The real oldest Jedi from Star Wars makes Yoda look like a toddler

While yoda’s long life spans centuries back to before the High Republic era, one Jedi of these Star Wars Legend’s continuity beat him in terms of longevity. Star Wars Legends had an abundance of quality content and endless stories written well before Disney’s takeover of the franchise. In their day, these stories provided a rich flavor to the history of Star Wars And often created characters that outshine many of the originals Star Wars Regular. Perhaps the most interesting of Legends’ additions to the franchise is the 4,000-year-old Jedi, Celeste Morne.

The 12-part crossover Star Wars: VectorPublished in 2008 by Dark Horse Comics, introduces an old Republic-era Jedi named Celeste Morne, who serves as an agent (or shadow) for the secret organization known as the Jedi Covenant. The Covenant, whose mission is to track down and recover Sith artifacts lost during the ancient Sith Wars, task Morne with finding the Talisman of MVR, a powerful relic that can turn its victims into monstrous drones.

Star Wars: Vector crossover (2008)
Surrender	writer(s)	Artist
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #25-28	John Jackson Miller	Scott Hepburn
Star Wars: Dark Times #11-12	Mick Harrison	Doug Whitley, Dave Ross
Star Wars: Rebellion #15-16	Rob Williams	Dustin Weaver
Star Wars: Legacy #28-31	John Ostrander, Ian Duursema	Jan Duursema

Beginning in the year 3963 BBY, Morne sets out to retrieve the artifact as well as a rogue Jedi Padawan believed to have massacred his fellow students. What she doesn’t know at the time is that the mission will take her thousands of years.

An ancient Sith relic threatens the destruction of the Old Republic

The talisman of Carnes MVR sparks the beginning of the end

When Morne arrives at the target planet Taris, she quickly discovers that parts of the planet’s Ecumenopolis have been Upset by invading Mandalorians and violent zombie-like monsters. These monsters, known as ragholes, are the product of the very Sith artifact that Morne is tasked with recovering. The Jedi Covenant Shadow soon runs into Zane Carrick, the supposedly murderous Padawan, who jumps into action to help her against the growing hordes of Rockholes. Together, the two Jedi trace the source of the monsters to a hidden lair occupied by Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders.

The pair successfully fend off the Mandalorians and capture the Amulet of MVR. Upon contact, the amulet binds to Celeste and reveals that it is possessed by the lingering spirit of its Sith creator, Karness Muur. Muur’s corrupting influence proves to be overwhelming for the Jedi, and Morne offers to seal himself in a stasis chamber so that the artifact can be contained and the Jedi Covenant can study the relic in safety. Just as soon as the stasis chamber is sealed, a Mandalorian warship fires a barrage of nuclear warheads at the planet, burying Celeste and Karness underground.

Celeste Morne’s mission sparks a 4,000-year-long voyage into the future

Morne’s journey begins in the Old Republic and ends after the Galactic Empire

Nearly 4,000 years later, during the Age of the Galactic Empire, Morne’s stasis chamber was discovered by none other than the tyrannical Sith Lord, Darth Vader. Vader, sensing the dark energy emitting from the Talisman of MVR, opens the four-millennia-old tomb. Celeste wakes up in an apparition, and asks for her old friend’s caricature. The Sith lord informs Morne that 4,000 years have passed since her time, and she immediately breaks down in agony. She learns that the Old Republic eventually fell, though not to the hands of the Mandalorians, but rather to the Sith.

Celeste, aware of Darth Vader’s deep ties to the dark side through the eager Karness MVR, engages the black-clad cyborg in a duel. Vader overwhelms Morne and, in an attempt to ensure that the Talisman is not captured by the Empire, uses his brute force to turn Vader’s crew into rockholes. Using the chaos as a distraction, Celeste flees in solitude with the old Sith’s spirit. Morne, unlike any Jedi before or since, was Forced to endure a multi-millennia-spanning death sentence. The Jedi are dead, leaving her the only soul she can trust to suppress the Relic’s power.

The Jedi lost in time returns to end a new Sith threat

Celeste forms a new bond with a young Skywalker

For the next 150 years, isolated from the rest of the galaxy, Celeste grows more and more tired of the constant pressure of her charge. With Carnes Moore as her only companion, Morne finds herself falling further into madness as the unceasing influence of the dark side tests her at every moment. As the Force wills it, fate pulls Celeste to a new ally as well-versed in the light and dark sides of the Force as she is. Cade Skywalker, an ex-JD and direct descendant of Anakin Skywalker, is sought out by Morne as if guided by the will of the Force.

During the era of the Second Sith Galactic Empire, ruled by Darth Krayt, the dragon of the Sith, the galaxy was again plunged into a civil war. Morne, Skywalker, and a band of rebels launch one final assault against the Imperial forces on Coruscant. Armed with the training of the Jedi Consulate, empowered by the MVR Talisman, and fueled by the anger of 4,000 years of lost time, Celeste leads the final battle against Darth Krayt. The conflict ends when Morne and Karness Muur deliver a devastating force storm on the Sith LordSeemingly ending his reign over the galaxy.

Old and tired, the Lost Jedi can finally rest

The journey of Celeste Morne and Karness Muur finally comes to an end

The battle leaves Morne completely drained of her remaining life force. Feeling the strength of Muur’s influence begin to exert its control more and more, The former Jedi Covenant Shadow turns to Cade Skywalker for a peaceful end. Morne believes that Cade, who is balanced in both the light and dark sides of the force, will be able to assume her charge and shut down the Sith Lord’s power for good. Skywalker agrees and, in her final request, plunges his lightsaber into Morne’s chest, killing her and destroying the talisman together.

Celeste Morne Is not just a relic of her time, but a relic of Star Wars as a whole. With the Legends material no longer considered canon, the fan-favorite stories of the past serve only as an archive of what once was. Loaded with a terrible responsibility, Morne was made to endure another 3,000 years of sad existence Like the old Jedi Master YodaOnce considered to be the oldest living Jedi. While her story may be forever lost to Disney tampering Star Wars Continuation, the Jedi Celeste Morne’s climactic victory over an insidious Sith Empire will remain a worthy legend.

Key background

• Her story is set around 4,000 years before the original films, during the era of the Old Republic.

• Celeste’s battle with the dark side is a central theme in her story, highlighting the personal cost of wielding great power.

• The story of Celeste Morne is explored in the Star Wars expanded universe, especially in the comic series “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic” and “Star Wars: Dark Times.