Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Prisoner of Bogan
The second arc, and the one where the Je’daii start disagreeing about balance.
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Twenty-five thousand years before the films, and nobody has invented the word Jedi yet.
John Ostrander and Jan Duursema’s Dark Horse miniseries, collected in 2012, opens the earliest period Star Wars has ever published. On Tython, the Je’daii order studies a balance between Ashla and Bogan, and the arrival of an outsider from a Rakatan empire begins the sequence that will eventually split them.
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c. 25,800 BBY – c. 6,900 BBY
The second arc, and the one where the Je’daii start disagreeing about balance.
The Je’daii become the Jedi, and it costs them the argument they were founded on.
The only prose novel ever set in the franchise’s deepest past.