Obi-Wan's life prior to The Phantom Menace is portrayed mostly in Jude Watson's Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest series.

The Jedi Quest books detail his adventures with Anakin in the years leading up to Attack of the Clones.

* Star Wars Jedi Quest 8: The Changing of the Guard, the eighth book in the Star Wars Jedi Quest series by Jude Watson

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Beside the journals of Princess Leia, Queen Amidala ( 1999 ), and Darth Maul ( 1999 ), Watson is the author of three series that comprise about forty books: Jedi Apprentice ( except for the first book ), Jedi Quest, and The Last of the Jedi.

It is here that theories abound on Star Wars's philosophy of the Jedi were based on that of xia and the setting of jianghu in this genre.

The Jedi are trained to use the Force through rejection of passions and commitment to justice, as opposed to the ideals of the aggressive, highly passionate school known as the Dark side, favoring instead what is known in contrast as " the Light side.

By the end of the film, Luke is on the path to becoming a Jedi.

In the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, Luke receives extensive Jedi training from the elderly ( and only surviving ) Jedi Master Yoda ( Frank Oz ), even as he learns that Vader is in fact his father, former Jedi Anakin Skywalker.

In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ( 1999 ), Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn ( Liam Neeson ) discovers nine year old Anakin Skywalker ( Jake Lloyd ), whom he believes to be the " Chosen One " of Jedi prophecy who is destined to bring balance to the Force ; the boy is eventually paired with Qui-Gon's apprentice, the young Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ), who promises to train him.

* Youngling: A Jedi Youngling is a child, a Jedi-in-training, learning to control the Force and wield a lightsaber.

The title of " Youngling " is the first part of a Jedi training.

This, the most common rank, is interchangeably referred to as " Jedi ", " Jedi Knight " and " Master Jedi " ( although the latter only used by Younglings and Padawans when addressing Jedi Knights or above ).

Also, " Master Jedi " is the common honorific.

* Jedi Grand Master: Grand Master is usually the oldest, most experienced and best trained of all Jedi.

A Grand Master is chosen by the Jedi council.

In the Star Wars saga, the Jedi Temple is the official Jedi headquarters / school / monastery for Jedi.

Even though the temple was severely damaged and most of the Jedi perished, it was not completely destroyed, and is visible in the celebrations on Coruscant at the end of Return of the Jedi over twenty years later.

They exist by that name only in the Expanded Universe, including video games such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Jedi Knight series ; the term is never used in any of the six Star Wars films.

Young Jedi Knights series ( with Rebecca Moesta ):

As with the previous game in the series, the player controls Kyle Katarn, a former Jedi who cut his link with The Force after almost succumbing to the Dark Side.

In the New Jedi Order series, Leia resigns as Chief of State, and is replaced by Borsk Fey ' lya.

During the Legacy of the Force series, set some 35 years after Return of the Jedi, Leia supports Han, who feels allegiance to his native Corellia, even though she remains a Jedi Knight.

They appear in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, as well as the Clone Wars TV series and the Expanded Universe's books, comics, and games.

In the New Jedi Order series, Luke creates a new Jedi Council.

In the Legacy of the Force series, Luke begins having visions of a figure cloaked in darkness destroying the galaxy and the Jedi Decree.

In the comic book series Star Wars: Legacy, set 133 years after Return of the Jedi, Luke appears as a Force ghost to his descendant Cade Skywalker, who has renounced his connection to the Force.

Notable events in the series include battling the Dark Jedi Xanatos, falling in love with fellow Padawan Siri Tachi, and going on his first independent mission.

Obi-Wan's life between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope is portrayed mostly in Jude Watson's The Last of the Jedi series.

Set roughly a year after the fall of the Republic, the series follows Obi-Wan as he seeks out possible survivors of the Great Jedi Purge, most notably Anakin's former rival, Ferus Olin.

In the Star Wars: Republic series, set during the Clone Wars, Dooku trains multiple Dark Jedi apprentices, most of whom he uses as minions.

Qui-Gon's life prior to Episode I is mainly detailed in the Jedi Apprentice book series.

In this series, he now serves another member of the Skywalker family — reluctant Jedi Cade Skywalker.

In the Jedi Prince novel series, a group of impostors calling themselves the Prophets of the Dark Side install a three-eyed mutant named Trioculus as Emperor by claiming that he is Palpatine's son.

By the time of the New Jedi Order series, the remaining Imperial military factions sign a truce with the New Republic, becoming the Imperial Remnant.

The Star Wars: Legacy comic book series, set 130 years after Return of the Jedi, explains that, during a civil war, the New Galactic Empire known as the Fel Empire declares war on the Galactic Alliance, the successor state of the New Republic.

She delivers a son, Ben, during The New Jedi Order series.

Oz is also known as the performer of Jedi Master Yoda from George Lucas ' Star Wars series.

The game was a large success and as a result, the next game in the series followed in 2002, Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.

He has also written several comic books including the Dark Horse Star Wars collection Tales of the Jedi written in collaboration with Tom Veitch, Predator titles ( also for Dark Horse ), and X-Files titles for Topps.

Stackpole is credited as the creator of the character Corran Horn, who later starred in his own first-person novel, I, Jedi, also written by Stackpole.

The Unifying Force is the nineteenth and final installment of the New Jedi Order series of books in the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe written by James Luceno.

The Final Prophecy is a novel in the New Jedi Order series, written by Greg Keyes.

Kyle's adventures are also told in three hardcover graphic story albums written by William C. Dietz which were adapted into audio dramatizations: Soldier for the Empire, Rebel Agent and Jedi Knight.

The Jedi Prince series is a series of science fiction novels set in the Star Wars galaxy, written by Paul Davids and Hollace Davids.

He also written episodes for the television series Transformers as well as a spin-off Star Wars series with his wife informally known as the Jedi Prince series.

I, Jedi is a novel, written by Michael A. Stackpole that is set in the Star Wars galaxy.

Golden has also written three books for the now almost finished Fate of the Jedi series of Star Wars novels.

Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith is a six-part story arc in the Tales of the Jedi series of comic books written by Kevin J. Anderson.

Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War is a six-part story arc in the Tales of the Jedi series of comic books written by Kevin J. Anderson.

Return of the Ewok is a 1982 mockumentary short, written, produced and directed by David Tomblin, starring Warwick Davis as himself in a fictionalized account of how he got the role of Wicket W. Warrick in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

The trilogy was to be written by Michael Jan Friedman, but was cancelled after he had finished the first book, Jedi Storm.