezh joined the crew of the [[New Republic]] vessel ''[[FarStar]]'' at [[Danoor]]; they required a navigator to traverse the Kathol Rift as they were tracking a rogue [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] [[Moff]] named [[Kentor Sarne]]. Before the vessel could enter the Rift, however, they were [[Battle of Danoor|engaged]] by an [[Unidentified Imperial-class Star Destroyer (Danoor)|''Imperial II''-class Star Destroyer]] and a [[CR90 corvette]] named the ''[[Lialic II]]''. During the battle, an Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship assisted the ''FarStar'' in defeating the Imperial force.<ref name="GE">{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}}</ref>

During the ''FarStar''{{'s}} trip through the Rift, they encountered an [[alien construct]]. A mission group went aboard, and while searching the construct, they discovered the Codex, although they were not aware of its purpose or significance to the Aing-Tii.<ref name="W">{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> Makezh, aware of the Codex's presence, was compelled by his programming to steal it, and he absconded from the ship over the planet [[Demonsgate]], traveling to the surface to present it to the Aing-Tii. Nevertheless, Makezh was pursued by Imperial [[stormtrooper]]s and [[bounty hunter]]s, forcing the Aing-Tii into a confrontation wherein they used their ''Vor'cha'' to incapacitate the soldiers. The Aing-Tii eventually took the device for themselves; rather than repaying Makezh for all he had gone through to get the Codex for them, they took him, along with many of the unconscious Imperials, onto their ships to study.<ref name="S" /> The Aing-Tii were later involved in the [[Battle of Kathol]], an engagement between the ''FarStar'' and her allies against Moff Sarne's Imperial forces.<ref name="E">''[[Endgame]]''</ref> Some reports claim that the Aing-Tii were responsible for the destruction of the ''FarStar'' during the battle, but the New Republic attempted to keep the ship's mission secret, and details on it were kept quiet.<ref name="E-1">The Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is only one of several possible fates that can befall the vessel, with the true cause left up to the discretion of the gamemaster, or if the players actions cause one reason to be used over the others. In this case, for the Aing-Tii to destroy the ''FarStar'', the players must have fought them on Demonsgate in an attempt to get Makezh back. Since this is not a required part of the adventure—and Makezh is later referenced to have been taken by the Aing-Tii anyway in the ''Jedi Academy Training Manual'' —the Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is not definite.</ref>

Around the same time, an elderly [[Sexes|female]] [[Bith]] trader named [[Maddie Macatten]] put great effort into tracking down the Aing-Tii and discovering their homeworld. The monks had previously freed her from slavers, and she wished to find them and thank her rescuers face-to-face. Macatten discovered a large amount of accurate information on the monks, although she was extremely old and most considered her insane, shrouding her findings in questions about their accuracy. The Aing-Tii also made an enemy during this period: the government of [[Sapella]] held a grudge against the monks after one of the Aing-Tii Sanhedrim collided with and destroyed one of their defense vessels. It was in actuality an accident, although the people of Sapella claimed that the Aing-Tii had attacked them on purpose.<ref name="KO" />

Jorj Car'das, the smuggler whose life the Aing-Tii had saved, kept in contact with his former hosts and occasionally called in favors from them. In [[19 ABY]], the Aing-Tii attacked a fleet of slavers commanded by a [[Rodian]] named [[Rei'Kas]], who had assaulted Exocron. The monks destroyed the slavers at Car'das's request and transported his ally, [[Talon Karrde]], to [[Bastion]], on one of the monks' rare journeys away from the Kathol Outback.<ref name="VOTF" /> Car'das later bade the Aing-Tii use their ships to transport him when he completed various errands.<ref name="SQ" /> The Aing-Tii ships would later be compared to those of the extra-galactic [[Yuuzhan Vong]] after their [[First Battle of Obroa-skai (Yuuzhan Vong War)|assault]] on [[Obroa-skai]] in [[25 ABY]].<ref name="AOC">''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]''</ref>

After the end of the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]] in [[29 ABY]], the [[Jedi Knight]] [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] journeyed to the Kathol Rift to study with the Aing-Tii monks. He learned much from them. By the time of his departure the monks had come to view Solo as a flawed student, but they did impart to him the knowledge of flow-walking, guiding and instructing the traveling Jedi Knight in the use of the intricate ability.<ref name="DN" /> When Solo returned to the [[New Jedi Order]], he made a report based on his findings, which, along with an essay on the monks written by Talon Karrde, was published by [[Tionne Solusar]] in her guide to the Force.<ref name="EGttF" /> Solo, however, kept much of what he had learned from the monks secret from his fellow Jedi,<ref name="DN" /> and Karrde had learned little from Car'das, so the Aing-Tii remained largely unknown to the wider galaxy.<ref name="VOTF" />

In [[43 ABY|43.5 ABY]] [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] traveled to the Kathol Rift, hoping to learn more about what caused Jacen Solo's fall to the [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]]. They arrived on the Aing-Tii homeworld and were met by [[Tadar'Ro]], the monks' liaison. Over the next few days the Skywalkers were taught the arts of [[flow-walking]] and Force teleportation. They were also brought into the [[Embrace]], a series of caves and caverns below the planet surface where the Aing-Tii kept sacred objects, which they called [[relics]]. Luke was allowed to touch the object known as the [[Codex]], which he hoped would grant him some sort of revelation. While the relic held no answers for him, Luke did sense a mass of dark energy that he believed originated from [[The Maw]]. Their visit proved inconclusive, so the two Skywalkers left the planet soon thereafter.<ref name="Omen" />

==Behind the scenes==
The Aing-Tii were created for ''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]'', a [[West End Games]] ''[[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game]]'' adventure series released in [[1995]]. In the supplement, gamemasters are encouraged to feature the Aing-Tii as either enemies or allies, and they play a recurring role in the campaign's storyline. [[Timothy Zahn]], who was involved in the ''DarkStryder Campaign'', reused them in his novel ''[[Vision of the Future]]'' in [[1998]], providing them with their first non-game appearance. Since ''Vision of the Future'', the Aing-Tii have been mentioned in a number of sources, including [[James Luceno]]'s ''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'', [[Troy Denning]]'s ''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'', the ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' series, and ''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''. They are featured heavily in the second ''[[Fate of the Jedi]]'' [[novel]], ''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''.

==Appearances==
*{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}} {{1st}}
*{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}} {{Mo}}
*{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}
*''[[Vision of the Future]]''
*''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Bloodlines]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Tempest (novel)|Tempest]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Invincible (novel)|Invincible]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''
*''[[Abyss (novel)|Abyss]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Allies]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*''[[The Kathol Outback]]'' {{1stm}}
*''[[The Kathol Rift]]''
*''[[Endgame]]''
*[[A Guide to the Star Wars Universe (Third Edition)|''A Guide to the Star Wars Universe'', Third Edition]]
*''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''
*''[[Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)|Scum and Villainy]]''
*{{SW|url=vault/books/news20081203.html|text=''The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia'' Spreads}}
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[Jedi Academy Training Manual]]''
*''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''

Aing-Tii

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''<blockquote>The Aing-Tii have a different view of the Force. Not in terms of Jedi or Dark Jedi—of black and white, as it were—but in a way I like to think of as a full-color rainbow.</blockquote>''
The '''Aing-Tii''' were a secretive [[species]] of [[alien]] monks who hailed from a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|world]] within the [[Kathol Rift]] and resided near that area of [[Realspace|space]]. Many members of the species were [[Force-sensitive]]; these were the only Aing-Tii who ever left their [[planet]], traveling about the Rift in large, organic [[starship]]s and using advanced weaponry to destroy those who opposed them. The Aing-Tii were very reclusive; they often used violence to dissuade outsiders from probing too far into their business, although a report based on a crashed Aing-Tii ship provided [[the galaxy]] with some details on their culture. Their belief system held that all events were not necessarily predetermined, but rather "guided." Unlike the [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]], the Aing-Tii held that [[the Force]] had neither a [[Light side of the Force|light]] nor a [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]], but was full of many colors, not unlike a rainbow.

The Aing-Tii monks only ever left their territories to attack [[Slavery|slavers]]; they believed slavery to be a great evil and were relentless in their persecution of those who thrived from it. The [[Jedi Order]] learned of the Aing-Tii at some point, and several years before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent a [[smuggler]] named [[Jorj Car'das]] to visit the monks so that he could be healed. Car'das spent many years with the Aing-Tii, and his reports on them eventually found their way into the archives of the [[New Jedi Order]]. [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] spent several years learning from the Aing-Tii after the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]]; his and Car'das's reports were compiled by [[Tionne Solusar]] and printed sometime after [[130 ABY]], though Solo kept much of what he had learned about the monks a secret. However, when Jedi [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] visited the Aing-Tii in [[43 ABY]], they discovered many details about what Solo had learned and how it had caused his fall to the dark side.

==Biology and appearance==
The Aing-Tii were a [[species]] of [[Sentience|sentient]], toothless [[mammal]]s who stood about two [[Imperial standard meter|meters]] tall on average. They stood erect on two clawed feet, and they had two spindly arms, each with three large digits. Their bodies were covered entirely in jointed protective coverings of bony plates, which extended up past their necks and onto their heads, where they acted and appeared like a protective helmet. The Aing-Tii head was small and jutted out perpendicularly from their chest. The head featured two large [[eye]]s and a series of long, thin tongues that extended around half a meter from their mouths. Each Aing-Tii had a long, prehensile tail that could be used in self-defense. The Aing-Tii each had a set of painted motifs covering their entire bodies, though the patterns were unique to each Aing-Tii. The species did not communicate through speech, as they were incapable of producing sound. Instead, they conveyed information via tasting, smelling and touching each other with their six long, thin green tongues.<ref name="KO" />

==Society and culture==
<blockquote>The Aing-Tii have an understanding of the Force; but it's a different understanding from that of the Jedi. Or perhaps it's merely a different aspect of the Force they relate to. I'm not really sure which. Jorj Car'das - Vision of the Future</blockquote>
The Aing-Tii were native to a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|planet]] whose location in the [[Kathol Rift]] was a closely guarded secret. The rift itself was a dangerous area of [[Realspace|space]], although by the time of the [[Galactic Empire]] they had developed space travel and many had taken to living in their semi-organic [[starship]]s. The majority of Aing-Tii never left their homeworld nor had any contact with members of other [[Sentience|sentient]] species. Those who did—commonly called Aing-Tii warrior monks—were highly xenophobic and reclusive, attacking any who tried to learn more about them. Although most aspects of Aing-Tii culture were not known to the wider [[The galaxy|galaxy]], it was documented that all Aing-Tii seen offworld were [[the Force|Force]]-[[Force-sensitive|sensitive]]. They believed that their Force talents were gifts from their [[Deity|deities]], "[[Those Who Dwell Beyond the Veil]]," although they generally preferred not to use the Force when they could avoid it. They saw the Force as sacred, something that was not to be meddled with. The monks spent their entire lives performing errands for their gods, traveling through the dangerous Kathol Rift—which they also viewed as a holy place—and performing pilgrimages in the hope that they would receive "an answer" from them.<ref name="KO" />

The monks did make occasional use of the Force, mostly to fuel their cavernous ships. The Aing-Tii had a different view of the Force from that of other Force-users:<ref name="VOTF" /> they believed that even one who was not Force-sensitive could manipulate the energy field to do his or her bidding. Although Aing-Tii avoided using these "gifts," the monks could instantaneously move an object—ranging in size from small items to 300-meter-long ships—from one location to another, an ability not mastered by even the most powerful of [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]]. They were also able to teach this power to non-Force-sensitives. The Aing-Tii believed that, while life was not predetermined, everything was somehow guided by the Force. Unlike the Jedi and Sith, the warrior monks did not believe in the [[Light side of the Force|light]] or [[Dark side of the Force|dark]] sides of the Force. Instead, they held that there were many different aspects to the Force.<ref name="VOTF" />

The monks were able to use myriad other Force powers, one of which was known as [[flow-walking]]. Skilled practitioners of the technique could surrender their emotions to the Force and center themselves in its flow, thus transcending time itself. An Aing-Tii could therefore use flow-walking to observe events in the past or future,<ref name="DN">''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]''</ref> so long as the monk knew the location at which the event had occurred or eventually would occur.<ref name="bloodlines">''[[Bloodlines]]''</ref> By allowing their senses of detachment to fade, and letting their emotional selves return, however, practitioners could impose themselves upon the passage of time and begin to influence and change the course of events.<ref name="DN" /><ref name="bloodlines" /> Such alternation was only possible to an extent; the Force itself was unable to be substantially altered and would ensure that events continued as they were pre-destined to do so.<ref name="inferno">''[[Inferno (novel)|Inferno]]''</ref> With its manipulation of the fabric of time, flow-walking was a complex, esoteric ability, and it remained a little-known secret among the Aing-Tii.<ref name="DN" />

The Aing-Tii held a deep hatred of [[slavery]], and they often attacked slavers who roamed the [[Kathol Outback]]. Due to the sheer power of their technology, the Aing-Tii traveled in groups of three to five ships, ramming vessels laden with slaves and destroying slaver ships that were free of slaves at the time. Few outsiders realized what was behind such attacks, thinking them simply random,<ref name="KO" /> although those who had dealings with the Aing-Tii learned quickly of this hatred.<ref name="VOTF" /> Although Aing-Tii were quick to respond to pleas from residents of the Kathol Outback, the species kept to themselves and discouraged any attempts by others to pry into their business. They did allow a small amount of information about themselves to surface, though only to scare off any who would seek to learn more.<ref name="KO" />

===Technology===
{{Quote|Their star drive is considerably different from ours. As you may have noticed from the battle. Instead of using the usual hyperspace travel, their ships are able to make an instantaneous jump to whatever point they wish.|Jorj Car'das|Vision of the Future}}
[[File:Aing-TiiSanhedrim.jpg|thumb|left|250px|An Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship.]]
The Aing-Tii developed a form of semi-organic technology early in their history, using it to build massive, 100-being ships. These vessels, named [[Sanhedrim ship]]s, over 300 meters long, were used by Aing-Tii warriors to embark on pilgrimages in the Kathol Rift, to attack slavers, and to respond to distress call sent by the people of the Kathol Outback. Each Sanhedrim was unique, with numerous symbols painted on the hull and dozens of conical exhaust ports and thruster pods jutting out at random places. Each Sanhedrim was roughly ovoid in shape and covered in thick hull plates, not unlike the imbricated hides of an Aing-Tii themselves. Sanhedrims had weaponry that, in comparison to that used by the [[Galactic Republic]] and Galactic Empire, were extremely advanced and deadly. Over 60 gunners on each ship used [[energy web generator]]s and [[null-burst projector]]s to destroy enemy ships with ease, although the Aing-Tii often rammed other vessels instead. The monks used non-deadly weapons to dissuade those who had taken an interest in them; the mysterious weapons altered the victim's perception of time, allowing the Aing-Tii to escape to their home territory. Aing-Tii ships usually traveled in groups of three or four, although it was not uncommon for a ship to wander by itself.<ref name="KO" /> The Sanhedrims were also able to evade being picked up by other ships' sensors.<ref name="SQ">''[[Survivor's Quest]]''</ref>

The Aing-Tii were reported to have a sort of symbiotic connection with the ships they served on. The Aing-Tii developed a method of moving from one destination to another, which was barely comprehensible to anyone but the monks. They used the Force in conjunction with their unique technology to [[Fold space|instantaneously move]] their ship through space.<ref name="EGttF" /> It was this technology, combined with their natural ability as navigators, that allowed them to travel through the dangerous Kathol Rift unhindered.<ref name="KO" />

Another piece of Aing-Tii technology was the [[Vor'cha stun stick|''Vor'cha'' stun stick]]. These appeared to be wooden sticks wrapped in some kind of wire that could deliver a powerful energy charge, rendering a victim unconscious.<ref name="KO" /> The ''Vor'cha'' were able to penetrate [[armor]] and electrocute a victim regardless of what he or she was wearing.<ref name="KR">''[[The Kathol Rift]]''</ref>

==History==
The galaxy knew very little of the Aing-Tii's early history, and for centuries their existence was known only to a select few who had seen them in the flesh. The species' reclusive nature meant that they rarely interacted with the other inhabitants of the Rift, and then only to banish slavers or answer pleas for help.<ref name="KO" /> Their rumored powers piqued the curiosity of [[spacer]]s, who made several attempts to learn more about the monks. One group managed to sneak a micro-espionage [[droid]] onto an Aing-Tii ship during the time of the [[Galactic Republic]]; this provided the rest of the galaxy with its first images of reclusive species. This attempt was eventually halted by the monks, although around the same period an Aing-Tii vessel crashed on a remote world and provided the denizens of the Kathol Sector with much information on the species and their technology. Nevertheless, knowledge of the monks was always scarce.<ref name="KO" />

The [[Jedi Order]] had learned of the Aing-Tii by the time of the [[Ruusan Reformation]] and the species received an entry in the Jedi training manual ''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force|The Jedi Path]]'',<ref name="tjp">''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''</ref> although the Aing-Tii themselves were indifferent towards Jedi.<ref name="EGttF" /> Some time before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent [[Jorj Car'das]], a former [[smuggler]] whose health was deteriorating, to the monks so that he could be healed. The Aing-Tii agreed to heal Car'das, though only on the condition that he spend his life learning of their ways. Although Car'das was not Force-sensitive, he learned of their abilities and studied under them for decades. They eventually allowed him to leave and live out his life on [[Exocron]].<ref name="VOTF">''[[Vision of the Future]]''</ref>

At some point, the Aing-Tii began searching for the [[Codex]], a pyramidal construct made of ancient [[DarkStryder]] technology. They saw the Codex as sacred, and their culture dictated that an Aing-Tii could not physically touch the item, which could enhance one's ability to use the Force. They believed it was a remnant from "Those Who Dwell Beyond The Veil," and that it granted the ability to contact the mysterious beings.<ref name="KR" /> Desperate to get their hands on it, the monks kidnapped a Human named [[Makezh]] around [[7 ABY]] and reprogrammed him, subconsciously teaching him to locate and retrieve the Codex, as he was not bound by their customs.<ref name="KO" /> The Aing-Tii had a limited knowledge of the [[Human]] psyche, and Makezh suffered from a state of mild insanity,<ref name="S">{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> and the near eradication of his memories as a result of the brainwashing.<ref name="KO" />

[[File:Aing-Tii_vs._Empire.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The Aing-Tii battling Imperial forces on Demonsgate.]]
Makezh joined the crew of the [[New Republic]] vessel ''[[FarStar]]'' at [[Danoor]]; they required a navigator to traverse the Kathol Rift as they were tracking a rogue [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] [[Moff]] named [[Kentor Sarne]]. Before the vessel could enter the Rift, however, they were [[Battle of Danoor|engaged]] by an [[Unidentified Imperial-class Star Destroyer (Danoor)|''Imperial II''-class Star Destroyer]] and a [[CR90 corvette]] named the ''[[Lialic II]]''. During the battle, an Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship assisted the ''FarStar'' in defeating the Imperial force.<ref name="GE">{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}}</ref>

During the ''FarStar''{{'s}} trip through the Rift, they encountered an [[alien construct]]. A mission group went aboard, and while searching the construct, they discovered the Codex, although they were not aware of its purpose or significance to the Aing-Tii.<ref name="W">{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> Makezh, aware of the Codex's presence, was compelled by his programming to steal it, and he absconded from the ship over the planet [[Demonsgate]], traveling to the surface to present it to the Aing-Tii. Nevertheless, Makezh was pursued by Imperial [[stormtrooper]]s and [[bounty hunter]]s, forcing the Aing-Tii into a confrontation wherein they used their ''Vor'cha'' to incapacitate the soldiers. The Aing-Tii eventually took the device for themselves; rather than repaying Makezh for all he had gone through to get the Codex for them, they took him, along with many of the unconscious Imperials, onto their ships to study.<ref name="S" /> The Aing-Tii were later involved in the [[Battle of Kathol]], an engagement between the ''FarStar'' and her allies against Moff Sarne's Imperial forces.<ref name="E">''[[Endgame]]''</ref> Some reports claim that the Aing-Tii were responsible for the destruction of the ''FarStar'' during the battle, but the New Republic attempted to keep the ship's mission secret, and details on it were kept quiet.<ref name="E-1">The Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is only one of several possible fates that can befall the vessel, with the true cause left up to the discretion of the gamemaster, or if the players actions cause one reason to be used over the others. In this case, for the Aing-Tii to destroy the ''FarStar'', the players must have fought them on Demonsgate in an attempt to get Makezh back. Since this is not a required part of the adventure—and Makezh is later referenced to have been taken by the Aing-Tii anyway in the ''Jedi Academy Training Manual'' —the Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is not definite.</ref>

Around the same time, an elderly [[Sexes|female]] [[Bith]] trader named [[Maddie Macatten]] put great effort into tracking down the Aing-Tii and discovering their homeworld. The monks had previously freed her from slavers, and she wished to find them and thank her rescuers face-to-face. Macatten discovered a large amount of accurate information on the monks, although she was extremely old and most considered her insane, shrouding her findings in questions about their accuracy. The Aing-Tii also made an enemy during this period: the government of [[Sapella]] held a grudge against the monks after one of the Aing-Tii Sanhedrim collided with and destroyed one of their defense vessels. It was in actuality an accident, although the people of Sapella claimed that the Aing-Tii had attacked them on purpose.<ref name="KO" />

Jorj Car'das, the smuggler whose life the Aing-Tii had saved, kept in contact with his former hosts and occasionally called in favors from them. In [[19 ABY]], the Aing-Tii attacked a fleet of slavers commanded by a [[Rodian]] named [[Rei'Kas]], who had assaulted Exocron. The monks destroyed the slavers at Car'das's request and transported his ally, [[Talon Karrde]], to [[Bastion]], on one of the monks' rare journeys away from the Kathol Outback.<ref name="VOTF" /> Car'das later bade the Aing-Tii use their ships to transport him when he completed various errands.<ref name="SQ" /> The Aing-Tii ships would later be compared to those of the extra-galactic [[Yuuzhan Vong]] after their [[First Battle of Obroa-skai (Yuuzhan Vong War)|assault]] on [[Obroa-skai]] in [[25 ABY]].<ref name="AOC">''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]''</ref>

After the end of the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]] in [[29 ABY]], the [[Jedi Knight]] [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] journeyed to the Kathol Rift to study with the Aing-Tii monks. He learned much from them. By the time of his departure the monks had come to view Solo as a flawed student, but they did impart to him the knowledge of flow-walking, guiding and instructing the traveling Jedi Knight in the use of the intricate ability.<ref name="DN" /> When Solo returned to the [[New Jedi Order]], he made a report based on his findings, which, along with an essay on the monks written by Talon Karrde, was published by [[Tionne Solusar]] in her guide to the Force.<ref name="EGttF" /> Solo, however, kept much of what he had learned from the monks secret from his fellow Jedi,<ref name="DN" /> and Karrde had learned little from Car'das, so the Aing-Tii remained largely unknown to the wider galaxy.<ref name="VOTF" />

In [[43 ABY|43.5 ABY]] [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] traveled to the Kathol Rift, hoping to learn more about what caused Jacen Solo's fall to the [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]]. They arrived on the Aing-Tii homeworld and were met by [[Tadar'Ro]], the monks' liaison. Over the next few days the Skywalkers were taught the arts of [[flow-walking]] and Force teleportation. They were also brought into the [[Embrace]], a series of caves and caverns below the planet surface where the Aing-Tii kept sacred objects, which they called [[relics]]. Luke was allowed to touch the object known as the [[Codex]], which he hoped would grant him some sort of revelation. While the relic held no answers for him, Luke did sense a mass of dark energy that he believed originated from [[The Maw]]. Their visit proved inconclusive, so the two Skywalkers left the planet soon thereafter.<ref name="Omen" />

==Behind the scenes==
The Aing-Tii were created for ''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]'', a [[West End Games]] ''[[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game]]'' adventure series released in [[1995]]. In the supplement, gamemasters are encouraged to feature the Aing-Tii as either enemies or allies, and they play a recurring role in the campaign's storyline. [[Timothy Zahn]], who was involved in the ''DarkStryder Campaign'', reused them in his novel ''[[Vision of the Future]]'' in [[1998]], providing them with their first non-game appearance. Since ''Vision of the Future'', the Aing-Tii have been mentioned in a number of sources, including [[James Luceno]]'s ''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'', [[Troy Denning]]'s ''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'', the ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' series, and ''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''. They are featured heavily in the second ''[[Fate of the Jedi]]'' [[novel]], ''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''.

==Appearances==
*{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}} {{1st}}
*{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}} {{Mo}}
*{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}
*''[[Vision of the Future]]''
*''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Bloodlines]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Tempest (novel)|Tempest]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Invincible (novel)|Invincible]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''
*''[[Abyss (novel)|Abyss]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Allies]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*''[[The Kathol Outback]]'' {{1stm}}
*''[[The Kathol Rift]]''
*''[[Endgame]]''
*[[A Guide to the Star Wars Universe (Third Edition)|''A Guide to the Star Wars Universe'', Third Edition]]
*''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''
*''[[Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)|Scum and Villainy]]''
*{{SW|url=vault/books/news20081203.html|text=''The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia'' Spreads}}
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[Jedi Academy Training Manual]]''
*''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''

Aing-Tii

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''<blockquote>The Aing-Tii have a different view of the Force. Not in terms of Jedi or Dark Jedi—of black and white, as it were—but in a way I like to think of as a full-color rainbow.</blockquote>''
The '''Aing-Tii''' were a secretive [[species]] of [[alien]] monks who hailed from a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|world]] within the [[Kathol Rift]] and resided near that area of [[Realspace|space]]. Many members of the species were [[Force-sensitive]]; these were the only Aing-Tii who ever left their [[planet]], traveling about the Rift in large, organic [[starship]]s and using advanced weaponry to destroy those who opposed them. The Aing-Tii were very reclusive; they often used violence to dissuade outsiders from probing too far into their business, although a report based on a crashed Aing-Tii ship provided [[the galaxy]] with some details on their culture. Their belief system held that all events were not necessarily predetermined, but rather "guided." Unlike the [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]], the Aing-Tii held that [[the Force]] had neither a [[Light side of the Force|light]] nor a [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]], but was full of many colors, not unlike a rainbow.

The Aing-Tii monks only ever left their territories to attack [[Slavery|slavers]]; they believed slavery to be a great evil and were relentless in their persecution of those who thrived from it. The [[Jedi Order]] learned of the Aing-Tii at some point, and several years before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent a [[smuggler]] named [[Jorj Car'das]] to visit the monks so that he could be healed. Car'das spent many years with the Aing-Tii, and his reports on them eventually found their way into the archives of the [[New Jedi Order]]. [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] spent several years learning from the Aing-Tii after the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]]; his and Car'das's reports were compiled by [[Tionne Solusar]] and printed sometime after [[130 ABY]], though Solo kept much of what he had learned about the monks a secret. However, when Jedi [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] visited the Aing-Tii in [[43 ABY]], they discovered many details about what Solo had learned and how it had caused his fall to the dark side.

==Biology and appearance==
The Aing-Tii were a [[species]] of [[Sentience|sentient]], toothless [[mammal]]s who stood about two [[Imperial standard meter|meters]] tall on average. They stood erect on two clawed feet, and they had two spindly arms, each with three large digits. Their bodies were covered entirely in jointed protective coverings of bony plates, which extended up past their necks and onto their heads, where they acted and appeared like a protective helmet. The Aing-Tii head was small and jutted out perpendicularly from their chest. The head featured two large [[eye]]s and a series of long, thin tongues that extended around half a meter from their mouths. Each Aing-Tii had a long, prehensile tail that could be used in self-defense. The Aing-Tii each had a set of painted motifs covering their entire bodies, though the patterns were unique to each Aing-Tii. The species did not communicate through speech, as they were incapable of producing sound. Instead, they conveyed information via tasting, smelling and touching each other with their six long, thin green tongues.<ref name="KO" />

==Society and culture==
<blockquote>The Aing-Tii have an understanding of the Force; but it's a different understanding from that of the Jedi. Or perhaps it's merely a different aspect of the Force they relate to. I'm not really sure which. Jorj Car'das|Vision of the Future<\blockquote>

The Aing-Tii were native to a [[Aing-Tii homeworld|planet]] whose location in the [[Kathol Rift]] was a closely guarded secret. The rift itself was a dangerous area of [[Realspace|space]], although by the time of the [[Galactic Empire]] they had developed space travel and many had taken to living in their semi-organic [[starship]]s. The majority of Aing-Tii never left their homeworld nor had any contact with members of other [[Sentience|sentient]] species. Those who did—commonly called Aing-Tii warrior monks—were highly xenophobic and reclusive, attacking any who tried to learn more about them. Although most aspects of Aing-Tii culture were not known to the wider [[The galaxy|galaxy]], it was documented that all Aing-Tii seen offworld were [[the Force|Force]]-[[Force-sensitive|sensitive]]. They believed that their Force talents were gifts from their [[Deity|deities]], "[[Those Who Dwell Beyond the Veil]]," although they generally preferred not to use the Force when they could avoid it. They saw the Force as sacred, something that was not to be meddled with. The monks spent their entire lives performing errands for their gods, traveling through the dangerous Kathol Rift—which they also viewed as a holy place—and performing pilgrimages in the hope that they would receive "an answer" from them.<ref name="KO" />

The monks did make occasional use of the Force, mostly to fuel their cavernous ships. The Aing-Tii had a different view of the Force from that of other Force-users:<ref name="VOTF" /> they believed that even one who was not Force-sensitive could manipulate the energy field to do his or her bidding. Although Aing-Tii avoided using these "gifts," the monks could instantaneously move an object—ranging in size from small items to 300-meter-long ships—from one location to another, an ability not mastered by even the most powerful of [[Jedi]] or [[Sith]]. They were also able to teach this power to non-Force-sensitives. The Aing-Tii believed that, while life was not predetermined, everything was somehow guided by the Force. Unlike the Jedi and Sith, the warrior monks did not believe in the [[Light side of the Force|light]] or [[Dark side of the Force|dark]] sides of the Force. Instead, they held that there were many different aspects to the Force.<ref name="VOTF" />

The monks were able to use myriad other Force powers, one of which was known as [[flow-walking]]. Skilled practitioners of the technique could surrender their emotions to the Force and center themselves in its flow, thus transcending time itself. An Aing-Tii could therefore use flow-walking to observe events in the past or future,<ref name="DN">''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]''</ref> so long as the monk knew the location at which the event had occurred or eventually would occur.<ref name="bloodlines">''[[Bloodlines]]''</ref> By allowing their senses of detachment to fade, and letting their emotional selves return, however, practitioners could impose themselves upon the passage of time and begin to influence and change the course of events.<ref name="DN" /><ref name="bloodlines" /> Such alternation was only possible to an extent; the Force itself was unable to be substantially altered and would ensure that events continued as they were pre-destined to do so.<ref name="inferno">''[[Inferno (novel)|Inferno]]''</ref> With its manipulation of the fabric of time, flow-walking was a complex, esoteric ability, and it remained a little-known secret among the Aing-Tii.<ref name="DN" />

The Aing-Tii held a deep hatred of [[slavery]], and they often attacked slavers who roamed the [[Kathol Outback]]. Due to the sheer power of their technology, the Aing-Tii traveled in groups of three to five ships, ramming vessels laden with slaves and destroying slaver ships that were free of slaves at the time. Few outsiders realized what was behind such attacks, thinking them simply random,<ref name="KO" /> although those who had dealings with the Aing-Tii learned quickly of this hatred.<ref name="VOTF" /> Although Aing-Tii were quick to respond to pleas from residents of the Kathol Outback, the species kept to themselves and discouraged any attempts by others to pry into their business. They did allow a small amount of information about themselves to surface, though only to scare off any who would seek to learn more.<ref name="KO" />

===Technology===
{{Quote|Their star drive is considerably different from ours. As you may have noticed from the battle. Instead of using the usual hyperspace travel, their ships are able to make an instantaneous jump to whatever point they wish.|Jorj Car'das|Vision of the Future}}
[[File:Aing-TiiSanhedrim.jpg|thumb|left|250px|An Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship.]]
The Aing-Tii developed a form of semi-organic technology early in their history, using it to build massive, 100-being ships. These vessels, named [[Sanhedrim ship]]s, over 300 meters long, were used by Aing-Tii warriors to embark on pilgrimages in the Kathol Rift, to attack slavers, and to respond to distress call sent by the people of the Kathol Outback. Each Sanhedrim was unique, with numerous symbols painted on the hull and dozens of conical exhaust ports and thruster pods jutting out at random places. Each Sanhedrim was roughly ovoid in shape and covered in thick hull plates, not unlike the imbricated hides of an Aing-Tii themselves. Sanhedrims had weaponry that, in comparison to that used by the [[Galactic Republic]] and Galactic Empire, were extremely advanced and deadly. Over 60 gunners on each ship used [[energy web generator]]s and [[null-burst projector]]s to destroy enemy ships with ease, although the Aing-Tii often rammed other vessels instead. The monks used non-deadly weapons to dissuade those who had taken an interest in them; the mysterious weapons altered the victim's perception of time, allowing the Aing-Tii to escape to their home territory. Aing-Tii ships usually traveled in groups of three or four, although it was not uncommon for a ship to wander by itself.<ref name="KO" /> The Sanhedrims were also able to evade being picked up by other ships' sensors.<ref name="SQ">''[[Survivor's Quest]]''</ref>

The Aing-Tii were reported to have a sort of symbiotic connection with the ships they served on. The Aing-Tii developed a method of moving from one destination to another, which was barely comprehensible to anyone but the monks. They used the Force in conjunction with their unique technology to [[Fold space|instantaneously move]] their ship through space.<ref name="EGttF" /> It was this technology, combined with their natural ability as navigators, that allowed them to travel through the dangerous Kathol Rift unhindered.<ref name="KO" />

Another piece of Aing-Tii technology was the [[Vor'cha stun stick|''Vor'cha'' stun stick]]. These appeared to be wooden sticks wrapped in some kind of wire that could deliver a powerful energy charge, rendering a victim unconscious.<ref name="KO" /> The ''Vor'cha'' were able to penetrate [[armor]] and electrocute a victim regardless of what he or she was wearing.<ref name="KR">''[[The Kathol Rift]]''</ref>

==History==
The galaxy knew very little of the Aing-Tii's early history, and for centuries their existence was known only to a select few who had seen them in the flesh. The species' reclusive nature meant that they rarely interacted with the other inhabitants of the Rift, and then only to banish slavers or answer pleas for help.<ref name="KO" /> Their rumored powers piqued the curiosity of [[spacer]]s, who made several attempts to learn more about the monks. One group managed to sneak a micro-espionage [[droid]] onto an Aing-Tii ship during the time of the [[Galactic Republic]]; this provided the rest of the galaxy with its first images of reclusive species. This attempt was eventually halted by the monks, although around the same period an Aing-Tii vessel crashed on a remote world and provided the denizens of the Kathol Sector with much information on the species and their technology. Nevertheless, knowledge of the monks was always scarce.<ref name="KO" />

The [[Jedi Order]] had learned of the Aing-Tii by the time of the [[Ruusan Reformation]] and the species received an entry in the Jedi training manual ''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force|The Jedi Path]]'',<ref name="tjp">''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''</ref> although the Aing-Tii themselves were indifferent towards Jedi.<ref name="EGttF" /> Some time before the [[Battle of Yavin]], the [[Jedi Master]] [[Yoda]] sent [[Jorj Car'das]], a former [[smuggler]] whose health was deteriorating, to the monks so that he could be healed. The Aing-Tii agreed to heal Car'das, though only on the condition that he spend his life learning of their ways. Although Car'das was not Force-sensitive, he learned of their abilities and studied under them for decades. They eventually allowed him to leave and live out his life on [[Exocron]].<ref name="VOTF">''[[Vision of the Future]]''</ref>

At some point, the Aing-Tii began searching for the [[Codex]], a pyramidal construct made of ancient [[DarkStryder]] technology. They saw the Codex as sacred, and their culture dictated that an Aing-Tii could not physically touch the item, which could enhance one's ability to use the Force. They believed it was a remnant from "Those Who Dwell Beyond The Veil," and that it granted the ability to contact the mysterious beings.<ref name="KR" /> Desperate to get their hands on it, the monks kidnapped a Human named [[Makezh]] around [[7 ABY]] and reprogrammed him, subconsciously teaching him to locate and retrieve the Codex, as he was not bound by their customs.<ref name="KO" /> The Aing-Tii had a limited knowledge of the [[Human]] psyche, and Makezh suffered from a state of mild insanity,<ref name="S">{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> and the near eradication of his memories as a result of the brainwashing.<ref name="KO" />

[[File:Aing-Tii_vs._Empire.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The Aing-Tii battling Imperial forces on Demonsgate.]]
Makezh joined the crew of the [[New Republic]] vessel ''[[FarStar]]'' at [[Danoor]]; they required a navigator to traverse the Kathol Rift as they were tracking a rogue [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] [[Moff]] named [[Kentor Sarne]]. Before the vessel could enter the Rift, however, they were [[Battle of Danoor|engaged]] by an [[Unidentified Imperial-class Star Destroyer (Danoor)|''Imperial II''-class Star Destroyer]] and a [[CR90 corvette]] named the ''[[Lialic II]]''. During the battle, an Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship assisted the ''FarStar'' in defeating the Imperial force.<ref name="GE">{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}}</ref>

During the ''FarStar''{{'s}} trip through the Rift, they encountered an [[alien construct]]. A mission group went aboard, and while searching the construct, they discovered the Codex, although they were not aware of its purpose or significance to the Aing-Tii.<ref name="W">{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}}</ref> Makezh, aware of the Codex's presence, was compelled by his programming to steal it, and he absconded from the ship over the planet [[Demonsgate]], traveling to the surface to present it to the Aing-Tii. Nevertheless, Makezh was pursued by Imperial [[stormtrooper]]s and [[bounty hunter]]s, forcing the Aing-Tii into a confrontation wherein they used their ''Vor'cha'' to incapacitate the soldiers. The Aing-Tii eventually took the device for themselves; rather than repaying Makezh for all he had gone through to get the Codex for them, they took him, along with many of the unconscious Imperials, onto their ships to study.<ref name="S" /> The Aing-Tii were later involved in the [[Battle of Kathol]], an engagement between the ''FarStar'' and her allies against Moff Sarne's Imperial forces.<ref name="E">''[[Endgame]]''</ref> Some reports claim that the Aing-Tii were responsible for the destruction of the ''FarStar'' during the battle, but the New Republic attempted to keep the ship's mission secret, and details on it were kept quiet.<ref name="E-1">The Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is only one of several possible fates that can befall the vessel, with the true cause left up to the discretion of the gamemaster, or if the players actions cause one reason to be used over the others. In this case, for the Aing-Tii to destroy the ''FarStar'', the players must have fought them on Demonsgate in an attempt to get Makezh back. Since this is not a required part of the adventure—and Makezh is later referenced to have been taken by the Aing-Tii anyway in the ''Jedi Academy Training Manual'' —the Aing-Tii destroying the ''FarStar'' is not definite.</ref>

Around the same time, an elderly [[Sexes|female]] [[Bith]] trader named [[Maddie Macatten]] put great effort into tracking down the Aing-Tii and discovering their homeworld. The monks had previously freed her from slavers, and she wished to find them and thank her rescuers face-to-face. Macatten discovered a large amount of accurate information on the monks, although she was extremely old and most considered her insane, shrouding her findings in questions about their accuracy. The Aing-Tii also made an enemy during this period: the government of [[Sapella]] held a grudge against the monks after one of the Aing-Tii Sanhedrim collided with and destroyed one of their defense vessels. It was in actuality an accident, although the people of Sapella claimed that the Aing-Tii had attacked them on purpose.<ref name="KO" />

Jorj Car'das, the smuggler whose life the Aing-Tii had saved, kept in contact with his former hosts and occasionally called in favors from them. In [[19 ABY]], the Aing-Tii attacked a fleet of slavers commanded by a [[Rodian]] named [[Rei'Kas]], who had assaulted Exocron. The monks destroyed the slavers at Car'das's request and transported his ally, [[Talon Karrde]], to [[Bastion]], on one of the monks' rare journeys away from the Kathol Outback.<ref name="VOTF" /> Car'das later bade the Aing-Tii use their ships to transport him when he completed various errands.<ref name="SQ" /> The Aing-Tii ships would later be compared to those of the extra-galactic [[Yuuzhan Vong]] after their [[First Battle of Obroa-skai (Yuuzhan Vong War)|assault]] on [[Obroa-skai]] in [[25 ABY]].<ref name="AOC">''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]''</ref>

After the end of the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]] in [[29 ABY]], the [[Jedi Knight]] [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] journeyed to the Kathol Rift to study with the Aing-Tii monks. He learned much from them. By the time of his departure the monks had come to view Solo as a flawed student, but they did impart to him the knowledge of flow-walking, guiding and instructing the traveling Jedi Knight in the use of the intricate ability.<ref name="DN" /> When Solo returned to the [[New Jedi Order]], he made a report based on his findings, which, along with an essay on the monks written by Talon Karrde, was published by [[Tionne Solusar]] in her guide to the Force.<ref name="EGttF" /> Solo, however, kept much of what he had learned from the monks secret from his fellow Jedi,<ref name="DN" /> and Karrde had learned little from Car'das, so the Aing-Tii remained largely unknown to the wider galaxy.<ref name="VOTF" />

In [[43 ABY|43.5 ABY]] [[Luke Skywalker]] and his son [[Ben Skywalker|Ben]] traveled to the Kathol Rift, hoping to learn more about what caused Jacen Solo's fall to the [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]]. They arrived on the Aing-Tii homeworld and were met by [[Tadar'Ro]], the monks' liaison. Over the next few days the Skywalkers were taught the arts of [[flow-walking]] and Force teleportation. They were also brought into the [[Embrace]], a series of caves and caverns below the planet surface where the Aing-Tii kept sacred objects, which they called [[relics]]. Luke was allowed to touch the object known as the [[Codex]], which he hoped would grant him some sort of revelation. While the relic held no answers for him, Luke did sense a mass of dark energy that he believed originated from [[The Maw]]. Their visit proved inconclusive, so the two Skywalkers left the planet soon thereafter.<ref name="Omen" />

==Behind the scenes==
The Aing-Tii were created for ''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]'', a [[West End Games]] ''[[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game]]'' adventure series released in [[1995]]. In the supplement, gamemasters are encouraged to feature the Aing-Tii as either enemies or allies, and they play a recurring role in the campaign's storyline. [[Timothy Zahn]], who was involved in the ''DarkStryder Campaign'', reused them in his novel ''[[Vision of the Future]]'' in [[1998]], providing them with their first non-game appearance. Since ''Vision of the Future'', the Aing-Tii have been mentioned in a number of sources, including [[James Luceno]]'s ''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'', [[Troy Denning]]'s ''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'', the ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' series, and ''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''. They are featured heavily in the second ''[[Fate of the Jedi]]'' [[novel]], ''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''.

==Appearances==
*{{DarkStryder|Galaxy's Edge|The Kathol Outback}} {{1st}}
*{{DarkStryder|Waystation|The Kathol Rift}} {{Mo}}
*{{DarkStryder|Showdown (RPG adventure){{!}}Showdown|The Kathol Rift}}
*''[[Vision of the Future]]''
*''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Bloodlines]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Tempest (novel)|Tempest]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Invincible (novel)|Invincible]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''
*''[[Abyss (novel)|Abyss]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Allies]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*''[[The Kathol Outback]]'' {{1stm}}
*''[[The Kathol Rift]]''
*''[[Endgame]]''
*[[A Guide to the Star Wars Universe (Third Edition)|''A Guide to the Star Wars Universe'', Third Edition]]
*''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''
*''[[Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)|Scum and Villainy]]''
*{{SW|url=vault/books/news20081203.html|text=''The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia'' Spreads}}
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[Jedi Academy Training Manual]]''
*''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''

Tyia

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The '''Tyia''' was a faith, a philosophy, and a way of knowing the Force. It taught of holding a high regard for peace and life. It came to the planet Revyia around 30 BBY, after an independent freighter brought a missionary of the Tyia faith to the planet. Its message appealed to the indigenous Revwiens, and became widely accepted amongst them, to such a degree that the Tyia was widely seen as native to that culture.

Tyia practitioners were known as Thuwisten, taking their name from the Tyia's prime tenet that one should seek "personal harmony with one's own Tyia so that other Tyia forces may join to form a bond-circle, a joining of spirits called 'Thuwisten', complete in their utter harmony." Indeed, Thuwisten believed that individual introspection was key to knowing the ways of the universe.

Tyia-practicing Force users were taught to control their personal Force through ceremony and meditation. Their focus on their inner Force resulted in Thuwisten having a heightened awareness of the skill the Jedi knew as "Control"; however, a Thuwisten found the use of the "Alter" ability to be a more difficult and time-consuming practice than the Jedi. Nonetheless, many Thuwisten regarded the Jedi as true masters of the Tyia.

The practitioners of Tyia. a relatively peaceful sect of Force- users, have only
been widely known in the galaxy since the rise of Palpatine's Galactic Empire.
One of the few Force traditions to practice openly during the reign of the
Empire, Tyia adepts spread their beliefs in the space lanes through peaceful
discourse and meditation. Unlike many Force traditions. practitioners of Tyia
rarely come into conflict with the Empire. prolonging their freedom from
the Emperor's Jedi hunters.

HISTORY
The Revwien are a sentient plant species hailing from a distant planet beyond
the Outer Rim. Revwia is temperate world with long rolling plains and an
equatorial jungle belt. The Revwien revere the jungle belt as a holy site. Those
Revwien who display talent with the Force are sent to the jungle to develop
their abilities and study the Tyia. For much of the galaxy's history, Revwien
Force-users studied the Tyia and developed a kind of religion around it,
spreading the word of their beliefs to any who would believe it.
The masters on Revwia sensed the deaths of the Jedi from the nefarious
Order 66. The discord caused by the deaths of so many Force-sensitive beings
sent the masters into a panic. They gathered their best and brightest in a
temple grown from the largest trees on the planet. Themission was laid out
plainly. The students were to leave their homeworld and seek out the Jedi
to help them in the wake of the Great Jedi Purge. to help return the galaxy
to a state of harmony.

LOCATION
The practitioners of Tyia can be found anywhere. from the Deep Core to the
Outer Rim. They branched out from the Revwien homeworld in force during
the days of the Galactic Empire. traveling the space lanes as passengers
aboard tramp freighters, sharing their thoughts and wisdom with other beings
that seem interested in or strongly connected to the Force. Practitioners of
Tyia can be found anywhere in the galaxy that tramp freighters fly, but during
the time of the Empire. they are more likely to be found in shadowports.

PHILOSOPHY
"Tvia" is the Revwien word for "breath." Tyia is the spark of li fe th at all living
creatures have. All creatures that breathe have some measure of power in
the Tyia. As long as there is life in the galaxy, there will be Tyia. Students
of the Tyia spend their time in he wilderness to experience how all life is
connected. The prey eats the plant. The predator eats the prey. The predator
dies and his remains feed the plant. All things reflect this cycle. Students of
the Tyia learn to reach out through these connections and alter the world
around them.

Things moving normally are referred to as "Harmony." Harmony is akin to
the light side, and most students of the Tyia strive for Harmony. They mediate
disputes, heal those not ready to die. and do what they can to keep peace In
the galaxy. When the dark side intervenes. the Tyia falls into Discord. The Fall
of the Republic was hastened by the Discord of Palpatine. Anakin Skywalker
succumbed to his Discord because he could not be both a Jedi and husband
to Padrne Amidala.

Conflict is part of life. Though students of the Tyia do not carry liqhtsabers,
they know that predators hunt prey and war is a natural step in the evolution of the galaxy.
While those who study the Tyia revere all life, they also battle those who would destroy it.
They prefer to use Force abilities to knock down and immobilize opponents
rather than pick up a blaster to do so. If there is no alternative. the Tyia
would still rather stun and enemy than kill it. Killing. even in defense, is a
quick path to Discord. Those students who fall from the path of the Tyia are given no name.
They are believed to have lost the right to call themselves anything because of their Discord.
Revwien who fall to the dark side take on a shriveled cast. Their voices become whispers of fallen leaves.
They long to break out of the endless cycle of the Tyia and often want to take as many others with them
as possible. The fallen student of Tyia looks to destroy and disrupt. There are places on Revwia where the
earth is black and nothing grows. These are the places where Harmony and Discord have battled.
Discord never fully wins in the end, but it often extracts a great price when it loses.

Membership: Although practitioners of Tyia are usually Revwien, Force sensitive members of other
species can embrace the philosophies of the Tyia and become practitioners of this Force tradition as well.

Tyia teaches that individual introspection is the way to learn the true way of the universe — students are taught to control their own personal Force (called "Tyia") through meditation and ceremony. Because of the unique way in which the Tyia studies the Force, there are some special rules regarding its use:
*A Tyia student learning ''control ''at ID automatically learns ''hibernation trance ''and ''emptiness ''(which is Easy difficulty for Tyia). The character learns an additional three ''control ''powers.
*All ''alter ''powers have their difficulty increased by one level.

All powers have minimum ''time to use ''of one minute.

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==Welcome==
Hi, welcome to D6 Holocron Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the [[:Capitol Ships]] page.

Please leave a message on [[User talk:Bsdoblivion|my talk page]] if I can help with anything! -- [[User:Bsdoblivion|Bsdoblivion]] ([[User_talk:Bsdoblivion|Talk]]) 02:20, October 10, 2009

== hey there ==

i really dont want to sound ungreatful here as i really do appreciate your help on this. but it did mess up a few things that i had in the files. im having a problem finding what i was able to put in and not. as well as which areas still needed research. most of what i have in a lot of this is already documented on a large file so that i didnt need to double check the information. so i will need to clear out a lot of what you already posted so i can back track this. like i said i realy do apreciate this but as well im really really sorry about this.
thank you very much

[[User:Bsdoblivion|Bsdoblivion]] 10:33, October 17, 2009 (UTC)

== story line ==

hey i was wondering if you would like a section to yourself in the story lines area. so far i have a little done there for the after the fall line. but since its entered by Fr3d.EXE its a slow go. just curious if you would like your own
[[User:Bsdoblivion|Bsdoblivion]] 22:41, November 4, 2009 (UTC)

== sure ==

sure

== story line ==

just need a name to put in for the story line. Fr3d.EXE already took After the Fall as an example

== Collapsible World ==

Collapsible World

== story line ==

okie dokie its in.
and BTW thank you very much for your assistance. from what ive found on the internet in starwars sites this is already has more content then any other not including the swrpgnetwork. which isnt even taking in new users anyway.

out of curiosity what is the source your grabbing this all from. like a document or nice pdf file or such. just curious
later
[[User:Bsdoblivion|Bsdoblivion]] 22:45, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

== my source ==

i have over 120 different D6 books in .pdf form and i have a number of other files with a great deal of compiled information in .pdf form which i downloaded from various sites. i did go looking for the file from which you were getting the information from. low and behold i found the one that had word for word the droids information you recently put up and then i went and downloaded all the other files that i could from that site. also i made frequent visits to www.rpggamer.org. and thus i discovered your site. i also have a great number of D20 books in .pdf form that i had been converting for years for my own use.

== weapons ==

fixed the links in the powered weapons so they should work again. also shoot me an email at bsdoblivion@gmail.com so i have your address on file. ill also shoot you a couple of files you may not have.
also you may want to sign messages you have on this site with the 4 tildes, that way i know its you
[[User:Bsdoblivion|Bsdoblivion]] 23:28, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

== files ==

been working on getting some download options for the site or at least to link the downloads from other sites. i was hopeing to actually host the donwloads so that i can monitor them to be sure they work. things like the excell sheets and original sources for this data as well if wanted. i may need to set something up with freddyb to have the files stored for download and just put the direct download links on the wiki
[[User:Bsdoblivion|Bsdoblivion]] 02:14, November 11, 2009 (UTC)

== update ==

sorry ive not been putting stuff up lately, ive been busy with life and such and then the holiday weekend. so i should be back within a week or so.
-the demon apostle

Hey i didnt know how to chat with you, but thanks for cleaning up the pages... i wish i knew exactly what you did that made them cleaner or i would do them myself (new Jedi Order, Jedi Order) If you could give me a rundown i could probably handle it... Also i love it that you still find time to play D6, if you lived in orlando, fl i'd definately get involved - Nathan

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== Welcome! ==
This here is my message page, if you did not know. i will from time to time ask for information and advice to the rest of the wiki within here, in blogs, ect...
or atleast keep this here to accept messages from all. for right now please see the blog page for current topics that i could use input on.

and thank you for supporting the old school D6 Star Wars
BSDOblivion

== Messages ==

Lets see how this page works and looks

== YAY ==

looks ok i guess.

hey leave me a message here if you need and/or wish to provide anything at all

== yo ==

I hope my recent contributions to the various areas meet with your approval.
later
[[User:Thedemonapostle|Thedemonapostle]] 07:17, October 17, 2009 (UTC)thedemonapostle

== Character Weapons and Armor ==

Hey! Congrats on getting this database setup! I was just wondering where you would like character weapons and armor. Should they have their own dedicated article sections, or should they be listed under equipment?

== the weapons and armor ==

i was going to have that listed under the equipment under a seperate listing within. like the starships are broken to frieghter, fighter, big boom. as well as the list of them. i havent gotten to this sectin yet. but ill try to put a basic list in today to get it started. thanks for the interest

== these aren' the droids you're looking for ==

I think you should set up the left side droids link the same way you got the equipment links set up. seems more stream-lined and quicker
-TheDemonApostle

== re: droids ==

crap. okie dokie, back to work for me

== powered melee weapons ==

the powered melee weapons page seems to have gone crazy on me and i couldnt figure out what i9 did. half of the links are3 screwed up, they link to things they shouldnt be linking to...

== powered weapons ==

all fixed. i reset the links for the list
[[User:Bsdoblivion|Bsdoblivion]] 23:25, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

== thanks ==

yeah i was in the middle of filling all that in and it went nuts on me. so i stopped until i could figure it out...currently working on my storyline...as always, everything is a work in progress.

== found a thought... ==

i was just uploading stuff and it came to me that we would need to put up some place where one could either download or view and save as some of the official character sheets. i do have the standard character sheet in .pdf form but my html skills are severely lacking. any thoughts on your end?

[[User:Thedemonapostle|Thedemonapostle]] 02:05, November 11, 2009 (UTC)

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|leader=[[Grand Master]]
|governing=[[Jedi High Council (New Jedi Order)|Jedi High Council]]
|positions=*[[Master of the Order]]
*[[Jedi Master]]
*[[Jedi Knight]]
*[[Padawan]]{{Ref|<ref name="Star Wars: Legacy">''[[Star Wars: Legacy]]''</ref>}} ([[Apprentice]])
*[[Jedi Initiate]] ([[Youngling]]){{Ref|<ref name="Dark Nest Trilogy">''[[Dark Nest Trilogy]]''</ref>}}{{Ref|<ref name="Legacy of the Force">''[[Legacy of the Force]]''</ref>}}
|organizations=*[[Woodoo Clan]]
*[[Bantha Clan]]
*[[Ronto Clan]]
*[[Veermok Clan]]
*[[Wampa Clan]]
*[[Great River]]
*[[Antarian Rangers]]
*[[Council of Reassignment]]
*Jedi High Council
|sects=*[[Dark Jedi]]
*[[Gray Jedi]]
*[[Iron Knight]]s
*[[Jensaarai]]
*[[Wild Knights]]
*[[Imperial Knight]]s
|headquarters=*[[Jedi Headquarters]], [[Coruscant]]
*[[Jedi Praxeum]], [[Yavin 4]]
*[[Jedi Academy (Ossus)|Jedi Academy]], [[Ossus]]
*[[New Jedi Temple]], Coruscant.
*Hideout on [[Fondor]]
*[[Hidden Temple (Sith-Imperial War)|Hidden Temple]], [[Taivas]]
|language=[[Galactic Basic Standard]]
|affiliated=*[[Alliance to Restore the Republic]] (Unofficially)
*[[Alliance of Free Planets]] (Unofficially)
*[[New Republic]]
*[[Galactic Federation of Free Alliances]]
*[[Jedi Coalition]]
*[[Darkmeld]]
*[[Galactic Alliance Remnant]]
|text=[[Jedi Code]]
|deities=[[Light side of the Force]]
|locations*[[Ossus]] [[Jedi Academy (Ossus)|Jedi Academy]] (2nd capital)
*[[Coruscant]] [[Jedi Headquarters]]
*[[Coruscant]] [[New Jedi Temple|Jedi Temple]]
*[[Corellia]] [[Jedi enclave (Corellia)|Jedi enclave]]
*[[Yavin 4]] [[Jedi Praxeum]] (1st capital)
*[[Eclipse Station]]
*[[Shelter]]
*[[Endor]]
*[[Transitory Mists]]
*[[Hidden Temple (Sith-Imperial War)|Hidden Temple]] (hideout)
|artifacts=*[[Great Holocron]]
*[[Bodo Baas's holocron]]
*[[Arca Jeth's holocron]]
*[[Asli Krimsan's holocron]]
|ceremonies=*[[Jedi Trials]]
*[[Knighting ceremony]]
*[[Jedi convocation|Jedi Conclaves]]
*[[Lightsaber#Concordance of Fealty|Concordance of Fealty]]
|holidays=
|founding=[[11 ABY]]
|planet=[[Yavin 4]]
|founder=[[Luke Skywalker]]
|collapse=[[130 ABY]]
|members=[[Kyp Durron]], [[Kenth Hamner]], [[Corran Horn]], [[Kyle Katarn]], [[Jaden Korr]], [[K'Kruhk]], [[Ganner Rhysode]], [[Saba Sebatyne]], [[Ben Skywalker]], [[Luke Skywalker]], [[Leia Organa Solo]], [[Mara Jade Skywalker]], [[Kol Skywalker]], [[Wolf Sazen]], [[Cade Skywalker]], [[Anakin Solo]], [[Jaina Solo]], [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]]
| era=[[Rebellion era]] (Unofficially), [[New Republic era]], [[New Jedi Order era]], [[Legacy era]]
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{{Quote|Not the last of the old Jedi, Luke. The first of the new.|[[Obi-Wan Kenobi]], to [[Luke Skywalker]]|Heir to the Empire}}

The '''New Jedi Order''' was the restored and reformed [[Jedi]] [[Jedi Order|organization]], in the wake of the [[Great Jedi Purge]] and subsequent fall of the [[Galactic Empire]]. The [[Jedi Knight]]s, reduced in number to only a handful, were slowly restored, primarily under the leadership of [[Luke Skywalker]], son of the former Jedi Knight [[Anakin Skywalker]].

Slow in developing, it existed for a number of years as a disparate group of Force-sensitives with various degrees of training. After a first attempt to train new Knights was foiled by the [[Palpatine|Reborn Emperor]], Luke Skywalker initiated the first formal training school for Jedi in decades, the [[Jedi Praxeum]] on [[Yavin 4]]. Starting with an initial group of 12 students, the Order slowly grew in numbers and stature, becoming a core part of the [[New Republic]] that sponsored it. This meant it was repeatedly targeted by enemies of the Republic, such as [[Admiral]] [[Natasi Daala|Daala]], the [[Empire Reborn]], and the [[Second Imperium]]. Members of the order were involved in many of the key conflicts in the galaxy, including the [[Nagai-Tof War]], [[Operation Shadow Hand]], the [[Black Fleet Crisis]] and the [[First Corellian Insurrection]].

This involvement culminated in the Jedi involvement in the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]]. Committed to defending the galaxy from this threat, the Order was vilified by the galactic citizens and was betrayed on numerous occasions. Their involvement in the war cost nearly half the Order’s Knights. Out of this conflict, a more ruthless, and later, centralized Order was born. It would continue to grow and serve the galaxy for decades to come, until the [[Sith–Imperial War]] once again dispersed the Order and made its members fugitives. They subsequently returned to their place in the Galaxy at the end of the [[Second Imperial Civil War]].

==History==
===Last of the Old, First of the New ([[4 ABY|4]] to [[10 ABY]])===
{{Dialogue|Dracos|When are we gonna be Jedi Knights, like you, with magic? When are you gonna teach us to use the Force?|Skywalker|I'm not, Dracos. I can't. … The potential for abuse—if any of you turned out to have talent and learned anything without learning everything—is staggering. And I don't want to be responsible for that.|attr=[[Dracos]] and [[Luke Skywalker]] discuss training in the ways of the Force|src=Star Wars 92: The Dream}}

After the virtual [[Great Jedi Purge|extermination]] of the [[Jedi Order|old Jedi Order]] by [[Galactic Emperor|Emperor]] [[Palpatine]] and his subsequent overthrow, only one known true Jedi, who hadn't gone into hiding and was brave enough to try again, remained: Luke Skywalker. Having played a key role in destroying the Emperor and redeeming his father [[Anakin Skywalker]], Skywalker alone was the heir to this once noble Order.

The road to restoration was long and wrought with mistakes. Skywalker's first thoughts of training an apprentice came right after the [[Battle of Endor]]. During the [[Ssi-ruuvi invasion]], Skywalker came in contact with a young [[Force-sensitive]] boy named [[Dev Sibwarra]]. After rescuing the boy from the [[Ssi-ruu]]k, Skywalker had plans to train Sibwarra as his first apprentice. Tragically, during the [[Second Battle of Bakura (Galactic Civil War)|Battle of Bakura]], Dev sustained mortal injuries and died aboard the ''[[Millennium Falcon]]''. Perhaps due to Sibwarra's death and due to a growing fear that he would create the next Vader, Skywalker became reluctant to take on an apprentice.<ref name=tab>''[[The Truce at Bakura]]''</ref>

[[File:LukeSkywalkerNEGTC.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Luke Skywalker openly fought as a Jedi on [[Alliance to Restore the Republic|Rebel Alliance]] and [[New Republic]] missions.]]

Around the time of the [[Nagai-Tof War]], Skywalker received several requests for training from young freedom fighters who hoped to become Jedi Knights, but Skywalker's reluctance remained. He refused to train the young hopefuls on the excuse that he was not yet prepared to take on apprentices. When Luke began instructing new recruits to the [[Alliance to Restore the Republic|Rebellion]] in warfare, recruits such as [[Kiro]], [[Barney]] and the [[Rik Duel]] gang, they assumed that Luke would be teaching them to wield [[the Force]] but were disappointed when Luke refused to school them in Force techniques.<ref name=m92>''[[Star Wars 92: The Dream]]''</ref> Luke's refusals also had a negative effect as one of the first people to request his training, [[Flint]], became embittered when Luke refused to train him and turned to the [[dark side of the Force|dark side]].<ref name=ma3>''[[Star Wars Annual 3: The Apprentice]]''</ref>

Luke's hesitance to take on an apprentice continued until he faced the consequences of his reluctant viewpoint. The young woman [[Vila]] came to Luke requesting training, and when Luke refused, she brought him to [[Naldar]] to help liberate the planet. On Naldar, Luke came face to face with Flint, who had turned to the dark side after Luke had refused to train him. In the subsequent battle, Vila was killed, and Flint was arrested and put into the custody of the [[New Republic]].<ref name=m92 /> Luke began to see that giving in to the fear of failure was not the path. Luke told the [[Iskalonian]] Kiro that he would begin to train him, but before it could begin Kiro went MIA in the Nagai-Tof War and became disillusioned with the thought of becoming a Jedi.<ref name=m96>''[[Star Wars 96: Duel With a Dark Lady]]''</ref> After this rocky start, Luke put his plans for a New Jedi Order on hold.

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 [[Mimban|Circarpous V]],<ref name=sotme>''[[Splinter of the Mind's Eye]]''</ref> [[Toola]],<ref name=copl>''[[The Courtship of Princess Leia]]''</ref> and [[Dathomir]], and also briefly taught [[Isolder|Prince Isolder]] the basic tenets of the Force. As he was not Force-sensitive, the Prince provided a risk free student for Luke to practice on.<ref name=copl /> It was also during this time that Skywalker met many individuals who would eventually become members of his Jedi Order. Perhaps most notable was [[Kyle Katarn]], whom Skywalker met in [[4 ABY]] during the crisis of the [[Valley of the Jedi]]. Katarn already possessed a [[lightsaber]] and had some rudimentary insights into the Force, mastering [[Force powers]] such as [[Force speed]].<ref name=df:ra>''[[Dark Forces: Rebel Agent]]''</ref>

The rise of the cloned [[Palpatine]] shook Skywalker out of his solitary existence. As foretold by [[Bodo Baas's Master]] a thousand years earlier, this was a critical time during the history of the Jedi. Faced with the threat of awesome power, Skywalker decided to train under the [[Galactic Emperor|Emperor]] and to try to defeat him from the inside. However, in doing so, Skywalker succumbed to the influence of the [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]]. He was brought back to the [[Light side of the Force|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 Ysanna|Jem]] and [[Rayf Ysanna|Rayf]], and [[Jedi Purge]] survivor King [[Empatojayos Brand]].<ref name=de>''[[Dark Empire]]''</ref>

Defeating the Emperor cost these initial trainees dearly—Jem, Rayf, and Brand lost their lives, while Vima fled back into the underworld.<ref name=ee>''[[Empire’s End]]''</ref> The cost to Luke was dear also – his experience under the dark side's sway 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 ABY|11]] to [[18 ABY]])===
{{Main|Jedi Praxeum}}
[[File:ExarKunspirit egtf.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Jedi at the Praxeum fight [[Exar Kun]]'s spirit.]]
{{Quote|These are the next generation, the only way the Jedi Knights will be reborn in the galaxy.|Luke Skywalker}}

During the [[Thrawn campaign]], [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] appeared to Luke in a [[Force ghost|vision]]. He would no longer appear in Luke's visions, so he charged Luke with the mission of restoring the Jedi. Luke was deeply distressed 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."''<ref name=htte>''[[Heir to the Empire]]''</ref>

With this encouragement, and after the cloned Emperor's defeat, Luke approached the [[New Republic]] for permission to establish a [[Jedi Academy]].<ref name=js>''[[Jedi Search]]''</ref> During his travels, he had discovered a number of [[Force-sensitive]]s and finally felt ready to begin to train new Jedi. Permission was granted and a site on the historic moon [[Yavin 4]] was selected. This first class consisted of twelve pupils with Luke as their teacher. Some of those twelve were [[Kam Solusar|Kam]] and [[Tionne Solusar]], [[Kirana Ti]], [[Dorsk 81]], [[Streen]], [[Gantoris]],<ref name=js /> [[Madurrin]],<ref name=tec>''[[The Essential Chronology]]''</ref> [[Kyle Katarn]],<ref name=tec /> [[Brakiss]],<ref name=ij>''[[I, Jedi]]''</ref> and [[Corran Horn]].<ref name=ij /> Other Jedi to join soon after were [[Kyp Durron]], [[Cilghal]], [[Mara Jade Skywalker|Mara Jade]],<ref name=da>''[[Dark Apprentice]]''</ref> and [[Dal Konur]].<ref name=rj>''[[Rebel Jedi]]''</ref>

It was not long before it became apparent that not all was well at the Academy. The spirit of [[Exar Kun]], an ancient [[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 ''[[Sun Crusher]]'', wreaking havoc on the galaxy and destroying the world of [[Carida]].<ref name=cotf>''[[Champions of the Force]]''</ref>

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]] [[Natasi Daala|Daala]],<ref name=ds>''[[Darksaber]]''</ref> the [[Empire Reborn]], and the [[Second Imperium]].

===Growth and expansion ([[18 ABY|18]] to [[22 ABY]])===
{{Quote|A Jedi's greatest power comes not from size or from physical strength. It comes from understanding the Force. As part of your training you will learn to build your confidence and belief through practice.|[[Tionne Solusar]]|Young Jedi Knights: Heirs of the Force}}
[[File:JediVersusJuggernaught-NEC.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A group of Jedi ambush an [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] [[Heavy Assault Vehicle/wheeled A5 Juggernaut|Juggernaut]] during the [[Battle for Yavin 4|assault]] by Admiral [[Natasi Daala|Daala]].]]

Despite these setbacks, the Jedi Order continued to grow and to serve the galaxy. The Order was also supplemented by recruits from other Force traditions such as the [[Iron Knight]]s,<ref name=dtf>''[[Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena]]''</ref> the [[Jensaarai]],<ref name=wwnjo>''[[Who's Who in the New Jedi Order]]''</ref> the [[Matukai]],<ref name=hg>''[[Hero's Guide]]''</ref> and students from the [[School of Hidden Wisdom]].<ref name=pjsb>''[[Power of the Jedi sourcebook]]''</ref> Other students were recruited in manifold ways, from the Force-natural [[Cheryl Trinja]] found on a jungle planet by a group of Republic agents and trainees,<ref name=gms>''[[Star Wars Gamemaster Screen]]''</ref> to the Old Republic Jedi Knight rescued from the imprisonment of his former apprentice [[Winslau Da'k]], on the [[Unknown Regions]] planet [[Morcanth]].<ref name=gms /> [[New Republic Intelligence]] also began to report to Skywalker on possible candidates.<ref name=nri>''[[N.R.I. Reports]]''</ref>

Jedi Knights played key roles in disabling the ''[[Eye of Palpatine]]'' battlestation,<ref name=coj>''[[Children of the Jedi]]''</ref> preventing the spread of the [[Death Seed]] plague,<ref name=pot>''[[Planet of Twilight]]''</ref> and stopping the [[Disciples of Ragnos]], a cult with the goal of resurrecting the Sith Lord, [[Marka Ragnos]].<ref name=jkja>''[[Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy]]''</ref> Finally they also took part in neutralizing [[Centerpoint Station]] in the [[First Corellian Crisis]].<ref name=fcc>''[[Corellian Trilogy]]''</ref> During this period, research missions increased, with investigation on such planets as [[Chandrila]],<ref name=jkja /> [[Ossus]],<ref name=gator>''[[Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds]]''</ref> [[Kamino]],<ref name=gator /> [[Korriban]],<ref name=ph:k>''[[Korriban: Planet of Lost Souls]]''</ref> [[Ruusan]],<ref name=njosb>''[[The New Jedi Order Sourcebook]]''</ref> [[Barab I]],<ref name=gator /><ref name=mfr>''[[Making a Full Recovery]]''</ref> and [[Borgo Prime]].<ref name=jjk5>''[[Junior Jedi Knights: Vader's Fortress]]''</ref> One such mission to the [[Deep Core]] resulted in the capture of a Jedi Knight. A rescue team was dispatched, which managed to trace the captors to the Imperial [[fortress world]] of [[Prakith]], home of the [[Citadel Inquisitorius]]. Confronting Inquisitor [[Shynne]], the team managed to safely rescue the Knight.<ref name=ph:b>''[[Byss and the Deep Core]]''</ref> Other successes included [[Eelysa]] breaking a number of [[slave]] rings in the Outer Rim,<ref name=mfr /> [[Fahjay]] stopping an assassination attempt against [[Admiral]] [[Ackbar]],<ref name=p108>''[[Polyhedron 108]]''</ref> and the Jedi Knights negotiating a peace accord between the warring [[Drovian]] and [[Gopso'o]] tribes on [[Nim Drovis]]—a war that had continued for generations.<ref name=aoc1>''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]''</ref> The Jedi also embarked on other diplomatic missions, such as to [[Iridonia]].<ref name=pm>''[[Phantom Menaces]]''</ref>

Discoveries of Jedi relics, such as [[Jedi armor]] on [[Garn (planet)|Garn]],<ref name=cswd>''[[Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds]]''</ref> lightsabers on Ossus,<ref name=de>''[[Dark Empire]]''</ref> [[Asli Krimsan's holocron]] on [[Vjun]]<ref name=jjk5 /> and [[Arca Jeth's holocron]] on [[Arkania]]<ref name=egas>''[[Essential Guide to Alien Species]]''</ref> added to the Order's knowledge of ancient Jedi practices. Many of these would be implemented, such as pairing up Masters to apprentices and the formation of Jedi clans.<ref name=dn1>''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]''</ref> Not all practices were assimilated, though, such as the Jedi prohibition on marriage, seeing as it was a marriage that was hidden (between Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala) that destroyed the Old Jedi Order in the first place. Instead the new Order allowed marriage, even conducting Jedi ceremonies for Tionne and Kam Solusar, and later in [[19 ABY]], Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade.<ref name=u>''[[Star Wars: Union]]''</ref> Many other Jedi, such as Kirana Ti, Corran Horn, [[Daye Azur-Jamin]] and [[Tyria Sarkin Tainer]], married non Force-sensitives, with their children providing the next generation of Jedi trainees. The stark separation from family that was practiced by the Old Order would also be disregarded, with opportunities for employment and accommodation provided for trainees' families around the Academy.<ref name=dn1 />

===Junior Jedi Academy ([[22 ABY|22]] to [[25 ABY]])===
After his wedding, Luke Skywalker altered the instruction schedule of his Yavin training center to accommodate the training of younger students. In doing so, he was inspired by his former Master, Yoda, who'd taught him that younger students were easier to train.<ref name="tec" /> To this end, he established a [[Junior Jedi Academy]] in [[22 ABY]].<ref name=jjk1>''[[Junior Jedi Knights: The Golden Globe]]''</ref> 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 created by the [[Dark Lord of the Sith|Dark Lord]] [[Exar Kun]] in [[3,997 BBY]] to drain the souls of the trapped Massassi to fuel his powers.<ref name=jjk3>''[[Junior Jedi Knights: Promises]]''</ref> These two Jedi along with [[Tionne Solusar]], [[Uldir Lochett]] and [[R2-D2]] also discovered the holocron of the ancient Jedi [[Asli Krimsan]] at [[Bast Castle]] on [[Vjun]],<ref name=jjk5 /> and Kenobi's lightsaber<ref name=jjk6>''[[Junior Jedi Knights: Kenobi's Blade]]''</ref> and thwarted [[Orloc]]'s attempts to start his own Jedi Order.
[[File:Praxeum battlesm.JPG|thumb|left|200px|The raging battle for [[Yavin 4]] during the [[Battle of the Jedi Praxeum (Shadow Academy Crisis)|assault]] by the [[Shadow Academy]].]]

Later that year, Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker traveled to the [[Unknown Regions]] to locate the wreckage of the disastrous [[Old Republic]] [[Outbound Flight]] expeditionary fleet in an inaccessible 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 honor his late Jedi sister by visiting the wreck and several [[Geroon]]s who 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, who 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.<ref name=sq>''[[Survivor's Quest]]''</ref>

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 [[Darth Caedus|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 by the Solo's close friend [[Tenel Ka]]. The Second Imperium was led by four [[Imperial Guard]]s masquerading as [[Palpatine|Emperor Palpatine]]. During an [[Battle of the Jedi Praxeum (Shadow Academy Crisis)|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.<ref name=yjk:rsa>''[[Young Jedi Knights: The Rise of the Shadow Academy]]''</ref>

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.<ref name=yjk:fda>''[[Young Jedi Knights: The Fall of the Diversity Alliance]]''</ref> 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.<ref name=yjk:ubs>''[[Young Jedi Knights: Under Black Sun]]''</ref>

===Yuuzhan Vong War ([[25 ABY|25]] to [[30 ABY]])===
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{{Quote|The old Jedi order died with the Old Republic. Then there was Luke, and only Luke, and a lot of fumbling to re-create Jedi from what little he knew of them. He did the best he could, and he made mistakes. I was one of them. His generation of Jedi was put together like a rickety space scow, but from it something new has emerged. It's not the old Jedi order, nor should it be. We, Jaina, are the new Jedi order. And this is ''our'' war.|[[Kyp Durron]]|Edge of Victory II: Rebirth}}

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. The Order now numbered at least 100 Jedi, possibly more, with a number of [[Jedi Master]]s actively training new Padawans.

[[File:CorranHornVersusShedaoShai.JPG|thumb|right|200px|[[Corran Horn]] and [[Shedao Shai]] duel for the future of [[Ithor]].]]

However, with the onset of the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]], the Jedi were to face a foe that would rock their Order to its very foundations. Significant public opinion was turned against the Jedi by the invaders with Jedi hunted around the galaxy. However, the Jedi did receive aid from unexpected sources, such as from many [[Priapulin]] who signed up as [[Jedi Auxliary|Jedi Auxiliaries]] to support the Order as the famous [[Charza Kwinn]] had decades earlier.<ref name="G8">{{GamerCite|8|University of Sanbra Guide to Intelligent Life: The Priapulin}}</ref> 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. The number of Jedi was halved and their mindset became far more severe.<ref>''[[The Unifying Force]]''</ref>

===Recovery and renewal ([[30 ABY]] onwards)===
[[File:Luke Swarm War.jpg|thumb|left|[[Grand Master]] [[Luke Skywalker]] during the [[Swarm War]].]]
{{Quote|I don't propose that we place ourselves in seclusion and pass our days meditating on the Force—though that might be the path for some of us. But I do advocate attuning ourselves to the longer view, and reaching out to others who seek to serve the Force.|Luke Skywalker, discussing the Order's future|The Unifying Force}}

Following the Yuuzhan Vong war, the Jedi academy was moved to [[Ossus]], while the [[Jedi High Council (New Jedi Order)|High Council]] relocated to a newly-constructed [[New Jedi Temple|Jedi Temple]] on [[Coruscant]]. During the [[Dark Nest Crisis]] they numbered over 200 Jedi. By the end of the [[Swarm War]], Luke Skywalker officially claimed the title [[Grand Master|Grand Master of the Jedi Order]].

===Second Galactic Civil War ([[40 ABY|40]] to [[41 ABY]])===
{{Quote|As long as Jacen controls the Alliance, there ''is'' no Alliance.|Luke Skywalker|Inferno (novel)}}
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[[File:Jaina vs Caedus.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The fratricidal [[Second Galactic Civil War]]]]
The Jedi Order continued to grow in strength and influence, spreading throughout the galaxy, with the establishment of training enclaves in systems such as [[Corellia]]. As more members were trained and elevated to knighthood, the Council decided to move the majority of masters and knights to Coruscant's Temple; leaving the Ossus Academy open for the training of younglings.

In [[40 ABY]] the galaxy was plunged into the [[Second Galactic Civil War]]. Struggling slightly with the perceived need to side with the [[Galactic Federation of Free Alliances|Galactic Alliance]], the Jedi Order worked as best they could to prevent the situation from escalating. In the midst of this crisis, however, betrayal came from within as the Jedi Knight [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] was seduced to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Caedus. Despite Caedus's control of the Alliance, Luke and the Order made a distinction- they supported the Alliance, but ''not'' an Alliance controlled by Jacen himself. In the aftermath of the [[Battle of Kashyyyk (Second Galactic Civil War)|Battle of Kashyyyk]], the Order declared its neutrality and formed the [[Jedi Coalition]]. Efforts were then begun to remove Caedus from power; though the Order was forced to retreat secretly to Endor, where they established a temporary [[Jedi Outpost|base]]. In [[41 ABY]], Darth Caedus was killed in a duel by his sister on the ''Anakin Solo''. Shortly after the war ended and the galaxy was once again at peace and the Jedi Coalition had been reformed into the New Jedi Order and reunited with the Galactic Alliance. [[Lumiya's Sith]], the last [[Rule of Two|surviving]] remmant of the [[Order of the Sith Lords]] had perished with the arrest of [[Tahiri Veila]], former Jedi Knight and Caedus's Sith apprentice turned informant and, thus the [[Sith]] were once again believed to be extinct. However the Jedi were in a state of despair as many had looked to Jacen for guidance before his fall.

===Political tensions ([[43 ABY]]—)===
{{Quote|You're wrong! You have made your own Order vulnerable. The fate of the Jedi now rests with leaders who are weaker and less experienced than you. That decline will continue until the Order is locked in a hopeless struggle with its government and all but helpless. Then it will die again.|[[Koro Ziil]]|Outcast (novel)}}
In the aftermath of the war, [[Natasi Daala]] rose to the position of [[Chief of State]] of the Alliance and fostered a widespread [[anti-Jedi sentiment]]. Tensions between the Jedi Order and Daala's government reached breaking point over the next two years until, in [[43 ABY]], Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker called all Jedi back to the Temple on Coruscant in response to a dispute between rogue Jedi Knight [[Seff Hellin]] and Daala's security forces.<ref name="MF">''[[Millennium Falcon]]''</ref> A short time later, Jedi Knight [[Valin Horn]] developed a mysterious psychosis which caused him to go on a violent rampage, though he was ultimately stopped by Skywalker. Daala soon had Skywalker [[The Galactic Federation of Free Alliances versus Luke Skywalker|arrested]] for dereliction of duty for failing to prevent Caedus' fall to the dark side and allowed him freedom only in exchange for having him [[Exile (punishment)|exiled]] without means of interfering in the affairs of the Order. Skywalker's son, [[Ben Skywalker]], joined him in his exile, and they embarked on a quest to discover the cause of Caedus' fall to the dark side.<ref name="Outcast">''[[Outcast (novel)|Outcast]]''</ref>

[[File:Luke vs Keshian Sith.JPG|thumb|left|250px|The New Jedi Order face a resurgence of the Sith.]]
Following Skywalker's exile, Council member [[Kenth Hamner]] rose to the position of acting Grand Master, with his policies being more aimed at placating the power-hungry Daala than Skywalker's had been. Indeed, Hamner bowed to Chief Daala's demand that each Jedi be accompanied by a [[Jedi supervisor|supervisor]] handpicked by her office while on active duty; though this order was ultimately overturned in the courts. While Hamner sought to appease Daala he also unofficially sanctioned Jaina Solo's creation of a covert Jedi group, known as [[Darkmeld]], which actively worked to undermine Daala's efforts to take control of the Order.<ref name="Outcast" />

Meanwhile, Horn was [[The Galactic Federation of Free Alliances versus Valin Horn|ordered]] to be encased in carbonite until a cure for the psychosis could be found, at which time he would face trial. Seff Hellin, suffering from the same illness, soon [[Raid on the Armand Isard Correctional Facility|attempted to free]] Horn though he himself was apprehended by the members of Darkmeld who hoped to study his condition without the knowledge of Daala's government.<ref name="Outcast" /> [[Jysella Horn]] later contracted the same illness and was captured by [[Galactic Alliance Security]] after escaping from the Jedi Temple and, like her brother, was frozen in carbonite. [[Natua Wan]], a Falleen Jedi, succumbed to the mysterious illness at the [[Coruscant Livestock Exchange and Exhibition]] and after causing a panic by releasing all the animals, was stopped by Leia Organa Solo, Jaina Solo, and [[Radd Minker]].

It was around this time that the [[Lost Tribe of Sith]] on [[Kesh]] felt Luke Skywalker in the Force after he came into contact with the [[Codex]], and recognized him as the only one who could stop them on their quest to reinstate the [[Sith Empire]]. Upon learning of Skywalker from [[Ship (Sith Meditation Sphere)|Ship]], a [[Sith Meditation Sphere]], they sent out an [[Lost Tribe of Sith strike team|elite strike force]] to kill him.

After Jedi Knights [[Bazel Warv]] and [[Yaqeel Saav'etu]] came down with the psychosis, the Galactic Alliance once again attempted to get their hands on the mad Jedi. They failed when Master Cilghal refused to acknowledge a warrant that Daala obtained by manipulating the courts. While acting Grand Master Hamner was favorable to handing over the Jedi, the Council overruled him and decided to take their prisoners to Shedu Maad which was out of the galactic Alliance's reach. [[Jagged Fel]] and [[Jaina Solo]] then informed them that Daala had recruited [[Mandalorian Supercommando]]s to seize the Jedi and make it look like a group of freelancers trying to gain a [[bounty]]. The Mandalorians were defeated and the Jedi evacuated. During this time, a team of Jedi traveled with a large contingent of press to a secret [[Galactic Alliance Security blockhouse]] where the Horn siblings were being kept. There, they revealed the inequity of Daala's head [[judge]] of the [[Court of Jedi Affairs]], [[Arabelle Lorteli]], and also showed the disrespect with which the carbonite-encased Horn's were being treated by the Galactic Alliance. Shortly after, the Jedi managed to smuggle Saav'etu, Warv, Hellin, and Wan offworld to Shedu Maad.

Soon after, Luke Skywalker and his son were [[Skirmish at Sinkhole Station|attacked]] by the Lost Tribe of the Sith's strike team at [[Sinkhole Station]] in [[the Maw]]. They defeated the Sith, allowing only one [[Sith apprentice|apprentice]], [[Vestara Khai]], to escape. During the battle Luke had put a [[blood trail]] on Khai so that they could track her, in hopes of following her back to her [[homeworld]] and finding the rest of the Sith.

After her humiliation, Daala retaliated by ordering a squad of Mandalorians to attack the Jedi Temple to stop the Jedi resistance. In the aftermath of the Mandalorians' defeat, several high-profile Jedi Masters and Knights had an arrest warrant issued in their names, such as Master Hamner. In [[44 ABY]], when a group of Jedi Masters led by [[Saba Sebatyne]] decided to take a more aggressive stance against Daala in opposition to Hamner's more lenient policy, the Council dismissed him. When Hamner opposed the launch of [[Stealth X]] [[starfighter]]s to help the Skywalkers, which he viewed as treason against the Order and the Alliance, Sebatyne [[Skirmish in the Operations Hangar|dueled]] and killed him, and despite reluctance from her guilt over having killed a fellow Master, Sebatyne accepted the position of Grand Master until Skywalker's return from exile.

===Crisis and revival (c.[[130 ABY]] to [[138 ABY]])===
[[File:AmbushOnDaluuj-SWL2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Jedi fighting during the [[Third Jedi Purge]].]]
Over the next 90 years, both the Jedi and another new Sith threat would rise greatly in number. The foundations of the Jedi Order would once again be shaken almost to collapse. By around 130 ABY, the [[One Sith]] emerged from the shadows and into open conflict with the Jedi. With the dissolution of the [[Galactic Federation of Free Alliances|Galactic Alliance]], and the Sith joining forces with the new [[Fel Empire|Galactic Empire]], the Jedi were steadily losing ground against their foe. The final stroke by the Sith was an [[Massacre at Ossus|all-out attack]] on the temple at [[Ossus]]. Because the Sith attacked before all of them could arrive, about half of the Jedi survived the attack. The Order went into hiding, pursued by both the Sith and by bounty hunters eager to claim the substantial rewards offered for capture of live Jedi. [[Cade Skywalker]], having turned away from his heritage and Jedi training, became a bounty hunter and went so far as to turn in one of his fellow Jedi.

Few Jedi at Ossus survived Krayt's purge. [[Ahn Rasi Tuum]], [[Hosk Trey'lis]], and an [[Unidentified Human Jedi (Daluuj)|unnamed Human woman]] were subsequently killed by the Sith in the [[Third Jedi Purge|ensuing years]], with another killed by the Anzati bounty hunter [[Sint]]. Presumably the rest remained in hiding, were killed or captured by the Empire, or managed to find sanctuary with the [[Galactic Alliance Remnant]]. Many members of the order went to the [[Hidden Temple]] and took refuge there until discovered by Cade Skywalker. Due to a [[Azlyn Rae|double agent]], the [[Imperial Knight]]s learned of the Temple's location and came to negotiate with the remains of the Jedi Council for an alliance with the [[Empire-in-exile|Empire they serve]].<ref name:"HT1">''[[Star Wars Legacy 25: The Hidden Temple, Part 1]]''</ref> Having seen the inner workings and conflicts amongst the Sith, Skywalker suggested they put together a squad to kill Darth Krayt, figuring the Sith would collapse upon themselves with no uniting leader to keep them in line. The Council agreed to discuss an alliance with Fel, but rejected Skywalker's assassination plan.<ref name:"HT2">''[[Star Wars Legacy 26: The Hidden Temple, Part 2]]''</ref> Skywalker and his allies went through with the plan, and their mission ended in Krayt's death. More Jedi would eventually come out of hiding and join in the war against Krayt's Empire as it progressed.<ref name="LegVector">''[[Star Wars Legacy: Vector]]''</ref> The Jedi later aided in the [[Evacuation of Dac]].<ref name="Leg47" />
{{Spoiler|Star Wars: Legacy—War 6}}
The Third Jedi Purge came to an end when the [[Battle of Coruscant (Second Imperial Civil War)|Battle of Coruscant]] was won by the allied forces of the [[Jedi]], the [[Galactic Alliance Remnant]] and the [[Empire-in-exile|Fel loyalists]]. With Darth Krayt's death at the hands of the Jedi Cade Skywalker and the subsequent collapse of the Galactic Empire, the Jedi Order ultimately emerged intact for the most part and was able to assume its former place in the Galaxy once more. [[Jedi Master]] [[K'Kruhk]], formerly of the [[Jedi Order|original Jedi Order]] and a member of the [[Jedi High Council (New Jedi Order)|Jedi Council]], joined with [[Admiral]] [[Gar Stazi]] and [[Emperor|Empress]] [[Marasiah Fel]] to create the [[Galactic Federation Triumvirate]]. Together, the three new [[Triumvirate (Galactic Alliance)|triumvirs]] would establish their collective rule over a [[The Galaxy|unified galaxy]]. The [[One Sith]], despite failing to complete the Jedi Purge or win the [[Second Imperial Civil War]], survived the death of their founder and fled into hiding. Under the leadership of [[Darth Nihl]], the remaining Sith sought to destroy the new order from within by infiltrating every [[Planet|planetary]] government in the galaxy.<ref name="LegWar6">''[[Star Wars: Legacy—War 6]]''</ref>
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==Learning and teaching the ways of the Force==
===Philosophies===
{{Quote|I don't believe the training of a true Jedi comes from listening to lectures. I want to teach you how to learn action, how to do things, not just think about them. There is no try.|Luke Skywalker|Young Jedi Knights: Heirs of the Force}}
[[File:Training.JPG|thumb|left|A [[Jedi trainer]] instructing some students in [[telekinesis]].]]

In the New Jedi Order emphasis was placed on learning through experience. While formal classes were held, students were also asked to establish their own training programs, developing their own individual approaches to the Force. Initially, not all students were satisfied with this model, most notably [[Corran Horn]] who eventually left the Order (only to return some time later).

Luke Skywalker oversaw the teaching, but did also delegate teaching responsibilities to students so-called [[Jedi trainer]]s who were specifically skilled at certain areas. Thus, for example [[Kam Solusar]] would instruct his fellow students in [[lightsaber combat]] in the early days of the New Jedi Order, while Corran Horn, who used to be a law enforcer with [[CorSec]] would teach unarmed combat and self-defense. [[Tionne]] would specialize in Jedi lore and pass on her knowledge to her fellow students.

[[File:Trainer.JPG|thumb|right|A [[Jedi trainer]] in the New Jedi Order.]]

With time there were enough skilled [[Jedi Knight]]s, and some [[Jedi Master]]s, in the new order to start approximating the Master-[[Padawan]] model of the Old Order. However, since there were still only few members of the New Order, Masters would be assigned multiple students. In accordance with the learning-by-doing principle, students would accompany Masters on missions to gain experience and they would sometimes be sent on missions on their own. One student who benefited particularly much from this model, was [[Jaden Korr]] who was apprenticed to Katarn. Katarn's other student, [[Rosh Penin]], however was unhappy with this model, and was once heard complaining to a fellow [[Jedi student]] that he felt his talents were not fostered and that he felt Katarn was holding him back. Korr rose to become one of the most skilled Knights of the New Order while Penin turned to the dark side, but was eventually redeemed, having learned a lesson about patience.

The teachings of the New Jedi Order differed from those of the Old in several ways, and were closer to those practiced by the Jedi before the Great Sith War. Jedi were allowed to marry and have families, and each Jedi Master could train multiple apprentices. Jedi were allowed to use conventional weapons and armor besides their lightsabers, and the wearing of the Jedi robes, while popular, was no longer mandatory. For a long time, the Order was also much less centrally controlled, with each Jedi being given much greater personal freedom and responsibility.

===Lightsaber construction===
{{Quote|Dual-phase blades seem to be something of a fad among Jedi at certain points.|Luke Skywalker|I, Jedi}}

The construction of lightsabers in the new Order differed from that of the old in many ways. Luke Skywalker discovered records in Obi-Wan Kenobi's hut on Tatooine on how to construct lightsabers that he used himself, and would later introduce to his students. Some other techniques were also recovered by the Jedi, sometimes in less than desirable ways. The malevolent spirit of Exar Kun guided Gantoris in making a [[dual-phase lightsaber]], capable of extending dramatically in length when secondary crystals aligned. Skywalker discovered this, almost at the cost of his life, when the rogue student challenged him to a lightsaber duel.<ref name=da /> Corran Horn constructed a similar lightsaber independently, using a process obtained from his (step)-grandfather, [[Rostek Horn]].<ref name=ij /> Occasionally, exceptional students, such as Jaden Korr, were able to construct lightsabers on their own, without formal instruction.<ref name=jkja /> Luke Skywalker also constructed a shorter lightsaber, known as a [[shoto]], to fight Lumiya during the Nagai-Tof War.<ref name=m96 /> This was designed to counteract the dual nature of her weapon, known as a [[lightwhip]]. Skywalker kept this weapon for many years, and taught other Jedi Masters, such as his wife Mara, how to construct them.<ref name=lotf3>''[[Tempest (novel)|Tempest]]''</ref>

[[File:Lightsaber Tenel Ka.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Tenel Ka's unique lightsaber hilt.]]

One problem faced by the new Jedi Order was a shortage of high quality [[Lightsaber crystal|crystals]], such as was available to the old Jedi Order. Sacred sites such as [[Ilum]] or the [[Adega system]] were lost to the Jedi and so other sources had to be sought out, with accompanying danger. [[Imperial Advisor]] [[Bregius Golthan]] once tried to lure Skywalker into a trap on the planet [[Canyon]], claiming a source of adequate crystals had been found. However, Luke sent NRI agents in his stead, who managed to escape the trap.<ref name="bcb">''[[Black Curs Blues]]''</ref> On another occasion, Skywalker traveled to the planet [[Halm (planet)|Halm]] to recover some [[adegan crystal]]s from its famous mines. There, he was forced to fight off Imperial opposition who were also after the crystals.<ref name=ys>''[[Star Wars: Yoda Stories]]''</ref> The lack of a single substantial source of lightsaber crystals resulted in a greater variety types used, and consequently, greater blade coloration. Some of the unusual sources included a shard of the [[Kaiburr crystal]] used in Luke Skywalker's saber,<ref name=tec /> a jewel from a Hapan crown in Tenel Ka's saber,<ref name=yjk4>''[[Young Jedi Knights: Lightsabers]]''</ref> [[Corusca gem]]s from the gas giant Yavin used in those of Gantoris<ref name=da /> and Jacen Solo,<ref name=yjk4 /> and a synthetically manufactured crystal used in Jaina Solo's saber<ref name=yjk4 />—making use of a process once considered to be a Sith technique.

Furthermore, Jedi were encouraged to make their handles more personal, reflecting both their personalities and their upbringing. Examples of this included Cilghal's, which was silvery and smooth, with subtle indentations common among [[Mon Calamari]] technology,<ref name=ds /> Tionne's, that used a [[spiral mist-horn]],<ref name="jjk5" /> and that of Tenel Ka, which was fashioned from a [[rancor]] tooth.<ref name=yjk4 /> An odd example of this diversity was Corran Horn's first saber, constructed in haste from the throttle of a [[speeder bike]].<ref name=ij />

[[File:Kam spars Corran.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Kam Solusar]] and [[Corran Horn]] spar at the [[Jedi Headquarters]].]]

===Lightsaber training===
{{Quote|You are learning to focus on precision rather than brute strength, to anticipate my moves and your own reactions using the Force.|[[Tionne Solusar]]|Young Jedi Knights: Darkest Knight}}

Following the [[Great Jedi Purge]], many of the old lightsaber forms used by the [[Old Jedi Order]] were lost and Luke had received little in the way of formal training. However, with the foundation of the [[Jedi Academy]] on [[Yavin 4]] and the first intake of students, the path to rediscovering these began. [[Kam Solusar]] taught the first students the basic principals of fencing, possibly elements of [[Shii-Cho]], upon which all [[lightsaber combat]] is based. More specifically, he taught them the [[Three Rings of Defense]].<ref name=ij />

Along with Kam's own knowledge, there may have been additional teachings from the [[Jensaarai]], their founders being Jedi Knights and [[Padawan]]s they would likely still have knowledge on the original lightsaber forms used by the Jedi of old. Add to this the knowledge gained by [[Kyle Katarn]], who had been instructed in fencing while he studied at the academy on [[Carida]] and was later taught [[lightsaber combat]] by the spirits of [[Qu Rahn]] and [[Tal (Human)|Tal]], and by [[14 ABY]] the order had developed its own styles of combat, complete with their own [[Wikipedia:Kata|Katas]] and maneuvers. Divided into [[Medium style]], [[Fast style]] and [[Strong style]], the forms of combat which were finally developed and refined seem to be an amalgamation of the old and the new, further bridging the [[Old Jedi Order]] with the new. By [[14 ABY]], the Academy also introduced some [[training lightsaber|training sabers]], although students such as [[Rosh Penin]] derided their use.<ref name=jkja /> By [[35 ABY]], students who had constructed their first Lightsabers were usually just known as apprentices. The original Lightsaber Forms were rediscovered in the great Holocron taught by Cin Drallig.

The New Jedi Order also restored the title of [[Jedi Battlemaster]], which was bestowed on Kyle Katarn.<ref name="dfs">''[[Dark Forces Saga]]''</ref>

==Roster of the New Jedi Order==
{{Quote|You must learn what you can, here and elsewhere. You will become Paladins of the New Republic. Champions of the Force.|Luke Skywalker to a gathering of Jedi Knights|Jedi Academy: Leviathan}}

As of [[138 ABY]]: 
(&dagger;=confirmed death); 
(ω=Also a member of original [[Jedi Order]])

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====Grand Masters====
*[[Luke Skywalker]] &dagger;
*[[Kenth Hamner]] &dagger; {{C|acting during Luke's exile}}
*[[Saba Sebatyne]] {{C|acting during Luke's exile}}

====Jedi High Council members====
*[[Barratk'l]]
*[[Cilghal]]
*[[Kyp Durron]]
*[[Corran Horn]]
*[[Mara Jade Skywalker]] &dagger;
*[[Kyle Katarn]]
*[[Tresina Lobi]] &dagger;
*[[Octa Ramis]]
*[[Kam Solusar]]
*[[Tionne Solusar]]
*[[Kol Skywalker]] &dagger;
*[[T'ra Saa]] &dagger; ω
*[[Tili Qua]]
*[[K'Kruhk]] ω

====Masters====
*[[Aqinos]] &dagger; ω
*[[Te Corso]] &dagger;
*[[Asaak Dan]]
*[[Drok]] &dagger;
*[[Sayar Dun'La]] &dagger;
*[[Eelysa]] &dagger;
*[[Hira]] &dagger;
*[[Ikrit]] &dagger; ω
*[[Lar Le'Ung]] &dagger;
*[[Mai (Jedi)|Mai]]
*[[Wolf Sazen]] &dagger;
*[[Rawk|Nat Skywalker]] &dagger;
*[[Streen]]
*[[Tobias Sun]]
*[[Kirana Ti]]
*[[Rasi Tuum]]
*[[Shado Vao]]
*[[X2]]
*[[Jedi Master (individual)|Unidentified Human Jedi Master 1]]
*[[Jedi (individual)|Unidentified Human Jedi Master 2]]

====Knights====
*[[Alfi]] &dagger;
*[[Turi Altamik]]
*[[Avinoam Arelis]]
*[[Tash Arranda]]
*[[Zak Arranda]]
*[[Daye Azur-Jamin]]
*[[Tam Azur-Jamin]]
*[[Kunor Bann]]
*[[Eryl Besa]] &dagger;
*[[Empatojayos Brand]] &dagger; ω
*[[Yantahar Bwua'tu]]
*[[Hivrekh'wao'Cheklev]]
*[[Chitter]]
*[[Daeshara'cor]] &dagger;
*[[Damaya]]
*[[Nelani Dinn]] &dagger;
*[[Dordi]]
*[[Dorsk 81]] &dagger;
*[[Dorsk 82]] &dagger;
*[[Seha Dorvald]]
*[[Jovan Drark]] &dagger;
*[[Fahjay]]
*[[Keyan Farlander]]
*[[Swilja Fenn]] &dagger;
*[[Gerrick]]
*[[Klin-Fa Gi]]
*[[Bela Hara]] &dagger;
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*[[Krasov Hara]] &dagger;
*[[Harlan]]
*[[Hedda]] &dagger;
*[[Seff Hellin]]
*[[Valin Horn]]
*[[Jysella Horn]]
*[[Kolir Hu'lya]]
*[[Ilum (Jedi)|Ilum]] ω
*[[Tresk Im'nel]]
*[[Seyyerin Itoklo]] &dagger;
*[[Jedi Trainer]]
*[[Jerga]] &dagger;
*[[Jaden Korr]]
*[[Jorallen]]
*[[Waxarn Kel]]
*[[Ulaha Kore]] &dagger;
*[[Kubariet]] &dagger;
*[[Lassin]] &dagger;
*[[Drif Lij]] &dagger;
*[[Loli]] &dagger;
*[[Lowbacca]]
*[[Lusa]] &dagger;
*[[Tensh Ly'alu]]
*[[Lyric]] &dagger;
*[[Madurrin]]
*[[Nichos Marr]] &dagger; ω
*[[Markre Medjev]]
*[[Cray Mingla]] &dagger;
*[[Radd Minker]]
*[[Thann Mithric]] &dagger;
*[[Kelbis Nu]] &dagger;
*[[Ozlo]] &dagger;
*[[Rosh Penin]]
*[[Raltharan]]
*[[Numa Rar]] &dagger;
*[[Vaala Razelle]]
*[[Miko Reglia]] &dagger;
*[[Ganner Rhysode]] &dagger;
*[[Sothais Saar]]
*[[Yaqeel Saav'etu]]
*[[Tesar Sebatyne]]
*[[Toile Senn]] &dagger;
*[[Wurth Skidder]] &dagger;
*[[Ben Skywalker]]
*[[Corask Slen'da]]
*[[Anakin Solo]] &dagger;
*[[Jaina Solo]]
*[[Leia Organa Solo]]
*[[Doran Sarkin-Tainer]]
*[[Tyria Sarkin Tainer]]
*[[Tekli]]
*[[Raynar Thul]]
*[[Sanola Ti]]
*[[Hosk Trey'lis]] &dagger;
*[[Thrynni Vae]] &dagger;
*[[Ahn Rasi Tuum]] &dagger;
*[[Zho Rasi Tuum]]
*[[Twool]] &dagger;
*[[Shul Vaal]]
*[[Vis'l]] &dagger;
*[[Vima-Da-Boda]] ω
*[[Natua Wan]]
*[[Bazel Warv]]
*[[Izal Waz]]
*[[Wilyem]]
*[[Wonetun]]
*[[Yabeley]] &dagger;
*[[Jem Ysanna]] &dagger;
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*[[Rayf Ysanna]] &dagger;
*[[Yuledan]]
*[[Zal]]
*[[Tiu Zax]]
*[[Zekk]]
*[[Unidentified Codru-Ji Jedi]]
*[[Darth Maladi's father|Unidentified Devaronian Jedi]] &dagger;
*[[Unidentified Ewok Jedi]]
*[[Unidentified Human Jedi (Daluuj)|Unidentified Human Jedi]] &dagger;
*[[Twi'lek Jedi (New Jedi Order)|Unidentified Twi'lek Jedi]]

====Apprentices, students, and Padawans====
*[[Kani Asari]] &dagger;
*[[Derek]]
*[[Dorsk 83]]
*[[Finn Galfridian]]
*[[Gantoris]] &dagger;
*[[Bandy Geffer]]
*[[Marr Idi-Shael]]
*[[Josat]]
*[[Romor]]
*[[Sannah]]
*[[Havet Storm]] &dagger;
*[[Vekki]]
*[[Ellu Viss]]
*[[Jedi student|Unidentified Jedi student]]
*[[Orange Jedi student]]
*[[Brown Jedi student]]
*[[Gray Jedi student]]
*[[Unidentified Bith Jedi (13 ABY)|Unidentified Bith Jedi]]
*[[Unidentified Defel Jedi]]
*[[Unidentified Kitonak Jedi]]
*[[Unidentified Rodian Jedi (NJO)|Unidentified Rodian Jedi]]
*[[Unidentified Squib Jedi]]
*[[Unidentified Wookiee Jedi]]
*[[Unidentified avian Jedi trainee]]
*[[Unidentified reptilian Jedi trainee]]

====Younglings====
*[[Allana Solo]] {{C|Informal}}
*[[Raharra Lapti]]
*[[Unidentified Mon Calamari youngling]]
*[[Unidentified Nautolan youngling]]
*[[Unidentified Togruta youngling]]
*Five unidentified younglings from the [[Jedi Enclave (Corellia)|Corellian Jedi enclave]]

====Resigned Jedi====
*[[Anja Gallandro]] {{C|Had no Force ability}}
*[[Tenel Ka Djo]] {{C|turned [[Queen Mother]]}}
*[[Uldir Lochett]] {{C|Had too little Force ability}}
*[[Callista Ming]] &dagger; ω {{C|Lost her Force ability}}
*[[Qwallo Mode]] &dagger; {{C|turned [[Mind Walkers|Mind Walker]]}}
*[[Danni Quee]] {{C|remained on [[Zonama Sekot]]}}
*[[Azlyn Rae]] {{C|turned [[Imperial Knight]]}}
*[[Melari Ruxon]] {{C|disagrees with the High Council}}
*[[Cade Skywalker]] {{C|turned [[Bounty hunter]]}}
*[[Dyon Stadd]] &dagger; {{C|Had too little Force ability}}
*[[Reeqo Swen]] {{C|disagrees with the High Council}}
*[[Tahiri Veila]] {{C|turned Bounty Hunter}}

====Fallen Jedi====
*[[Brakiss]] &dagger;
*[[Desann]] &dagger;
*[[Bey Gandan]] &dagger;
*[[Dal Konur]]
*[[Kueller|Dolph Kueller]] &dagger;
*[[Luxum (Jedi)|Luxum]] &dagger; ω
*[[Alema Rar]] &dagger;
*[[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] &dagger;

====Honorary members====
*[[Han Solo]]
*[[Mirax Terrik Horn]]
|}
==Species represented in the Jedi Order==
{{Quote|There's nothing in Jedi teachings that favors either male or female—or even Human for that matter.|Luke Skywalker in a lecture to a number of young Jedi Knights|Young Jedi Knights: Shadow Academy}}

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*[[Arcona]]
*[[Anx]]
*[[Barabel]]
*[[Bith]]
*[[Bothan]]
*[[Brubb]]
*[[Cathar]]
*[[Cerean]]
*[[Cha'a]]
*[[Chadra-Fan]]
*[[Chev]]
*[[Chironian]]
*[[Chistori]]
*[[Chuhkyvi]]<ref name="GMR4">In the ''[[University of Sanbra Guide to Intelligent Life: The Marvel Series]]'' it states that "Following in the lead of their folk hero, Kiro, some young Chuhkyvi have left their homeworld and can be found as scouts, nobles, and Jedi." Therefore, at least one Chuhkyvi became a Jedi.</ref>
*[[Codru-Ji]]
*[[Defel]]
*[[Devaronian]]
*[[Duros]]
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*[[Elomin]]
*[[Etti]]
*[[Falleen]]
*[[Gamorrean]]
*[[Human]]
*[[Ithorian]]
*[[Jenet]]
*[[Nikto|Kadas'sa'Nikto]]
*[[Kel Dor]]
*[[Khommite]]
*[[Kitonak]]
*[[Klatooinian]]
*[[Kushiban]]
*[[Melodie]]
*[[Mon Calamari]]
*[[Nautolan]]
*[[Neti]]
*[[Omwati]]
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[[File:StudentGathering.JPG|thumb|right|200px|A gathering of Jedi students on [[Yavin 4]]]][[File:JediCantina.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Some Jedi relax in the [[Praxeum]] mess hall]]
*[[Pau'an]]
*[[Quarren]]
*[[Ramoan]]
*[[Rodian]]
*[[Shard]]
*[[Shistavanen]]
*[[Squib]]
*[[Sunesi]]
*[[Talz]]
*[[Togruta]]
*[[Twi'lek]]
*[[Vrassh]]<ref name=sp>''[[Specter of the Past]]''</ref>
*[[Whiphid]]
*[[Wookiee]]
*[[Ysanna]]
*[[Yuzzem]]
*[[Zabrak]]
|}
==Jedi installations across the galaxy==
{{Quote|The Jedi stand in place of gods in the New Republic. They are looked to as surrogate parents, gifted with vast abilities that legend further magnifies beyond all reason; their purpose is to fight and die for the New Republic’s debased, infidel perversions of truth and justice.|[[Nom Anor]]|Traitor}}
*'''[[Yavin 4]] [[Jedi Praxeum|Praxeum]]'''; the main training facility from [[11 ABY]] through to its destruction in [[26 ABY]]. This location also contained the [[Yavin training grounds]].
*'''[[Coruscant]] [[Jedi Headquarters]]'''; an administrative facility in the heart of the Republic, a smaller Jedi facility was maintained here. Another Jedi training facility was established on the Coruscant moon, '''[[Centax-2]]'''.
*'''[[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.
*'''[[Jedi Praxeum (Ossus)|Ossus Jedi Academy]]'''; after the [[Yuuzhan Vong war]], this facility was established to replace the lost Praxeum on [[Yavin 4]]. It fell under the Empire and the Sith in 130 ABY, two days after the fall of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.
*'''[[Corellia]] [[Jedi enclave (Corellia)|Jedi enclave]]'''; a small Jedi training center established some time between the Yuuzhan Vong war and [[40 ABY]], which was run by [[Corran Horn]].
*''' Jedi Praxeum on Danthomir; Established sometime between the Yuuzhan Vong war and 40 ABY.
*'''[[Coruscant]] [[New Jedi Temple|Jedi Temple]]'''; a pyramid of transparisteel which served as a successor to the former Jedi Headquarters building. It fell under the Empire and the Sith in 130 ABY. It was returned to the Jedi in 138 ABY.
*'''[[Sanctuary Moon]] [[Jedi Outpost|base]]'''; established as a temporary academy while fighting the Galactic Alliance.
*'''[[Shedu Maad]]'''; used as a hidden base for the Jedi after evacuation of Endor, and later as a '''[[Jedi Academy (Shedu Maad)|Jedi academy]]''' established after the [[Second Galactic Civil War]] which was still in use as of [[44 ABY]].
*'''The [[Hidden Temple]]'''; a secret haven dating from the time of the [[Great Jedi Purge]].

==New Jedi Order affiliated ships==
[[File:Celador Sash.JPG|thumb|right|150px|The ''[[Celador Sash]]'', a Jedi freighter.]]

To function adequately across [[the galaxy]], the New Jedi Order needed a number of [[starships]] to deliver its [[Jedi Knight|Knights]] into position. These ships came from a number of sources: some the [[New Republic]] supplied, such as [[XJ X-wing starfighter|XJ X-wings]], or [[StealthX]] starfighters. Others were donated or acquired from private sources. ''[[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 ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' and ''[[Errant Venture]]''. During the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]], a number of used ships were acquired by the [[Praxeum]] to anonymously deliver the Jedi, as many of their starships had become well known throughout the galaxy. ''[[Lady Starstorm]]'' was one such ship. After many years, the StealthX fighter would be replaced by their new successors: the X-83 TwinTail starfighter.

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====Capital Ships====
*''[[Errant Venture]]'' - [[Imperial II-class Star Destroyer|''Imperial II''-class Star Destroyer]]
*''[[Off Chance]]'' - [[CR90 Corellian Corvette]]

====Freighters====
*''[[Celador Sash]]'' - twin-hulled [[transport]]
*''[[Dalliance]]'' - [[YT-1210]] [[freighter]]
*''[[Durastar]]''
*''[[Jade Sabre]]'' - modified [[shuttle]] {{C|destroyed}}
*''[[Jade Shadow]]'' - modified [[Horizon-class Star Yacht|''Horizon''-class Star Yacht]]
*''[[Lady Starstorm]]'' - [[YV-100]] [[light freighter]]
*''[[Lightning Rod]]''
*''[[Lore Seeker]]'' - [[Jemlaat-class yacht|''Jemlaat''-class yacht]]
*''[[Lucre]]'' - transport ship
*''[[Millennium Falcon]]'' - [[YT-1300|YT-1300 freighter]]
*''[[Moldy Crow]]'' - [[HWK-290]] light freighter {{C|destroyed}}
*''[[No Luck Required]]'' - [[YZ-775]] medium transport
*''[[Pulsar Skate (Baudo-class star yacht)|Pulsar Skate]]'' - [[Baudo-class star yacht]]
*''[[Raven's Claw]]'' - light carrier
*''[[Rock Dragon]]'' - [[Hapan]] passenger ship
*''[[Shadow Chaser]]'' - [[Quantum-crystalline armor|quantum-armored]] starship
*''[[Star Reamer]]'' - [[Damorian Manufacturing Corporation|Damorian]] medium transport
*''[[Sunrider]]'' - small transport ship {{C|destroyed}}
*''[[Sureshot]]'' - [[YT-1300|YT-1300 freighter]] {{C|destroyed}}
*''[[Tinmolok]]'' - [[Marl-class heavy freighter|''Marl''-class heavy freighter]]
*[[X-23 StarWorker]]

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====Medium Ships====
*''[[Big Eye]]'' - [[Skipray Blastboat]]
*''[[Courage (blastboat)|Courage]]'' - [[Skipray Blastboat]]
*''[[Hunter's Luck]]''
*''[[Huntbird]]'' - [[Explorer-cruiser]] {{C|abandoned}}
*''[[Jedi Explorer]]'' - two-person starship {{C|destroyed}}
*''[[Jedi Explorer II]]'' - two-person starship
*''[[Jolly Man]]'' - [[Skipray Blastboat]]
*[[Lambda-class shuttle|''Lambda''-class shuttles]]
*''[[Sundance]]' - light explorer vessel
*[[T-23 Skyhopper]]
*''[[Yavin Runner II]]'' - [[shuttle]]
*[[Kirana Ti's starship]]
*[[J-1 shuttle]]

====Fighters====
*[[ChaseX|ChaseX starfighters]]
*''[[Crystal (Z-95)|Crystal]]'' {{C|[[Z-95 Headhunter]]}}
*[[E-Wing]]s
*[[I-7 Howlrunner]]s
*''[[Far Wanderer]]'' {{C|Z-95 Headhunter}}
*[[StealthX|StealthX starfighters]]
*[[XJ X-wing starfighter]]s
*[[Z-95 Headhunter]]s
*[[X-83 TwinTail starfighter]]s
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==[[Squadron]]s==
Throughout the many wars the Jedi became involved in they mobilized several starfighter squadrons. Although they were not entirely made up of Jedi pilots they were directly associated with the order.
*[[Dark Sword squadron]]
*[[Hardpoint Squadron]]
*[[Kyp's Dozen]]
*[[Night Blades]]
*[[Rakehell Squadron]]
*[[Red Sword Flight]]
*[[Saber Squadron (Eclipse)|Saber Squadron]]
*[[Shadow Saber squadron]]
*[[Shocker Squadron]]
*[[StealthX wing]]
*[[Twin Suns Squadron]]
*[[Wild Knights]]

==Appearances==
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*''[[Star Wars Purge: Seconds to Die]]'' {{Vision|[[Sha Koon]]}}
*''[[Splinter of the Mind's Eye]]''
*''[[Star Wars: Yoda Stories]]'' {{Nc}}
*''[[Star Wars Annual 3: The Apprentice]]''
*''[[The Truce at Bakura]]''
*{{Journal|8|Black Curs Blues}}
*''[[Star Wars 92: The Dream]]''
*''[[Star Wars 96: Duel With a Dark Lady]]''
*''[[Phantom Menaces]]'' {{Nc}}
*''[[The Courtship of Princess Leia]]''
*''[[Jedi Search]]'' {{C|First formal appearance}}
*{{Journal|15|Firestorm (short story)|Firestorm}}
*''[[Dark Apprentice]]''
*''[[Champions of the Force]]''
*''[[I, Jedi]]''
*''[[Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast]]''
*''[[Jedi Academy: Leviathan]]''
*''[[Children of the Jedi]]''
*''[[Simple Tricks]]''
*''[[Darksaber]]''
*''[[Planet of Twilight]]''
*''[[The Crystal Star]]''
*''[[Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy]]''
*''[[Before the Storm]]''
*''[[Shield of Lies]]''
*''[[Tyrant's Test]]''
*''[[The New Rebellion]]''
*''[[Ambush at Corellia]]''
*''[[Assault at Selonia]]''
*''[[Showdown at Centerpoint]]''
*''[[Specter of the Past]]''
*''[[Vision of the Future]]''
*''[[Junior Jedi Knights: The Golden Globe]]''
*''[[Junior Jedi Knights: Lyric's World]]''
*''[[Junior Jedi Knights: Promises]]''
*''[[Junior Jedi Knights: Anakin's Quest]]''
*''[[Junior Jedi Knights: Vader's Fortress]]''
*''[[Junior Jedi Knights: Kenobi's Blade]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Heirs of the Force]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Shadow Academy]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: The Lost Ones]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Lightsabers]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Darkest Knight]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Jedi Under Siege]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Shards of Alderaan]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Diversity Alliance]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Delusions of Grandeur]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Jedi Bounty]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: The Emperor's Plague]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Return to Ord Mantell]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Trouble on Cloud City]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: Crisis at Crystal Reef]]''
*''[[Boba Fett: A Practical Man]]''
*''[[Vector Prime (novel)|Vector Prime]]''
*''[[Star Wars: Invasion]]''
*''[[Dark Tide I: Onslaught]]''
*''[[Dark Tide II: Ruin]]''
*''[[Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial]]''
*''[[Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse]]''
*''[[Balance Point]]''
*''[[Recovery (e-book)|Recovery]]''
*''[[Edge of Victory I: Conquest]]''
*''[[Edge of Victory II: Rebirth]]''
*''[[Emissary of the Void]]''
*''[[Star by Star]]''
*''[[Dark Journey]]''
*''[[The Apprentice (short story)|The Apprentice]]''
*''[[Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream]]''
*''[[Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand]]''
*''[[Traitor]]''
*''[[Destiny's Way]]''
*''[[Ylesia (e-book)|Ylesia]]''
*''[[Force Heretic I: Remnant]]''
*''[[Force Heretic II: Refugee]]''
*{{InsiderCite|75|Or Die Trying}}
*''[[Force Heretic III: Reunion]]''
*''[[The Final Prophecy]]''
*''[[The Unifying Force]]''
*''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]''
*''[[Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen]]''
*''[[Dark Nest III: The Swarm War]]''
*''[[Betrayal]]''
*''[[Bloodlines]]''
*''[[Tempest (novel)|Tempest]]''
*''[[Exile (novel)|Exile]]''
*''[[Sacrifice]]''
*''[[Inferno (novel)|Inferno]]''
*''[[Fury]]''
*''[[Revelation]]''
*''[[Invincible (novel)|Invincible]]''
*''[[Crosscurrent]]''
*''[[Riptide (novel)|Riptide]]''
*''[[Millennium Falcon (novel)|Millennium Falcon]]''
*''[[Outcast (novel)|Outcast]]''
*''[[Omen (novel)|Omen]]''
*''[[Abyss (novel)|Abyss]]''
*''[[Backlash]]''
*''[[Allies]]''
*''[[Vortex (novel)|Vortex]]''
*''[[Conviction]]''
*''[[Ascension]]''
*''[[Apocalypse]]''
*''[[Star Wars: Legacy]]''
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==Sources==
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*''[[Star Wars Gamemaster Screen]]''
*''[[The Jedi Academy Sourcebook]]''
*''[[The Essential Chronology]]''
*''[[The Essential Guide to Characters]]''
*''[[The Essential Guide to Alien Species]]''
*''[[The New Essential Chronology]]
*''[[The New Essential Guide to Characters]]''
*''[[Power of the Jedi Sourcebook]]''
*''[[New Jedi Order Sourcebook]]''
*{{WizardsCite|text=Making a Full Recovery|int=Making a Full Recovery|url=default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20021003recovery}}
*''[[Who's Who in the New Jedi Order]]''
*''[[Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena]]''
*{{WizardsCite|text=The Dark Forces Saga|int=The Dark Forces Saga|url=default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20050407a}}
*{{WizardsCite|text=Korriban: Planet of Lost Souls|int=Korriban: Planet of Lost Souls|url=default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20031002korriban}}
*{{WizardsCite|text=Byss and the Deep Core, Part 3|int=Byss and the Deep Core|url=default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20050421planet3}}
*{{GamerCite|1|University of Sanbra Guide to Intelligent Life: The Marvel Series}}
*''[[Polyhedron 108]]''
*''[[Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide]]''
*{{InsiderCite|102|A Long Time Ago….}}
*{{GamerCite|7|Bartyn's Landing (article)|Bartyn's Landing}}
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[The Unknown Regions]]''
*''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''
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==Notes and references==
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{{History Jedi}}

[[Category:Galactic Alliance organizations]]
[[Category:Law enforcement]]
[[Category:New Jedi Order| ]]
[[Category:Secret societies]]

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[[es:Nueva Orden Jedi]]
[[it:Nuovo Ordine Jedi]]
[[pl:Nowy Zakon Jedi]]
[[pt:Nova Ordem Jedi]]
[[ru:Новый Орден джедаев]]
[[fi:Uusi jediritarikunta]]

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*[[Jedi Order]]
*[[Orders of the Sith]]
*[[The Path of Baadu ]]
*[[Teepo Paladins ]]
*[[Monks of Shimura ]]
*[[The Aiki Order ]]
*[[The Shadow Dragons]]
*[[Witches of Dathomir]]
*[[Baran Do]]
*[[Jensaarai]]
*[[Ki'ardi]]
*[[Matukai]]
*[[Thade Akarat]]
*[[Aing-Ti Monks]]
*[[Cerean Ner Yan]]
*[[Jal Shey]]
*[[Nuns of G'aav'aar'oon]]
*[[Sorcerers of Tund]]
*[[Ta-Ree Ascended]]
*[[Tyia]]
*[[Van Lowan]]
*[[Ysanna]]
*[[Zaison Sha]]
*[[New Jedi Order]]

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{{Youmay|the Jedi Order prior to the [[Great Jedi Purge]]|the [[New Jedi Order]].}}
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|name=Jedi Order
|image=[[File:Jedi_symbol.svg|250px]]
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|leader=[[Grand Master]]
|governing=[[Jedi High Council]]
|positions=*[[Master of the Order]]
*[[Jedi Council]]or
*[[Jedi Master]]
*[[Jedi Knight]]
*[[Padawan]]
*[[Jedi Initiate]] ([[Youngling]])
|organizations=*[[Jedi High Council]]
*[[Council of First Knowledge]]
*[[Council of Reconciliation]]
*[[Council of Reassignment]]
*[[Jedi Service Corps]]
*[[Jedi Covenant]] {{C|secret}}
|sects=*[[Dark Jedi]]
*[[Potentium]]
*[[Gray Jedi]]
|headquarters=*[[Great Jedi Library]] ([[5,000 BBY|5,000]]–[[3,996 BBY]])
*[[Jedi Temple]]
|language=*[[Old Galactic Standard]] (c. [[25,783 BBY|25,783]]–[[14,000 BBY]])
*[[Galactic Basic Standard]]
|affiliated=*[[Order of Dai Bendu]]
*[[Freedom Warriors]]
*[[Antarian Rangers]]
*[[Galactic Republic]]
|text=[[Jedi Code]]
|deities=*[[The Force]]
*[[Chosen One]]
|locations=*[[Coruscant]]
*[[Dantooine]]
*[[Tython]]
*[[Ossus]]
*[[Ruusan]]
|artifacts=[[Holocron]]s
|ceremonies=*[[Jedi Trials]]
*[[Knighting ceremony]]
*[[Jedi Forge]]
*[[Jedi convocation]]
*[[Lightsaber#Concordance of Fealty|Concordance of Fealty]]
|holidays=
|founding=c. [[25,783 BBY]]{{Ref|<ref name="T1">[[Timeline 1: Treaty of Coruscant]]</ref>}}
|planet=[[Tython]]
|founder=
|collapse=*[[3,955 BBY|3,955]]–[[3,951 BBY]]
*[[19 BBY]]
|members=*[[Vodo-Siosk Baas]]
*[[Jedi Exile]]
*[[Hoth (individual)|Hoth]]
*[[Qui-Gon Jinn]]
*[[Obi-Wan Kenobi]]
*[[Revan]]
*[[Bastila Shan]]
*[[Satele Shan]]
*[[Anakin Skywalker]]
*[[Nomi Sunrider]]
*[[Odan-Urr]]
*[[Mace Windu]]
*[[Yoda]]
|era=*[[Pre-Republic era]]
*[[Old Republic era]]
*[[Rise of the Empire era]]}}
{{Quote|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]]|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope}}
The '''Jedi Order''', later known as the '''Old Jedi Order''' and referred to as the '''Holy Order of the Jedi Knights''', was an ancient monastic peacekeeping organization unified by its belief and observance of [[the Force]], specifically the [[Light side of the Force|light side]]. The [[Jedi]] were the guardians of peace and justice in the [[Galactic Republic]], and became the most famous of the various groups that relied on the Force for their power. Led by a series of [[Jedi Council]]s, the Order grew over the millennia despite facing many trials, most often threats from the [[Sith]], wielders of the [[dark side of the Force]].

During several [[Great Schism]]s, [[Dark Jedi]] broke away from the order. These schisms led to several wars including the [[Hundred-Year Darkness]] after which the Dark Jedi fled and founded the [[Sith Empire]]. The Sith were eventually found by the Republic and their discovery led to the [[Great Hyperspace War]], and a Sith [[Battle of Coruscant (Great Hyperspace War)|invasion of Coruscant]]. The Jedi on Coruscant, led by [[Jedi Guardian]] [[Anavus Svag]] and Jedi Master [[Memit Nadill]], successfully defended the planet and defeated the Sith. Their Dark brethren wouldn't stay defeated for long and during the next several thousand years many wars would be fought. A thousand years later, after the [[Great Sith War]], the [[Mandalorian]]s saw their chance and [[Mandalorian Wars|attacked]] the weakened Republic. After the war, the Jedi that had led the Republic's military, [[Revan]] and [[Darth Malak|Alek Squinquargesimus]], disappeared. When they returned it became clear they had turned to the Dark Side, and during the [[Jedi Civil War|war]] that followed many Jedi died. During [[First Jedi Purge|the aftermath]] the Order was left numbering less than one-hundred Jedi, until it was rebuilt by the [[Jedi Exile]] and the [[Lost Jedi]].

Many years later the galaxy was again engulfed in a [[New Sith Wars|war]] between the Republic and the Sith. Led by [[Lord]] [[Hoth (individual)|Hoth]], the Jedi were able to regroup and push back the Sith, who eventually withdrew to the planet [[Ruusan]]. After seven long battles on Ruusan the Sith were [[Seventh Battle of Ruusan|defeated]] and presumed wiped out. [[Darth Bane|One of them]] managed to survive and [[Rule of Two|reorganize]] the [[Brotherhood of Darkness|Sith Order]]. Though [[Darth Bane]] and the [[Order of the Sith Lords|Sith Lords that followed]] in his footsteps remained hidden, they were patient. Millennia later they [[Invasion of Naboo|revealed themselves]], determined to have their revenge. After a [[Separatist Crisis|crisis]], the Republic was split in two and a [[Clone Wars|war]] once again engulfed the galaxy. During the Clone Wars, the Republic's armies were once again led by the Jedi. During [[First Battle of Geonosis|the first battle of the war]], nearly two hundred Jedi died before Master [[Yoda]] and a [[Grand Army of the Republic|Clone army]] arrived to assist them. However, nobody expected that the [[Supreme Chancellor]] was in fact a [[Sith Lord]]. The Jedi eventually learned the truth, but it was already too late. The Order was [[Order 66|virtually annihilated by the Sith and betrayed by the Republic]] they had served for millennia. Only a few survived the [[Great Jedi Purge]]. However, [[Anakin Skywalker]], with the indirect help of his son, Jedi Knight [[Luke Skywalker]], eventually [[Battle of Endor|defeated]] the Sith, and Luke formed the [[New Jedi Order]] during the [[Post-Imperial Period|time]] of the [[New Republic]].

==History of the Jedi Order==
{{Quote|You must remember that there are over a hundred thousand inhabited worlds in the Republic, and there are now only a few thousand of us. '''Billions''' of beings have never seen a Jedi. Millions have never even heard of our Order. Or of the Force. When we do appear, we can be killers, but also healers. Thank the Force for that.|Obi-Wan Kenobi to Anakin Skywalker|Clone Wars Volume 3: Last Stand on Jabiim}}

===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 [[Order of Dai Bendu]],<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook">''[[Power of the Jedi Sourcebook]]''</ref> the [[Followers of Palawa]],<ref name="The New Essential Chronology">''[[The New Essential Chronology]]''</ref> and the [[Chatos Academy]].<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> No conclusive links have ever been demonstrated, though. It is purported that early Jedi learned morality from the [[Caamasi]].

[[File:Force Wars-TEA.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The [[Force Wars]] of [[Tython]].]]
The earliest documentation of the existence of the Jedi Order indicates that the organization was formally founded on [[Tython]] around [[25,783 BBY]], several hundred years before the founding of the [[Galactic Republic]].<ref name="T1" /> The galaxy's best philosophers, priests, scientists, and warriors had come together here [[36,453 BBY|millennia before]] to discuss their discoveries involving the enigmatic and mystical [[Light side of the Force|Ashla]].<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> Unfortunately, many became seduced by the dark and destructive side of the Ashla, called the [[Dark side of the Force|Bogan]], and sought to seize power. The resulting [[Force Wars]] devastated Tython for [[25,793 BBY|over a decade]].

From the ashes of these wars arose the early [[Jedi]], and their [[Jedi Forge]] initiation ceremony, which led to the eventual invention of [[lightsaber]]s after they faced threats from beyond Tython. Through the use of advanced off-world [[laser]] technology, the Jedi were able to "freeze" a laser beam, resulting in the birth of the lightsaber.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> A proactive group left Tython to liberate other worlds, becoming the [[Jedi Knight]]s. They founded a philosophical school on [[Ossus]], defining the [[Light side of the Force|light side]] and [[dark side of the Force]] (equivalent, respectively, to the ancient Ashla and Bogan) as well as the [[The Force#The Living Force|Living Force]] and [[The Force#Potentium and the Unifying Force|Unifying Force]].

Around [[25,053 BBY]], the [[Galactic Republic]] formed.<ref name="T1" /> Within a century, the Jedi swore fealty to the young government. The Republic mapped the [[Perlemian Trade Route]], which linked [[Coruscant]] with Ossus, and the Jedi fortified themselves [[fortress world|there]] to defend the Republic and the [[The Slice|Slice]] colonists from external threats.

In the event historians now know as the [[First Great Schism]], dissidents who used the Bogan eventually arose again. The [[Dark Jedi]] General [[Xendor]] and his [[Legions of Lettow]] allied with a master of [[Teräs Käsi]], [[Arden Lyn]], and her [[Followers of Palawa]] from [[Bunduki]]. In a climactic battle, Xendor was slain, [[Jedi Master]] [[Awdrysta Pina]] stopped Arden's heart with [[morichro]], and Lyn killed Pina with the [[Kashi Mer Dynasty|Kashi Mer]] talisman.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

The Republic and Jedi fortified Ossus, [[Falang Minor]], and [[Haashimut]] to protect the Perlemian from the [[Tionese (people)|Tionese]] and [[Hutt]]s.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

In [[7,000 BBY]] the Jedi suffered the Second Great Schism, resulting in the [[Hundred-Year Darkness]]. This conflict ended with the [[Battle of Corbos]] [[6,900 BBY]]. The surviving Dark Jedi fled to [[Ziost]] and founded the [[Sith Empire]].<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

===The Great Hyperspace War and aftermath===
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{{Quote|The Republic has grown and expanded for many generations, encountering no worse than a few interplanetary squabbles and civil wars…but if we should confront the fabled Sith Empire, we will experience a war so great, so devastating…it can cross the fabric of hyperspace, a conflagration spanning the Galaxy…|[[Ooroo]]|Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith}}

In [[5,000 BBY]], the Republic discovered the Sith and the [[Great Hyperspace War]] began. Though the war ended with Dark Lord of the Sith [[Naga Sadow]] in suspended animation on Yavin 4 and his great war fleets destroyed, the Sith Empire survived.<ref name="TEC">''[[The Essential Chronology]]''</ref>

[[File:Battle of Coruscant (Great Hyperspace War).jpg|thumb|left|250px|The [[Battle of Coruscant (Great Hyperspace War)|Battle of Coruscant]] during the Great Hyperspace War.]]
On [[Koros]], a Jedi named [[Odan-Urr]] had a nightmarish vision of the death of Sith Lord [[Marka Ragnos]], and the war against the Republic that it would cause. He traveled to Coruscant with fellow Jedi [[Memit Nadill]] and Teta, the empress of Koros, to voice his concerns in front of the senate, though they did not take him seriously, and took no action.<ref name="TOTJ:GAOTS">''[[Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith]]''</ref> Some time later back on Koros, Nadill, Odan-Urr and Urr's master [[Ooroo]] were present when a young convict named [[Jori Daragon]] burst into Teta's chambers, telling the Jedi that she had seen the great Sith Empire, and that they were on their way to attack the Republic. Nadill learned as much as he could about the Sith Empire, then traveled to [[Coruscant]] to rally the support of the Jedi Knights.<ref name="TOTJ:FOTSE">''[[Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire]]''</ref>

The new Dark Lord of the Sith, [[Naga Sadow]], deployed his fleets to invade numerous Republic worlds simultaneously while he left his eye-shaped [[Sith meditation sphere]] near [[Primus Goluud]] and used Sith magic to create thousands of illusory soldiers, which made the Sith army seem far larger than it actually was. The Jedi Order played a huge role in the [[Battle of Coruscant (Great Hyperspace War)|defense]] of [[Coruscant]], with Memit Nadill leading a team of Jedi Knights, including [[Tuknatan]] and [[Sonam-Ha'ar]]. Another battle was raging on the planet of [[Kirrek]], where Jedi Master [[Ooroo]] and his apprentice [[Odan-Urr]] were stationed. However, when Naga Sadow's concentration was broken, much of the Sith forces disappeared. On Coruscant, the Jedi realized what had happened and launched a massive counterattack, easily defeating the Sith. The Republic also emerged victorious on Kirrek, however only at the expense of the death of Ooroo, who sacrificed his life in defeating a large force of Massassi warriors.<ref name="TOTJ:FOTSE" />

In [[4,400 BBY]], the ambitious Jedi Apprentice [[Freedon Nadd]] was denied Knighthood by his Jedi Masters. In an attempt to find out why this had happened, Freedon went to Jedi Master [[Matta Tremayne]], who challenged him to prove to her that he was indeed a Jedi Knight. Freedon saw this as a threat and decided to attack and kill Tremayne. Furious at the Jedi Masters for making him kill Matta, Nadd went looking for the Sith, because he felt that they were the only ones who would readily accept his apprenticeship and teach him about the Force.<ref name="Tales of the Jedi Companion">''[[Tales of the Jedi Companion]]''</ref>

Freedon Nadd discovered Sith Lord [[Naga Sadow]] on [[Yavin 4]] and woke him. Sadow trained Freedon Nadd in the ways of the Dark Side. When his training was complete, Nadd killed his Sith Master and went to the planet of [[Onderon]], located outside Republic space, with hopes of rebuilding a stronger Sith Empire. After Freedon Nadd had made himself the leader of [[Iziz]] he began to exile all criminals from the city. Some of the [[Beast Rider|exiles]] survived and organized. Not even Freedon Nadd could stop them. The war continued even after Freedon's death.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

In [[4,250 BBY]] the Jedi experienced the [[Third Great Schism]]. After a Jedi civil war on Coruscant, a group of Dark Jedi retreated to the [[Vultar]] system, where they discovered that the planets of the system were artificial. The Dark Jedi could not control the huge machines and [[Vultar Cataclysm|annihilated]] themselves and the entire system.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

===The Old Sith Wars===
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[[File:Nomi JATM.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Nomi Sunrider]], Jedi Knight of the Old Republic.]]
====The Freedon Nadd Uprising====
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The world of [[Onderon]] suffered through the legacy of [[Freedon Nadd]] as a cult devoted to his memory, known as the [[Naddist]]s, [[Freedon Nadd Uprising|wreaked havoc]] on the people of the planet. When Jedi Master [[Arca Jeth]] attempted to move Freedon Nadd's remains to Onderon's moon [[Dxun]] the Naddists, led by Onderonian [[King]] [[Ommin]], attacked and managed to capture Nadd's remains as well as Master Arca. Ommin then fled to the city of Iziz. The Republic's army converged on the planet and attacked Iziz, but was too strong and devastated the city. After the battle, Freedon Nadd's remains were taken to Dxun and sealed in an armored tomb.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

====The Great Sith War====
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{{Quote|Exar was a Jedi who was corrupted by ghosts of the old Sith, or so they say. He attempted to conquer the Republic and create a new Golden Age of the Sith.|[[Jolee Bindo]]|Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic}}
In [[3,996 BBY]], the talented and curious Jedi [[Exar Kun]], having learned about the Golden Age of the Sith, traveled to Dxun. There he found the tomb of Freedon Nadd. The spirit of Freedon Nadd corrupted Kun and the young Jedi surrendered to the dark side. After first traveling to Korriban, Kun then went to Yavin's fourth moon and took over Naga Sadow's ancient fortresses, enslaving the Massassi race to further his ambitious plans. Destroying Nadd's spirit for the last time, Exar Kun staked his claim as the true heir to the ancient Sith legacy, which was thought to have been destroyed. The Jedi called a meeting to discuss the growing foothold of the Sith. During the meeting, the Jedi were attacked by the [[Krath]], a secret dark side society led by [[Aleema Keto|Aleema]] and [[Satal Keto]]. Master Arca died while saving his student [[Ulic Qel-Droma]]'s life. Ulic then infiltrated the Krath in an attempt to destroy them from within. The Krath, suspecting he was a spy, injected him with a Sith poison and eventually Ulic fell to the dark side and became a Krath general.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

Exar Kun traveled to [[Cinnagar]] to find and destroy Ulic Qel-Droma. However, their duel was interrupted by the spirit of [[Marka Ragnos]], who commanded them to stop fighting each other and form an alliance. United, they waged [[Great Sith War|war]] on the Republic, kidnapping young Jedi from [[Ossus]] and subverting them to the dark side. Exar Kun stole a Sith Holocron and killed the now legendary Master Odan-Urr. Qel-Droma defeated Lord Mandalore, the leader of the [[Mandalorian]]s, and with their leader defeated the [[Mandalorian Crusaders]] agreed to join the Sith.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

[[File:Exarkun.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Dark Lord of the Sith [[Exar Kun]].]]
Qel-Droma's Krath and Mandalorian forces laid siege to Coruscant, but the Jedi managed to defeat the invaders and capture Ulic. When Kun heard of his comrade's capture, he traveled to Coruscant to rescue Qel-Droma. Ulic was facing trial in the [[Senate Hall]] when Exar Kun arrived. Master [[Vodo-Siosk Baas]] attempted to stop his former apprentice, but Kun killed him as well as the [[Supreme Chancellor]]. Exar Kun then ordered every Sith disciple to find and assassinate their former Jedi Masters. Most of them succeeded. The Sith Lords then made the suns of the [[Cron Cluster]] go supernova using Naga Sadow's Sith flagship, which they had discovered on Yavin IV; the shock wave from the exploding stars would destroy Ossus. The Jedi desperately tried to save as many of the artifacts stored in Ossus's library. Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma arrived on the planet to take anything the Jedi had not removed already. Knowing he could not save every artifact, Master [[Ood Bnar]] buried several priceless artifacts just before the Sith arrived. Ulic dueled his brother [[Cay Qel-Droma]] and killed him. When Ulic stared at his brother's body, he collapsed, having realized what he had done. [[Nomi Sunrider]] then cut off Qel-Droma's connection to the Force. Broken, Ulic surrendered to the Republic and led the Jedi to Yavin IV.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

Knowing the Jedi were coming, Exar Kun committed a ritual which took the life from every Massassi on the planet to separate his spirit from his body and bind it to his temple. The Jedi forces in orbit bombed the planet, obliterating the temple complex below. The Mandalorian Crusaders were defeated on Onderon and fled; the Great Sith War had come to an end. After the destruction of Ossus, the Jedi relocated their headquarters to the Temple on Coruscant and started to rebuild what was lost during the war. Having gained much prestige and unrivaled skill throughout the war, Nomi Sunrider was granted the rank of Jedi Master, before being elected as the official Head of the Jedi Order. As the Jedi's leader, Nomi called a [[conclave on Exis Station]] and there began the process of forming a new [[Jedi High Council]].<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" /> In addition, the Order created an [[Lost City of the Jedi|underground city]] to aide the recovery of the planet Yavin 4 ecology as well as to ensure that Kun never returned again.<ref name="KOTORCG">[[Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide]]</ref>

====The Mandalorian Wars====
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{{Quote|It was not your ships or your men or your vaunted 'fight for freedom' that won this, the final battle of the war. It was by the actions of one person—the Jedi Revan—that you prevailed. Revan's strategies and tactics defeated the best of us. Even Mandalore himself was taken aback by the ferocity of his attacks, the tenacity of his defenses, and the subtlety of his plans. Revan fought us to a standstill and then began pushing us back. We didn't really have a chance.|[[Canderous Ordo]]|Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords}}

[[File:SWKOTOR7-FC.jpg|thumb|right|180px|[[Mandalorian]]s during the Mandalorian Wars.]]
To prevent the return of the Sith, Jedi Master [[Krynda Draay]] dedicated herself to training [[Jedi Consular|Jedi Seers]] who would be able to foresee any possible Sith threat and destroy it at the source. These Seers formed the bulk of her [[Jedi Covenant]], a shadowy organization devoted to spotting and dealing with any [[shatterpoint]]s that could cause the Sith to emerge again.<ref name="KotorC">[[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (comics)|''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'' comic series]]</ref>

The events of the [[Mandalorian Wars]] would begin the downfall of the Jedi Order. They coincided with a vision seen by four Jedi Masters—the Consular members of the [[First WatchCircle]] of the Jedi Covenant—who saw visions of chaos in the Jedi Order and the Republic as well as signs that the responsible party could be one of their Padawans. The Masters decided to strike, but only succeeded in [[Padawan Massacre of Taris|murdering four of their own Padawans]] who were near Knighthood. Their actions also caused massive civil disorder on Taris—which later made the planet easy prey for the Mandalorians—alienated Padawan [[Zayne Carrick]] from the Order, and inadvertently dissolved even their own group, being split up by the [[Jedi High Council]] and assigned to different postings around [[the galaxy]].

The [[Mandalorian]]s, led by [[Mandalore the Ultimate]], began to conquer planets that were left defenseless after the Sith War. By adding the weapons and technology of their victims to their own the Mandalorians soon built a large army, and their territory grew fast. The Republic's efforts to stop the Mandalorians were ineffective, and soon Mandalore took advantage of this weakness by directly attacking Republic space. The Jedi Council refused to help the Republic, believing that caution was necessary. But a number of young Jedi, including Revan and Alek Squinquargesimus, openly defied the Council by joining and leading the Republics forces in battle. Revan used Mandalorian tactics against his enemies: he was willing to sacrifice one planet if it meant securing victory at a more important one. Under the leadership of Revan and Alek the Republic liberated many planets, and the final battle of the war was fought at [[Malachor V]].

During the [[Battle of Malachor V|battle]], Revan killed Mandalore in hand-to-hand combat and obliterated the remaining Mandalorian forces. The war was over. The Mandalorians had been defeated by a worthy opponent, and destroyed their armor and weapons.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

Jedi Master [[Kreia]], Revan's former mentor, was exiled as the [[Jedi Council]] felt her 'gray' stance on the Force had led her students, most notably Revan, down the path of the dark side.<ref name="Kotor2">''[[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords]]''</ref>

====The Jedi Civil War====
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{{Quote|The reason the Jedi Civil War was named such was because few in the galaxy can recognize the difference between the Sith and the Jedi. To them, they are both Jedi—with different philosophies.|[[Mical]]|Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords}}
At the close of the Mandalorian Wars, the Jedi Revan and Alek mysteriously disappeared into the [[Unknown Regions]], supposedly pursuing the last remnants of the Mandalorian fleet. When the two Jedi and their armies returned, they had changed dramatically. At some point during the journey, Revan had encountered the teachings of the [[Sith]], and subsequently turned to the dark side to help strengthen the galaxy against what was to come. ''[[Darth]]'' Revan assumed the title of [[Dark Lord of the Sith]], and Alek became Darth Malak, his Sith apprentice.<ref name="Kotor">''[[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic]]''</ref>

[[File:DarthRevan DarthMalak EGF.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The Dark Lords of the Sith, [[Darth Malak|Malak]] and [[Revan]].]]
Returning to the Republic, Darth Revan and Darth Malak began to wage 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 follow the pair. 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 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. World after world fell to Revan's vast fleets and masterful strategies. Determined not to make the same mistakes they had in the Mandalorian Wars, the [[Jedi Council]] devised a plan to eliminate the enemy at its source: Revan.<ref name="Kotor" />

During one fateful battle, a small Jedi strike team led by [[Bastila Shan]], a young Jedi Padawan with the remarkable gift of [[battle meditation]], infiltrated Darth Revan's command ship to capture the Dark Lord. During the confrontation, Darth Malak, who was stationed aboard a different ship, realized that Revan could be easily defeated and that he could then assume the title of Dark Lord of the Sith, fired upon his own master's vessel in the hope of killing both Revan and the Jedi fighting him. The Jedi managed to escape with Revan's body, but Malak had achieved a crucial victory, for he was now the Dark Lord of the Sith and commander of the entire Sith armada.<ref name="Kotor" />

Malak continued to wage war against the Republic, relying exclusively on brute force as opposed to subtle strategies. Following the Sith tradition, he took his an apprentice of his own: [[Darth Bandon]]. 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 [[Taris]], Bastila's vessel, the [[Endar Spire]], was crippled beyond recovery, and the young Jedi was forced to evacuate to the planet below. As fate would have it, two other survivors eventually caught up with Bastila on Taris: [[Carth Onasi]], a decorated soldier and war hero of the Republic, and another lowly officer who Bastila recently had transferred to her command. The key to the rest of the war, however, lay in the identity of this single, seemingly insignificant foot soldier.<ref name="Kotor" />

Carth and Bastila continued to gain more companions, managed to escape the destruction of Taris, and fled to Dantooine, where in addition to learning that their third companion was Force sensitive, they discovered the existence of the [[Star Forge]]. The Jedi Council then commissioned their small band to seek out [[Star Map]]s 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 encountered and defeated many Sith minions, including Darth Bandon. The biggest interruption was captured by one of the Sith fleet's command ships. 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 [[coma]]tose 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.<ref name="Kotor" />

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 in collaboration with the Republic against it. Revan managed to infiltrate the giant factory, which was the source of the Sith's limitless armada, and [[Duel on the Star Forge|defeated]] 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 war continued, even without Revan or Malak.<ref name="Kotor2" />

====First Jedi Purge and aftermath====
The Jedi Civil War and [[First Jedi Purge|other dramatic events]] to follow it, such as the [[Conclave on Katarr]], would see the near-destruction and death of the order. Only about a hundred individual Jedi survived throughout the galaxy. Realizing that the threat was greater when Jedi gathered in numbers, the [[Jedi Council]] disbanded, with the remaining Jedi Masters going into hiding on planets across the galaxy in the hopes that this would allow them to discover the true origins of the new Sith threat without endangering everyone around them. The [[Jedi Temple]] on [[Coruscant]] was completely abandoned, and the badly damaged [[Jedi Enclave]] on [[Dantooine]] was left nothing but a hollow shell.<ref name="Kotor2" />

A former Jedi known as the [[Jedi Exile]], who had been cut off from the Force and exiled by the Jedi Council after joining Malak and Revan, sought out the remaining councilors who were in hiding, in an attempt to form a group to defeat the threat of the [[Sith Triumvirate]], who were threatening to annihilate the Jedi completely. As she traveled the galaxy in search of the hidden Jedi, the Exile trained several of her companions in the ways of the Force. She found [[Vrook Lamar]] on [[Dantooine]], [[Zez-Kai Ell]] on [[Nar Shaddaa]] and [[Kavar]] on [[Onderon]]. The three former Councilors then met with the Exile once again in the rebuilt [[Jedi Enclave]] on Dantooine. They decided to once again exile her, as well as sever her completely from the Force, as they felt she was a threat to all living beings around her. As they attempted to, [[Kreia]], the Exile's mentor, killed them, and after revealing herself as the third Sith Lord, Darth Traya, she left the Exile on Dantooine. The Exile's revival corresponded with the Sith attack on the Republic, and she traveled to [[Telos IV]] to fight the Sith Lord [[Darth Nihilus]]. The Exile defeated Nihilus on his flagship above Telos, before traveling to [[Malachor V]] to kill Traya and [[Darth Sion]], the two remaining Sith Lords.<ref name="Kotor2" />

Eventually, the group of individuals the Exile trained, known as the [[Lost Jedi]], would, as Darth Traya prophesied, come together to re-establish another Jedi Order. Apart from them, who were yet to become true Jedi, there were only two known Jedi left in the Republic space by the end of the [[Battle of Telos IV]]—[[Bastila Shan]], and [[Atris]].<ref name="Kotor2" />

====The Great Galactic War====
{{Main|Great Galactic War}}
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====The Cold War====
{{Main|Cold War}}
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===The New Sith Wars===
{{Main|New Sith Wars}}

[[File:Lord_Hoth_EGTTF.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Lord [[Hoth (individual)|Hoth]], leader of the [[Army of Light]]]]
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 [[New Sith Wars|much larger conflict]] would soon engulf the galaxy.

[[Darth Ruin|Phanius]] was one of the order's brightest members, a Jedi Master no less. He became entranced with the forbidden knowledge of the Sith and, defying the council, absconded into deep space with a [[Sith holocron]] stolen from the [[Jedi Archives]].

Like Exar Kun and Darth Revan before him, Phanius was seduced by the dark side. He took up the long vacant title of Dark Lord of the Sith as well as a new name and identity: Darth Ruin. In the ensuing years, Ruin gathered together a large number of dark side followers and surviving Sith clans and founded the [[New Sith Empire]]. With this army Ruin planned to bring the Republic, and the Jedi who served it, to their knees. [[Brotherhood of Darkness|The Brotherhood]] attacked the Republic, and conquered vast swathes of the galaxy. But when total victory was in their grasp, like so many of their Sith predecessors, the members of the Brotherhood turned against one another. The Brotherhood splintered, and various high-ranking Sith Lords claimed the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith and began to execute vast and cruel campaigns against each other, giving the beleaguered Republic and its Jedi protectors time to recover.

The Jedi regrouped and formed a vast army to oppose the Brotherhood—the [[Army of Light]]. Ably led by [[Jedi Lord|Lord]] [[Hoth (individual)|Hoth]], the Jedi took the fight to the Brotherhood's central systems in [[The Cloak of the Sith]]. As the decades ground on, the Jedi slowly gained the initiative over their foes—but the Sith would not give in. Eventually the surviving Sith, after several long and bitter campaigns, regrouped on the world of [[Ruusan]] under the leadership of [[Kaan]]. Hoth followed the Sith there, and the Army of Light and Brotherhood of Darkness engaged in seven fierce battles. At the conclusion of the [[Seventh Battle of Ruusan]], Kaan—near defeat and driven insane by the power of the dark side—unleashed the [[thought bomb]] and killed every single Force user on the world.

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.<ref name="Darth Bane: Path of Destruction">''[[Darth Bane: Path of Destruction]]''</ref> This revenge would take a thousand years to come to fruition, but the new Sith had patience.

===Post-Ruusan Reformation===
With the Sith presumed extinct, the Jedi believed that they had at last forged a long-lasting peace in the galaxy.<ref name="Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace">''[[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]''</ref> 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.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

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 help in the avoidance of 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 considered too great for members of the order.

====The Sith return====
{{Quote|At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge.|Darth Maul|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace}}[[File:Palpatine1111.jpg|thumb|left|[[Senator]] [[Palpatine]] of [[Naboo]]]]
In [[32 BBY]], the presence of the Sith once again became known to the Jedi. The Sith Lord, [[Palpatine|Darth Sidious]] had secretly contacted members of the [[Trade Federation]], including [[Nute Gunray]] and [[Daultay Dofine]], and saw to it that Gunray was made [[Viceroy]] of the Trade Federation by using a special [[battle droid]] to kill the members of the Federation Ruling Council. He then suggested that Gunray show the Republic that they could not bully him with trade embargoes by blockading the remote planet of [[Naboo]]. The Supreme Chancellor dispatched [[Jedi Knight]] [[Qui-Gon Jinn]] and his [[Padawan|apprentice]], [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]], to negotiate a Trade Federation withdrawal.<ref name="Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" />

However, the [[Neimoidian]]s attempted to murder the Jedi, and so the pair was forced to hide on an invasion craft which carried them down to the planet. There Qui-Gon met and rescued a [[Gungan]] by the name of [[Jar Jar Binks]]. Jar Jar led Jinn and Kenobi to the Gungan city of [[Otoh Gunga]]. The [[Gungan High Council]], while rather difficult at first, at last allowed Jedi to take a [[Bongo]] to the capital city of Naboo, [[Theed]]. There the Jedi rescued [[Monarch of Naboo|Queen]] [[Padmé Amidala]] from a droid escort. The group then fled to [[Tatooine]], where they repaired the Queen's ship, and from there to [[Coruscant]]. When Amidala realized that the Senate could not solve her problem, she returned to Naboo. There, with the help of the [[Gungan Grand Army]] and a young boy named [[Anakin Skywalker]] the Queen and her Jedi protectors defeated the Federation's [[Trade Federation Droid Army|Droid Army]]; however, in a climactic lightsaber duel between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Sidious's apprentice, [[Darth Maul]], Qui-Gon was killed. Stung by his master's death, Obi-Wan threw himself at the [[Sith]], killing him quickly. After Darth Maul was killed, the Jedi knew that there was still at least one member of the Sith active, but they were unaware of the identity of Sidious.<ref name="Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" />

====The Clone Wars====
{{Main|Clone Wars}}
{{Quote|Victory? Victory, you say? Master Obi-Wan, not victory. The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun, the Clone War has.|Master Yoda after the Battle of Geonosis|Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones}}
During the [[Separatist Crisis|ten years]] following the [[Invasion of Naboo]], Jedi Master [[Dooku]], the [[Count]] of [[Serenno]], left the Jedi Order and became the leader of a group of corporations, such as the [[Trade Federation]] and the [[Commerce Guild]], known as the [[Confederacy of Independent Systems]]. However, unknown to the Jedi, Dooku had been recruited by Darth Sidious and had become his apprentice, renamed [[Dooku|Darth Tyranus]].<ref name="AOTC">''[[Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones]]''</ref>

[[File:TCW Jedi.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Jedi during the Clone Wars.]]
In [[22 BBY]], Jedi Knight [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]], his Padawan [[Anakin Skywalker]] and [[Padmé Amidala]], a young [[Senator]] from [[Naboo]], were captured by Dooku on [[Geonosis]] in the [[Outer Rim Territories|Outer Rim]]. The trio were scheduled for execution; however, they were saved when a [[Geonosis strike team|group]] of over two hundred Jedi arrived, led by [[Mace Windu]]. In the [[Petranaki arena]] most of the Jedi perished, and the few remaining formed a circle in the center of the arena, surrounded by hundreds of Confederacy droids. However, before they could be killed, [[Grand Master]] [[Yoda]] arrived with thousands of [[clone trooper]]s,<ref name="AOTC" /> who had secretly been ordered by Jedi Master [[Sifo-Dyas]].<ref name="LoE">''[[Labyrinth of Evil]]''</ref> The clones rescued the remaining Jedi, and so the [[First Battle of Geonosis]], and thus the [[Clone Wars]], began. The Jedi attempted to stop Count Dooku from leaving Geonosis. Obi-Wan Kenobi was injured in a duel with Dooku, and Kenobi's apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, lost his arm. Master Yoda led the clones and the Jedi to victory, and when the battle was all but won he traveled to meet Dooku. After a short duel with Dooku, Yoda was forced to let the Separatist leader escape in order to save Obi-Wan and Anakin. Of the hundreds of Jedi in the rescue team, less than fifty survived, and many Jedi Masters died, including Jedi Council member [[Coleman Trebor]]<ref name="AOTC" />

The Clone Wars escalated into one of the largest wars in galactic history. The members of the Jedi Order played a pivotal part in the war, acting as generals to the vast Army of the Republic, though thousands of Jedi perished during the war.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" /> To combat the Force abilities of the Jedi, Dooku enlisted the help of several Dark Jedi, as well as [[Gen'Dai]] bounty hunter [[Durge]]. Dooku had many Force-using subordinates, though the most feared of them were [[Sora Bulq]],<ref name="JMW">''[[Jedi: Mace Windu]]''</ref> [[Aurra Sing]],<ref name="J:AS">''[[Jedi: Aayla Secura]]''</ref> [[Asajj Ventress]], as well as [[Quinlan Vos]], who served as a double-agent.<ref name="SW:R">''[[Star Wars: Republic]]''</ref>

Four months after Geonosis, the Jedi Order faced their biggest threat in the war against the Confederacy: General Grievous. On [[Hypori]], Grievous killed Jedi [[Tarr Seirr]], [[Daakman Barrek]] and [[Sha'a Gi]], and injured [[K'Kruhk]], [[Aayla Secura]] and [[Shaak Ti]]. A [[Muunilinst 10|group of ARC Troopers]], aided by [[Ki-Adi-Mundi]], managed to drive Grievous away and rescue the injured Jedi.<ref name="Clone Wars">''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]''</ref> Her seat on the Council was taken by Obi-Wan Kenobi. On [[Jabiim]], the Jedi suffered heavy losses, and although they managed to evacuate the planet, all except one of the [[Padawan Pack]], a group of Padawans orphaned when their Masters either were killed or disappeared, perished. The sole survivor was Anakin Skywalker, who was slowly becoming more famous.<ref name="SWR:TBOJ">''[[Star Wars: Republic: The Battle of Jabiim]]''</ref>

Towards the end of the war, the Separatists retreated from many of their bases in the [[Core Worlds]] and the [[Colonies]], to [[Fortress world]]s in the [[Mid Rim|Mid]] and Outer Rim, after being defeated by the Republic in a series of battles. This boosted the morale of the Republic, and Chancellor Palpatine and the Jedi deployed almost every fleet available to CIS worlds in the Outer Rim, laying siege to the Separatist strongholds in an attempt to force the Confederacy to surrender; however, the Sieges left many senior Jedi dead.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" /> On [[Boz Pity]], Jedi Masters [[Adi Gallia]] and [[Soon Bayts]] were killed by Grievous,<ref name="Obsession">''[[Star Wars: Obsession]]''</ref> and [[Oppo Rancisis]] was killed by Sora Bulq on [[Saleucami]].<ref name="SoS">''[[Star Wars: Republic: The Siege of Saleucami]]''</ref> The citizens of the Core were led to believe that the end of the war was near, and that the Confederacy would be brought to justice in the near future. In truth, the Sieges were the work of Darth Sidious, intended to lure forces away from Coruscant<ref name="LoE" />

In [[19 BBY]], with most of the Republic's army and the Jedi fighting in the [[Outer Rim Sieges]], the Separatist fleet, led by Grievous and Dooku, launched a week-long siege against Coruscant.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" /> Thousands of [[Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark I|Vulture droids]] and [[Droid tri-fighter]]s rained down on the capital, and Confederacy [[C-9979 landing craft]] unleashed hundreds of millions of battle droids and tank droids on the capital's streets, causing much damage to lives and property. In response, the Republic deployed its clone forces against the CIS droids.<ref name="LoE" />

[[File:Spacebattle.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The [[Battle of Coruscant (Clone Wars)|Battle of Coruscant]].]]
With the battle raging on in space, Grievous and his [[IG-100 MagnaGuard]]s kidnapped the Supreme Chancellor, after defeating several Jedi, including [[Foul Moudama]] and [[Roron Corobb]], and wounding council member [[Shaak Ti]]. Grievous then transported Palpatine to his flagship, the ''[[Invisible Hand]]''. Several Jedi, piloting starfighters, attempted to intercept Grievous on his way to the flagship, but they failed.<ref name="LoE" /> Two of them, [[Pablo-Jill]] and [[L'lacielo Sageon]],<ref name="LOW">''[[Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous]]''</ref> were tractor-beamed onto the ship and murdered by the Separatist General. Their bodies were jettisoned into space for the Republic forces to see.<ref name="LoE" />

After realizing that they had been lured away from Coruscant, [[Anakin Skywalker]] and [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] returned from [[Tythe]] to join in the attempt to rescue Palpatine, who was being held aboard Grievous' flagship, the ''[[Invisible Hand]]''.<ref name="LoE" /> Although Dooku injured Kenobi, Skywalker disarmed him, and at the Chancellor's command, the young Jedi Knight ruthlessly beheaded the Dark Lord, and released Palpatine, dealing a tremendous blow to the Confederacy.<ref name="ROTS">''[[Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]''</ref>

Obi-Wan was soon revived, and the Jedi headed for their fighters with Palpatine. As they headed back to the hangar, they were confronted by a group of battle droids, and were captured, taken to the ''Invisible Hand''{{'s}} bridge, and brought before General Grievous. Grievous took their lightsabers; however, Kenobi retrieved them when the ship suddenly lurched to one side. The two Jedi defeated Grievous' guards, but the cyborg commander escaped. Skywalker then successfully crash-landed the damaged vessel into Coruscant's surface, and their mission was successful.<ref name="ROTS" />

====Last stand of the Jedi Order====
{{Main|Order 66}}
{{Quote|In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you're under arrest, Chancellor.''" "''Are you threatening me, Master Jedi?|[[Mace Windu]] and [[Palpatine]]|Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith}}
After the [[Battle of Coruscant (Clone Wars)|Battle of Coruscant]], the Jedi learned from Anakin Skywalker that Palpatine was in fact Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith, and had been responsible for the war to begin with. Mace Windu led a group of Jedi Masters [[Showdown on Coruscant|to arrest Sidious]], but Sidious managed to kill all four with the help of Anakin Skywalker, who fell to the dark side and became [[Anakin Skywalker|Darth Vader]]. This was later propagandized by Palpatine as an attempted coup by the Jedi and provided the reason for the start of the [[Great Jedi Purge]] in which most of the Jedi were killed.<ref name="ROTS" />

[[File:Duel on Coruscant.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Jedi Masters [[Mace Windu]], [[Kit Fisto]], [[Agen Kolar]] and [[Saesee Tiin]].]]
Just after [[Order 66]] was issued, telling all clones to kill their Jedi commanders, Darth Vader went to the [[Jedi Temple]] to [[Operation: Knightfall|kill]] the remaining Jedi situated there. Accompanied by the [[501st Legion]], Vader killed all of the Jedi, including the younglings, and changed the signal given off by the Temple's emergency beacon to tell Jedi to return to the Temple. Then, Sidious sent Vader to [[Mustafar]] to [[Mission to Mustafar|wipe out the last of the separatist leaders]], then ordered him to send a deactivation signal to shut down the droid forces, ending the war. Order 66 claimed the lives of most of the remaining Jedi, including Council members [[Stass Allie]], who was killed on Saleucami, [[Plo Koon]], who was shot down over [[Cato Neimoidia]], and [[Ki-Adi-Mundi]], who died on Mygeeto. [[Aayla Secura]]<ref name="ROTS" /> and [[Barriss Offee]] were killed on [[Felucia]], while Jedi Master [[Luminara Unduli]] was gunned down on [[Kashyyyk]].<ref name="THE">''[[Star Wars: Republic: The Hidden Enemy]]''</ref> The Clone Wars was over, and the Great Jedi Purge would soon reach its peak.

Jedi Masters Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, two of the most notable survivors of Order 66, then embarked on a desperate attempt to destroy the Sith and save the Jedi Order. Obi-Wan [[Duel on Mustafar|went to fight Anakin]] while Yoda [[Duel in the Senate|went after Darth Sidious]]. Anakin was defeated, losing much of his power after suffering grievous injuries, necessitating the majority of Anakin's body being kept in a [[Darth Vader's armor|mobile life support system]] to keep him alive. The battle between Yoda and Sidious moved into the Senate Rotunda; however, it ended in a stalemate: Yoda was forced to flee, as clone troopers were on the way. Palpatine declared himself [[Emperor]] of the [[Galactic Empire]], and the Sith had risen to galactic dominance again.<ref name="ROTS" />

====Great Jedi Purge====
{{Main|Great Jedi Purge}}
{{Quote|The remaining Jedi will be hunted down and defeated. Any collaborators will suffer the same fate.|Palpatine|Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith}}
[[File:BeyghorSahdett-Rep79.jpg|thumb|left|140px|Jedi [[Beyghor Sahdett]] flees the battlefront after defeating a squad of [[clone trooper]]s.]]
Despite the fact that many of the most senior Jedi had been killed, many Jedi survived Order 66. Sidious, now the [[Emperor]] of the [[Galactic Empire]], used Darth Vader and other agents of the Empire to hunt down and kill the remaining Jedi. Some decided to fight the Empire, such as [[Roan Shryne]]<ref name="Dark Lord">''[[Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader]]''</ref> and those at the [[Conclave on Kessel]].<ref name="Purge">''[[Star Wars: Purge]]''</ref> Some hid, like Obi-Wan Kenobi and [[Yoda]].<ref name="ROTS" /> Many Jedi fell to Vader,<ref name="Purge" /><ref name="Dark Lord" /> [[Inquisitorius|Inquisitors]],<ref name="DSS">''[[Dark Side Sourcebook]]''</ref> [[Emperor's Hand]]s,<ref name="DV:E">''[[Darth Vader: Extinction]]''</ref> and even [[bounty hunter]]s.<ref name="Underworld">''[[Underworld: A Galaxy of Scum and Villainy]]''</ref>

A group of Jedi, led by [[Shadday Potkin]], decided to try and lure Darth Vader to the spice mines of [[Kessel]], where they planned to kill him. Potkin had learned of Vader's strange obsession with Obi-Wan Kenobi, and had spread rumors that Obi-Wan would be present. Vader, with the help of some [[stormtrooper]]s, killed all the Jedi present, the last of which to die being [[Tsui Choi]], [[Jastus Farr]], and [[Roblio Darté]].<ref name="Purge" />

Palpatine used the rumors of what had occurred at Kessel to cement the image of Vader as a symbol of the Empire to fear, and a further warning to all who stood in his way.<ref name="Purge" /> The official report by [[Sate Pestage]] stated that some of the Jedi had killed each other in a power struggle and the others were executed for numerous crimes.<ref name="Order 66: Destroy All Jedi">''[[Order 66: Destroy All Jedi]]''</ref>

The Jedi on Kessel were not the only ones to group together—a band of Jedi, led by [[Roan Shryne]] and [[Olee Starstone]], arrived on Kashyyyk, and had been offered safe harbor from the Empire by the native [[Wookiee]]s. Imperial forces, led by Darth Vader and [[Wilhuff Tarkin]], arrived on the [[Mid Rim]] planet shortly thereafter—Vader was interested in hunting down and destroying the fugitive Jedi, while Tarkin was interested in enslaving the Wookiees for use in the construction of the [[DS-1 Orbital Battle Station|first]] [[Death Star]].<ref name="Dark Lord" />

[[File:Jedi Hunted.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] during the [[Great Jedi Purge]].]]
When the Imperials demanded that the Wookiees hand over the fugitive Jedi, the Wookiees refused, preferring to do battle with the vast Imperial presence on Kashyyyk. As more Imperial forces landed, the Wookiee warriors and the Jedi covered the evacuation of [[Kachirho]], as countless Wookiees fled the Imperial troops, fleeing from enslavement. Some time after the [[First Battle of Kashyyyk (Imperial Period)|battle]] had begun, Darth Vader arrived at Kachirho, intending to hunt down the Jedi himself.<ref name="Dark Lord" />

Vader found and engaged the Jedi, killing two and injuring a further three. Vader then engaged [[Roan Shryne]] in a duel, managing to fatally wound the Human male Jedi. As Shryne passed away, [[Victory-class Star Destroyer|Victory-class]] [[Star Destroyer]]s began to descend into the atmosphere, finishing the conquest of Kashyyyk. As a result, the Empire gained control of Kashyyyk, and gained thousands of Wookiee slaves for use on the Death Star.<ref name="Dark Lord" />

In [[18 BBY]], [[Queen]] [[Apailana]] of [[Naboo]] felt that military action, as opposed to Naboo's traditional diplomatic action, was the only way to deal with the Empire. Apailana began harboring fugitive Jedi that were on the run from the Empire. The [[501st Legion]] was sent to [[Theed]] to deal with the Queen and the Jedi. They drove [[TX-130T fighter tank]]s through the streets, and killed the Jedi as well as Apailana.<ref name="BFII">''[[Star Wars: Battlefront II]]''</ref>

During the Purge in the same year, Vader raised a [[Galen Marek|secret apprentice]] in a hope to overthrow Palpatine. In [[3 BBY|3]]-[[2 BBY]], the apprentice was sent to find and kill surviving Jedi such as [[Shaak Ti]], [[Rahm Kota|Kota]], [[Maris Brood]], and Force-sensitives on [[Felucia]].<ref name="TFU">''[[Star Wars: The Force Unleashed]]''</ref>

In [[1 BBY]], Emperor's Hand [[Mara Jade Skywalker|Mara Jade]] discovered [[An'ya Kuro]], also known as the Dark Woman, hiding on the planet [[Cophrigin V]]. Darth Vader arrived on the planet to kill Kuro personally.<ref name="DV:E" /> The Great Jedi Purge was over, and the Empire would, but still deal with another conflict, the [[Galactic Civil War]].

The most prominent survivors of the Great Jedi Purge were [[Yoda]],<ref name="EPV">''[[Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back]]''</ref> [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]],<ref name="EPIV">''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]''</ref>, [[Rahm Kota]], [[Darth Krayt|A'Sharad Hett]],<ref name="Legacy 15">''[[Star Wars: Legacy 15: Claws of the Dragon, Part 2]]''</ref> [[Empatojayos Brand]],<ref name="DE">''[[Dark Empire II]]''</ref> [[K'Kruhk]]<ref name="Legacy 11">''[[Star Wars: Legacy 11: Ghosts, Part 1]]''</ref> and [[Ood Bnar]].<ref name="DE" />

After the Purge, Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda went into hiding for approximately 19 years before training [[Luke Skywalker]], the son of Anakin Skywalker, in the ways of the Jedi. Skywalker later [[Duel on Death Star II|defeated his father and the Emperor]], and eventually founded the [[New Jedi Order]], which took a slightly different approach to Jedi training so not to make the same mistakes as the Old Jedi Order.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

==Organization==
===Leadership===
{{Main|Jedi Council}}
{{See also|Grand Master}}
{{Quote|Once you embrace the Republic, the power of all Jedi is ready to serve you.|[[Ulic Qel-Droma]]|Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi}}

At some point in the Order's early history, the Jedi formed a central political entity called the [[Jedi High Council]]. The High Council was a gathering of great minds that acted as a governing body for the Order, as well as an advisory board for the [[Office of the Supreme Chancellor]].<ref name="TJP">''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''</ref> The High Council could have a maximum of twelve members at a time.<ref name="Databank">{{DB|organization|thejediorder|The Jedi Order}}</ref>

Membership on the Jedi High Council was decided by the standing Council and was made up of a series of different terms. Consisting of five lifetime members, four members who stayed on the Council until they chose to step down, and three short term members, who changed regularly and sat on the Council for a relatively short period of time, this method kept the voices and opinions of the Council fresh and focused.<ref name="Databank" /> While membership was usually restricted to [[Jedi Master]]s, exemptions were sometimes made; allowing a Knight to sit on the Council should certain insight be needed or if they are in the transitional stage before formal elevation. A notable example was Anakin Skywalker, who was appointed by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in [[19 BBY]] during the [[Clone Wars]]. While the Council accepted the appointment, they refused to make him a Master.<ref name="ROTS" />

[[File:Jedicouncil2.jpg|thumb|left|260px|The [[Jedi High Council]] in [[22 BBY]].]]

For several generations, the Order was overseen by three additional councils that oversaw various responsibilities within the Order. The [[Council of First Knowledge]] oversaw the [[Jedi academy]] housed within the Coruscant Temple, in addition to direct oversight of satellite training academies and libraries. The members of the Council of First Knowledge were looked upon for advice in situations needing to be contrasted with the past. Jedi on this Council were sometimes former members of the High Council, and could give a different perspective on current events based on past decisions and mistakes.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /><ref name="Darkness">''[[Star Wars: Republic: Darkness]]''</ref><ref name="TJP" /> Instead of advising the Supreme Chancellor, the [[Council of Reconciliation]] worked closely with the [[Galactic Republic Diplomatic Corps]] in order to assist in the acquisition of new member worlds in the Senate. Assigning [[Jedi Diplomat]]s and [[Jedi Ambassador|Ambassadors]] to implement treaties and welcome new people into the Republic, the Reconciliation Council's members worked very closely with the Senators on Coruscant.<ref name="CoD">''[[Cloak of Deception]]''</ref><ref name="TJP" /> Finally, the [[Council of Reassignment]] oversaw the [[Jedi Service Corps]] and the placement of individuals who failed the [[Jedi Trials]] or were deemed unfit to continue along the standard path of the Jedi Knights.<ref name="Rising Force">''[[Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force]]''</ref><ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /><ref name="TJP" />

The decisions of these four councils have shaped the progress of the Republic as well as the Order. When the High Council of [[4,000 BBY]] refused to enter the [[Mandalorian Wars]] and taking a more passive stance on the issue until they could asses it, a group of disenchanted Jedi known as the [[Revanchist]]s rose up and incited the [[Jedi Civil War]] nearly wiping out the Order.<ref name="Kotor" /> When the Order had managed to recover, the Council took a slightly more aggressive stance, culminating in the [[New Sith Wars]] where they actively ruled the Republic as a quasi-military dictatorship. The First Knowledge Council took the time following the [[Ruusan Reformation]] to purge all references to the Sith from the minds of the galactic populace, ensuring that within a few years of the war, the dark siders' legacy was all but forgotten. A millennia later during the Clone Wars, the twilight years of the Galactic Republic, the Jedi acted as generals, soldiers and military advisers in the conflict before being nearly destroyed once again, by the newly resurgent Sith menace.<ref name="ROTS" />

===Jedi ranks===
{{Main|Jedi}}
{{Quote|Confer on you, the level of Jedi Knight, the Council does. But agree with your taking this boy as your Padawan learner, I do not!|Yoda to Obi-Wan Kenobi|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace}}
As the Jedi were instructed in the ways of the Order and of the Force, each member progressed through several different ranks.

[[File:ThreeJedi.jpg|right|thumb|180px|L-R: Jedi Master [[Mace Windu]], Jedi Knight [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] & Jedi Padawan [[Anakin Skywalker]].]]
* '''''[[Jedi Initiate]]''''' (or ''[[Youngling]]'' or "Jedi Hopeful") – The youngest members of the Order, these [[Force-sensitive]] child were given the rank of Initiate when they began their communal training in clans. Recruited from worlds throughout the galaxy where blood testing was required upon birth, Initiates were removed from their families and brought to a Jedi academy for formal training.<ref name="TJP" />
*'''''[[Padawan|Jedi Padawan]]''''' – After being selected for individual tutelage under a single Jedi Knight or Jedi Master, Initiates were given the title of Padawan. Eligible for this rank following the successful completion of the [[Jedi Initiate Trials|Initiate Trials]], Padawans were typically taken at adolescence and completed their training away from the academy. Per tradition, Padawans of a hair-growing species would wear a long braid of hair behind their ear; non-haired Padawans were encouraged to wear a type of jeweler, a tattoo, or other body modification. A Jedi Knight or Jedi Master could have only one apprentice at a time, and the Padawan had to be promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight before another apprentice could be chosen; a practice that was formalized following the [[Great Sith War]]. While in place, the policy could be revoked should the Order see a decline in number, and necessity forces the apprenticeship of several students to a single master. Following several unsuccessful attempts at the Initiate Trials or if a student is not chosen by a Master, the Council of Reconciliation would place the student within the [[Jedi Service Corps]]. Depending on where the student's talents lay, this might be the [[Agricultural Corps]], the [[Medical Corps]], the [[Educational Corps]] or the [[Exploration Corps]]. If this role did not suit a particular student, they could chosen to leave the Order entirely.<ref name="TJP" />
*'''''[[Jedi Knight]]''''' – Following a period of nearly a decade of one-on-one training with a master, a disciplined Padawan was eligible to attempt the [[Jedi Trials]]. Upon successfully completing all tests put forth, a Padawan's braid was severed by the High Council and their life as a Knight began. No longer attached to a master, Knights were free to accept missions from the Council, pursue specialized training on one of the three branches of Knighthood, or take their own Padawan.<ref name="TJP" />
*'''''[[Jedi Master]]''''' – A Knight who showed great understanding of the Force and managed to instruct a Padawan and train them successfully to the level of a Jedi Knight was elevated to the rank of Master by the High Council. Self-declaration of the title was frowned upon and rare practice in the latter days of the Order, but not uncommon during war times or periods of disbandment. Amongst the Order's Masters, only a select few were appointed to one of the Jedi Councils. Made up exclusively of wise, experienced Masters, the Councils of the Order had different levels of membership, ensuring fresh perspectives were expressed as new events occurred. The High Council was made up of 12 masters, five of them holding life terms, four holding long-terms, and three holding short-terms. The elected leader of the Council was known as the [[Master of the Order]] and was often bestowed upon the acting [[Grand Master]]; the recognized leader of the entire Order.<ref name="TJP" />

===Jedi Service Corps===
The [[Jedi Service Corps]] was a group of organizations overseen by the [[Council of Reconciliation]] that was maintained as an alternative or a supplement to traditional mission assignments from the High Council. While the majority of the Corps was indeed made up of Initiates who had failed to pass the [[Jedi Initiate Trials]], there were many Padawans, Knights, and Masters whose specializations brought them to the Corps.<ref name="TJP" />

'''Agricultural Corps''' 
The [[Agricultural Corps]] was the largest of these organizations. Members of the AgriCorps would use their [[Force power]]s to care for crops all over the galaxy, aiding in the feeding of several million citizens of the Republic. Working with the [[Republic Agricultural Administration]], the AgriCorps spread the idea that the Living Force can overcome the horrors of drought and famine. Made up mostly of life-long members that had failed their trials, the AgriCorps had bases on [[Salliche]], [[Taanab]], and [[Ukio]].<ref name="TJP" />

'''Medical Corps''' 
In the [[Medical Corps]], young Jedi learners who were not chosen as Padawans used their healing powers to tend for sick beings in the galaxy. Unlike the AgriCorps, the MedCorps maintained only a few dozen students and their instructors at any given time. Maintaining an infirmary in the [[Halls of Healing]] on Coruscant, MedCorps members worked alongside the [[Galactic City Medical Center]]'s doctors and specialists as they helped treat citizens of the planet-city.<ref name="TJP" />

'''Educational Corps''' 
This [[Educational Corps]] consisted of students who were still in training. Overseen by the [[Jedi Lore Keeper|Chief Librarian]], the EduCorps members stationed at the Temple on Coruscant cataloged and translated data within the Archives.<ref name="TJP" />

'''Exploration Corps''' 
The [[Exploration Corps]] was responsible for exploring the [[Unknown Regions]] as well as the study the history of the Jedi and [[the galaxy]]. With refueling centers on nearly every Republic Ordinance or Regional Depots, the galaxy was their territory for exploration. Working closely with the [[Republic Survey Corps]] and the [[Intergalactic Zoological Society]], the ExplorCorps had the highest number of Knights and Masters working in its ranks.<ref name="TJP" />

===Jedi Sub-sects===
The Jedi Order during its history has often been confronted with schisms regarding the interpretation of the Jedi Code, which sometimes created new thinking minority within the Order. These currents for the most marginalized and ostracized were sometimes tolerated, despite the fear of the return of the Sith and the Dark Side.

'''[[Altisian Jedi]]'''

Founded by the Jedi Master [[Djinn Altis]], the Altisian faction held several precepts frowned upon by the orthodox Jedi Order, including the taking of multiple apprentices by one master, initiating adult Padawans, and allowing families. Leaving the Jedi Temple during the last decades of the Temple, Altis and his followers moved about the galaxy serving as relief workers on underdeveloped worlds and backwaters.

'''[[Corellian Jedi]]'''

Faithful to the reputation of rebels of their people, Corellian Jedi were strongly attached to their natal star system and unwilling to respect the rules of emotional detachment of the Order. So a waiver was granted to them, allowing them to remain in the Corellian system, to raise families and take their own children as Padawans. They soon developed their own cultural identity within the Jedi Order , with traditional green robes, commemorative medals and famous dynasties like the [[Horn family|Halcyon family]].

[[File:IronKnight-NEGD.jpg|right|thumb|130px|A Shard Iron Knight with his lightsaber.]]
'''[[Gray Paladin]]'''

Founded by the Jedi Master [[Teepo]], Grey Paladins acknowledged that a Jedi could be no more independent of the Force than of nourishment or air; nevertheless, they had developed skills and techniques that did not utilize the Force's "flashier" aspects. They didn't eschew the use of lightsabers completely, they simply believed that a Jedi should use which ever weapon he or she felt the most comfortable with, but many chose instead to rely on proficiency with blasters and other forms of combat, both armed, and unarmed. They became Masters in various forms of martial arts like [[Teräs Käsi]], as well as esoteric weaponry such as [[spinsticks]], rather than rely on Force-augmented gymnastics and speed. Teepo and his followers were ostracized as potential dark siders. Though not a formal part of the Order, some still maintained residence at the Jedi Temple.

'''[[Iron Knight]]s'''

Founded by the Jedi Master [[Aqinos]], they were Force-sensitive crystalline [[Shard]] trained as Jedi , who required droid bodies as their hosts to interact with the world. The Jedi Council, however, was horrified that Aqinos had taught inorganic crystals about the Force, and felt that they could not truly understand the Force. Aqinos was excommunicated, and the Iron Knights went with him.

'''[[Potentium]]'''

Founded by the Jedi Master [[Leor Hal]], the Potentium claimed that there was no inherent evil in viewing the Force. They claimed that what others called the light side was actually just the Force itself, which is inherently good. What others therefore called the dark side was a perversion of the Force, twisted by those who used it. Believers of Potentium said that the potential for light and dark sides resided in the user, not the Force itself. And since there was no dark side, there were no dark side actions or Force techniques; in effect any action, good or evil, could be performed without risk as long as the intent was not evil. The followers of Potentium were expelled from the Jedi Order and some of the outcast followers colonized [[Zonama Sekot]].

==Jedi Code==
{{Main|Jedi Code}}
{{Quote|If you would only follow the Code, you would be ''on'' the Council.|[[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] to [[Qui-Gon Jinn]]|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace}}
Members of the Jedi Order, from Jedi Masters to Padawans, were encouraged to follow a set of guidelines, including self-discipline, responsibility, and public service. These principles were put simply yet effectively in the Jedi Code:<ref name="Episode I Scrapbook">''[[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Scrapbook]]''</ref>

{{Quote|''Jedi are the guardians of peace in the galaxy.''
:''Jedi use their powers to defend and protect, never to attack others.''
:''Jedi respect all life, in any form.''
:''Jedi serve others rather than ruling over them, for the good of the galaxy.''
:''Jedi seek to improve themselves through knowledge and training.''|The [[Jedi Code]]|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Scrapbook}}

The Jedi Code would help a Jedi stay on the right path and guide them away from the dark side.

The Jedi also had a Jedi Code mantra that had existed for some time before Master [[Odan-Urr]] refined it into the following passage:<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

{{Quote|''There is no emotion, there is peace.''
:''There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.''
:''There is no passion, there is serenity.''
:''There is no chaos, there is harmony.''
:''There is no death, there is the Force.''|[[Odan-Urr]]'s [[Jedi Code]]|The Official Star Wars Fact File 107}}
The Code was not necessarily a strict set of rules, but a general set of guidelines that Jedi were encouraged to keep in mind as they went about the business of the Order. Numerous Jedi teachings interpreted and expounded on the Code in subsequent millennia. These rules, created and embraced by the Jedi Masters, were essential tools in a Jedi's growth. In them, Jedi were encouraged to overcome personal obstacles such as pride and materialism, to understand their small yet important place in the galaxy, and to give every being and point of view equal consideration.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

==Locations==
{{Quote|Don't the Jedi have this reputation for, well, austerity?''" "''They like you to think that, yes! But have big honking Temple on Coruscant! Not come cheap!|[[Gar Gastinin]] and [[Vilmarh Grahrk]]|Star Wars: Republic 40: The Devaronian Version, Part 1}}
Although the main [[Jedi Temple]] was situated on Coruscant, the Jedi Order had outposts on many worlds, and possibly even controlled a few planets throughout its history. Other chief locations of the Jedi Order were the [[Jedi Enclave]] on [[Dantooine]], the [[Great Jedi Library]] on [[Ossus]] and the [[Chu'unthor]], although they were not the only Jedi training centers.

===Coruscant===
The [[Jedi Temple]] on [[Coruscant]] was the main Jedi headquarters from the end of the [[Great Sith War]] in [[3,996 BBY]] until the beginning of the [[Great Jedi Purge]] in [[19 BBY]]. Despite its impressive appearance, the Jedi Temple was a relatively modern building in comparison to some of Coruscant's others—the temple was built on a plot of land which had been awarded to the Jedi Order by the Senate after [[Naga Sadow]]'s attempted [[Battle of Coruscant (Great Hyperspace War)|invasion]] of the capital in [[5,000 BBY]]. The Senate hoped that having such a large Jedi presence on the capital would leave the planet less susceptible to invasions. From this site, the four [[Jedi Council]]s took care of the administrative, strategic, and spiritual needs of the Jedi Order, ensuring that it met the needs of the [[Galactic Republic|Republic]] and its vast multitudes of citizens.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

[[File:Jedi temple2.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The [[Jedi Temple]] on [[Coruscant]].]]
When the land was awarded to the Order by the Senate, the Jedi were at first reluctant to build a citadel there—they held the belief that the Order was not a military organization, and that a military-oriented building would be a contradiction to their code. Instead of taking the Senate's proposition, the Council authorized the construction of a meditative and training center instead, some of which helped preserve the rapidly diminishing nature of Coruscant.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

Eventually, the original meditative and training center grew vastly in size and complexity, until it began to resemble the sprawling world on which it was located.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> New chambers within the Jedi Temple included the [[Room of a Thousand Fountains]], which contained a huge greenhouse, flowing waters and cascades. Also included in the expansive temple were [[lightsaber]] training areas as well as areas which provided views of vast holographic star maps.<ref name="Jedi Temple in the Databank">{{DB|location|jeditemple|Jedi Temple}}</ref>

The Jedi Temple had five spires; one for each of its four councils, and a larger spire which contained the sacred manuscripts of the founding Jedi.<ref name="Jedi Temple in the Databank" /> The Jedi High Council chambers were located in the southwest tower, while the [[Council of Reconciliation]] chambers were located in the southeast tower. The northeast and northwest towers were occupied by the [[Council of Reassignment]] and the [[Council of First Knowledge]].<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

During [[Operation: Knightfall]], as part of the execution of [[Order 66]], [[Anakin Skywalker|Darth Vader]] led the [[501st Legion]] into the [[Jedi Temple]], intent on destroying the Jedi. Although the Jedi Temple was not destroyed, it was badly damaged, with smoke billowing out for all to see.<ref name="ROTS" />

===Ossus===
[[File:GreatLibraryOnOssus.JPG|thumb|right|180px|The [[Great Jedi Library]] on [[Ossus]].]]
The [[Great Jedi Library]] on [[Ossus]] was an immense library for Jedi students. Constructed under the direction of [[Odan-Urr]] around 5,000 BBY, the library was a repository for knowledge of all kinds, and a training center for many Jedi students. The vast amounts of information the library contained were sorted in various different ways, depending on age and importance. Most of the data was contained on reader tapes and holographic media, although some of the more ancient knowledge was stored on traditional paper scrolls and books. Although the ancient books and scrolls were eventually translated onto electronic forms, the [[Chamber of Antiquities]] preserved the ancient writing for historical purposes.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

The library also held knowledge forbidden to the Jedi, such as ancient [[Sith holocron]]s, which Odan-Urr had decided to keep. The [[Draethos]] Jedi Master's reasoning was that all knowledge—even knowledge of evil—would be useful in the defense of justice. Only those who had been approved by the Jedi Council, as well as Odan-Urr (as the [[Keeper of Antiquities]]), were allowed access to these [[holocron]]s, and even then they were only permitted to do so under strict supervision.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

During the height of the [[Great Sith War]] in [[3,996 BBY]], fallen Jedi [[Exar Kun]] visited Ossus to recruit new members to his cause. While there, he entered the Chamber of Antiquities, slaying Odan-Urr to get to one of the Sith holocrons. Afterwards, Ossus became a battlefield for the Jedi/Republic army, which eventually defeated the Sith Empire. Meanwhile, a supernova was threatening to devastate the planet. After Ossus had been evacuated, Exar Kun and his apprentice, [[Ulic Qel-Droma]], arrived at the Great Jedi Library, looking to plunder the remaining artifacts before the supernova's shockwave destroyed them. However, [[Neti]] [[Jedi Master]] [[Ood Bnar]] managed to foil the two [[Dark side of the Force|dark siders]], metamorphosing into a powerful tree; he sacrificed his life to protect a vault of [[lightsaber]]s from Kun and his apprentice.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

===Dantooine===
The [[Jedi Enclave]] on [[Dantooine]] was a secret Jedi training center located on [[Dantooine]] prior to the [[Jedi Civil War]].<ref name="Kotor" /> The Enclave consisted of several levels, the first of which included a council chamber, sparring rooms, and dormitories,<ref name="Kotor" /> while the sublevel consisted of common rooms, classrooms, and a medical bay, as well as an archive room only accessible by Jedi Masters.<ref name="Kotor2" /> The Enclave was built upon a courtyard, which led out into Dantooine's [[Khoonda plains|plains]]. At the center of the building was a circular open-air room, with several trees at the center of a walkway.<ref name="Kotor" />

[[File:Originalenclave.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The [[Jedi Enclave]] during the [[Jedi Civil War]].]]
The Dantooine Jedi Council held its meetings in a small council chamber, similar to the one on Coruscant. This room remained the meeting place of the council until at least [[3,964 BBY]], when the council had moved to a low-ceilinged larger round room on the ground level with no windows.<ref name="Kotor" />

Before the Great Sith War, the Enclave was presided over by Master [[Vodo-Siosk Baas]], who was murdered by his former pupil, [[Exar Kun]].<ref name="TOTJ:TSW">''[[Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War]]''</ref> During the [[Great Hunt]], the Enclave governed by a four-member council similar to the High Council on Coruscant. At the time of the Great Hunt, the members were [[Vrook Lamar]], [[Bala Nisi]], [[Qual]] and [[Aleco Stusea]].<ref name="SaL">''[[Shadows and Light]]''</ref> This Council had jurisdiction over the Jedi in the part of the Outer Rim that included Dantooine and Taris.<ref name="DarkHorse">[http://www.darkhorse.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=128708#128708 Boards > View topic - KNIGHTS of the OLD REPUBLIC #5 -- All this over a dream!?]</ref>

Around the time of the [[Jedi Civil War]], the council consisted of Masters Vrook Lamar, [[Zhar Lestin]], [[Vandar Tokare]] and [[Dorak]]. The fact that both Vrook Lamar and Vandar Tokare were also members of the Jedi High Council may indicate the Dantooine Enclave Council was a subset of the High Council. This council was responsible for healing Darth Revan's destroyed mind and inserting a new identity into his brain, and after the destruction of Taris, retraining him in the ways of the Jedi. The council was dissolved after Darth Malak's bombardment of the Jedi Enclave during the Jedi Civil War. Masters Dorak, Vandar, and Zhar escaped only to find death a few years later on Katarr.<ref name="Kotor" />

===Chu'unthor===
The [[Chu'unthor]] was a massive Jedi training ship commissioned by the Jedi Council around [[400 BBY]]. Named after the [[Cerean language|Cerean]] word for academy, the Chu'unthor was constructed by [[Republic Fleet Systems]] in orbit around [[Abhean]] in the [[Mid Rim]].<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> One thousand meters long, and twice as wide.<ref name="OSSFF95">''[[The Official Star Wars Fact File 95]]''</ref> The Chu'unthor could hold up to fourteen thousand students, teachers and other accompanying staff.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

[[File:Chu'unthor1.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The [[Chu'unthor]].]]
The main driving force behind the Chu'unthor were Jedi Masters [[Fin-So-Rowan]] and [[Ivixa Delbaeth]], who viewed it as both a training center and an exploratory vessel, intending it to travel through and beyond the Republic on a mission of peace. The Chu'unthor was an experiment of sorts—if it proved successful, the High Council intended to build many more training vessels.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

For its first century of existence, the Chu'unthor was highly successful, with thousands of students learning the [[Jedi Code]], as well as gaining firsthand experience of the worlds and creatures of the Republic. The Chu'unthor also found many previously undiscovered planets on its travels,<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> helping to end conflicts wherever possible.<ref name="OSSFF95" /> Despite the Chu'unthor's obvious success, other training vessels were never constructed. Due to the falling numbers of force sensitives joining the Order, the Council considered it unnecessary to build additional training ships. Although its founders were disappointed, the Chu'unthor continued on its mission of education and embassy.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

About two centuries after its construction,<ref name="OSSFF95" /> the Chu'unthor made contact with the remote world of [[Dathomir]]. Some of the [[planet]]'s inhabitants, known as [[Witches of Dathomir]], had mastered a unique alignment to the Force. When the Chu'unthor sustained catastrophic malfunctions, it crashed into a tar pit on Dathomir. The fierce Force witches, riding vicious [[rancor]]s, surrounded the fallen ship, threatening to hurt the passengers. A team of Jedi, led by Master [[Yoda]], arrived to rescue the captives and negotiate with the hostile Dathomiri. Eventually, the Force witches agreed to release the prisoners, but only if the ship, and its contents, stayed on Dathomir. The Jedi reluctantly agreed; however, they secretly hid an amount of reader tapes, which contained vast amount of information about the Jedi Order that Yoda didn't want falling into [[Dathomir]]i hands, as the Force witches despised the Jedi Order, from which their ancestors were banished.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

==Behind the scenes==
The Jedi Order originated in the rough draft as the [[Galactic Emperor]]'s bodyguard.<ref name="Databank" /> They became affiliated with the ''[[Republica Galactica]]'' in the second draft.<ref name="Empire DB">{{DB|organization|theempire|The Empire}}</ref> Later, when composing background information for licensees in [[1977]], [[George Lucas]] described the Jedi Order as being "several hundred thousand" strong before the Purge.<ref name="The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film">''[[The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film]]''</ref>

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*''[[Star Wars: Republic: The Devaronian Version]]''
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*''[[Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter]]''
*''[[Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive]]''
*''[[Boba Fett: Part I: Survival]]''
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*[[Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (junior novelization)|''Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones'' junior novel]]
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*{{LFC|Clouded Paths}}
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*''[[Republic Commando: Hard Contact]]''
*''[[Boba Fett: Crossfire]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Volume 1: The Defense of Kamino]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Volume 2: Victories and Sacrifices]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Volume 4: Light and Dark]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Volume 3: Last Stand on Jabiim]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Volume 5: The Best Blades]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Volume 6: On the Fields of Battle]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Volume 7: When They Were Brothers]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Volume 8: The Last Siege, the Final Truth]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Volume 9: Endgame]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 1]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 2]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 3]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 4]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 5]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 6]]''
*''[[Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 7]]''
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*''[[Shatterpoint]]''
*''[[The Cestus Deception]]''
*''[[Republic Commando: Triple Zero]]''
*''[[Republic Commando: True Colors]]''
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*{{TCW|Mystery of a Thousand Moons}}
*''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes]]''
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*''[[The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part I)]]''
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*{{TCW|The Deserter}}
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*{{TCW|The Mandalore Plot}}
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*''[[The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: Dooku's Secret Army]]''
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*''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]''
*''[[Yoda: Dark Rendezvous]]''
*''[[Star Wars: Obsession]]''
*''[[Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel]]''
*''[[Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron]]''
*''[[Labyrinth of Evil]]''
*''[[Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]''
*[[Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (junior novelization)|''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith'' junior novel]]
*''[[Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader]]''
*''[[Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Star Wars: Dark Times 14: Blue Harvest, Part 2]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Star Wars 10: Behemoth from the World Below]]'' {{Mo}} {{1stID|the Holy Order of the Jedi Knights}}
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*''[[Rebel Force: Hostage]]'' {{Mo}}
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*''[[Tatooine Ghost]]''
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*''[[Power of the Jedi Sourcebook]]''
*''[[Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide]]''
*''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''
*''[[Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide]]''
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*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[The Clone Wars Campaign Guide]]''
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*''[[Rebellion Era Campaign Guide]]''
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*''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''
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*{{DB|organization|thejediorder|The Jedi Order}}

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Jedi Order

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{{Quote|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]]|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope}}
The '''Jedi Order''', later known as the '''Old Jedi Order''' and referred to as the '''Holy Order of the Jedi Knights''', was an ancient monastic peacekeeping organization unified by its belief and observance of [[the Force]], specifically the [[Light side of the Force|light side]]. The [[Jedi]] were the guardians of peace and justice in the [[Galactic Republic]], and became the most famous of the various groups that relied on the Force for their power. Led by a series of [[Jedi Council]]s, the Order grew over the millennia despite facing many trials, most often threats from the [[Sith]], wielders of the [[dark side of the Force]].

During several [[Great Schism]]s, [[Dark Jedi]] broke away from the order. These schisms led to several wars including the [[Hundred-Year Darkness]] after which the Dark Jedi fled and founded the [[Sith Empire]]. The Sith were eventually found by the Republic and their discovery led to the [[Great Hyperspace War]], and a Sith [[Battle of Coruscant (Great Hyperspace War)|invasion of Coruscant]]. The Jedi on Coruscant, led by [[Jedi Guardian]] [[Anavus Svag]] and Jedi Master [[Memit Nadill]], successfully defended the planet and defeated the Sith. Their Dark brethren wouldn't stay defeated for long and during the next several thousand years many wars would be fought. A thousand years later, after the [[Great Sith War]], the [[Mandalorian]]s saw their chance and [[Mandalorian Wars|attacked]] the weakened Republic. After the war, the Jedi that had led the Republic's military, [[Revan]] and [[Darth Malak|Alek Squinquargesimus]], disappeared. When they returned it became clear they had turned to the Dark Side, and during the [[Jedi Civil War|war]] that followed many Jedi died. During [[First Jedi Purge|the aftermath]] the Order was left numbering less than one-hundred Jedi, until it was rebuilt by the [[Jedi Exile]] and the [[Lost Jedi]].

Many years later the galaxy was again engulfed in a [[New Sith Wars|war]] between the Republic and the Sith. Led by [[Lord]] [[Hoth (individual)|Hoth]], the Jedi were able to regroup and push back the Sith, who eventually withdrew to the planet [[Ruusan]]. After seven long battles on Ruusan the Sith were [[Seventh Battle of Ruusan|defeated]] and presumed wiped out. [[Darth Bane|One of them]] managed to survive and [[Rule of Two|reorganize]] the [[Brotherhood of Darkness|Sith Order]]. Though [[Darth Bane]] and the [[Order of the Sith Lords|Sith Lords that followed]] in his footsteps remained hidden, they were patient. Millennia later they [[Invasion of Naboo|revealed themselves]], determined to have their revenge. After a [[Separatist Crisis|crisis]], the Republic was split in two and a [[Clone Wars|war]] once again engulfed the galaxy. During the Clone Wars, the Republic's armies were once again led by the Jedi. During [[First Battle of Geonosis|the first battle of the war]], nearly two hundred Jedi died before Master [[Yoda]] and a [[Grand Army of the Republic|Clone army]] arrived to assist them. However, nobody expected that the [[Supreme Chancellor]] was in fact a [[Sith Lord]]. The Jedi eventually learned the truth, but it was already too late. The Order was [[Order 66|virtually annihilated by the Sith and betrayed by the Republic]] they had served for millennia. Only a few survived the [[Great Jedi Purge]]. However, [[Anakin Skywalker]], with the indirect help of his son, Jedi Knight [[Luke Skywalker]], eventually [[Battle of Endor|defeated]] the Sith, and Luke formed the [[New Jedi Order]] during the [[Post-Imperial Period|time]] of the [[New Republic]].

==History of the Jedi Order==
{{Quote|You must remember that there are over a hundred thousand inhabited worlds in the Republic, and there are now only a few thousand of us. '''Billions''' of beings have never seen a Jedi. Millions have never even heard of our Order. Or of the Force. When we do appear, we can be killers, but also healers. Thank the Force for that.|Obi-Wan Kenobi to Anakin Skywalker|Clone Wars Volume 3: Last Stand on Jabiim}}

===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 [[Order of Dai Bendu]],<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook">''[[Power of the Jedi Sourcebook]]''</ref> the [[Followers of Palawa]],<ref name="The New Essential Chronology">''[[The New Essential Chronology]]''</ref> and the [[Chatos Academy]].<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> No conclusive links have ever been demonstrated, though. It is purported that early Jedi learned morality from the [[Caamasi]].

[[File:Force Wars-TEA.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The [[Force Wars]] of [[Tython]].]]
The earliest documentation of the existence of the Jedi Order indicates that the organization was formally founded on [[Tython]] around [[25,783 BBY]], several hundred years before the founding of the [[Galactic Republic]].<ref name="T1" /> The galaxy's best philosophers, priests, scientists, and warriors had come together here [[36,453 BBY|millennia before]] to discuss their discoveries involving the enigmatic and mystical [[Light side of the Force|Ashla]].<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> Unfortunately, many became seduced by the dark and destructive side of the Ashla, called the [[Dark side of the Force|Bogan]], and sought to seize power. The resulting [[Force Wars]] devastated Tython for [[25,793 BBY|over a decade]].

From the ashes of these wars arose the early [[Jedi]], and their [[Jedi Forge]] initiation ceremony, which led to the eventual invention of [[lightsaber]]s after they faced threats from beyond Tython. Through the use of advanced off-world [[laser]] technology, the Jedi were able to "freeze" a laser beam, resulting in the birth of the lightsaber.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> A proactive group left Tython to liberate other worlds, becoming the [[Jedi Knight]]s. They founded a philosophical school on [[Ossus]], defining the [[Light side of the Force|light side]] and [[dark side of the Force]] (equivalent, respectively, to the ancient Ashla and Bogan) as well as the [[The Force#The Living Force|Living Force]] and [[The Force#Potentium and the Unifying Force|Unifying Force]].

Around [[25,053 BBY]], the [[Galactic Republic]] formed.<ref name="T1" /> Within a century, the Jedi swore fealty to the young government. The Republic mapped the [[Perlemian Trade Route]], which linked [[Coruscant]] with Ossus, and the Jedi fortified themselves [[fortress world|there]] to defend the Republic and the [[The Slice|Slice]] colonists from external threats.

In the event historians now know as the [[First Great Schism]], dissidents who used the Bogan eventually arose again. The [[Dark Jedi]] General [[Xendor]] and his [[Legions of Lettow]] allied with a master of [[Teräs Käsi]], [[Arden Lyn]], and her [[Followers of Palawa]] from [[Bunduki]]. In a climactic battle, Xendor was slain, [[Jedi Master]] [[Awdrysta Pina]] stopped Arden's heart with [[morichro]], and Lyn killed Pina with the [[Kashi Mer Dynasty|Kashi Mer]] talisman.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

The Republic and Jedi fortified Ossus, [[Falang Minor]], and [[Haashimut]] to protect the Perlemian from the [[Tionese (people)|Tionese]] and [[Hutt]]s.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

In [[7,000 BBY]] the Jedi suffered the Second Great Schism, resulting in the [[Hundred-Year Darkness]]. This conflict ended with the [[Battle of Corbos]] [[6,900 BBY]]. The surviving Dark Jedi fled to [[Ziost]] and founded the [[Sith Empire]].<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

===The Great Hyperspace War and aftermath===
{{Main|Great Hyperspace War}}
{{Quote|The Republic has grown and expanded for many generations, encountering no worse than a few interplanetary squabbles and civil wars…but if we should confront the fabled Sith Empire, we will experience a war so great, so devastating…it can cross the fabric of hyperspace, a conflagration spanning the Galaxy…|[[Ooroo]]|Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith}}

In [[5,000 BBY]], the Republic discovered the Sith and the [[Great Hyperspace War]] began. Though the war ended with Dark Lord of the Sith [[Naga Sadow]] in suspended animation on Yavin 4 and his great war fleets destroyed, the Sith Empire survived.<ref name="TEC">''[[The Essential Chronology]]''</ref>

[[File:Battle of Coruscant (Great Hyperspace War).jpg|thumb|left|250px|The [[Battle of Coruscant (Great Hyperspace War)|Battle of Coruscant]] during the Great Hyperspace War.]]
On [[Koros]], a Jedi named [[Odan-Urr]] had a nightmarish vision of the death of Sith Lord [[Marka Ragnos]], and the war against the Republic that it would cause. He traveled to Coruscant with fellow Jedi [[Memit Nadill]] and Teta, the empress of Koros, to voice his concerns in front of the senate, though they did not take him seriously, and took no action.<ref name="TOTJ:GAOTS">''[[Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith]]''</ref> Some time later back on Koros, Nadill, Odan-Urr and Urr's master [[Ooroo]] were present when a young convict named [[Jori Daragon]] burst into Teta's chambers, telling the Jedi that she had seen the great Sith Empire, and that they were on their way to attack the Republic. Nadill learned as much as he could about the Sith Empire, then traveled to [[Coruscant]] to rally the support of the Jedi Knights.<ref name="TOTJ:FOTSE">''[[Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire]]''</ref>

The new Dark Lord of the Sith, [[Naga Sadow]], deployed his fleets to invade numerous Republic worlds simultaneously while he left his eye-shaped [[Sith meditation sphere]] near [[Primus Goluud]] and used Sith magic to create thousands of illusory soldiers, which made the Sith army seem far larger than it actually was. The Jedi Order played a huge role in the [[Battle of Coruscant (Great Hyperspace War)|defense]] of [[Coruscant]], with Memit Nadill leading a team of Jedi Knights, including [[Tuknatan]] and [[Sonam-Ha'ar]]. Another battle was raging on the planet of [[Kirrek]], where Jedi Master [[Ooroo]] and his apprentice [[Odan-Urr]] were stationed. However, when Naga Sadow's concentration was broken, much of the Sith forces disappeared. On Coruscant, the Jedi realized what had happened and launched a massive counterattack, easily defeating the Sith. The Republic also emerged victorious on Kirrek, however only at the expense of the death of Ooroo, who sacrificed his life in defeating a large force of Massassi warriors.<ref name="TOTJ:FOTSE" />

In [[4,400 BBY]], the ambitious Jedi Apprentice [[Freedon Nadd]] was denied Knighthood by his Jedi Masters. In an attempt to find out why this had happened, Freedon went to Jedi Master [[Matta Tremayne]], who challenged him to prove to her that he was indeed a Jedi Knight. Freedon saw this as a threat and decided to attack and kill Tremayne. Furious at the Jedi Masters for making him kill Matta, Nadd went looking for the Sith, because he felt that they were the only ones who would readily accept his apprenticeship and teach him about the Force.<ref name="Tales of the Jedi Companion">''[[Tales of the Jedi Companion]]''</ref>

Freedon Nadd discovered Sith Lord [[Naga Sadow]] on [[Yavin 4]] and woke him. Sadow trained Freedon Nadd in the ways of the Dark Side. When his training was complete, Nadd killed his Sith Master and went to the planet of [[Onderon]], located outside Republic space, with hopes of rebuilding a stronger Sith Empire. After Freedon Nadd had made himself the leader of [[Iziz]] he began to exile all criminals from the city. Some of the [[Beast Rider|exiles]] survived and organized. Not even Freedon Nadd could stop them. The war continued even after Freedon's death.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

In [[4,250 BBY]] the Jedi experienced the [[Third Great Schism]]. After a Jedi civil war on Coruscant, a group of Dark Jedi retreated to the [[Vultar]] system, where they discovered that the planets of the system were artificial. The Dark Jedi could not control the huge machines and [[Vultar Cataclysm|annihilated]] themselves and the entire system.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

===The Old Sith Wars===
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[[File:Nomi JATM.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Nomi Sunrider]], Jedi Knight of the Old Republic.]]
====The Freedon Nadd Uprising====
{{Main|Freedon Nadd Uprising}}
The world of [[Onderon]] suffered through the legacy of [[Freedon Nadd]] as a cult devoted to his memory, known as the [[Naddist]]s, [[Freedon Nadd Uprising|wreaked havoc]] on the people of the planet. When Jedi Master [[Arca Jeth]] attempted to move Freedon Nadd's remains to Onderon's moon [[Dxun]] the Naddists, led by Onderonian [[King]] [[Ommin]], attacked and managed to capture Nadd's remains as well as Master Arca. Ommin then fled to the city of Iziz. The Republic's army converged on the planet and attacked Iziz, but was too strong and devastated the city. After the battle, Freedon Nadd's remains were taken to Dxun and sealed in an armored tomb.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

====The Great Sith War====
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{{Quote|Exar was a Jedi who was corrupted by ghosts of the old Sith, or so they say. He attempted to conquer the Republic and create a new Golden Age of the Sith.|[[Jolee Bindo]]|Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic}}
In [[3,996 BBY]], the talented and curious Jedi [[Exar Kun]], having learned about the Golden Age of the Sith, traveled to Dxun. There he found the tomb of Freedon Nadd. The spirit of Freedon Nadd corrupted Kun and the young Jedi surrendered to the dark side. After first traveling to Korriban, Kun then went to Yavin's fourth moon and took over Naga Sadow's ancient fortresses, enslaving the Massassi race to further his ambitious plans. Destroying Nadd's spirit for the last time, Exar Kun staked his claim as the true heir to the ancient Sith legacy, which was thought to have been destroyed. The Jedi called a meeting to discuss the growing foothold of the Sith. During the meeting, the Jedi were attacked by the [[Krath]], a secret dark side society led by [[Aleema Keto|Aleema]] and [[Satal Keto]]. Master Arca died while saving his student [[Ulic Qel-Droma]]'s life. Ulic then infiltrated the Krath in an attempt to destroy them from within. The Krath, suspecting he was a spy, injected him with a Sith poison and eventually Ulic fell to the dark side and became a Krath general.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

Exar Kun traveled to [[Cinnagar]] to find and destroy Ulic Qel-Droma. However, their duel was interrupted by the spirit of [[Marka Ragnos]], who commanded them to stop fighting each other and form an alliance. United, they waged [[Great Sith War|war]] on the Republic, kidnapping young Jedi from [[Ossus]] and subverting them to the dark side. Exar Kun stole a Sith Holocron and killed the now legendary Master Odan-Urr. Qel-Droma defeated Lord Mandalore, the leader of the [[Mandalorian]]s, and with their leader defeated the [[Mandalorian Crusaders]] agreed to join the Sith.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

[[File:Exarkun.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Dark Lord of the Sith [[Exar Kun]].]]
Qel-Droma's Krath and Mandalorian forces laid siege to Coruscant, but the Jedi managed to defeat the invaders and capture Ulic. When Kun heard of his comrade's capture, he traveled to Coruscant to rescue Qel-Droma. Ulic was facing trial in the [[Senate Hall]] when Exar Kun arrived. Master [[Vodo-Siosk Baas]] attempted to stop his former apprentice, but Kun killed him as well as the [[Supreme Chancellor]]. Exar Kun then ordered every Sith disciple to find and assassinate their former Jedi Masters. Most of them succeeded. The Sith Lords then made the suns of the [[Cron Cluster]] go supernova using Naga Sadow's Sith flagship, which they had discovered on Yavin IV; the shock wave from the exploding stars would destroy Ossus. The Jedi desperately tried to save as many of the artifacts stored in Ossus's library. Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma arrived on the planet to take anything the Jedi had not removed already. Knowing he could not save every artifact, Master [[Ood Bnar]] buried several priceless artifacts just before the Sith arrived. Ulic dueled his brother [[Cay Qel-Droma]] and killed him. When Ulic stared at his brother's body, he collapsed, having realized what he had done. [[Nomi Sunrider]] then cut off Qel-Droma's connection to the Force. Broken, Ulic surrendered to the Republic and led the Jedi to Yavin IV.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

Knowing the Jedi were coming, Exar Kun committed a ritual which took the life from every Massassi on the planet to separate his spirit from his body and bind it to his temple. The Jedi forces in orbit bombed the planet, obliterating the temple complex below. The Mandalorian Crusaders were defeated on Onderon and fled; the Great Sith War had come to an end. After the destruction of Ossus, the Jedi relocated their headquarters to the Temple on Coruscant and started to rebuild what was lost during the war. Having gained much prestige and unrivaled skill throughout the war, Nomi Sunrider was granted the rank of Jedi Master, before being elected as the official Head of the Jedi Order. As the Jedi's leader, Nomi called a [[conclave on Exis Station]] and there began the process of forming a new [[Jedi High Council]].<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" /> In addition, the Order created an [[Lost City of the Jedi|underground city]] to aide the recovery of the planet Yavin 4 ecology as well as to ensure that Kun never returned again.<ref name="KOTORCG">[[Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide]]</ref>

====The Mandalorian Wars====
{{Main|Mandalorian Wars}}
{{Quote|It was not your ships or your men or your vaunted 'fight for freedom' that won this, the final battle of the war. It was by the actions of one person—the Jedi Revan—that you prevailed. Revan's strategies and tactics defeated the best of us. Even Mandalore himself was taken aback by the ferocity of his attacks, the tenacity of his defenses, and the subtlety of his plans. Revan fought us to a standstill and then began pushing us back. We didn't really have a chance.|[[Canderous Ordo]]|Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords}}

[[File:SWKOTOR7-FC.jpg|thumb|right|180px|[[Mandalorian]]s during the Mandalorian Wars.]]
To prevent the return of the Sith, Jedi Master [[Krynda Draay]] dedicated herself to training [[Jedi Consular|Jedi Seers]] who would be able to foresee any possible Sith threat and destroy it at the source. These Seers formed the bulk of her [[Jedi Covenant]], a shadowy organization devoted to spotting and dealing with any [[shatterpoint]]s that could cause the Sith to emerge again.<ref name="KotorC">[[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (comics)|''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'' comic series]]</ref>

The events of the [[Mandalorian Wars]] would begin the downfall of the Jedi Order. They coincided with a vision seen by four Jedi Masters—the Consular members of the [[First WatchCircle]] of the Jedi Covenant—who saw visions of chaos in the Jedi Order and the Republic as well as signs that the responsible party could be one of their Padawans. The Masters decided to strike, but only succeeded in [[Padawan Massacre of Taris|murdering four of their own Padawans]] who were near Knighthood. Their actions also caused massive civil disorder on Taris—which later made the planet easy prey for the Mandalorians—alienated Padawan [[Zayne Carrick]] from the Order, and inadvertently dissolved even their own group, being split up by the [[Jedi High Council]] and assigned to different postings around [[the galaxy]].

The [[Mandalorian]]s, led by [[Mandalore the Ultimate]], began to conquer planets that were left defenseless after the Sith War. By adding the weapons and technology of their victims to their own the Mandalorians soon built a large army, and their territory grew fast. The Republic's efforts to stop the Mandalorians were ineffective, and soon Mandalore took advantage of this weakness by directly attacking Republic space. The Jedi Council refused to help the Republic, believing that caution was necessary. But a number of young Jedi, including Revan and Alek Squinquargesimus, openly defied the Council by joining and leading the Republics forces in battle. Revan used Mandalorian tactics against his enemies: he was willing to sacrifice one planet if it meant securing victory at a more important one. Under the leadership of Revan and Alek the Republic liberated many planets, and the final battle of the war was fought at [[Malachor V]].

During the [[Battle of Malachor V|battle]], Revan killed Mandalore in hand-to-hand combat and obliterated the remaining Mandalorian forces. The war was over. The Mandalorians had been defeated by a worthy opponent, and destroyed their armor and weapons.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

Jedi Master [[Kreia]], Revan's former mentor, was exiled as the [[Jedi Council]] felt her 'gray' stance on the Force had led her students, most notably Revan, down the path of the dark side.<ref name="Kotor2">''[[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords]]''</ref>

====The Jedi Civil War====
{{Main|Jedi Civil War}}
{{Quote|The reason the Jedi Civil War was named such was because few in the galaxy can recognize the difference between the Sith and the Jedi. To them, they are both Jedi—with different philosophies.|[[Mical]]|Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords}}
At the close of the Mandalorian Wars, the Jedi Revan and Alek mysteriously disappeared into the [[Unknown Regions]], supposedly pursuing the last remnants of the Mandalorian fleet. When the two Jedi and their armies returned, they had changed dramatically. At some point during the journey, Revan had encountered the teachings of the [[Sith]], and subsequently turned to the dark side to help strengthen the galaxy against what was to come. ''[[Darth]]'' Revan assumed the title of [[Dark Lord of the Sith]], and Alek became Darth Malak, his Sith apprentice.<ref name="Kotor">''[[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic]]''</ref>

[[File:DarthRevan DarthMalak EGF.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The Dark Lords of the Sith, [[Darth Malak|Malak]] and [[Revan]].]]
Returning to the Republic, Darth Revan and Darth Malak began to wage 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 follow the pair. 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 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. World after world fell to Revan's vast fleets and masterful strategies. Determined not to make the same mistakes they had in the Mandalorian Wars, the [[Jedi Council]] devised a plan to eliminate the enemy at its source: Revan.<ref name="Kotor" />

During one fateful battle, a small Jedi strike team led by [[Bastila Shan]], a young Jedi Padawan with the remarkable gift of [[battle meditation]], infiltrated Darth Revan's command ship to capture the Dark Lord. During the confrontation, Darth Malak, who was stationed aboard a different ship, realized that Revan could be easily defeated and that he could then assume the title of Dark Lord of the Sith, fired upon his own master's vessel in the hope of killing both Revan and the Jedi fighting him. The Jedi managed to escape with Revan's body, but Malak had achieved a crucial victory, for he was now the Dark Lord of the Sith and commander of the entire Sith armada.<ref name="Kotor" />

Malak continued to wage war against the Republic, relying exclusively on brute force as opposed to subtle strategies. Following the Sith tradition, he took his an apprentice of his own: [[Darth Bandon]]. 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 [[Taris]], Bastila's vessel, the [[Endar Spire]], was crippled beyond recovery, and the young Jedi was forced to evacuate to the planet below. As fate would have it, two other survivors eventually caught up with Bastila on Taris: [[Carth Onasi]], a decorated soldier and war hero of the Republic, and another lowly officer who Bastila recently had transferred to her command. The key to the rest of the war, however, lay in the identity of this single, seemingly insignificant foot soldier.<ref name="Kotor" />

Carth and Bastila continued to gain more companions, managed to escape the destruction of Taris, and fled to Dantooine, where in addition to learning that their third companion was Force sensitive, they discovered the existence of the [[Star Forge]]. The Jedi Council then commissioned their small band to seek out [[Star Map]]s 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 encountered and defeated many Sith minions, including Darth Bandon. The biggest interruption was captured by one of the Sith fleet's command ships. 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 [[coma]]tose 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.<ref name="Kotor" />

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 in collaboration with the Republic against it. Revan managed to infiltrate the giant factory, which was the source of the Sith's limitless armada, and [[Duel on the Star Forge|defeated]] 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 war continued, even without Revan or Malak.<ref name="Kotor2" />

====First Jedi Purge and aftermath====
The Jedi Civil War and [[First Jedi Purge|other dramatic events]] to follow it, such as the [[Conclave on Katarr]], would see the near-destruction and death of the order. Only about a hundred individual Jedi survived throughout the galaxy. Realizing that the threat was greater when Jedi gathered in numbers, the [[Jedi Council]] disbanded, with the remaining Jedi Masters going into hiding on planets across the galaxy in the hopes that this would allow them to discover the true origins of the new Sith threat without endangering everyone around them. The [[Jedi Temple]] on [[Coruscant]] was completely abandoned, and the badly damaged [[Jedi Enclave]] on [[Dantooine]] was left nothing but a hollow shell.<ref name="Kotor2" />

A former Jedi known as the [[Jedi Exile]], who had been cut off from the Force and exiled by the Jedi Council after joining Malak and Revan, sought out the remaining councilors who were in hiding, in an attempt to form a group to defeat the threat of the [[Sith Triumvirate]], who were threatening to annihilate the Jedi completely. As she traveled the galaxy in search of the hidden Jedi, the Exile trained several of her companions in the ways of the Force. She found [[Vrook Lamar]] on [[Dantooine]], [[Zez-Kai Ell]] on [[Nar Shaddaa]] and [[Kavar]] on [[Onderon]]. The three former Councilors then met with the Exile once again in the rebuilt [[Jedi Enclave]] on Dantooine. They decided to once again exile her, as well as sever her completely from the Force, as they felt she was a threat to all living beings around her. As they attempted to, [[Kreia]], the Exile's mentor, killed them, and after revealing herself as the third Sith Lord, Darth Traya, she left the Exile on Dantooine. The Exile's revival corresponded with the Sith attack on the Republic, and she traveled to [[Telos IV]] to fight the Sith Lord [[Darth Nihilus]]. The Exile defeated Nihilus on his flagship above Telos, before traveling to [[Malachor V]] to kill Traya and [[Darth Sion]], the two remaining Sith Lords.<ref name="Kotor2" />

Eventually, the group of individuals the Exile trained, known as the [[Lost Jedi]], would, as Darth Traya prophesied, come together to re-establish another Jedi Order. Apart from them, who were yet to become true Jedi, there were only two known Jedi left in the Republic space by the end of the [[Battle of Telos IV]]—[[Bastila Shan]], and [[Atris]].<ref name="Kotor2" />

====The Great Galactic War====
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====The Cold War====
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===The New Sith Wars===
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[[File:Lord_Hoth_EGTTF.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Lord [[Hoth (individual)|Hoth]], leader of the [[Army of Light]]]]
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 [[New Sith Wars|much larger conflict]] would soon engulf the galaxy.

[[Darth Ruin|Phanius]] was one of the order's brightest members, a Jedi Master no less. He became entranced with the forbidden knowledge of the Sith and, defying the council, absconded into deep space with a [[Sith holocron]] stolen from the [[Jedi Archives]].

Like Exar Kun and Darth Revan before him, Phanius was seduced by the dark side. He took up the long vacant title of Dark Lord of the Sith as well as a new name and identity: Darth Ruin. In the ensuing years, Ruin gathered together a large number of dark side followers and surviving Sith clans and founded the [[New Sith Empire]]. With this army Ruin planned to bring the Republic, and the Jedi who served it, to their knees. [[Brotherhood of Darkness|The Brotherhood]] attacked the Republic, and conquered vast swathes of the galaxy. But when total victory was in their grasp, like so many of their Sith predecessors, the members of the Brotherhood turned against one another. The Brotherhood splintered, and various high-ranking Sith Lords claimed the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith and began to execute vast and cruel campaigns against each other, giving the beleaguered Republic and its Jedi protectors time to recover.

The Jedi regrouped and formed a vast army to oppose the Brotherhood—the [[Army of Light]]. Ably led by [[Jedi Lord|Lord]] [[Hoth (individual)|Hoth]], the Jedi took the fight to the Brotherhood's central systems in [[The Cloak of the Sith]]. As the decades ground on, the Jedi slowly gained the initiative over their foes—but the Sith would not give in. Eventually the surviving Sith, after several long and bitter campaigns, regrouped on the world of [[Ruusan]] under the leadership of [[Kaan]]. Hoth followed the Sith there, and the Army of Light and Brotherhood of Darkness engaged in seven fierce battles. At the conclusion of the [[Seventh Battle of Ruusan]], Kaan—near defeat and driven insane by the power of the dark side—unleashed the [[thought bomb]] and killed every single Force user on the world.

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.<ref name="Darth Bane: Path of Destruction">''[[Darth Bane: Path of Destruction]]''</ref> This revenge would take a thousand years to come to fruition, but the new Sith had patience.

===Post-Ruusan Reformation===
With the Sith presumed extinct, the Jedi believed that they had at last forged a long-lasting peace in the galaxy.<ref name="Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace">''[[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]''</ref> 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.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

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 help in the avoidance of 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 considered too great for members of the order.

====The Sith return====
{{Quote|At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge.|Darth Maul|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace}}[[File:Palpatine1111.jpg|thumb|left|[[Senator]] [[Palpatine]] of [[Naboo]]]]
In [[32 BBY]], the presence of the Sith once again became known to the Jedi. The Sith Lord, [[Palpatine|Darth Sidious]] had secretly contacted members of the [[Trade Federation]], including [[Nute Gunray]] and [[Daultay Dofine]], and saw to it that Gunray was made [[Viceroy]] of the Trade Federation by using a special [[battle droid]] to kill the members of the Federation Ruling Council. He then suggested that Gunray show the Republic that they could not bully him with trade embargoes by blockading the remote planet of [[Naboo]]. The Supreme Chancellor dispatched [[Jedi Knight]] [[Qui-Gon Jinn]] and his [[Padawan|apprentice]], [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]], to negotiate a Trade Federation withdrawal.<ref name="Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" />

However, the [[Neimoidian]]s attempted to murder the Jedi, and so the pair was forced to hide on an invasion craft which carried them down to the planet. There Qui-Gon met and rescued a [[Gungan]] by the name of [[Jar Jar Binks]]. Jar Jar led Jinn and Kenobi to the Gungan city of [[Otoh Gunga]]. The [[Gungan High Council]], while rather difficult at first, at last allowed Jedi to take a [[Bongo]] to the capital city of Naboo, [[Theed]]. There the Jedi rescued [[Monarch of Naboo|Queen]] [[Padmé Amidala]] from a droid escort. The group then fled to [[Tatooine]], where they repaired the Queen's ship, and from there to [[Coruscant]]. When Amidala realized that the Senate could not solve her problem, she returned to Naboo. There, with the help of the [[Gungan Grand Army]] and a young boy named [[Anakin Skywalker]] the Queen and her Jedi protectors defeated the Federation's [[Trade Federation Droid Army|Droid Army]]; however, in a climactic lightsaber duel between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Sidious's apprentice, [[Darth Maul]], Qui-Gon was killed. Stung by his master's death, Obi-Wan threw himself at the [[Sith]], killing him quickly. After Darth Maul was killed, the Jedi knew that there was still at least one member of the Sith active, but they were unaware of the identity of Sidious.<ref name="Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" />

====The Clone Wars====
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{{Quote|Victory? Victory, you say? Master Obi-Wan, not victory. The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun, the Clone War has.|Master Yoda after the Battle of Geonosis|Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones}}
During the [[Separatist Crisis|ten years]] following the [[Invasion of Naboo]], Jedi Master [[Dooku]], the [[Count]] of [[Serenno]], left the Jedi Order and became the leader of a group of corporations, such as the [[Trade Federation]] and the [[Commerce Guild]], known as the [[Confederacy of Independent Systems]]. However, unknown to the Jedi, Dooku had been recruited by Darth Sidious and had become his apprentice, renamed [[Dooku|Darth Tyranus]].<ref name="AOTC">''[[Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones]]''</ref>

[[File:TCW Jedi.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Jedi during the Clone Wars.]]
In [[22 BBY]], Jedi Knight [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]], his Padawan [[Anakin Skywalker]] and [[Padmé Amidala]], a young [[Senator]] from [[Naboo]], were captured by Dooku on [[Geonosis]] in the [[Outer Rim Territories|Outer Rim]]. The trio were scheduled for execution; however, they were saved when a [[Geonosis strike team|group]] of over two hundred Jedi arrived, led by [[Mace Windu]]. In the [[Petranaki arena]] most of the Jedi perished, and the few remaining formed a circle in the center of the arena, surrounded by hundreds of Confederacy droids. However, before they could be killed, [[Grand Master]] [[Yoda]] arrived with thousands of [[clone trooper]]s,<ref name="AOTC" /> who had secretly been ordered by Jedi Master [[Sifo-Dyas]].<ref name="LoE">''[[Labyrinth of Evil]]''</ref> The clones rescued the remaining Jedi, and so the [[First Battle of Geonosis]], and thus the [[Clone Wars]], began. The Jedi attempted to stop Count Dooku from leaving Geonosis. Obi-Wan Kenobi was injured in a duel with Dooku, and Kenobi's apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, lost his arm. Master Yoda led the clones and the Jedi to victory, and when the battle was all but won he traveled to meet Dooku. After a short duel with Dooku, Yoda was forced to let the Separatist leader escape in order to save Obi-Wan and Anakin. Of the hundreds of Jedi in the rescue team, less than fifty survived, and many Jedi Masters died, including Jedi Council member [[Coleman Trebor]]<ref name="AOTC" />

The Clone Wars escalated into one of the largest wars in galactic history. The members of the Jedi Order played a pivotal part in the war, acting as generals to the vast Army of the Republic, though thousands of Jedi perished during the war.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" /> To combat the Force abilities of the Jedi, Dooku enlisted the help of several Dark Jedi, as well as [[Gen'Dai]] bounty hunter [[Durge]]. Dooku had many Force-using subordinates, though the most feared of them were [[Sora Bulq]],<ref name="JMW">''[[Jedi: Mace Windu]]''</ref> [[Aurra Sing]],<ref name="J:AS">''[[Jedi: Aayla Secura]]''</ref> [[Asajj Ventress]], as well as [[Quinlan Vos]], who served as a double-agent.<ref name="SW:R">''[[Star Wars: Republic]]''</ref>

Four months after Geonosis, the Jedi Order faced their biggest threat in the war against the Confederacy: General Grievous. On [[Hypori]], Grievous killed Jedi [[Tarr Seirr]], [[Daakman Barrek]] and [[Sha'a Gi]], and injured [[K'Kruhk]], [[Aayla Secura]] and [[Shaak Ti]]. A [[Muunilinst 10|group of ARC Troopers]], aided by [[Ki-Adi-Mundi]], managed to drive Grievous away and rescue the injured Jedi.<ref name="Clone Wars">''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]''</ref> Her seat on the Council was taken by Obi-Wan Kenobi. On [[Jabiim]], the Jedi suffered heavy losses, and although they managed to evacuate the planet, all except one of the [[Padawan Pack]], a group of Padawans orphaned when their Masters either were killed or disappeared, perished. The sole survivor was Anakin Skywalker, who was slowly becoming more famous.<ref name="SWR:TBOJ">''[[Star Wars: Republic: The Battle of Jabiim]]''</ref>

Towards the end of the war, the Separatists retreated from many of their bases in the [[Core Worlds]] and the [[Colonies]], to [[Fortress world]]s in the [[Mid Rim|Mid]] and Outer Rim, after being defeated by the Republic in a series of battles. This boosted the morale of the Republic, and Chancellor Palpatine and the Jedi deployed almost every fleet available to CIS worlds in the Outer Rim, laying siege to the Separatist strongholds in an attempt to force the Confederacy to surrender; however, the Sieges left many senior Jedi dead.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" /> On [[Boz Pity]], Jedi Masters [[Adi Gallia]] and [[Soon Bayts]] were killed by Grievous,<ref name="Obsession">''[[Star Wars: Obsession]]''</ref> and [[Oppo Rancisis]] was killed by Sora Bulq on [[Saleucami]].<ref name="SoS">''[[Star Wars: Republic: The Siege of Saleucami]]''</ref> The citizens of the Core were led to believe that the end of the war was near, and that the Confederacy would be brought to justice in the near future. In truth, the Sieges were the work of Darth Sidious, intended to lure forces away from Coruscant<ref name="LoE" />

In [[19 BBY]], with most of the Republic's army and the Jedi fighting in the [[Outer Rim Sieges]], the Separatist fleet, led by Grievous and Dooku, launched a week-long siege against Coruscant.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" /> Thousands of [[Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark I|Vulture droids]] and [[Droid tri-fighter]]s rained down on the capital, and Confederacy [[C-9979 landing craft]] unleashed hundreds of millions of battle droids and tank droids on the capital's streets, causing much damage to lives and property. In response, the Republic deployed its clone forces against the CIS droids.<ref name="LoE" />

[[File:Spacebattle.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The [[Battle of Coruscant (Clone Wars)|Battle of Coruscant]].]]
With the battle raging on in space, Grievous and his [[IG-100 MagnaGuard]]s kidnapped the Supreme Chancellor, after defeating several Jedi, including [[Foul Moudama]] and [[Roron Corobb]], and wounding council member [[Shaak Ti]]. Grievous then transported Palpatine to his flagship, the ''[[Invisible Hand]]''. Several Jedi, piloting starfighters, attempted to intercept Grievous on his way to the flagship, but they failed.<ref name="LoE" /> Two of them, [[Pablo-Jill]] and [[L'lacielo Sageon]],<ref name="LOW">''[[Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous]]''</ref> were tractor-beamed onto the ship and murdered by the Separatist General. Their bodies were jettisoned into space for the Republic forces to see.<ref name="LoE" />

After realizing that they had been lured away from Coruscant, [[Anakin Skywalker]] and [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] returned from [[Tythe]] to join in the attempt to rescue Palpatine, who was being held aboard Grievous' flagship, the ''[[Invisible Hand]]''.<ref name="LoE" /> Although Dooku injured Kenobi, Skywalker disarmed him, and at the Chancellor's command, the young Jedi Knight ruthlessly beheaded the Dark Lord, and released Palpatine, dealing a tremendous blow to the Confederacy.<ref name="ROTS">''[[Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]''</ref>

Obi-Wan was soon revived, and the Jedi headed for their fighters with Palpatine. As they headed back to the hangar, they were confronted by a group of battle droids, and were captured, taken to the ''Invisible Hand''{{'s}} bridge, and brought before General Grievous. Grievous took their lightsabers; however, Kenobi retrieved them when the ship suddenly lurched to one side. The two Jedi defeated Grievous' guards, but the cyborg commander escaped. Skywalker then successfully crash-landed the damaged vessel into Coruscant's surface, and their mission was successful.<ref name="ROTS" />

====Last stand of the Jedi Order====
{{Main|Order 66}}
{{Quote|In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you're under arrest, Chancellor.''" "''Are you threatening me, Master Jedi?|[[Mace Windu]] and [[Palpatine]]|Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith}}
After the [[Battle of Coruscant (Clone Wars)|Battle of Coruscant]], the Jedi learned from Anakin Skywalker that Palpatine was in fact Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith, and had been responsible for the war to begin with. Mace Windu led a group of Jedi Masters [[Showdown on Coruscant|to arrest Sidious]], but Sidious managed to kill all four with the help of Anakin Skywalker, who fell to the dark side and became [[Anakin Skywalker|Darth Vader]]. This was later propagandized by Palpatine as an attempted coup by the Jedi and provided the reason for the start of the [[Great Jedi Purge]] in which most of the Jedi were killed.<ref name="ROTS" />

[[File:Duel on Coruscant.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Jedi Masters [[Mace Windu]], [[Kit Fisto]], [[Agen Kolar]] and [[Saesee Tiin]].]]
Just after [[Order 66]] was issued, telling all clones to kill their Jedi commanders, Darth Vader went to the [[Jedi Temple]] to [[Operation: Knightfall|kill]] the remaining Jedi situated there. Accompanied by the [[501st Legion]], Vader killed all of the Jedi, including the younglings, and changed the signal given off by the Temple's emergency beacon to tell Jedi to return to the Temple. Then, Sidious sent Vader to [[Mustafar]] to [[Mission to Mustafar|wipe out the last of the separatist leaders]], then ordered him to send a deactivation signal to shut down the droid forces, ending the war. Order 66 claimed the lives of most of the remaining Jedi, including Council members [[Stass Allie]], who was killed on Saleucami, [[Plo Koon]], who was shot down over [[Cato Neimoidia]], and [[Ki-Adi-Mundi]], who died on Mygeeto. [[Aayla Secura]]<ref name="ROTS" /> and [[Barriss Offee]] were killed on [[Felucia]], while Jedi Master [[Luminara Unduli]] was gunned down on [[Kashyyyk]].<ref name="THE">''[[Star Wars: Republic: The Hidden Enemy]]''</ref> The Clone Wars was over, and the Great Jedi Purge would soon reach its peak.

Jedi Masters Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, two of the most notable survivors of Order 66, then embarked on a desperate attempt to destroy the Sith and save the Jedi Order. Obi-Wan [[Duel on Mustafar|went to fight Anakin]] while Yoda [[Duel in the Senate|went after Darth Sidious]]. Anakin was defeated, losing much of his power after suffering grievous injuries, necessitating the majority of Anakin's body being kept in a [[Darth Vader's armor|mobile life support system]] to keep him alive. The battle between Yoda and Sidious moved into the Senate Rotunda; however, it ended in a stalemate: Yoda was forced to flee, as clone troopers were on the way. Palpatine declared himself [[Emperor]] of the [[Galactic Empire]], and the Sith had risen to galactic dominance again.<ref name="ROTS" />

====Great Jedi Purge====
{{Main|Great Jedi Purge}}
{{Quote|The remaining Jedi will be hunted down and defeated. Any collaborators will suffer the same fate.|Palpatine|Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith}}
[[File:BeyghorSahdett-Rep79.jpg|thumb|left|140px|Jedi [[Beyghor Sahdett]] flees the battlefront after defeating a squad of [[clone trooper]]s.]]
Despite the fact that many of the most senior Jedi had been killed, many Jedi survived Order 66. Sidious, now the [[Emperor]] of the [[Galactic Empire]], used Darth Vader and other agents of the Empire to hunt down and kill the remaining Jedi. Some decided to fight the Empire, such as [[Roan Shryne]]<ref name="Dark Lord">''[[Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader]]''</ref> and those at the [[Conclave on Kessel]].<ref name="Purge">''[[Star Wars: Purge]]''</ref> Some hid, like Obi-Wan Kenobi and [[Yoda]].<ref name="ROTS" /> Many Jedi fell to Vader,<ref name="Purge" /><ref name="Dark Lord" /> [[Inquisitorius|Inquisitors]],<ref name="DSS">''[[Dark Side Sourcebook]]''</ref> [[Emperor's Hand]]s,<ref name="DV:E">''[[Darth Vader: Extinction]]''</ref> and even [[bounty hunter]]s.<ref name="Underworld">''[[Underworld: A Galaxy of Scum and Villainy]]''</ref>

A group of Jedi, led by [[Shadday Potkin]], decided to try and lure Darth Vader to the spice mines of [[Kessel]], where they planned to kill him. Potkin had learned of Vader's strange obsession with Obi-Wan Kenobi, and had spread rumors that Obi-Wan would be present. Vader, with the help of some [[stormtrooper]]s, killed all the Jedi present, the last of which to die being [[Tsui Choi]], [[Jastus Farr]], and [[Roblio Darté]].<ref name="Purge" />

Palpatine used the rumors of what had occurred at Kessel to cement the image of Vader as a symbol of the Empire to fear, and a further warning to all who stood in his way.<ref name="Purge" /> The official report by [[Sate Pestage]] stated that some of the Jedi had killed each other in a power struggle and the others were executed for numerous crimes.<ref name="Order 66: Destroy All Jedi">''[[Order 66: Destroy All Jedi]]''</ref>

The Jedi on Kessel were not the only ones to group together—a band of Jedi, led by [[Roan Shryne]] and [[Olee Starstone]], arrived on Kashyyyk, and had been offered safe harbor from the Empire by the native [[Wookiee]]s. Imperial forces, led by Darth Vader and [[Wilhuff Tarkin]], arrived on the [[Mid Rim]] planet shortly thereafter—Vader was interested in hunting down and destroying the fugitive Jedi, while Tarkin was interested in enslaving the Wookiees for use in the construction of the [[DS-1 Orbital Battle Station|first]] [[Death Star]].<ref name="Dark Lord" />

[[File:Jedi Hunted.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] during the [[Great Jedi Purge]].]]
When the Imperials demanded that the Wookiees hand over the fugitive Jedi, the Wookiees refused, preferring to do battle with the vast Imperial presence on Kashyyyk. As more Imperial forces landed, the Wookiee warriors and the Jedi covered the evacuation of [[Kachirho]], as countless Wookiees fled the Imperial troops, fleeing from enslavement. Some time after the [[First Battle of Kashyyyk (Imperial Period)|battle]] had begun, Darth Vader arrived at Kachirho, intending to hunt down the Jedi himself.<ref name="Dark Lord" />

Vader found and engaged the Jedi, killing two and injuring a further three. Vader then engaged [[Roan Shryne]] in a duel, managing to fatally wound the Human male Jedi. As Shryne passed away, [[Victory-class Star Destroyer|Victory-class]] [[Star Destroyer]]s began to descend into the atmosphere, finishing the conquest of Kashyyyk. As a result, the Empire gained control of Kashyyyk, and gained thousands of Wookiee slaves for use on the Death Star.<ref name="Dark Lord" />

In [[18 BBY]], [[Queen]] [[Apailana]] of [[Naboo]] felt that military action, as opposed to Naboo's traditional diplomatic action, was the only way to deal with the Empire. Apailana began harboring fugitive Jedi that were on the run from the Empire. The [[501st Legion]] was sent to [[Theed]] to deal with the Queen and the Jedi. They drove [[TX-130T fighter tank]]s through the streets, and killed the Jedi as well as Apailana.<ref name="BFII">''[[Star Wars: Battlefront II]]''</ref>

During the Purge in the same year, Vader raised a [[Galen Marek|secret apprentice]] in a hope to overthrow Palpatine. In [[3 BBY|3]]-[[2 BBY]], the apprentice was sent to find and kill surviving Jedi such as [[Shaak Ti]], [[Rahm Kota|Kota]], [[Maris Brood]], and Force-sensitives on [[Felucia]].<ref name="TFU">''[[Star Wars: The Force Unleashed]]''</ref>

In [[1 BBY]], Emperor's Hand [[Mara Jade Skywalker|Mara Jade]] discovered [[An'ya Kuro]], also known as the Dark Woman, hiding on the planet [[Cophrigin V]]. Darth Vader arrived on the planet to kill Kuro personally.<ref name="DV:E" /> The Great Jedi Purge was over, and the Empire would, but still deal with another conflict, the [[Galactic Civil War]].

The most prominent survivors of the Great Jedi Purge were [[Yoda]],<ref name="EPV">''[[Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back]]''</ref> [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]],<ref name="EPIV">''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]''</ref>, [[Rahm Kota]], [[Darth Krayt|A'Sharad Hett]],<ref name="Legacy 15">''[[Star Wars: Legacy 15: Claws of the Dragon, Part 2]]''</ref> [[Empatojayos Brand]],<ref name="DE">''[[Dark Empire II]]''</ref> [[K'Kruhk]]<ref name="Legacy 11">''[[Star Wars: Legacy 11: Ghosts, Part 1]]''</ref> and [[Ood Bnar]].<ref name="DE" />

After the Purge, Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda went into hiding for approximately 19 years before training [[Luke Skywalker]], the son of Anakin Skywalker, in the ways of the Jedi. Skywalker later [[Duel on Death Star II|defeated his father and the Emperor]], and eventually founded the [[New Jedi Order]], which took a slightly different approach to Jedi training so not to make the same mistakes as the Old Jedi Order.<ref name="The New Essential Chronology" />

==Organization==
===Leadership===
{{Main|Jedi Council}}
{{See also|Grand Master}}
{{Quote|Once you embrace the Republic, the power of all Jedi is ready to serve you.|[[Ulic Qel-Droma]]|Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi}}

At some point in the Order's early history, the Jedi formed a central political entity called the [[Jedi High Council]]. The High Council was a gathering of great minds that acted as a governing body for the Order, as well as an advisory board for the [[Office of the Supreme Chancellor]].<ref name="TJP">''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''</ref> The High Council could have a maximum of twelve members at a time.<ref name="Databank">{{DB|organization|thejediorder|The Jedi Order}}</ref>

Membership on the Jedi High Council was decided by the standing Council and was made up of a series of different terms. Consisting of five lifetime members, four members who stayed on the Council until they chose to step down, and three short term members, who changed regularly and sat on the Council for a relatively short period of time, this method kept the voices and opinions of the Council fresh and focused.<ref name="Databank" /> While membership was usually restricted to [[Jedi Master]]s, exemptions were sometimes made; allowing a Knight to sit on the Council should certain insight be needed or if they are in the transitional stage before formal elevation. A notable example was Anakin Skywalker, who was appointed by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in [[19 BBY]] during the [[Clone Wars]]. While the Council accepted the appointment, they refused to make him a Master.<ref name="ROTS" />

[[File:Jedicouncil2.jpg|thumb|left|260px|The [[Jedi High Council]] in [[22 BBY]].]]

For several generations, the Order was overseen by three additional councils that oversaw various responsibilities within the Order. The [[Council of First Knowledge]] oversaw the [[Jedi academy]] housed within the Coruscant Temple, in addition to direct oversight of satellite training academies and libraries. The members of the Council of First Knowledge were looked upon for advice in situations needing to be contrasted with the past. Jedi on this Council were sometimes former members of the High Council, and could give a different perspective on current events based on past decisions and mistakes.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /><ref name="Darkness">''[[Star Wars: Republic: Darkness]]''</ref><ref name="TJP" /> Instead of advising the Supreme Chancellor, the [[Council of Reconciliation]] worked closely with the [[Galactic Republic Diplomatic Corps]] in order to assist in the acquisition of new member worlds in the Senate. Assigning [[Jedi Diplomat]]s and [[Jedi Ambassador|Ambassadors]] to implement treaties and welcome new people into the Republic, the Reconciliation Council's members worked very closely with the Senators on Coruscant.<ref name="CoD">''[[Cloak of Deception]]''</ref><ref name="TJP" /> Finally, the [[Council of Reassignment]] oversaw the [[Jedi Service Corps]] and the placement of individuals who failed the [[Jedi Trials]] or were deemed unfit to continue along the standard path of the Jedi Knights.<ref name="Rising Force">''[[Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force]]''</ref><ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /><ref name="TJP" />

The decisions of these four councils have shaped the progress of the Republic as well as the Order. When the High Council of [[4,000 BBY]] refused to enter the [[Mandalorian Wars]] and taking a more passive stance on the issue until they could asses it, a group of disenchanted Jedi known as the [[Revanchist]]s rose up and incited the [[Jedi Civil War]] nearly wiping out the Order.<ref name="Kotor" /> When the Order had managed to recover, the Council took a slightly more aggressive stance, culminating in the [[New Sith Wars]] where they actively ruled the Republic as a quasi-military dictatorship. The First Knowledge Council took the time following the [[Ruusan Reformation]] to purge all references to the Sith from the minds of the galactic populace, ensuring that within a few years of the war, the dark siders' legacy was all but forgotten. A millennia later during the Clone Wars, the twilight years of the Galactic Republic, the Jedi acted as generals, soldiers and military advisers in the conflict before being nearly destroyed once again, by the newly resurgent Sith menace.<ref name="ROTS" />

===Jedi ranks===
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{{Quote|Confer on you, the level of Jedi Knight, the Council does. But agree with your taking this boy as your Padawan learner, I do not!|Yoda to Obi-Wan Kenobi|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace}}
As the Jedi were instructed in the ways of the Order and of the Force, each member progressed through several different ranks.

[[File:ThreeJedi.jpg|right|thumb|180px|L-R: Jedi Master [[Mace Windu]], Jedi Knight [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] & Jedi Padawan [[Anakin Skywalker]].]]
* '''''[[Jedi Initiate]]''''' (or ''[[Youngling]]'' or "Jedi Hopeful") – The youngest members of the Order, these [[Force-sensitive]] child were given the rank of Initiate when they began their communal training in clans. Recruited from worlds throughout the galaxy where blood testing was required upon birth, Initiates were removed from their families and brought to a Jedi academy for formal training.<ref name="TJP" />
*'''''[[Padawan|Jedi Padawan]]''''' – After being selected for individual tutelage under a single Jedi Knight or Jedi Master, Initiates were given the title of Padawan. Eligible for this rank following the successful completion of the [[Jedi Initiate Trials|Initiate Trials]], Padawans were typically taken at adolescence and completed their training away from the academy. Per tradition, Padawans of a hair-growing species would wear a long braid of hair behind their ear; non-haired Padawans were encouraged to wear a type of jeweler, a tattoo, or other body modification. A Jedi Knight or Jedi Master could have only one apprentice at a time, and the Padawan had to be promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight before another apprentice could be chosen; a practice that was formalized following the [[Great Sith War]]. While in place, the policy could be revoked should the Order see a decline in number, and necessity forces the apprenticeship of several students to a single master. Following several unsuccessful attempts at the Initiate Trials or if a student is not chosen by a Master, the Council of Reconciliation would place the student within the [[Jedi Service Corps]]. Depending on where the student's talents lay, this might be the [[Agricultural Corps]], the [[Medical Corps]], the [[Educational Corps]] or the [[Exploration Corps]]. If this role did not suit a particular student, they could chosen to leave the Order entirely.<ref name="TJP" />
*'''''[[Jedi Knight]]''''' – Following a period of nearly a decade of one-on-one training with a master, a disciplined Padawan was eligible to attempt the [[Jedi Trials]]. Upon successfully completing all tests put forth, a Padawan's braid was severed by the High Council and their life as a Knight began. No longer attached to a master, Knights were free to accept missions from the Council, pursue specialized training on one of the three branches of Knighthood, or take their own Padawan.<ref name="TJP" />
*'''''[[Jedi Master]]''''' – A Knight who showed great understanding of the Force and managed to instruct a Padawan and train them successfully to the level of a Jedi Knight was elevated to the rank of Master by the High Council. Self-declaration of the title was frowned upon and rare practice in the latter days of the Order, but not uncommon during war times or periods of disbandment. Amongst the Order's Masters, only a select few were appointed to one of the Jedi Councils. Made up exclusively of wise, experienced Masters, the Councils of the Order had different levels of membership, ensuring fresh perspectives were expressed as new events occurred. The High Council was made up of 12 masters, five of them holding life terms, four holding long-terms, and three holding short-terms. The elected leader of the Council was known as the [[Master of the Order]] and was often bestowed upon the acting [[Grand Master]]; the recognized leader of the entire Order.<ref name="TJP" />

===Jedi Service Corps===
The [[Jedi Service Corps]] was a group of organizations overseen by the [[Council of Reconciliation]] that was maintained as an alternative or a supplement to traditional mission assignments from the High Council. While the majority of the Corps was indeed made up of Initiates who had failed to pass the [[Jedi Initiate Trials]], there were many Padawans, Knights, and Masters whose specializations brought them to the Corps.<ref name="TJP" />

'''Agricultural Corps''' 
The [[Agricultural Corps]] was the largest of these organizations. Members of the AgriCorps would use their [[Force power]]s to care for crops all over the galaxy, aiding in the feeding of several million citizens of the Republic. Working with the [[Republic Agricultural Administration]], the AgriCorps spread the idea that the Living Force can overcome the horrors of drought and famine. Made up mostly of life-long members that had failed their trials, the AgriCorps had bases on [[Salliche]], [[Taanab]], and [[Ukio]].<ref name="TJP" />

'''Medical Corps''' 
In the [[Medical Corps]], young Jedi learners who were not chosen as Padawans used their healing powers to tend for sick beings in the galaxy. Unlike the AgriCorps, the MedCorps maintained only a few dozen students and their instructors at any given time. Maintaining an infirmary in the [[Halls of Healing]] on Coruscant, MedCorps members worked alongside the [[Galactic City Medical Center]]'s doctors and specialists as they helped treat citizens of the planet-city.<ref name="TJP" />

'''Educational Corps''' 
This [[Educational Corps]] consisted of students who were still in training. Overseen by the [[Jedi Lore Keeper|Chief Librarian]], the EduCorps members stationed at the Temple on Coruscant cataloged and translated data within the Archives.<ref name="TJP" />

'''Exploration Corps''' 
The [[Exploration Corps]] was responsible for exploring the [[Unknown Regions]] as well as the study the history of the Jedi and [[the galaxy]]. With refueling centers on nearly every Republic Ordinance or Regional Depots, the galaxy was their territory for exploration. Working closely with the [[Republic Survey Corps]] and the [[Intergalactic Zoological Society]], the ExplorCorps had the highest number of Knights and Masters working in its ranks.<ref name="TJP" />

===Jedi Sub-sects===
The Jedi Order during its history has often been confronted with schisms regarding the interpretation of the Jedi Code, which sometimes created new thinking minority within the Order. These currents for the most marginalized and ostracized were sometimes tolerated, despite the fear of the return of the Sith and the Dark Side.

'''[[Altisian Jedi]]'''

Founded by the Jedi Master [[Djinn Altis]], the Altisian faction held several precepts frowned upon by the orthodox Jedi Order, including the taking of multiple apprentices by one master, initiating adult Padawans, and allowing families. Leaving the Jedi Temple during the last decades of the Temple, Altis and his followers moved about the galaxy serving as relief workers on underdeveloped worlds and backwaters.

'''[[Corellian Jedi]]'''

Faithful to the reputation of rebels of their people, Corellian Jedi were strongly attached to their natal star system and unwilling to respect the rules of emotional detachment of the Order. So a waiver was granted to them, allowing them to remain in the Corellian system, to raise families and take their own children as Padawans. They soon developed their own cultural identity within the Jedi Order , with traditional green robes, commemorative medals and famous dynasties like the [[Horn family|Halcyon family]].

[[File:IronKnight-NEGD.jpg|right|thumb|130px|A Shard Iron Knight with his lightsaber.]]
'''[[Gray Paladin]]'''

Founded by the Jedi Master [[Teepo]], Grey Paladins acknowledged that a Jedi could be no more independent of the Force than of nourishment or air; nevertheless, they had developed skills and techniques that did not utilize the Force's "flashier" aspects. They didn't eschew the use of lightsabers completely, they simply believed that a Jedi should use which ever weapon he or she felt the most comfortable with, but many chose instead to rely on proficiency with blasters and other forms of combat, both armed, and unarmed. They became Masters in various forms of martial arts like [[Teräs Käsi]], as well as esoteric weaponry such as [[spinsticks]], rather than rely on Force-augmented gymnastics and speed. Teepo and his followers were ostracized as potential dark siders. Though not a formal part of the Order, some still maintained residence at the Jedi Temple.

'''[[Iron Knight]]s'''

Founded by the Jedi Master [[Aqinos]], they were Force-sensitive crystalline [[Shard]] trained as Jedi , who required droid bodies as their hosts to interact with the world. The Jedi Council, however, was horrified that Aqinos had taught inorganic crystals about the Force, and felt that they could not truly understand the Force. Aqinos was excommunicated, and the Iron Knights went with him.

'''[[Potentium]]'''

Founded by the Jedi Master [[Leor Hal]], the Potentium claimed that there was no inherent evil in viewing the Force. They claimed that what others called the light side was actually just the Force itself, which is inherently good. What others therefore called the dark side was a perversion of the Force, twisted by those who used it. Believers of Potentium said that the potential for light and dark sides resided in the user, not the Force itself. And since there was no dark side, there were no dark side actions or Force techniques; in effect any action, good or evil, could be performed without risk as long as the intent was not evil. The followers of Potentium were expelled from the Jedi Order and some of the outcast followers colonized [[Zonama Sekot]].

==Jedi Code==
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{{Quote|If you would only follow the Code, you would be ''on'' the Council.|[[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] to [[Qui-Gon Jinn]]|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace}}
Members of the Jedi Order, from Jedi Masters to Padawans, were encouraged to follow a set of guidelines, including self-discipline, responsibility, and public service. These principles were put simply yet effectively in the Jedi Code:<ref name="Episode I Scrapbook">''[[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Scrapbook]]''</ref>

{{Quote|''Jedi are the guardians of peace in the galaxy.''
:''Jedi use their powers to defend and protect, never to attack others.''
:''Jedi respect all life, in any form.''
:''Jedi serve others rather than ruling over them, for the good of the galaxy.''
:''Jedi seek to improve themselves through knowledge and training.''|The [[Jedi Code]]|Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Scrapbook}}

The Jedi Code would help a Jedi stay on the right path and guide them away from the dark side.

The Jedi also had a Jedi Code mantra that had existed for some time before Master [[Odan-Urr]] refined it into the following passage:<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

{{Quote|''There is no emotion, there is peace.''
:''There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.''
:''There is no passion, there is serenity.''
:''There is no chaos, there is harmony.''
:''There is no death, there is the Force.''|[[Odan-Urr]]'s [[Jedi Code]]|The Official Star Wars Fact File 107}}
The Code was not necessarily a strict set of rules, but a general set of guidelines that Jedi were encouraged to keep in mind as they went about the business of the Order. Numerous Jedi teachings interpreted and expounded on the Code in subsequent millennia. These rules, created and embraced by the Jedi Masters, were essential tools in a Jedi's growth. In them, Jedi were encouraged to overcome personal obstacles such as pride and materialism, to understand their small yet important place in the galaxy, and to give every being and point of view equal consideration.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

==Locations==
{{Quote|Don't the Jedi have this reputation for, well, austerity?''" "''They like you to think that, yes! But have big honking Temple on Coruscant! Not come cheap!|[[Gar Gastinin]] and [[Vilmarh Grahrk]]|Star Wars: Republic 40: The Devaronian Version, Part 1}}
Although the main [[Jedi Temple]] was situated on Coruscant, the Jedi Order had outposts on many worlds, and possibly even controlled a few planets throughout its history. Other chief locations of the Jedi Order were the [[Jedi Enclave]] on [[Dantooine]], the [[Great Jedi Library]] on [[Ossus]] and the [[Chu'unthor]], although they were not the only Jedi training centers.

===Coruscant===
The [[Jedi Temple]] on [[Coruscant]] was the main Jedi headquarters from the end of the [[Great Sith War]] in [[3,996 BBY]] until the beginning of the [[Great Jedi Purge]] in [[19 BBY]]. Despite its impressive appearance, the Jedi Temple was a relatively modern building in comparison to some of Coruscant's others—the temple was built on a plot of land which had been awarded to the Jedi Order by the Senate after [[Naga Sadow]]'s attempted [[Battle of Coruscant (Great Hyperspace War)|invasion]] of the capital in [[5,000 BBY]]. The Senate hoped that having such a large Jedi presence on the capital would leave the planet less susceptible to invasions. From this site, the four [[Jedi Council]]s took care of the administrative, strategic, and spiritual needs of the Jedi Order, ensuring that it met the needs of the [[Galactic Republic|Republic]] and its vast multitudes of citizens.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

[[File:Jedi temple2.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The [[Jedi Temple]] on [[Coruscant]].]]
When the land was awarded to the Order by the Senate, the Jedi were at first reluctant to build a citadel there—they held the belief that the Order was not a military organization, and that a military-oriented building would be a contradiction to their code. Instead of taking the Senate's proposition, the Council authorized the construction of a meditative and training center instead, some of which helped preserve the rapidly diminishing nature of Coruscant.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

Eventually, the original meditative and training center grew vastly in size and complexity, until it began to resemble the sprawling world on which it was located.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> New chambers within the Jedi Temple included the [[Room of a Thousand Fountains]], which contained a huge greenhouse, flowing waters and cascades. Also included in the expansive temple were [[lightsaber]] training areas as well as areas which provided views of vast holographic star maps.<ref name="Jedi Temple in the Databank">{{DB|location|jeditemple|Jedi Temple}}</ref>

The Jedi Temple had five spires; one for each of its four councils, and a larger spire which contained the sacred manuscripts of the founding Jedi.<ref name="Jedi Temple in the Databank" /> The Jedi High Council chambers were located in the southwest tower, while the [[Council of Reconciliation]] chambers were located in the southeast tower. The northeast and northwest towers were occupied by the [[Council of Reassignment]] and the [[Council of First Knowledge]].<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

During [[Operation: Knightfall]], as part of the execution of [[Order 66]], [[Anakin Skywalker|Darth Vader]] led the [[501st Legion]] into the [[Jedi Temple]], intent on destroying the Jedi. Although the Jedi Temple was not destroyed, it was badly damaged, with smoke billowing out for all to see.<ref name="ROTS" />

===Ossus===
[[File:GreatLibraryOnOssus.JPG|thumb|right|180px|The [[Great Jedi Library]] on [[Ossus]].]]
The [[Great Jedi Library]] on [[Ossus]] was an immense library for Jedi students. Constructed under the direction of [[Odan-Urr]] around 5,000 BBY, the library was a repository for knowledge of all kinds, and a training center for many Jedi students. The vast amounts of information the library contained were sorted in various different ways, depending on age and importance. Most of the data was contained on reader tapes and holographic media, although some of the more ancient knowledge was stored on traditional paper scrolls and books. Although the ancient books and scrolls were eventually translated onto electronic forms, the [[Chamber of Antiquities]] preserved the ancient writing for historical purposes.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

The library also held knowledge forbidden to the Jedi, such as ancient [[Sith holocron]]s, which Odan-Urr had decided to keep. The [[Draethos]] Jedi Master's reasoning was that all knowledge—even knowledge of evil—would be useful in the defense of justice. Only those who had been approved by the Jedi Council, as well as Odan-Urr (as the [[Keeper of Antiquities]]), were allowed access to these [[holocron]]s, and even then they were only permitted to do so under strict supervision.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

During the height of the [[Great Sith War]] in [[3,996 BBY]], fallen Jedi [[Exar Kun]] visited Ossus to recruit new members to his cause. While there, he entered the Chamber of Antiquities, slaying Odan-Urr to get to one of the Sith holocrons. Afterwards, Ossus became a battlefield for the Jedi/Republic army, which eventually defeated the Sith Empire. Meanwhile, a supernova was threatening to devastate the planet. After Ossus had been evacuated, Exar Kun and his apprentice, [[Ulic Qel-Droma]], arrived at the Great Jedi Library, looking to plunder the remaining artifacts before the supernova's shockwave destroyed them. However, [[Neti]] [[Jedi Master]] [[Ood Bnar]] managed to foil the two [[Dark side of the Force|dark siders]], metamorphosing into a powerful tree; he sacrificed his life to protect a vault of [[lightsaber]]s from Kun and his apprentice.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

===Dantooine===
The [[Jedi Enclave]] on [[Dantooine]] was a secret Jedi training center located on [[Dantooine]] prior to the [[Jedi Civil War]].<ref name="Kotor" /> The Enclave consisted of several levels, the first of which included a council chamber, sparring rooms, and dormitories,<ref name="Kotor" /> while the sublevel consisted of common rooms, classrooms, and a medical bay, as well as an archive room only accessible by Jedi Masters.<ref name="Kotor2" /> The Enclave was built upon a courtyard, which led out into Dantooine's [[Khoonda plains|plains]]. At the center of the building was a circular open-air room, with several trees at the center of a walkway.<ref name="Kotor" />

[[File:Originalenclave.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The [[Jedi Enclave]] during the [[Jedi Civil War]].]]
The Dantooine Jedi Council held its meetings in a small council chamber, similar to the one on Coruscant. This room remained the meeting place of the council until at least [[3,964 BBY]], when the council had moved to a low-ceilinged larger round room on the ground level with no windows.<ref name="Kotor" />

Before the Great Sith War, the Enclave was presided over by Master [[Vodo-Siosk Baas]], who was murdered by his former pupil, [[Exar Kun]].<ref name="TOTJ:TSW">''[[Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War]]''</ref> During the [[Great Hunt]], the Enclave governed by a four-member council similar to the High Council on Coruscant. At the time of the Great Hunt, the members were [[Vrook Lamar]], [[Bala Nisi]], [[Qual]] and [[Aleco Stusea]].<ref name="SaL">''[[Shadows and Light]]''</ref> This Council had jurisdiction over the Jedi in the part of the Outer Rim that included Dantooine and Taris.<ref name="DarkHorse">[http://www.darkhorse.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=128708#128708 Boards > View topic - KNIGHTS of the OLD REPUBLIC #5 -- All this over a dream!?]</ref>

Around the time of the [[Jedi Civil War]], the council consisted of Masters Vrook Lamar, [[Zhar Lestin]], [[Vandar Tokare]] and [[Dorak]]. The fact that both Vrook Lamar and Vandar Tokare were also members of the Jedi High Council may indicate the Dantooine Enclave Council was a subset of the High Council. This council was responsible for healing Darth Revan's destroyed mind and inserting a new identity into his brain, and after the destruction of Taris, retraining him in the ways of the Jedi. The council was dissolved after Darth Malak's bombardment of the Jedi Enclave during the Jedi Civil War. Masters Dorak, Vandar, and Zhar escaped only to find death a few years later on Katarr.<ref name="Kotor" />

===Chu'unthor===
The [[Chu'unthor]] was a massive Jedi training ship commissioned by the Jedi Council around [[400 BBY]]. Named after the [[Cerean language|Cerean]] word for academy, the Chu'unthor was constructed by [[Republic Fleet Systems]] in orbit around [[Abhean]] in the [[Mid Rim]].<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> One thousand meters long, and twice as wide.<ref name="OSSFF95">''[[The Official Star Wars Fact File 95]]''</ref> The Chu'unthor could hold up to fourteen thousand students, teachers and other accompanying staff.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

[[File:Chu'unthor1.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The [[Chu'unthor]].]]
The main driving force behind the Chu'unthor were Jedi Masters [[Fin-So-Rowan]] and [[Ivixa Delbaeth]], who viewed it as both a training center and an exploratory vessel, intending it to travel through and beyond the Republic on a mission of peace. The Chu'unthor was an experiment of sorts—if it proved successful, the High Council intended to build many more training vessels.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

For its first century of existence, the Chu'unthor was highly successful, with thousands of students learning the [[Jedi Code]], as well as gaining firsthand experience of the worlds and creatures of the Republic. The Chu'unthor also found many previously undiscovered planets on its travels,<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" /> helping to end conflicts wherever possible.<ref name="OSSFF95" /> Despite the Chu'unthor's obvious success, other training vessels were never constructed. Due to the falling numbers of force sensitives joining the Order, the Council considered it unnecessary to build additional training ships. Although its founders were disappointed, the Chu'unthor continued on its mission of education and embassy.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

About two centuries after its construction,<ref name="OSSFF95" /> the Chu'unthor made contact with the remote world of [[Dathomir]]. Some of the [[planet]]'s inhabitants, known as [[Witches of Dathomir]], had mastered a unique alignment to the Force. When the Chu'unthor sustained catastrophic malfunctions, it crashed into a tar pit on Dathomir. The fierce Force witches, riding vicious [[rancor]]s, surrounded the fallen ship, threatening to hurt the passengers. A team of Jedi, led by Master [[Yoda]], arrived to rescue the captives and negotiate with the hostile Dathomiri. Eventually, the Force witches agreed to release the prisoners, but only if the ship, and its contents, stayed on Dathomir. The Jedi reluctantly agreed; however, they secretly hid an amount of reader tapes, which contained vast amount of information about the Jedi Order that Yoda didn't want falling into [[Dathomir]]i hands, as the Force witches despised the Jedi Order, from which their ancestors were banished.<ref name="Power of the Jedi Sourcebook" />

==Behind the scenes==
The Jedi Order originated in the rough draft as the [[Galactic Emperor]]'s bodyguard.<ref name="Databank" /> They became affiliated with the ''[[Republica Galactica]]'' in the second draft.<ref name="Empire DB">{{DB|organization|theempire|The Empire}}</ref> Later, when composing background information for licensees in [[1977]], [[George Lucas]] described the Jedi Order as being "several hundred thousand" strong before the Purge.<ref name="The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film">''[[The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film]]''</ref>

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*''[[MedStar II: Jedi Healer]]''
*''[[Jedi Trial]]''
*''[[The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: Crisis on Coruscant]]''
*''[[The Clone Wars: Shadowed]]''
*''[[Path of the Jedi]]''
*{{TCW|Supply Lines}}
*''[[The Clone Wars: Prelude]]''
*{{TCW|Ambush}}
*''[[The Clone Wars: Shakedown]]''
*{{TCW|Rising Malevolence|Rising ''Malevolence''}}
*''[[The Clone Wars: Procedure]]''
*{{TCW|Shadow of Malevolence|Shadow of ''Malevolence''}}
*{{TCW|ARC Troopers (episode)|ARC Troopers}}
*''[[The Clone Wars: Transfer]]''
*''[[The Clone Wars: Bait]]''
*''[[The Clone Wars: Switch]]''
*''[[The Clone Wars: Headgames]]''
*''[[The Clone Wars: Neighbors]]''
*{{TCW|Blue Shadow Virus (episode)|Blue Shadow Virus}}
*{{TCW|Mystery of a Thousand Moons}}
*''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes]]''
*{{TCW|The Zillo Beast}}
*{{TCW|The Zillo Beast Strikes Back}}
*{{TCW|Holocron Heist}}
*''[[Air Strike]]'' {{Cutscene}}
*''[[The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct]]''
*{{TCW|Cargo of Doom}}
*{{TCW|Children of the Force}}
*''[[The Clone Wars: The Valsedian Operation]]''
*{{TCW|Death Trap}}
*{{TCW|R2 Come Home}}
*{{TCW|Lethal Trackdown}}
*''[[The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part I)]]''
*''[[The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part II)]]''
*''[[Swamp Station Sweep]]''
*''[[The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part III)]]''
*{{TCW|Senate Spy}}
*{{TCW|Landing at Point Rain}}
*{{TCW|Legacy of Terror}}
*{{TCW|Brain Invaders}}
*''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars 11: Hero of the Confederacy, Part 2]]''
*{{TCW|Grievous Intrigue}}
*{{TCW|The Deserter}}
*{{TCW|Lightsaber Lost}}
*{{TCW|The Mandalore Plot}}
*{{TCW|Bounty Hunters (episode)|Bounty Hunters}}
*''[[The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: Dooku's Secret Army]]''
*{{TCW|Nightsisters (episode)|Nightsisters}}
*{{TCW|Monster}}
*''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]''
*''[[Yoda: Dark Rendezvous]]''
*''[[Star Wars: Obsession]]''
*''[[Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel]]''
*''[[Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron]]''
*''[[Labyrinth of Evil]]''
*''[[Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]''
*[[Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (junior novelization)|''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith'' junior novel]]
*''[[Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader]]''
*''[[Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Star Wars: Dark Times 14: Blue Harvest, Part 2]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Star Wars 10: Behemoth from the World Below]]'' {{Mo}} {{1stID|the Holy Order of the Jedi Knights}}
*''[[Rebel Force: Target]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Rebel Force: Hostage]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Star Wars: Rebellion (video game)|Star Wars: Rebellion]]'' {{Mo}} {{Nc}}
*''[[Tatooine Ghost]]''
*{{WizCite|Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook|Shadows of Coruscant}}
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===Non-canon appearances===
*''[[LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game]]''
*''[[LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga]]''
*''[[Kowakian Monkey-Lizard]]''
*[[LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2|''LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2'' game]]
*[[LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 (film)|''LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2'' film]]
*''[[LEGO Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick]]''
*''[[Star Wars: Visions of the Blade]]''
*''[[Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron]]''

==Sources==
*''[[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition]]''
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*[[Star Wars: The Power of the Force (1995)|''Star Wars: The Power of the Force'' (1995)]]
*''[[Tales of the Jedi Companion]]''
*[[Star Wars: Episode I (toy line)|''Star Wars: Episode I'' toy line]]
*{{StarWarsKidsCite|3|Star Wars Kids Answer Quest}}
*''[[The New Essential Chronology]]''
*''[[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Scrapbook]]''
*''[[Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary]]''
*''[[Star Wars: The Power of Myth]]''
*''[[Power of the Jedi Sourcebook]]''
*''[[Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide]]''
*''[[Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''
*''[[Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide]]''
*{{WizardsCite|url=default.asp?x=starwars/article/BtT1|text=Behind the Threat: The Sith, Part 1: Portrayal|int=Behind the Threat: The Sith, Part 1: Portrayal}}
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[The Clone Wars Campaign Guide]]''
*{{Hyperspace|url=hyperspace/source/praji/20090205.html|text=''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji''|int=Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji}}
*''[[Rebellion Era Campaign Guide]]''
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*''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force]]''
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*{{InsiderCite|126|The Write Stuff!}}
*{{DB|organization|thejediorder|The Jedi Order}}

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*[[Jedi]]
*[[The Force]]
*[[Jedi Code]]
*[[New Jedi Order]]

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[[Category:Jedi organizations]]
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Jal Shey

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{{Quote|War is a vile thing, and it brings out the worst in beings. But it also brings out their best-courage, sacrifice, resourcefulness, tenacity, comradeship, genius, even humor. Would that we could achieve that enlightened state without shedding blood first.|Mentor Peet Sieben, Jal Shey philosopher|Star Wars: The Clone Wars (novel)}}
The '''Jal Shey''' were an ancient order of [[The Force|Force]] [[Force-sensitive|users]] who studied the Force from a purely intellectual perspective, forsaking the more spiritual paths taken by the [[Jedi]] and [[Sith]]. Jal Shey were typically more known for diplomacy, on par with the greatest Jedi negotiators, but unlike the Jedi they were less successful in physical pursuits, even where the Force was involved. The Jal Shey were also a nomadic group, traveling the galaxy in search of new locations to study the Force, and they were particularly selective about recruiting new members.

Because they lacked the physical abilities of the Jedi, Jal Shey members often wore [[Jal Shey Neophyte armor|various]] [[Jal Shey Advisor armor|types]] of [[Jal Shey Mentor armor|armor]] to protect themselves. They also created other devices such as [[Jal Shey meditation gloves]] and [[Jal Shey belt]]s to further augment their physical abilities, [[Force Weapon|imbuing]] them with the Force. The Jal Shey were known to have three ranks: [[Jal Shey Mentor|mentors]], [[Jal Shey Advisor|advisors]], and [[Jal Shey Neophyte|neophytes]]. The organization survived into the time of the [[Galactic Empire]] but was considered a viable target for Imperial persecution in the midst of the [[Great Jedi Purge]]. Imperial [[commander]] [[Roly Melusar]] at one point contemplated dispatching [[Imperial commando]]s in pursuit of the Jal Shey.

==History==
The Jal Shey order was considered one of the oldest [[The Force|Force]]-using traditions as early as [[3,000 BBY]]. By the time of the [[Jedi Civil War]], they were known to be widespread and items crafted by them could be found across the [[galaxy]]. They were nomadic by nature and did not settle for long in any particular place. Instead, they searched for places that could improve their understanding of the Force. Yet the Jal Shey were not only scholars and observers of [[the Force]]; they also participated in the life of the society in which they operated, using their knowledge to help improve the lives of beings around them.<ref name="KOTORCG" /> The Jedi largely considered them just another Force-using sect comparable to the [[Zeison Sha]].<ref>{{WizardsCite|url=default.asp?x=starwars/article/KOTORweben5|text=KOTOR Campaign Guide Web Enhancement 5: Karnak Tetsu, Sorcerer of Tund|int=KOTOR Campaign Guide Web Enhancement 5: Karnak Tetsu, Sorcerer of Tund}}</ref> Following the [[Great Sith War]], they roamed the galaxy and were regarded as militant, but retained their philosophy of viewing the Force intellectually rather than spiritually.<ref name="CSWE">''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''</ref> The [[Mabari]], an order of warrior knights that lived on the planet [[Zolan]], eventually developed from Jal Shey teachings.<ref name="SaV">''[[Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)]]''</ref> The Jal Shey remained in existence circa [[19 BBY]], during the formation of the [[Galactic Empire]]. [[Roly Melusar]], [[commander]] of the [[Imperial Commando Special Unit]], at one point considered dispatching his [[Clone commando|Imperial commandos]] to hunt down other Force-users besides Jedi; his list included the [[Altisian Jedi]] and Jal Shey.<ref name="Imperial Commando: 501st">''[[Imperial Commando: 501st]]''</ref>

==Hierarchy==
The Jal Shey categorized themselves into three different classifications. [[Jal Shey Mentor|Mentors]] were known for their intelligence and understanding of the Force and were considered an equivalent to the rank of [[Jedi Master]].<ref name="KOTORCG" /> [[Peet Sieben]] was one known Jal Shey mentor.<ref name="TCWnovel" /> [[Jal Shey Advisor|Advisors]] were assigned to diplomatic missions and could be encountered throughout the galaxy. [[Jal Shey Neophyte|Neophytes]] were new acolytes who studied with mentors until they were ready to accept investigative and diplomatic missions of their own.<ref name="KOTORCG" />

==Philosophy==
The Jal Shey were considered especially adept at diplomacy, negotiation, and spirited debate. Jal Shey could be found acting as negotiators in disputes ranging from simple arguments to negotiated settlements of great complexity, including wars. They were regarded as particularly skillful at diplomacy and comparisons were made between [[Jedi]] and Jal Shey negotiators. With the use of the Force, they could often catch their opponents off guard, allowing them to keep any potential opponents off-balance.<ref name="KOTORCG" />

The Jal Shey recruited Force-users from a variety of worlds and [[species]], but they were selective, choosing only those who they believed would accept the Jal Shey way of life and contribute to their scholarly and diplomatic efforts. Individuals they saw as tainted with the [[Dark side of the Force|dark side]] and those who presented an affinity for combat were typically not selected. They were not known for being particularly numerous.<ref name="KOTORCG" />

They did not consider themselves tied to one location, but instead moved from one destination to the next in search of places that would improve their understanding of the Force. Examples of things that the Jal Shey studied included dark side nexuses, the history of certain species, and other Force traditions.<ref name="KOTORCG" />

[[File:Jal shey mentor armor.jpg|thumb|left|180px|[[Jal Shey Mentor armor]]]]
Many Jal Shey learned basic [[lightsaber]] [[Lightsaber combat|techniques]] for defense, but they rarely specialized in them. Unlike the Jedi, the Jal Shey shunned physical pursuits, preferring to hone their understanding of the Force, negotiate settlements, and produce [[Force Weapon|Force-imbued]] items.<ref name="KOTORCG" />

Due to their lack of emphasis on physical exercise or combat, they preferred to use their desire and talents to create armor, belts, and other items to augment their own Force powers. The Jal Shey eventually learned how to produce items that not only enhanced the abilities of the creator when worn, but would benefit any who wore or wielded them.<ref name="KOTORCG" /> Even [[Jal Shey Mentor armor|robes]] created and worn by Jal Shey could provide a positive benefit to the wearer. [[Jal Shey perception gloves]] or [[Jal Shey meditation gloves|meditation gloves]] were worn during meditation and served to augment the user's awareness, while both regular [[Jal Shey belt]]s and the more effective [[Jal Shey Mentor belt|belts worn by mentors]] could provide one with mental fortitude against the dark side of the Force. The [[Jal Shey Neophyte armor|light armor]] worn by Jal Shey was, like the Jal Shey themselves, described as having an aura of dignity and competence, and did not restrict the use of Force powers by the wearer. There were [[Jal Shey Advisor armor|multiple types]] of [[armor]], depending on the rank of Jal Shey, and each [[Jal Shey Mentor armor|successively higher rank]] was more beneficial to the user than that of lower ranks.<ref name="kotorII" />

==Behind the scenes==
There are many player-usable items in ''[[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords|Knights of the Old Republic II]]'' created by the Jal Shey. While their armor does not inhibit Force powers like most armor, Jal Shey items can be useful to characters specializing in Force skills. The Jal Shey themselves did not directly appear in the game, although a brief description of their philosophy was given in the in-game description of each item.<ref name="kotorII" />

The Jal Shey had later appearances in the ''[[Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide]]'' and one of its web enhancements, which expounded upon their backstory. The campaign guide also served to provide the Jal Shey with known Force talents and expounded upon their role in the galaxy.<ref name="KOTORCG" /> They were mentioned in the sourcebook ''[[Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)|Scum and Villainy]]'',<ref name="SaV" /> and also had a brief entry in ''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]'', which described them as being "militant" and roaming the galaxy in the years after the Great Sith War.<ref name="CSWE" />

Author [[Karen Traviss]] mentioned them in two of her novels, [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (novel)|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'']] and ''[[Imperial Commando: 501st]]''. In particular, those novels identified an individual Jal Shey mentor, Peet Sieben, and established that the Jal Shey were still an active Force-using sect as of 19 BBY.<ref name="TCWnovel" /><ref name="Imperial Commando: 501st" />

==Appearances==
*''[[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords]]'' {{1stm}}
*[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (novel)|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' novel]] {{Mo}}
*''[[Imperial Commando: 501st]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*''[[Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide]]''
*{{WizardsCite|url=default.asp?x=starwars/article/KOTORweben5|text=KOTOR Campaign Guide Web Enhancement 5: Karnak Tetsu, Sorcerer of Tund|int=KOTOR Campaign Guide Web Enhancement 5: Karnak Tetsu, Sorcerer of Tund}}
*''[[Scum and Villainy (sourcebook)|Scum and Villainy]]''
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''

Cerean Ner Yan

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Cereans were a sophisticated and cultured humanoid mammalian species that hailed from the planet Cerea in the Mid Rim. They had tall tapering heads, which housed large binary brains, enabling them to focus on many things at the same time. Aside from this unique feature, Cereans were physically similar to Humans, although they possessed an extra heart, which supplied extra blood circulation to support their brains.

Cerean males aged more quickly than the females, who had similar lifespans to Humans. Thus, there were fewer males than females. Polygamous marriage was a necessity in order for the species to survive. Each male usually had one primary “bond-wife”, and between four and ten “honor-wives”.

Famous for their extraordinary thinking abilities, Cereans were often found among the ranks of the Jedi Knights, being exempt from the Jedi’s vow of celibacy, due to their low birth rates. One such Jedi, Ki-Adi-Mundi, served the Jedi High Council during and prior to the outbreak of the Clone Wars.

Biology and Appearance

Their enlarged skulls, extending up to twenty centimeters above their foreheads, housed complex binary brains, provided with sufficient blood by an extra heart in their heads. The binary structure of Cerean thinking helped them to ponder two sides of an issue at once. It also enabled them to process information and solve problems rapidly. Because of their thoughtful nature, they tended to be calm, rational, and analytical, preferring peaceful philosophies and a lifestyle which worked in harmony with nature. Though the quick-thinking Cereans had equally quick reflexes, they were commonly not as well coordinated as Humans. Because of the weight of their enlarged skulls, Cereans often had back problems.

Society and Culture

Cereans developed a low-tech society on their homeworld, and preferred to live in isolation from the wider galaxy. However, during the years leading up to the Invasion of Naboo, a generational dispute erupted on Cerea when the younger generation took up a rebellious stance against their low-tech society. Many Cerean youths wished to own such technology as was commonplace in the Galactic Republic, like starships and speeder bikes. This unrest was ultimately quelled by Jedi Knight Ki-Adi-Mundi, who traced the instigator of the movement, Ephant Mon, to Tatooine.

Many Cereans used specially-forged Kasha crystals as a meditational tool. By focusing one’s thoughts while in contact with such crystals, distractions were eliminated, creating an exceptional meditation environment. Cerean Jedi sometimes incorporated these crystals into their lightsabers, providing great focus, even during intense physical combat.

Cereans in The Galaxy

Ki-Adi-Mundi served as Jedi Watchman for his home system, though he relinquished this post during the Clone Wars to fellow Cerean Tarr Seirr. When Seirr was also called away, the Cereans were left undefended, and their planet was attacked by the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The death toll of the Battle of Cerea reached over one million, and included the family of Ki-Adi-Mundi. This led to the Cereans becoming even more removed from galactic affairs with the rise of the Galactic Empire.

By the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Cereans had developed a unique Force tradition, known as the Ner Yan. This group used the Force to link their minds, although in a haphazard manner. Ka-Tu-Un was an adept of this tradition and was mistaken for a Jedi by the Yuuzhan Vong.

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Aing-Ti Monks

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"The Aing-Tii have a different view of the Force. Not in terms of Jedi or Dark Jedi—of black and white, as it were—but in a way I like to think of as a full-color rainbow."
―Jorj Car'das[src]

The Aing-Tii were a secretive species of alien monks who hailed from a world within the Kathol Rift and resided near that area of space. Many members of the species were Force-sensitive; these were the only Aing-Tii who ever left their planet, traveling about the Rift in large, organic starships and using advanced weaponry to destroy those who opposed them. The Aing-Tii were very reclusive; they often used violence to dissuade outsiders from probing too far into their business, although a report based on a crashed Aing-Tii ship provided the galaxy with some details on their culture. Their belief system held that all events were not necessarily predetermined, but rather "guided." Unlike the Jedi or Sith, the Aing-Tii held that the Force had neither a light nor a dark side, but was full of many colors, not unlike a rainbow.
The Aing-Tii monks only ever left their territories to attack slavers; they believed slavery to be a great evil and were relentless in their persecution of those who thrived from it. The Jedi Order learned of the Aing-Tii at some point, and several years before the Battle of Yavin, the Jedi Master Yoda sent a smuggler named Jorj Car'das to visit the monks so that he could be healed. Car'das spent many years with the Aing-Tii, and his reports on them eventually found their way into the archives of the New Jedi Order. Jacen Solo spent several years learning from the Aing-Tii after the Yuuzhan Vong War; his and Car'das's reports were compiled by Tionne Solusar and printed sometime after 130 ABY, though Solo kept much of what he had learned about the monks a secret. However, when Jedi Luke Skywalker and his son Ben visited the Aing-Tii in 43 ABY, they discovered many details about what Solo had learned and how it had caused his fall to the dark side.

Biology and appearance:

The Aing-Tii were a species of sentient, toothless mammals who stood about two meters tall on average. They stood erect on two clawed feet, and they had two spindly arms, each with three large digits. Their bodies were covered entirely in jointed protective coverings of bony plates, which extended up past their necks and onto their heads, where they acted and appeared like a protective helmet. The Aing-Tii head was small and jutted out perpendicularly from their chest. The head featured two large eyes and a series of long, thin tongues that extended around half a meter from their mouths. Each Aing-Tii had a long, prehensile tail that could be used in self-defense. The Aing-Tii each had a set of painted motifs covering their entire bodies, though the patterns were unique to each Aing-Tii. The species did not communicate through speech, as they were incapable of producing sound. Instead, they conveyed information via tasting, smelling and touching each other with their six long, thin green tongues.[1]
Society and cultureEdit

"The Aing-Tii have an understanding of the Force; but it's a different understanding from that of the Jedi. Or perhaps it's merely a different aspect of the Force they relate to. I'm not really sure which."
―Jorj Car'das[src]

An Aing-Tii master of the Force.
The Aing-Tii were native to a planet whose location in the Kathol Rift was a closely guarded secret. The rift itself was a dangerous area of space, although by the time of the Galactic Empire they had developed space travel and many had taken to living in their semi-organic starships. The majority of Aing-Tii never left their homeworld nor had any contact with members of other sentient species. Those who did—commonly called Aing-Tii warrior monks—were highly xenophobic and reclusive, attacking any who tried to learn more about them. Although most aspects of Aing-Tii culture were not known to the wider galaxy, it was documented that all Aing-Tii seen offworld were Force-sensitive. They believed that their Force talents were gifts from their deities, "Those Who Dwell Beyond the Veil," although they generally preferred not to use the Force when they could avoid it. They saw the Force as sacred, something that was not to be meddled with. The monks spent their entire lives performing errands for their gods, traveling through the dangerous Kathol Rift—which they also viewed as a holy place—and performing pilgrimages in the hope that they would receive "an answer" from them.[1]
The monks did make occasional use of the Force, mostly to fuel their cavernous ships. The Aing-Tii had a different view of the Force from that of other Force-users:[5] they believed that even one who was not Force-sensitive could manipulate the energy field to do his or her bidding. Although Aing-Tii avoided using these "gifts," the monks could instantaneously move an object—ranging in size from small items to 300-meter-long ships—from one location to another, an ability not mastered by even the most powerful of Jedi or Sith. They were also able to teach this power to non-Force-sensitives. The Aing-Tii believed that, while life was not predetermined, everything was somehow guided by the Force. Unlike the Jedi and Sith, the warrior monks did not believe in the light or dark sides of the Force. Instead, they held that there were many different aspects to the Force.[5]

The monks were able to use myriad other Force powers, one of which was known as flow-walking. Skilled practitioners of the technique could surrender their emotions to the Force and center themselves in its flow, thus transcending time itself. An Aing-Tii could therefore use flow-walking to observe events in the past or future,[6] so long as the monk knew the location at which the event had occurred or eventually would occur.[7] By allowing their senses of detachment to fade, and letting their emotional selves return, however, practitioners could impose themselves upon the passage of time and begin to influence and change the course of events.[6][7] Such alternation was only possible to an extent; the Force itself was unable to be substantially altered and would ensure that events continued as they were pre-destined to do so.[8] With its manipulation of the fabric of time, flow-walking was a complex, esoteric ability, and it remained a little-known secret among the Aing-Tii.[6]

The Aing-Tii held a deep hatred of slavery, and they often attacked slavers who roamed the Kathol Outback. Due to the sheer power of their technology, the Aing-Tii traveled in groups of three to five ships, ramming vessels laden with slaves and destroying slaver ships that were free of slaves at the time. Few outsiders realized what was behind such attacks, thinking them simply random,[1] although those who had dealings with the Aing-Tii learned quickly of this hatred.[5] Although Aing-Tii were quick to respond to pleas from residents of the Kathol Outback, the species kept to themselves and discouraged any attempts by others to pry into their business. They did allow a small amount of information about themselves to surface, though only to scare off any who would seek to learn more.[1]

Technology
"Their star drive is considerably different from ours. As you may have noticed from the battle. Instead of using the usual hyperspace travel, their ships are able to make an instantaneous jump to whatever point they wish."
―Jorj Car'das[src]

An Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship.
The Aing-Tii developed a form of semi-organic technology early in their history, using it to build massive, 100-being ships. These vessels, named Sanhedrim ships, over 300 meters long, were used by Aing-Tii warriors to embark on pilgrimages in the Kathol Rift, to attack slavers, and to respond to distress call sent by the people of the Kathol Outback. Each Sanhedrim was unique, with numerous symbols painted on the hull and dozens of conical exhaust ports and thruster pods jutting out at random places. Each Sanhedrim was roughly ovoid in shape and covered in thick hull plates, not unlike the imbricated hides of an Aing-Tii themselves. Sanhedrims had weaponry that, in comparison to that used by the Galactic Republic and Galactic Empire, were extremely advanced and deadly. Over 60 gunners on each ship used energy web generators and null-burst projectors to destroy enemy ships with ease, although the Aing-Tii often rammed other vessels instead. The monks used non-deadly weapons to dissuade those who had taken an interest in them; the mysterious weapons altered the victim's perception of time, allowing the Aing-Tii to escape to their home territory. Aing-Tii ships usually traveled in groups of three or four, although it was not uncommon for a ship to wander by itself.[1] The Sanhedrims were also able to evade being picked up by other ships' sensors.[9]
The Aing-Tii were reported to have a sort of symbiotic connection with the ships they served on. The Aing-Tii developed a method of moving from one destination to another, which was barely comprehensible to anyone but the monks. They used the Force in conjunction with their unique technology to instantaneously move their ship through space.[2] It was this technology, combined with their natural ability as navigators, that allowed them to travel through the dangerous Kathol Rift unhindered.[1]

Another piece of Aing-Tii technology was the Vor'cha stun stick. These appeared to be wooden sticks wrapped in some kind of wire that could deliver a powerful energy charge, rendering a victim unconscious.[1] The Vor'cha were able to penetrate armor and electrocute a victim regardless of what he or she was wearing.[10]

History
The galaxy knew very little of the Aing-Tii's early history, and for centuries their existence was known only to a select few who had seen them in the flesh. The species' reclusive nature meant that they rarely interacted with the other inhabitants of the Rift, and then only to banish slavers or answer pleas for help.[1] Their rumored powers piqued the curiosity of spacers, who made several attempts to learn more about the monks. One group managed to sneak a micro-espionage droid onto an Aing-Tii ship during the time of the Galactic Republic; this provided the rest of the galaxy with its first images of reclusive species. This attempt was eventually halted by the monks, although around the same period an Aing-Tii vessel crashed on a remote world and provided the denizens of the Kathol Sector with much information on the species and their technology. Nevertheless, knowledge of the monks was always scarce.[1]
The Jedi Order had learned of the Aing-Tii by the time of the Ruusan Reformation and the species received an entry in the Jedi training manual The Jedi Path,[11] although the Aing-Tii themselves were indifferent towards Jedi.[2] Some time before the Battle of Yavin, the Jedi Master Yoda sent Jorj Car'das, a former smuggler whose health was deteriorating, to the monks so that he could be healed. The Aing-Tii agreed to heal Car'das, though only on the condition that he spend his life learning of their ways. Although Car'das was not Force-sensitive, he learned of their abilities and studied under them for decades. They eventually allowed him to leave and live out his life on Exocron.[5]

At some point, the Aing-Tii began searching for the Codex, a pyramidal construct made of ancient DarkStryder technology. They saw the Codex as sacred, and their culture dictated that an Aing-Tii could not physically touch the item, which could enhance one's ability to use the Force. They believed it was a remnant from "Those Who Dwell Beyond The Veil," and that it granted the ability to contact the mysterious beings.[10] Desperate to get their hands on it, the monks kidnapped a Human named Makezh around 7 ABY and reprogrammed him, subconsciously teaching him to locate and retrieve the Codex, as he was not bound by their customs.[1] The Aing-Tii had a limited knowledge of the Human psyche, and Makezh suffered from a state of mild insanity,[12] and the near eradication of his memories as a result of the brainwashing.[1]

The Aing-Tii battling Imperial forces on Demonsgate.
Makezh joined the crew of the New Republic vessel FarStar at Danoor; they required a navigator to traverse the Kathol Rift as they were tracking a rogue Imperial Moff named Kentor Sarne. Before the vessel could enter the Rift, however, they were engaged by an Imperial II-class Star Destroyer and a CR90 corvette named the Lialic II. During the battle, an Aing-Tii Sanhedrim ship assisted the FarStar in defeating the Imperial force.[13]
During the FarStar's trip through the Rift, they encountered an alien construct. A mission group went aboard, and while searching the construct, they discovered the Codex, although they were not aware of its purpose or significance to the Aing-Tii.[14] Makezh, aware of the Codex's presence, was compelled by his programming to steal it, and he absconded from the ship over the planet Demonsgate, traveling to the surface to present it to the Aing-Tii. Nevertheless, Makezh was pursued by Imperial stormtroopers and bounty hunters, forcing the Aing-Tii into a confrontation wherein they used their Vor'cha to incapacitate the soldiers. The Aing-Tii eventually took the device for themselves; rather than repaying Makezh for all he had gone through to get the Codex for them, they took him, along with many of the unconscious Imperials, onto their ships to study.[12] The Aing-Tii were later involved in the Battle of Kathol, an engagement between the FarStar and her allies against Moff Sarne's Imperial forces.[15] Some reports claim that the Aing-Tii were responsible for the destruction of the FarStar during the battle, but the New Republic attempted to keep the ship's mission secret, and details on it were kept quiet.[16]

Around the same time, an elderly female Bith trader named Maddie Macatten put great effort into tracking down the Aing-Tii and discovering their homeworld. The monks had previously freed her from slavers, and she wished to find them and thank her rescuers face-to-face. Macatten discovered a large amount of accurate information on the monks, although she was extremely old and most considered her insane, shrouding her findings in questions about their accuracy. The Aing-Tii also made an enemy during this period: the government of Sapella held a grudge against the monks after one of the Aing-Tii Sanhedrim collided with and destroyed one of their defense vessels. It was in actuality an accident, although the people of Sapella claimed that the Aing-Tii had attacked them on purpose.[1]

Jorj Car'das, the smuggler whose life the Aing-Tii had saved, kept in contact with his former hosts and occasionally called in favors from them. In 19 ABY, the Aing-Tii attacked a fleet of slavers commanded by a Rodian named Rei'Kas, who had assaulted Exocron. The monks destroyed the slavers at Car'das's request and transported his ally, Talon Karrde, to Bastion, on one of the monks' rare journeys away from the Kathol Outback.[5] Car'das later bade the Aing-Tii use their ships to transport him when he completed various errands.[9] The Aing-Tii ships would later be compared to those of the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong after their assault on Obroa-skai in 25 ABY.[17]

After the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War in 29 ABY, the Jedi Knight Jacen Solo journeyed to the Kathol Rift to study with the Aing-Tii monks. He learned much from them. By the time of his departure the monks had come to view Solo as a flawed student, but they did impart to him the knowledge of flow-walking, guiding and instructing the traveling Jedi Knight in the use of the intricate ability.[6] When Solo returned to the New Jedi Order, he made a report based on his findings, which, along with an essay on the monks written by Talon Karrde, was published by Tionne Solusar in her guide to the Force.[2] Solo, however, kept much of what he had learned from the monks secret from his fellow Jedi,[6] and Karrde had learned little from Car'das, so the Aing-Tii remained largely unknown to the wider galaxy.[5]

In 43.5 ABY Luke Skywalker and his son Ben traveled to the Kathol Rift, hoping to learn more about what caused Jacen Solo's fall to the dark side. They arrived on the Aing-Tii homeworld and were met by Tadar'Ro, the monks' liaison. Over the next few days the Skywalkers were taught the arts of flow-walking and Force teleportation. They were also brought into the Embrace, a series of caves and caverns below the planet surface where the Aing-Tii kept sacred objects, which they called relics. Luke was allowed to touch the object known as the Codex, which he hoped would grant him some sort of revelation. While the relic held no answers for him, Luke did sense a mass of dark energy that he believed originated from The Maw. Their visit proved inconclusive, so the two Skywalkers left the planet soon thereafter.
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