Youngling.
Force-sensitive children brought to the Jedi Temple to begin their training — and among the first to fall when the galaxy changed forever.
Fall of the Jedi
Episodes I–III · The Clone Wars
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Two Youngling designs from one era
The First to Hold a Blade
Before rank, before a master's guidance, before the trials — there were the younglings. Force-sensitive children gathered from across the galaxy and brought to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, each one identified early and given their first steps in the Order: meditation, connection to the Force, and eventually a blade of their own.
The turning point came not in a trial or a duel, but in a single night. When Anakin Skywalker entered the Jedi Temple during the execution of Order 66, the younglings inside had done nothing wrong — they had only just begun. One stepped forward and asked where they should go. There was no answer worth giving. That moment, captured in Revenge of the Sith, became one of the defining images of the Great Jedi Purge.
Two designs carry that memory forward. The Youngling Lightsaber draws from Episode II: Attack of the Clones, the era when the Temple still stood and training still held meaning. The Youngling Battle Silver Lightsaber comes from The Clone Wars, when the war itself had already begun to close around them.
They stood at the very beginning of everything — and for some, the beginning was all they had.
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Youngling — Explore the Order's Youngest
Yoda bore witness to what became of the younglings — the rest of the Order walks a path shaped by that loss.