Jedi Order VIII (Jedi Renaissance)

The eighth iteration of the Jedi Order was organized in the wake of the true defeat of the Sith at the conclusion of the Clone Wars. Recognizing that the Sith had changed while the Jedi had remained stagnant since the Ruusan Reformations, the High Council began the process of restructuring their philosophy to be more in line with the ancient doctrines of the Je'daii Order of old. Promoting an understanding of the Force which recognized that the duality of the Force included both light and dark aspects, the High Council hoped to reconcile the split between the Jedi Order and the Sith Order that began during the Hundred-Year Darkness seven millennia before. Separating the Order from the Galactic Republic, the Order declared itself a sovereign entity and vowed to serve the Force wholly, not a single government. To this end, the Order established embassies within both the Republic and the separatist state, the Confederacy of Independent Systems and vowed to serve life rather than politics. Withdrawing to their ancient fortress world of Ossus, the Order reestablished the Great Temples of Tython, using the planet as a training ground for its Knights and putting them through a more rigorous battery of tests than ever before. Over time, the Jedi conquered an purified the ancient worlds of the Stygian Caldera, historically known as Sith Space, and established training grounds there, as well as the great temple known as the Eye of Boganat. Raising their students on the garden world of Ossus, a planet wholly saturated in the light side of the Force, the Order began training Knights on Ossus' dark side counterpart Dromund Kaas, where they immersed themselves in the Force's darker aspects under the close supervision of the Council.