Yoda (LAASWS)

"Old I am, but spank you I still can."

- Yoda to a fellow Jedi Master

Yoda was an ancient Jedi and later Grand Master of the Jedi Order in the last centuries of the Old Republic. He led the Jedi into an alliance with the corrupt politician Signet Mezzileen in an attempt to prevent bloodshed within the Republic. However, when Mezzileen ordered the arrest of all Jedi on Coruscant following a disagreement, Yoda led the Jedi to Ossus and later formed the Jedi Coalition against Mezzileen.

Biography
"He is more dangerous then he looks.Really, then we don't need to worry.Be careful Mezzileen, that little frog may be the ruin of our plans."

- The witch Ugra and Signet Mezzileen

Yoda had been a Jedi for nearly eight hundred years, and Grand Master for over three centuries when Signet Mezzileen became Supreme Chancellor of the Republic. At first he was able to stabilise the government after decades of decay, but in his strive to do what he thought was right he removed all rivals and took total power, sidelining the Senate and the Jedi Order. As protest after protest was brutally crushed by Mezzileen's troops, Yoda brought the Jedi into an alliance with him, so that the Jedi could suppress the revolts peacefully before Mezzileen's forces massacred them.

As Mezzileen celebrated seventy years in power, a series of revolts orchestrated by the Democratic Republican Party challenged his rule. After Mezzileen's troops brutally crushed one such uprising on Coruscant, Yoda led a delegation of Jedi to confront Mezzileen over his actions. Mezzileen refused to listen to the Jedi Master's pleas and ordered their arrest, but Yoda and the other Jedi fought their way out and fled to the Jedi Temple. The Temple then came under seige by Mezzileen's troops, and Yoda organised the evacuation while other Jedi held off the Republci troops.

The Jedi fled to their headquarters on Ossus, but a fleet of Republic ships pursued them and laid seige to the planet. After much neogiation, Yoda was persuaded to order an attack on the fleet in order for the Jedi to escape but before the Jedi could launch, a fleet of ships arrived and broke the blockade. The Jedi met with these rebels, led by the head of the Democratic Republican Party Arf Fey'lya and together they formed the Jedi Coalition against Mezzileen.