- "Only twenty Jedi Masters have ever left the Order."
"The Lost Twenty. And Count Dooku was the most recent and the most painful. No one likes to talk about it. His leaving was a great loss to the Order." - ―Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jocasta Nu
The Lost Twenty, originally known as The Lost, were the Jedi Masters who had voluntarily resigned from the Jedi Order over ideological differences.
History[]
- "You're one of the Lost Twenty. Like Dooku."
"I am the twenty-first, Master Shryne. Surely you've heard of Anakin Skywalker. The Chosen One." - ―Roan Shryne and Darth Vader
One of the earliest members of the Lost Twenty was the Umbaran Jedi Master Phanius, who eventually became Darth Ruin, the first Dark Lord of the Sith in the New Sith Empire.[4] Over time more would leave; twelve by 990 BBY,[5] and ending with the twentieth member, Master Dooku. Leaving the Order in 32 BBY because of a growing disenchantment with the Galactic Senate, Dooku fell under the tutelage of Darth Sidious and became the next Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Tyranus.[6] Following the dissolution of the Order in 19 BBY, the fallen Jedi Knight Darth Vader, formerly Anakin Skywalker, considered himself the twenty-first member of this group.[3]
During the Clone Wars, Jedi Knight Bardan Jusik, disenchanted with the Republic and the Jedi's treatment of their clone soldiers and believing it to not be the Jedi way, also left the Order before Skywalker, though he was not counted as a member of the Lost Twenty as he was not a Master.[7]
Along with the most venerable Masters, the Lost were remembered in the form of bronzium busts in the Jedi Archives, a reminder of the Jedi's greatest failures—though the Jedi did not fault the individuals for leaving, regarding the statues as a reminder that the Jedi were not perfect and that sometimes they might fail to provide what a Jedi might seek out of life. Each bust's pedestal listed the great deeds of the Master it commemorated, but not the reason he or she left the Order.[4]
Sidious later jotted down notes about the Twenty in the Book of Sith under Sorzus Syn's diary section on the First Great Schism, where he mentioned that the Lost Twenty were examples of Jedi who left the Order yet did not become combatants, while expressing his disgust at their philosophies being retained.[8]
Despite never achieving the rank of Jedi Master, Darth Vader considered himself to be the twenty-first member of the Lost and declared himself as such to a dying Jedi Master Roan Shryne after their duel on Kashyyyk.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
According to Pablo Helman on the Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones DVD commentary, during the scene where Obi-Wan Kenobi speaks to Jocasta Nu, the room includes busts of himself, George Lucas, Rob Coleman, and John Knoll. It is not known whether any of these four were meant to represent any of the Lost Twenty.
Appearances[]
- Darth Bane: Rule of Two (Mentioned only)
- Darth Bane: Rule of Two audiobook (Mentioned only)
- Darth Plagueis (Mentioned only)
- Darth Plagueis audiobook (Mentioned only)
- A Closer Look — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #45 (content now obsolete; backup link) (Mentioned only)
- Dooku Spotted in Gree Enclave — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #54 (content now obsolete; backup link) (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones novelization (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones unabridged audiobook (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (Mentioned only) (Deleted scene)
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones junior novelization (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith video game
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith novelization (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith unabridged audiobook (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith junior novelization (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Purge: Seconds to Die (Busts)
- Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron (Busts)
- Star Wars: Battlefront II (Busts)
- Scourge (Mentioned only)
Non-canon appearances[]
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Illustrated Companion
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary
- Coruscant and the Core Worlds
- Vader: The Ultimate Guide
- The New Essential Chronology
- Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars
- "Heritage of the Sith" — Star Wars Insider 88
- Evil Never Dies: The Sith Dynasties on Hyperspace (article) (content removed from StarWars.com; backup link) (First identified as The Lost)
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary
- Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars: The Official Starships & Vehicles Collection 34
- The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force
- Star Wars: Darth Maul, Sith Apprentice
- Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side
- Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded
- Star Wars: Sith Wars
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones novelization
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force
- ↑ Darth Bane: Rule of Two
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
- ↑ Republic Commando: True Colors
- ↑ Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side