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Jedi (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ d aɪ /), Jedi Knights, or collectively the Jedi Order are fictional characters, and often protagonists, featured in many works within the Star Wars franchise. . Working symbiotically alongside the Old Galactic Republic, the Jedi Order is depicted as a religious, academic, meritocratic, and military-auxiliary (peacekeeping) organization whose origin dates back thousands of ...
A notable example is "Force lightning", electricity projected from the fingertips as a means of attack and torture, most famously used by Darth Sidious to torture Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, meanwhile, Palpatine claims that the dark side gave the Sith lord Darth ...
Jediism (or Jedism [1]) is a philosophy, [2] and, in some cases, a tongue-in-cheek joke religion, [3] [4] mainly based on the depiction of the Jedi characters in Star Wars media. [5] Jediism attracted public attention in 2001 when a number of people recorded their religion as "Jedi" on national censuses .
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order (or New Jedi Order or NJO) is a series of 19 science fiction novels, published from 1999 to 2003, set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. The series revolves around the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy 21–25 years after the events depicted in Return of the Jedi .
A single-player action-adventure game, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, with an original story and cast of characters, was released in November 2019.
Palpatine declares the Jedi to be traitors, providing "irrefutable evidence" that they were the masterminds behind the Clone Wars, and all but exterminates the Jedi Order in a galaxy-wide slaughter, while sending Vader to kill everyone in the Jedi Temple and assassinate the Separatist leaders. Vader then immediately ends the Clone War by ...
According to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary (2015), and the trilogy novel series Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig, after the Galactic Empire was defeated at Battle of Endor in 4 ABY in Return of the Jedi, thousands of worlds rose up to join the Rebel Alliance, and destroy the disorganized Empire, which had fallen victim to warlordism.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in November 2019, and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in June 2021. The game received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised the game's combat, characters, performance, and world design, though it received criticisms for the technical issues ...