Jedi High Council

The Jedi High Council, simply known as the Jedi Council, was a body of twelve Jedi Masters that governed the Jedi Order. Headquartered in the Jedi Temple on Tython, the High Council worked with the Galactic Senate to maintain peace and justice in the New Republic. In addition, the High Council tracked the progress of the Jedi training of Padawans, deciding when the time was right for an apprentice to undergo the Jedi Trials in order to attain the rank of Jedi Knight, and from there, the rank of Master. The High Council also enforced the Jedi Code and traditionally selected its own members, including the Master of the Order who functioned as the body's elected leader. During the New Republic Era, the Jedi Masters that comprised the High Council were; Brux Strahl, Yoda, Name, Name, Name, Name, Name, Name, Name, Name, Name and Name.
== Organization ==
The Jedi High Council was the governing body of the Jedi Order. Its composition consisted of twelve Jedi Masters who were tasked with the responsibility of guiding the Order, including five members having life-long positions, who convened as a council to discuss matters of importance to the Jedi. The Council's activities included deliberating galactic events and discerning the will of the Force. If a Jedi elected to take a sabbatical from their Council duties, the member could select a Jedi to temporarily hold their seat in the Council.
=== Privileges ===
Jedi who served on the High Council had the authority to involve themselves in local political matters, whereas the rest of the Order required permission from the Council or the Galactic Senate. Members of the High Council could also leave its ranks at their discretion, as Jedi Master Yaddle did when she chose to relinquish her seat on the Council. Individual members could be removed from the High Council by their colleagues. In the event of a councilmember's death, their seat could be offered to another Jedi Master of the High Council's choosing.
The Council held the Jedi Code in the highest regard and required all Jedi to adhere to its principles. Members of the Council, such as Yoda and Name staunchly adhered to the Order's ancient traditions. While the Council tolerated unconventional Jedi to an extent, there were tenets in the Code that they enforced without exception. Although it was known that some wayward Jedi used blasters, their use was never condoned by the Council.
=== Headquarters ===
The High Council resided in the Jedi Grand Temple, the most renowned Jedi temple in the galaxy. The Grand Temple was served as both a school and a monastery for the Jedi Order on Coruscant, the capital planet of the Galactic Republic, located in the Core Worlds. Before the Council was headquartered at Coruscant, the council was located at Alderaan and Ossus. The Temple ziggurat featured a "distinctive crown of five spires"—four Council Towers surrounding the main Temple Spire. One of the four spires was the High Council Tower which housed the Jedi Council Chamber. In addition, the Pinnacle Room, a chamber located at the top of the Temple Spire, served as a chamber of the High Council.
== History ==
=== Age of the Jedi ===
==== Old Republic-era ====
The Jedi High Council existed during the days of the Old Republic-era, during which a rogue Jedi rejected the ways of the light side on the belief that only the dark side of the Force could unlock one's true potential. The rogue Jedi's beliefs disturbed the Council, which exiled the individual. However, the rogue Jedi gathered a following and created a rival Force order, the Sith, during the Hundred-Year Darkness. The Jedi and Sith warred for countless generations until the final defeat of the Sith, which a Sith Lord named Darth Bane helped facilitate and escaped. Bane reformed the Sith under the Rule of Two, enabling the Sith Order to survive in secret over the next thousand years.
==== High Republic Era ====
The High Republic Era was marked by the expansion of the Jedi Order's reach across the galaxy, in particular the Outer Rim Territories where they commissioned Starlight Beacon at the request of Supreme Chancellor Lina Soh. During that time, the title of Grand Master was shared between three Jedi: Yoda, Pra-Tre Veter, and Xo Lahru. All three Grand Masters served on the High Council, which included Jedi Masters Jora Malli and Stellan Gios, who took the seat on the Council once held by his master, Rana Kant. In 232 BBY, Yoda was on a sabbatical from the Council due to feeling the Force call him elsewhere. As such, Yoda stationed himself on the Padawan Academic Cruiser Star Hopper, where he helped train Padawans and younglings. He selected the Mon Calamari Jedi Master Ephru Shinn to take his place on the Council for the duration of his sabbatical.
During the Emergences in the aftermath of the Great Hyperspace Disaster, the Council realized that the Jedi may be needed in the Outer Rim more than they normally were. The Republic's exploration into the Outer Rim brought them as well as the Jedi into conflict with a group of marauders known as the Nihil. Grand Master Lahru convened the High Council to discuss the threat that the Nihil posed to the Republic. The Council came to the conclusion that the Jedi would help the Republic in the coming Battle of Kur, during which Malli was killed. Without Malli to fulfill the position, Grand Masters Veter and Yoda traveled to Starlight Beacon to confirm Jedi Master Avar Kriss' appointment as the space station's new marshal. Ry Ki-Sakka took Malli's place on the Council and even became a Grand Master at some point. After discovering the connection between the Nihil and the planet Dalna, where the Jedi had fought the Nameless species over a hundred years prior, Yoda went missing from the Order at large as he investigated the true nature of the threat the Republic and Jedi faced.
Despite the end of the Great Disaster crisis, the Nihil conflict would continue to drag out, which resulted in stronger ties between the Republic and Jedi Order. Soh and her aides grew increasingly willing to push themselves into Council meetings, which concerned Jedi Master Cohmac Vitus while he and various Jedi debated what ties their Order should have with the reigning government. In 230 BBY, Gios took Kriss's place as the Marshal of Starlight Beacon when she went off on an unsanctioned mission to the Great Hall of the Nihil. He would give his life during the destruction of Starlight Beacon at the hands of the Nihil to prevent the collapsing station from hitting the city of Barraza. Meanwhile, Yoda returned to the Jedi with news. The Eye of the Nihil Marchion Ro unleashed Nameless against the Jedi during the fall of Starlight, which convinced the Jedi to issue a recall of all Jedi back to Coruscant while they determined how to fight the Nameless. The Nihil were eventually defeated.
=== New Republic Era ===
== Members ==
High Council Member	High Council Member	Tenure 	Notes
 	Sella Tharand 	85 ABY 	Grandmaster of the Order
 	Brux Strahl 	88 ABY 	
 	Rona Syko 	70 ABY 	
 	Cen Waldon 	71 ABY 	Trained by fellow council member
Finn.
 	Jynne Obrik 	71 ABY 	
 	Finn 	By c. 40 ABY	Trained later council members
such as Cen Waldon, Jynne Obrik
and Sella Tharand