And while the Service Corps exist in current canon, they’ve barely been used (and were all pressed into military service for the Clone War, either way). The EU leveraged concepts like the Jedi Service Corps-divisions of medics, agricultural workers, academics, and explorers made up of younglings who failed the Jedi Trials-to flesh out the scope of the Jedi, but even then it too suffered from similar necessities of focusing on a much smaller cast of characters.
But those stories focused on a cast of dozens rather than thousands, the size and scope of the Order existing in abstract rather than as a particular tool leveraged in many tales.
We’ve had stories, for sure-in current canon we have the High Republic era exposing the Jedi’s apex, we’ve had the Clone Wars with multiple Jedi on the front line of thousands of conflicts across a whole galaxy. The first is that honestly we’ve not really had many stories that encapsulate the full scope of the Jedi Order at its heights in the centuries running up to the events of the prequel trilogy. But is it too many? How effective can the Jedi purge be if seemingly every other Star Wars story is about a Jedi who survived it? Skoll joins Cal Kestis, Ahsoka Tano, Caleb Dume, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and seemingly everyone in between as the latest in a long line of Jedi Knights to have made it out of the Clone Wars. The number of Jedi who survived Order 66 has been in the spotlight this week, after Empire Magazine’s coverage of the upcoming Ahsoka series revealed that one of its main antagonists, Baylan Skoll-played by the late Ray Stevenson-is a former Jedi who became a mercenary in the years since the Jedi Order’s downfall. Is that a problem? As always with Star Wars, not really. But as devastating as Palpatine’s issuing of Order 66 was to the Jedi, in recent years we’ve seen more and more tales of Jedi that survived its wrath. Ten thousand Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice across the Star Wars galaxy before the rise of the Empire laid them low.
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