Jedi Order IV (Jedi Renaissance)

The fourth iteration of the Jedi Order was organized at the end of the Dark Wars by Jedi Master Meetra Surik after the defeat of the Sith Triumvirate and the final remnants of the Sith Empire founded by Darths Revan and Malak. Reestablishing themselves in Temple on Coruscant, Surik and her companions began training a class of twelve students, quickly reclaiming the teachings of their predecessors and recruiting old and new members. Restoring official ties with the Galactic Republic and continuing the Order's heritage of serving as peacekeepers and diplomats on behalf of member worlds, the Order persevered for three hundred years. With an average of 104,000 active Masters and Knights, the Order was ill equipped to defend the galaxy when the resurgent Sith Empire attacked the Republic and initiated a Great Galactic War that set the galaxy aflame. The Order was forced to flee Coruscant after the Sith sacked their Temple and demanded that the Republic sign a treaty to suspend the fighting. During the Cold War, Grand Master Satele Shan led the Jedi to Tython, where they regrouped and retrained, raising a new generation to fight the Empire. Their efforts were for naught even as they gained much ground when the war resumed because of the rise of the Eternal Imperium. Forcing a surrender of both the Sith Empire and the Republic Senate, the Imperium blockaded Tython and killed most Jedi in the field, scattering members across the galaxy and cutting off supply lines. Many members abroad joined a clandestine group called the Alliance, striking out at the Imperium where they could until a divisive victory was struck on Zakuul and the Eternal Alliance emerged victorious. A new Jedi Order was formed to serve the Alliance, made up of Jedi, Sith, and other Force-sensitive groups loyal to the Alliance, while Grand Master Shan's Jedi remained in hiding. When the Alliance took Coruscant from a weakened Republic, the true Jedi Order fled Tython, allowing the new Order to take possession of the ancestral homeworld of the Jedi and claim legitimacy. The Jedi Order under the leadership of Satele Shan, followed a band of Republic Senators and military personnel to Bastion in the Outer Rim, where administrative personnel of the defunct Sith Empire reorganized their governments in exile into the Imperial Remnant. Shan's Order began serving in a leadership role of royal defenders of the Emperor-in-exile, calling themselves the Imperial Order of Knights.