Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi

• 1. Introduction

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  Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi is a series of young adult science-fiction novels written by Jude Watson, published between 2005 and 2008. What makes this series distinctive is its setting: the narrow, dangerous window of time wedged between the fall of the Jedi Order at the end of Revenge of the Sith and the world that audiences first encountered in A New Hope. It asks a question that Star Wars had rarely answered in depth before. What happened to the survivors? How did those who escaped the purge live, hide, and endure? And what did Obi-Wan Kenobi do with himself during those long years of exile and waiting?

• 2. Between Two Films

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  Revenge of the Sith closes with the Jedi nearly wiped out and the Empire rising. A New Hope opens years later, in a galaxy that has grown accustomed to that darkness. The Last of the Jedi series plants itself deliberately in that gap, a span of time the films themselves leave largely unexplored. Watson chose this period as the terrain for a young adult story, and the choice carries weight. The era is defined by loss rather than triumph. Characters navigate a world where the side they once stood on has been dismantled. The series belongs to the body of work known as Star Wars Legends, a vast collection of stories that were set aside from official canon in 2014 but that shaped how generations of readers understood the galaxy beyond the films.

• 3. Obi-Wan and Ferus Olin

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  Obi-Wan Kenobi anchors the opening of the series, which picks up his story in the aftermath of Revenge of the Sith. Watson follows him through the immediate fallout of the Jedi purge before pivoting to a figure who becomes central to the larger narrative: Ferus Olin, a former Padawan who parted ways with the Jedi Order before the events of the prequel films. Finding Ferus is treated as a turning point within the series itself. Once Obi-Wan locates this ex-Padawan, the story's focus broadens outward to encompass a wider community of surviving Jedi. That shift from one man's journey to a collective struggle is where the series finds its deeper subject.

• 4. A Band of Survivors

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  The heart of the series, once the early books establish their footing, is a small group of Jedi who managed to survive Order 66. Watson builds the remaining volumes around this band rather than around any single protagonist. The premise carries an inherent tension: these are people trained to be protectors of a republic that no longer exists, hunted by an Empire that replaced it. How they move through that world, who they trust, and what survival actually costs them gives the series its dramatic spine. Watson wrote all the volumes between 2005 and 2008, sustaining the story across multiple books as a continuous young adult serial set within the Legends continuity.