Editing New Jedi Order (section)

==='''Growth and expansion (18 to 22 ABY)'''===

''"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."''<br />'''―Tionne Solusar'''<br />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 Knights, the Jensaarai, the Matukai, and students from the School of Hidden Wisdom. 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, to the Old Republic Jedi Knight rescued from the imprisonment of his former apprentice Winslau Da'k, on the Unknown Regions planet Morcanth. New Republic Intelligence also began to report to Skywalker on possible candidates.

Jedi Knights played key roles in disabling the Eye of Palpatine battlestation, preventing the spread of the Death Seed plague, and stopping the Disciples of Ragnos, a cult with the goal of resurrecting the Sith Lord, Marka Ragnos. Finally they also took part in neutralizing Centerpoint Station in the First Corellian Crisis. During this period, research missions increased, with investigation on such planets as Chandrila, Ossus, Kamino, Korriban, Ruusan, Barab I, and Borgo Prime. 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. Other successes included Eelysa breaking a number of slave rings in the Outer Rim, Fahjay stopping an assassination attempt against Admiral Ackbar, 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. The Jedi also embarked on other diplomatic missions, such as to Iridonia.

Discoveries of Jedi relics, such as Jedi armor on Garn, lightsabers on Ossus, Asli Krimsan's holocron on Vjun and Arca Jeth's holocron on Arkania 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. 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. 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.