New Jedi Order (SWAU)

The New Jedi Order, officially known as simply the Jedi Order, was the incarnation of the Jedi Order that was revitalized by Luke Skywalker, son of the former Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, who was entrusted with its leadership by Yoda, his former teacher and the last Jedi Master. Although it was officially a continuation of the old Jedi Order, Skywalker initiated many reforms and doctrinal developments that differentiated it from the old order, hence the informal use of "New Jedi Order" to describe it.

The New Jedi Order got its start on Yavin IV, where Luke Skywalker set up the Jedi Praxeum—the first formal school established since the Great Jedi Purge—and trained a new generation of Padawans. From an initial twelve students, the order grew steadily and nearly surpassed one-hundred by the time of the Second Galactic Civil War. Prior to the second war, Luke Skywalker pledged the Jedi to the Republic once again, and was swept up in the turbulence of the fledgling regime. Skywalker and his students were involved in many of the conflicts of the decades, but the Jedi were none-too-happy to be used by the New Republic's administration as tools to crush rebellions, and eventually Master Skywalker formally severed their ties to the regime, preferring to operate independently. This unpleasant state of affairs helped lead to the Fall of Coruscant.

Following the Second Galactic Civil War, Jaina Solo, who had been acting Grand Master after the death of Luke Skywalker, relinquished the position in order to marry Kylo Ren; an Imperial Empress as leader of the Jedi Order would have been quite the scandal. Kyle Katarn, a veteran Jedi and an apprentice of Luke Skywalker, was elected by the Jedi High Council as Grand Master. Master Katarn made sure that the New Jedi Order would not become a part of the Galactic Federation, and when he pledged the order to the Galactic Triumvirate, they joined as an independent entity.