Order of Coruscant.

"It is easier for us because we train our children from infancy, build them up from the beginning to be resistant to the dark side, and keep them from being reared alongside those who hold to beliefs contrary to the Jedi Creed.” “I don't believe it.” “What?” “You're proselytizing me --­­ giving me a sermon on the blessed virtues of the Coruscanti Order! You should hear yourself." "Well, you have to admit that if Anakin had been discovered at a young age and reared by us, he never would have grown up vulnerable to the temptations surrounding him now."

- Siri Tachi and Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Order of Coruscant was the daughter organization of the original Jedi Order and the largest Jedi sect during the Clone Wars.

History
In the time before the Great Sith War, the Jedi Order was largely decentralized; there was no central leadership -- Jedi only organized together en masse in times of great crisis -- and beyond what was codified in the Jedi Creed, they held to no complex dogma. With the end of the devastating Great Sith War, however, the Jedi were left weak, fragmented, on the verge of collapse. Realizing that they would have to change their modus operandi in order to save their Order, the twelve surviving Jedi masters decided to form a permanent Jedi Council, establishing their base of operations on the Republican capital world of Coruscant, where they would oversee the preservation and rebuilding of the Jedi Order with assistance from the Senate. This consolidated the Jedi, but at a cost; over the next three-thousand years, they became more rigid and hierarchial, placing undue emphasis on tradition and ceremony.

With the New Sith Wars of 2000-1000 BBE, the Jedi Order entered its final stage of evolution. A thousand years of nigh-continuous conflict with the Neo-Sith and their evil Jedi successors had hardened the Jedi, leaving many of them jaded and not a little bit angry. Feeling that the rise of the darksiders had coincided with some failure on their part, they decided to reform their Order to remove its weaknesses. In the next five-hundred years following the end of the New Sith Wars, the Jedi Order made a series of reforms:


 * Anyone older than five years of age -- except in exceedingly rare cases -- was automatically disqualified from joining the Jedi Order.
 * All Jedi -- minus those who were parents with multiple children -- could train only one apprentice at a time.
 * Extended contact and/or communication with non-Jedi family members was strictly forbidden.
 * Marriage to non-Jedi was strictly forbidden.

Anyone caught violating these new rules were in danger of being stripped of their rank and excommunicated from the Order.

In uproarious retaliation against the reforms, billions of dissenting Jedi broke away from what was once the Jedi Order to form their own orders; this event became known as the Fourth Great Schism, the only schism within the Order that didn't involve Jedi falling to the dark side.

With the close of almost another five-hundred years -- with the beginning of the Clone Wars -- the Order of Coruscant had become a de facto branch of the Republic military, answerable to the Senate with little autonomy. This ultimately made itself blatantly apparent in the Second Clone War, when most of the Coruscanti Jedi chose to fight under the banner of the the Galactic Republic against the Separatists, who only wanted to secede from the Republic peacefully. The Coruscanti Jedi had become unquestioning enforcers of the Republic, upholding its ideals out of a sense of obligation rather than because it was right. This didn't change one iota even after the Galactic Republic rechristened itself the Galactic Empire.



Following the close of the Clone Wars, corruption began to take hold of the Senate; self-interested senators elected a figurehead emperor into office and used him to line their own pockets to the detriment of the Imperial peoples. The Jedi saw this happening but were left with little to do to remedy it. This left them vulnerable to brainwashing when Dantius Palpatine finally appeared on the scene. A young senator from Nabu, Palpatine worked within the system to weed out the corrupt bureaucrats, promising a new golden age for the Empire. Entranced by this show of benevolence, they were left blind when Palpatine's inner darkness eventually surfaced following his election to supreme chancellor and then, finally, emperor.

When Emperor Palpatine began putting his New Order into effect, many of the disparate Jedi sects turned against him. The Coruscanti Jedi remained loyal, however, and Palpatine rewarded them handsomely for their devotion. Rechristening the Order of Coruscant the Universal Jedi Order, he officially declared it the only state-sanctioned -- and legal -- Jedi Order.

Characteristics
Directly prior to the Clone Wars, 40% of all Jedi in the Known Regions had belonged to the Order of Coruscant. Following the end of the Clone Wars, they made up 75%. In either case, the Coruscanti Order was the largest Jedi sect prior to the Great Jedi Purge.

The Coruscanti Jedi wore charcoal gray uniforms. Depending on their rank, they also wore black outer tunics and cloaks.

The Coruscanti Jedi were divided up into three main classes: guardians, consulars, and sentinels. Jedi guardians were devoted to the physical side of the Force; Jedi consulars to the spiritual side of the Force; with Jedi sentinels falling in between. To distinguish the guardians, consulars, and sentinels from one another, each class wielded lightsabers of a different colour; Jedi guardians wielded lightsabers with yellow blades; Jedi consulars wielded lightsabers with blue blades; and Jedi sentinels wielded lightsabers with green blades. Not all the Coruscanti Jedi followed this tradition, however; Tyran Dohku wielded a crimson lightsaber, his son wielded an orange lightsaber later in life, and Pre Vizsla wielded a white-black lightsaber.