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The Dai Bendu,[1] also known as the Bendu,[3] were a religious group[1] that were the precursors of the Jedi Order.[2] The first holocrons were attributed to the Dai Bendu.[2] The symbol of Galactic Republic that adorned the starfighters of the Jedi Knights dated back to the Bendu monks' study of numerology, in which the number nine—symbolized by eight spokes joined to one disk—signified the[3] benevolent[6] presence of the Force in a united galaxy.[3] In the galactic standard calendar, the fifth and final day of the week "Benduday" was named for the Bendu monks of the planet Coruscant.[4]
They constructed a monastery in what became Kijimi City on the planet Kijimi[1] around 965 BBY.[7] The existence of the temple prompted the Brotherhood of the Beatific Countenance to make a pilgrimage to Kijimi, inhabiting the Quarter of the Beatific.[1] It was believed locally that Skordu had originally been invented by the Dai Bendu monks back when the city was still a religious stronghold.[8]
After the fall of the Republic and its replacement by the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY,[9] the self-appointed Emperor Palpatine personalized the ancient icon of the Bendu by removing two spokes, thus creating the Imperial crest.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
The Dai Bendu were first mentioned in the new Star Wars canon in the twenty-fifth issue of the De Agostini magazine Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon,[3] published around June 24, 2015.[10] In Star Wars Legends, the Dai Bendu are known as the Order of Dai Bendu and they were one of the predecessor organizations to the Je'daii Order alongside the Followers of Palawa and the Chatos Academy.[11]
Appearances[]
The Mandalorian — "Chapter 19: The Convert" (Indirect mention only)- Poe Dameron: Free Fall (Mentioned only)
- Poe Dameron: Free Fall audiobook (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition audiobook (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 25 (Starship Fact File: Delta-7 Aethersprite Starfighter) (First mentioned) (First identified as Bendu)
- Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 61 (Guide to the Galaxy: Galactic Time and Dates)
- Unlimited Power (First identified as Dai Bendu)
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
- "General Equipment (I)" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Kijimi City in the Databank (backup link) (Indirect mention only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Unlimited Power
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5
Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 25 (Starship Fact File: Delta-7 Aethersprite Starfighter)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 61 (Guide to the Galaxy: Galactic Time and Dates)
- ↑ Unlimited Power establishes that Dai Bendu were precursors of the Jedi Order. As Star Wars: Timelines places the founding of the Jedi Order in 25,025 BBY, the founding of the Dai Bendu must have occurred prior to that year.
- ↑ Star Wars: Complete Vehicles
- ↑ According to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary, the Dai Bendu Monastery was constructed on Kijimi a thousand years prior to the planet's destruction depicted in Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker. As events of The Rise of Skywalker took place a year after the Starkiller Incident, as established by The Visual Dictionary, and because Star Wars: Galactic Atlas states that the Incident occurred in 34 ABY, the monastery was constructed around the time of 965 BBY.
- ↑ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition
- ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
- ↑ The second issue of the De Agostini weekly magazine Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon was set to be published on January 14, 2015, according to De Agostini Publishing: Build the Millennium Falcon Magazine & Model by Chris Wyman on TheForce.net (January 8, 2015) (archived from the original on November 6, 2016). Therefore, Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 25 was published around June 24, 2015.
- ↑ Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm 1