... for storytelling, specifically for "personal" back-stories. I was hoping to garner some opinions. I am probably like a lot of SW fans, I am not immersed in the greater universe, most of what I know comes from the movies and reading articles on the Wookipedia. :-) So I don't know a lot of the stuff that came with Clone Wars, the various video games and many of the novels.
So when I start to think about creating a character, I go to what I know: The movie era. Here's the rub: there are no Jedi in much of the time covered by the movies. Specifically, during the Empire years and the early New Republic, which we only know very sketchy details about from Ep7.
That leaves me in a place I think a lot of folks are, a place where my character had to become Jedi (or Sith) with little or no real interaction with formal training and structure.
So...just how plausible is this? How thorough was Order 66? Did a couple of Jedi survive? A lot? Are they hiding? And if they were in hiding, why didn't they come out and join the Rebellion?
Which makes me think that all but maybe a handful of Jedi were already fighting, and were killed by their Clone troops. The rest died defending the Temple. So, back to square one: is it plausible to create a character that finds some remnant of the Jedi order in hiding/exile and is trained, much the way Skywalker was himself trained by first Kenobi and then Yoda?
And does it matter? After all, we're not exactly writing canon fiction anyway...