The war was between the Republic and the Separatists led by Count Dooku, but secretly, the war was being orchestrated by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who was really Darth Sidious, a Sith Lord who hated the Jedi. The Jedi were surviving as generals leading squads of clone troopers all across the galaxy in the Clone Wars. Revenge of the Sith, the third and final film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, revealed exactly how the Empire eradicated the Jedi Order and for what reason. So how did all the Jedi die, and how many of them survived? The real reason for the Clone Wars But once man couldn’t destroy all the Jedi across the entire galaxy.

Obi-Wan Kenobi told Luke that Darth Vader, the Empire’s powerful Sith enforcer, hunted down the Jedi, killing Luke’s father among many others. By the time of A New Hope, the Jedi were nothing more than a myth, one that Luke Skywalker was fascinated with because he learned that his father was once a Jedi.

When Star Wars was released in 1977, it hinted at a story of an order of powerful knights who once protected the galaxy but were hunted down by the evil Galactic Empire at some time in the past.

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