Dark Jedi uprising An uprising of Dark Jedi occurred in the Elrood sector of the galaxy during the last decades of the Galactic Republic , a few years before the Subjugation of Naboo . Having sensed a disturbance in the Force provoked by a band of Dark Jedi , a Jedi Consular named Jorus C ' baoth intervened with a group of fellow Knights and brought the insurrection to an end . The sector was liberated from the scourge of the Dark Jedi , and , as a consequence of his victory , C ' baoth awarded himself the rank of Jedi Master . The memory of that incident was later conflated with a similar crisis , which involved Grand Master Yoda and occurred at the end of the Clone Wars . That confusion even made its way into the historical records of the Galactic Senate that were retrieved by Luke Skywalker , founder of the New Jedi Order , more than forty years later . The uprising . A few years before the Subjugation of Naboo in 32 BBY , a band of marauding Dark Jedi sowed terror throughout the Elrood sector , in the Outer Rim of the galaxy . Around the same time , the Jedi Consular named Jorus C ' baoth left his position as advisor to Palpatine , representative of the Chommell sector before the Galactic Republic ' s Senate . Having felt a disturbance in the Force , which the Dark Jedi had caused , C ' baoth led a strike team of Jedi Knights into the Elrood sector to eliminate the threat they posed . The marauding Dark Jedi were ultimately defeated , and peace was restored in the sector . Aftermath . As the architect of the Jedi victory against the uprising , C ' baoth assumed the title of Jedi Master , which was a quite unorthodox move . In the normal course , a Jedi was formally promoted to the rank of Master by the Jedi High Council after successfully training several apprentices into Knights and having them pass their Trials of Knighthood . The members of the High Council , however , were so content with the Dark Jedi ' s defeat that they did not oppose C ' baoth ' s self - appointment . Many years later , legend had distorted truth . The account of the Elrood events was conflated with that of another Dark Jedi insurrection , which occurred in the Bpfassh system following the Clone Wars and involved Yoda , Grand Master of the Jedi Order . Indeed , when Luke Skywalker , the first of a new generation of Jedi , searched the Galactic Senate ' s records on Jorus C ' baoth in 9 ABY , he read that the late Master was a member of the Jedi force assembled to oppose the Dark Jedi insurrection on Bpfassh . Behind the scenes . In Timothy Zahn ' s 1992 novel " Dark Force Rising " , the second entry in " " , Jorus C ' baoth was credited with defeating a Dark Jedi insurrection on Bpfassh between the years 77 and 74 " Pre - Empire " ( P . E . ) . The book also mentioned C ' baoth assumed the title of Jedi Master that same year . However , Zahn had based his dating on when he believed the Clone Wars had happened . By then , the definitive chronology of the Clone Wars had not yet been established , and " Star Wars " authors were told that it had taken place thirty - five years before . With the release of the prequel trilogy between 1999 and 2005 , it was revealed that the conflict ended only sixteen years later , thus rendering all the dates featured in the " Thrawn Trilogy " inaccurate . In 2008 , " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " credited Yoda with opposing the Bpfasshi darksiders , treating C ' baoth ' s involvement in quelling an insurrection as a legend . However , the 2002 sourcebook " Star Wars Roleplaying Game Revised Core Rulebook " had already established its own retcon by stating C ' baoth had settled a Dark Jedi insurrection in the Elrood sector , a few years before the Battle of Naboo . The present article considers both accounts canon , since they do not contradict each other .