
a little more knowledge might light our way. There is too much at stake here, and we need a clearer picture of what has happened. Yoda: Suggest dismantling the coded signal, do you? Obi-Wan: Well, then we must go back! If there are other stragglers, they will fall into the trap and be killed. Yoda: Received a coded retreat message, we have.īail Organa: It requests all Jedi to return to the Temple. Obi-Wan: Have we had any contact from the Temple? Obi-Wan: How many other Jedi managed to survive? The Episode III script indicates that, while they can sense the murder of a Jedi, they can't sense with the Force which (if any) Jedi survived: Yoda and Obi-Wan probably don't know who survived the Purge. Jerec) and that figure includes Yoda and Obi-Wan so the number of Jedi that could fight the Empire was even smaller than 30. Furthermore, some of those ≈30 survivors had joined the Empire (e.g. Wookieepedia's Legends article on the Great Jedi Purge claims that there were only about 30 surviving Jedi as of 1 BBY.

There are a variety of explanations why Yoda and Obi-Wan wouldn't consider the other surviving Jedi mentioned in Legends:
