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The Jedi High Council is an institution from the Star Wars series of films. The Jedi Council are the strongest members of the Jedi Order and elected to lead the Jedi.

The High Council was a group of twelve wise and powerful Jedi Masters elected to guide the Jedi Order, as well as serve as an advisory body for the Supreme Chancellor (a sage governance). The Council was made up of five lifetime members, four long-term members, and three limited-term members. This organizational structure had evolved from the earlier assemblies of Jedi Masters, and during the Great Hyperspace War may have been nothing more than an "inner circle" within the assembly. The Council originally had no set meeting place, and met irregularly on planets such as Ossus, Alderaan, and Chandrila. With the relocation of the Order from Ossus to Coruscant, the Council was established on that world.

The members of the Jedi Council alone chose promising Jedi to join them. No outside body attempted to appoint a member to the Council against its wishes until the Clone Wars, when Supreme Chancellor Palpatine appointed Anakin Skywalker to the Council.

Contents 1 Ancient Jedi Order 2 Old Jedi Order 2.1 Episode I 2.2 Episode II 2.3 Episode III 2.4 Deaths on the Jedi Council 2.4.1 44 to 25 BBY 2.4.2 The Clone Wars 2.4.3 The Jedi Purge 3 New Jedi Order 4 Enclave councils 4.1 Almas 4.2 Arkania 4.3 Chu'unthor II 4.4 Dantooine 4.4.1 During the Great Sith War 4.4.2 During the Great Hunt 4.4.3 During the Second Sith War 4.5 Ossus 4.6 Teya IV 4.6.1 4596 BBY 4.6.2 3999 BBY

The earliest known Jedi Council was around 3,965 BBY. Conversations between Bastila Shan and Carth Onasi imply that there was a Jedi Council preceding the "Jedi Civil War era" council.

During the Mandalorian Wars and the Jedi Civil War, the Jedi High Council included the following members:

• Atris
• Zez-Kai Ell
• Vrook Lamar
• Lonna Vash
• Kavar

Master Zez-Kai Ell, Master Kavar, and Master Vrook were killed by Darth Traya in the rebuilt Jedi Enclave on Dantooine. Master Lonna Vash was killed by Sith Lord Darth Sion in the Sith Academy on Korriban. The whereabouts of Atris were lost after the second destruction of Malachor V.

The Jedi High Council, during this time, was the group of twelve wise and powerful Jedi Masters elected to guide the Jedi, as well as serve as an advisory body for the Chancellors of the Galactic Republic (a sage governance). The council was made up of five lifetime members (two of them senior), four long-term members, and three limited-term members.

These Jedi presided over the order during its twilight years. This chart does not include Masters Tor Difusal, Jocasta Nu, T'un, Sifo Dyas, and Thame Cerulian, all of whom sat on the council decades before 44 BBY.

• Yoda
• Mace Windu
• Oppo Rancisis
• Yarael Poof
• Depa Billaba
• Saesee Tiin
• Eeth Koth
• Adi Gallia
• Even Piell
• Plo Koon
• Yaddle
• Ki-Adi-Mundi

• Yoda
• Mace Windu
• Ki-Adi-Mundi
• Plo Koon
• Eeth Koth
• Oppo Rancisis
• Even Piell
• Adi Gallia
• Depa Billaba
• Coleman Trebor
• Saesee Tiin
• Shaak Ti

• Yoda
• Mace Windu
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Anakin Skywalker
• Agen Kolar
• Stass Allie
• Plo Koon
• Ki-Adi-Mundi
• Saesee Tiin
• Shaak Ti
• Kit Fisto
• Coleman Kcaj

Tyvokka was killed during the Stark Hyperspace War and Micah Giett was killed during an uprising on Yinchorr. Yarael Poof sacrificed himself to save Coruscant from the Annoo-Dat terrorist General Ashaar Khorda, and Yaddle died saving the population of Mawan from a dihexalon gas weapon launched by Sith cultist undusu
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The Clone Wars (22-19 BBY) were a terrible time for the galaxy and the Jedi in particular, as several of their greatest were killed over the course of those three bloody years. Coleman Trebor was killed by Jango Fett during the Battle of Geonosis, and Eeth Koth perished when his gunship was shot down during withdrawal from that world. Depa Billaba fell to the dark side on Haruun Kal, and Oppo Rancisis was murdered on the planet Saleucami by the Dark Jedi Sora Bulq. Adi Gallia was killed by General Grievous on Boz Pity.

Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar, Saesee Tiin, and Mace Windu were all struck down in battle with Emperor Palpatine. Anakin Skywalker fell to the dark side and became Darth Vader, then led an attack on the Jedi Temple. Following the issue of the Emperor's Order 66, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Stass Allie, Aayla Secura and Plo Koon were murdered by the Emperor's forces on various planets. Obi-Wan Kenobi went into hiding on Tatooine and was killed by Darth Vader nineteen years later. Four years after that, Yoda died on Dagobah over 900 years old. Shaak Ti escaped Order 66 and went into hiding on Felucia.

In 28 ABY, Luke Skywalker re-established the Jedi Council as part of his New Jedi Order. The most notable difference between the format of that new council and that of the old is the fact that only half of the council was made up of Jedi, while the other half consisted of politicians. Following the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Jedi withdrew their support from any one political entity and relocated to Ossus, where a full Jedi Council was re-established. As of 35 ABY, the newly established Masters' Council apparently consisted of:

• Cilghal
• Kyp Durron
• Kenth Hamner
• Corran Horn
• Kyle Katarn
• Tresina Lobi
• Octa Ramis
• Saba Sebatyne
• Luke Skywalker
• Mara Skywalker
• Kam Solusar

Though all Jedi were ultimately answerable to the Jedi Temple's High Council, some individual planets maintained their own lesser councils to oversee the training of Jedi at those worlds' Jedi Enclaves, or praxeums.

• Lanius Qel-Bertuk
• Nerra Ziveri
• Kirlocca
• Devan For'deschel
• Darrus Jeht
• Jurahi
• Ti-Amun Tiro

• Arca Jeth

• Djinn Altis

• Vodo Siosk-Baas

• Vrook Lamar
• Bala Nisi
• Qual
• Aleco Stusea

• Dorak
• Vrook Lamar
• Zhar Lestin
• Vandar Tokare

• Ood Bnar
• Odan-Urr

• Willm Lywin

• Tannis

There were similar satellite academies on the worlds of Bpfassh and Kamparas, as well as in the original Chu'unthor academy starship.