![]() ![]() So when one hundred was the target number, I think someone decided that might be a bit small given the size of the galaxy, the prevalence of the Force and the skill of the Jedi overall. Unfortunately the very same article while saying approximately 100 survived, also indicates this might have been incorrect and says that perhaps 200 survived.īeing a writer, I suspect there had been no absolute numbers established so there could be as many Jedi as needed for different franchise writers to be able to write without stepping on each others work. ![]() This number likely included masters, knights, and padawans (who were not supposedly all killed but taking in for questioning). Using the estimates in Wookieepedia, (1% survival rate with 100 or so surviving) this meant there were approximately 10,000 Jedi at the start of Order 66. There they managed to elude Imperial forces for many years, a feat few of their contemporaries could claim. Masters Kenobi and Yoda, like many others, chose to go into exile, on Tatooine and Dagobah respectively. Nearly all of the surviving Jedi Knights were hunted down and killed by Darth Vader, while Order 66 itself remained in effect indefinitely among the ranks of the Galactic Empire's newly-christened stormtroopers. Wookieepedia indicates that less than 1% of the total number of Jedi were thought to have survived the Order 66 purge.Īlthough Order 66 greatly depleted the Jedi Order's ranks, with an estimated less than 100 Jedi surviving it, it was only the beginning of the Great Jedi Purge, which stretched on for years and would claim the lives of many of the survivors of the initial onslaught.
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